National Dong Hwa University

Department of Finance

Shou-Feng , Hualien, Taiwan 974, R.O.C

TEL：886-3-8635000 ext 3132

FAX：886-3-8633130

Founding Purpose

In order to be in accordance with the government policies in stimulating business internationalization, financial internationalization and liberalization, this department has been educating and training advanced financiers. In recent years, having business and finance globalized has become a worldwide tendency; to coincide with this condition, our government has promoted numerous significant financial programs such as APEC, APROC, the industry eastward policy, the southward policy, the international business strategic alliance, etc. In addition, to complete our capital market, foreign exchange market and financial system, the administrations have adopted other relative programs and introduced a number of financial instruments which enable corporations to operate more flexibly; therefore, fiscal institutions are supposed to create a lot more factors with even more forward-looking, internationalized professionals to verify the policies mentioned above. Previously, there had not been any Department of Finance established in Eastern Taiwan to develop senior financial managers; as a result, the result of the founding of the Department of Finance at National Dong Hwa University will be the cultivation of students’ abilities in this field.

History

Since National Dong Hwa University was founded on July 1st 1994, the Graduate Institute of Business Administration and Graduate Institute of International Economics have started courses in Financial Management, Investment, Financial Planning and Budgeting and Corporate Finance, which were taught by Professor Hung Ken who had been teaching in America for years; meanwhile, Professor Zheng Zhi-Ming was planning the formation of the Financial Economic Institute for a Master’s degree with himself instructing Financial Economics and Econometrics. Later in 1996, with a great honor, we had Professor Wen Ying-Gan, who had worked at The World Bank for years, return and join us with his CFA charter to enhance the quality of the faculty. After Professor Wen, Professor Chiao Chao-Shin determined to be one of our members soon after graduating in the United States; his research in capital market was outstanding. Moreover, Professor Lin Yue-Neng, who came back from Great Britain in 1999, started to teach Future Options, Financial Innovations and Financial Engineering at our university.

Education Characteristics

The main idea in programs for bachelors is to strengthen their mathematical ability while building a foundation in Economics and Accounting in consideration of developing their capabilities in Financing; at the same time, we hope to motivate students for further study.

Future Prospect

We now have a blueprint to embody the Graduate Institute of Finance during the mid-stage of our development with our extraordinarily experienced professors, as well as reinforcing research publications in different fields of financing.