ESSEC Business School - PhD in Accounting and Auditing

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ESSEC Business School invites academically excellent graduates to apply to the PhD Program in the areas of accounting and auditing.

The ESSEC PhD program in accounting and auditing is devoted to training doctoral candidates to conduct research at the highest level on questions dealing with the role of accounting information in an ever changing economic environment. To this end, the program offers interdisciplinary training to equip students with knowledge from various fields of business studies to address a variety of accounting and auditing issues. Faculty advisers in accounting and auditing work in a wide range of topics such as capital markets research, international financial reporting, auditing, social and environmental accounting, disclosure, and organizational and social aspects of accounting, and publish in leading research journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Contemporary Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal, etc.  

ESSEC offers generous funding that includes total tuition fee waivers and tax-free stipends, currently in excess of 19,000 euros per student per year. The program also finances its doctoral students to attend international conferences and conduct international academic visits. In the past, students in accounting and auditing visited the University of Toronto in Canada and the University of Iowa in the USA, among others.
PhD graduates in accounting and auditing were recently placed at top academic institutions globally in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia.

Applications/Further information
Potential applicants are encouraged to visit the ESSEC PhD program web site to find out more about the program and application details: http://www.essec.edu/en/program/phd-en/phd-program/

Informal inquiries can also be directed to the Accounting & Auditing PhD coordinator, Professor Daphne Lui, by email: daphne.lui@essec.edu, or to the PhD program office: phd@essec.edu / Tel: +33 (0)1 34 43 30 85.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis starting from January 15, 2018. Candidates wishing to be considered are strongly encouraged to apply early, and no later than May 15, 2018.

About ESSEC Business School
ESSEC is one of the leading business schools in Europe. It has campuses in Paris and Singapore, offering both undergraduate and graduate level training in business administration (Global BBA, Global MBA, Executive MBA, Masters in Management, specialized masters, and PhD). It became the first AASCB accredited business school outside the United States and Canada in 1997. It is also accredited by EQUIS. ESSEC has developed academic partnership with many prestigious institutions to offer double degrees and international exchange opportunities both in France (e.g., École Normale Supérieure and the ENSEA) and globally (e.g., Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in the USA, Mannheim Business School in Germany, Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in China, Keio Business School in Japan, and Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, to name a few). In the 2016 Financial Times global ranking, the Masters in Management and Masters in Finance programs were ranked top three and seven respectively.