Influenced by my mother, who works in a bank, I have been interested in finance since I was a child. Even though I was unable to take Finance as a major in my undergraduate studies because I missed the standard for that topic by a single point in my college entrance examination, I still kept my enthusiasm for Finance and gradually developed a keen interest in the topic of Carbon Finance and Carbon Trading. As part of my research into Carbon Finance, I was very interested to discover that it is partly based on ideas about accounting for social costs developed by Ronald Coase more than fifty years ago. In Chinese financial institutions there is a shortage of professional consultants who can analyze and evaluate local companies in the potential area of carbon trading. I hope to become a professional consultant in Carbon Finance industry when I graduate. In this way, not only can I maximize profit for companies, but also to make use of my skills in analysis to protect the environment.

Starting with my love of finance, I have paid more attention to learning Financial Management. In a recent team project it was a big challenge for our team to analyze a company’s operational performance based only on pages of financial statements, especially as everything was in English. In order to perfect our report, we looked over textbooks to study different financial statements, searched until midnight for suitable theories in the library and applied those theories to our case. When we finished the case at 1.00 am, we were so happy that we cheered and hugged each other. I enjoyed this experience and highly appreciated my team members. To achieve our objectives in the project, we stayed together for more than 10 hours a day. We challenged ourselves with the complicated case and realized ourselves-value in the process. I regarded this case study as my first success in finance, and it