Accounting

The Accounting, Finance and Economics Department is one of the larger departments within Aberdeen Business School. The department has responsibility for the delivery of a number of innovative and successful undergraduate and postgraduate courses and offers degrees in Accounting and Finance, Management with Economics and Management with Finance and, at postgraduate level, the MSc in Financial Management.

Accounting, Finance and Economics Teaching and Learning is focused on fostering and sustaining innovative and vocationally-relevant undergraduate and postgraduate courses which are recognised internationally for excellence in this area of education. Departmental Staff have both establised academic expertise and professional experience.

The department has achieved significant success in terms of publications in internationally ranked refereed journals and has hosted a number of conferences. Departmental Research covers areas of study such as Accounting Education, Critical Accounting, Governance Issues and the Market for Corporate Control, Corporate Failure, Financial Markets and Labour Market Skills.