PhD Accounting and Finance

Our thriving body of PhD students are currently researching: finance, market reactions to accounting, management accounting and control, judgment and decision-making in accounting and audit, corporate reporting and governance.OVERVIEWThe Adam Smith Business School places a strong emphasis on the development of valuable transferable and personal development skills, such as finance-oriented computer programming, presentation and professional writing skills.As a PhD student in Accounting & Finance, you will have opportunities to:present and discuss your work in progress with colleagues and staff memberspresent and discuss your work in progress with staff members in other Scottish Universities through the Scottish Doctoral Colloquiumpresent your work in national or international conferences (usually at later stages of the PhD process)attend the Wards research seminarsbenefit from the College of Social Sciences Graduate School Research Training programmecomplete a PhD research class that looks at a variety of topics such as the use of Stata and Minitab, case studies and various approaches to accounting researchattend research training on key literature (either solely on accounting or finance or a combination of accounting and finance empirical literature)attend research training on necessary software programmes assisting you in your research (e.g., Nvivo, Stata)attend research training on qualitative and/or quantitative techniques, with a focus on accounting and finance (econometrics in particular).