Abstract:

The training of finance students at South -West University "Neofit Rilski" includes compulsory specialized training, elective and optional disciplines. It provides the foundation on which modern modern management is built, using foreign experience in the field of banking and financial practice. Skills for speed and adequacy in the reactions are formed, in accordance with the changing situation in the environment. Habits are developed for the use of management technologies through software products and good orientation in the rich information base through the use of the Internet environment.

In the bachelor's program in Finance, the training is organized on a modular basis. The first module consists of training courses that provide fundamental and broad-based economic training. The second module includes special knowledge in the field of public and corporate finance, tax system, budget and customs policy, debt and budget problems of the countries, banking, insurance and social security, financial markets, stock exchanges and stock exchange indicators, international monetary and financial transactions and operations. The third module includes elective courses that allow students majoring in "Finance" to build additional competencies depending on their interests and the desired professional realization.

In this report we will present the new trends in financial education at our university. In this article we will show the new free software that we use for training and research. We will briefly present the main directions of research on the project "ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN INDICATORS AND REGULATORS FOR BANKING ACTIVITIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA". It includes doctoral students, young scientists and many students.

They do a lot of the research tasks on the project like:
1. To study some basic indicators and changes in the banking system;
2. Investigate bank risk as an economic category that is reported, analyzed, monitored and supervised;
3. To study the impact of the regulatory framework in the process of banking risk monitoring and the methodology for accounting of banks;
4. To make a scientific interpretation of the essence of Basel III and to make a critical analysis of the supervisory requirements for capital adequacy;
5. To reflect the importance of the financial and accounting analysis of the capital adequacy of commercial banks as an essential element of the management and supervision of banks;
6. To conduct a practical study of the structure and dynamics of the level of capital and capital adequacy of commercial banks in Bulgaria for the period 1997 - 09.2020 and to draw conclusions on the level of capital in the banking sector, as well as proposals aimed at improving the analysis and management of banks' capital adequacy.

Keywords:

Finance, bank system, risk analysis.