Accounting
Accounting
Director
Prof. Isabel Lourenço
Isabel.lourenco@iscte.pt
Program Outline
The Accounting PhD program is a full time 3-year program which offers its students highly advanced skills in accounting. It is targeted at students who wish to follow an academic career or a career in accounting.
This is a unique academic program that provides intensive training and advanced knowledge in accounting, providing a high capacity for research and excellent career prospects.
The ISCTE Business School’s Accounting PhD program offers you:
- Excellent career prospects. Graduated students successfully benefit from their skills and know-how acquired through the program.
- Contact with a faculty of international reputation. The Accounting Department is at the forefront of research in accounting, publishing in international journals and offering a cutting-edge knowledge in accounting based on a strong theoretical and practical framework that is shared in class.
- Participation in seminars. This program includes a series of seminars held regularly and where scientific papers on the state of the art in accounting are presented by lecturers from academic schools of international renown.
- Access to an extensive collection of databases, including the Warton Research Data Services, Compustat and Worldscope.
Curriculum 2011/2012
The PhD program in Accounting has a curriculum that comprises 180 credits divided as follows for three years:
| Courses | Scientific Area | Type | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Case Studies in Accounting |
Accounting | Semestral | 6 |
| Empirical Research in Management Accounting |
Accounting | Semestral | 12 |
| Empirical Research in Financial Acounting |
Accounting | Semestral | 12 |
| Econometrics Methods |
Econometrics | Semestral | 6 |
| Microeconomics |
Economy | Semestral | 6 |
| Elective (1) | Econometrics/ Statistics and Data Analysis |
Semestral | 6 |
| Research Project in Accounting | Accounting | Semestral | 6 |
| Accounting Theory | Accounting | Semestral | 6 |
| Total | - | - | 60 |
| Courses | Scientific Area | Type | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD thesis in Accounting |
Accounting | Bianual | 120 |
| Total |
- | - |
120 |
Faculty
The reputation of the faculty and their varied research interests provide students a unique opportunity to learn and interact with faculty of international talent. ISCTE Business School Accounting faculty has a remarkable history of research, publishing on a regular basis in scientific journals and having researchers working actively in accounting area development.
