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My most common reply to our own international students' emailed questions

Dear Student,

You are most welcome to my reception, preferably personally. But, if need be, you can also call me by the phone at my reception time. You'll find the information on my office hours (student reception) on my home page. During the university vacation periods and in the summer (June-August) I am not available.

You are most welcome to send me email about your business as a background for contacting me in person. Please do not use without my consent attachments in your email and avoid sending messages in the HTML format. I am storing your message for a reasonable span of time so that we can look at it in more detail when you contact me in person.

All the best, Timo

Please always configure your email system so that it always shows your name, not just your email address. Also observe that the email statutes of the university state that no other than the allotted student uwasa-email address should be used in any studying related matters.

My most common reply to outside international students' emailed questions or applications

Dear Student / Applicant,

Thank you for your email. Probably because of my net activities and WWW pages I often get study application pleas and requests for individual research advice from students all over the world. As a general rule it is impossible for me to take the time to respond in a personal fashion. Therefore, I have set up this common response.

If you have contacted me to submit an application to come and study at the University of Vaasa, Finland, you have not contacted the appropriate quarters. Dealing with application situations is not part of my tasks. Proceed as follows. Carefully read our university's page on admissions. For general information on studying in Finland see "Discover Finland on the web".
- If you are interested in doctoral studies in our department, you should also see the information on our page Doctoral studies in Accounting and Finance .
- If you are interested in undergraduate studies, you should also see the information on our Master's Degree Programme in Finance.
If you have contacted me to ask for general research counseling, that is foremost the task of your own university's professors. However,
- You'll find a fair amount of my general lecture and advice material through my Accounting and Finance Course Syllabuses Page also in English.
- You'll find a list of my scientific publications, some of them available in full text, including the references, at my scientific publications page .
- If you wish to ask me about relevant references for your research, that is what library searches are for. You may find useful my page of Journals in Accounting, Finance and OR for Research .
- If you wish to ask questions about accounting rules, practices or theories in Finland please instead see my web page "About Finnish Accounting in English ".
- If you are asking me to send you paper copies of research materials, sorry no. I do not provide such a service. Please rather contact your local library. However, as already pointed out, a considerable part my publications are freely available in fulltext on the net .
- If you have specific (and sensible) questions about some of my publications, without any promises I'll consider a response. But if it is general tutoring that you are factually asking for, you'll indeed have to approach your own professors.
- If you have for some reason contacted me to ask for outside computer programming help or advice, please see my generic programming-help pointers .

Application queries through the "Page Specific Feedback"

Questions or requests concerning application procedures that have been sent through the University's web-page feedback system are not welcome. Such abuse means that the sender has failed our elementary test of comprehending English in writing. If you have questions about studying or applying, you should have directly contacted our International Office (information(ät)uwasa.fi).

My response to hiring enquiries

Dear Sender of the enquiry,

Neither the university's, faculty's nor the department's hiring are part of my tasks. Please, kindly refrain from contacting me with or about hiring applications. As a starting point you could try to see e.g. the Contact Information page of our university's International Office for enquiring further information.

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