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.
OVERVIEW
The 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 members
- present and discuss your work in progress with staff members in other Scottish Universities through the Scottish Doctoral Colloquium
- present your work in national or international conferences (usually at later stages of the PhD process)
- attend the Wards research seminars
- benefit from the College of Social Sciences Graduate School Research Training programme
- complete 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 research
- attend 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).
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