PhD Accounting and Finance

Overview

The University of Liverpool Management School offers you the chance to explore your own ideas through our postgraduate research programmes. We provide a stimulating student experience combined with thought provoking advice from our academic staff and believe that postgraduate students are a vital part of the research environment of the School.

Our Accounting and Finance PhD programme aims to develop world-class researchers specialized in the area of finance and accounting.

Specific areas of research supervision where applications are welcomed include the following:

• Asset Pricing and Investment Research,
• Financial Economics and Econometrics,
• Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance,
• Market-Based Accounting Research, and
• Auditing.

Research themes

Our academic staff not only publish in leading scholarly journals but also conduct research programmes for companies and governments worldwide. From the distribution of pharmaceuticals in Africa, through the development of micro-enterprise in India, to the regeneration of Merseyside, our research projects address key issues affecting the world. As a postgraduate student, you can be involved. Our research focuses on growing enterprises, growing innovation and growing communities, around the world and most importantly, in our own region.