Duke’s Accounting group is committed to having a significant impact on accounting scholarship and accounting practice through world-class research and teaching. We invite you to explore our website to discover the world of Accounting at Fuqua.
Accounting involves the creation and use of information within and outside organizations. Accounting research investigates questions about how information is gathered, organized and used by individuals and by markets, and encompasses managerial accounting issues, assurance (auditing) issues, taxation issues and financial accounting/reporting issues.
We invite you to explore our program and curriculum. You’ll quickly realize that Fuqua’s accounting Ph.D. program is unique in three respects. First, our accounting faculty span the analytical paradigm (which seeks to model one or more phenomena in a stylized setting) and the empirical-archival paradigm (which relies primarily on historical data and statistical techniques). This combination facilitates positive spillovers: Analytically inclined students will be exposed to empirical-archival evidence that can motivate the modeling of important phenomena, while Empirically inclined students will be exposed to the process of developing rigorous and economically grounded predictions.
Second, we emphasize collaborative work between and among students and faculty. We believe that learning occurs when students are directly involved in research. As an output of this approach, students in our program frequently co-author papers with faculty both during and after having completed the program, as you can see from the Student collaborations with faculty page. Our students have placed at many prestigious research institutions and received multiple awards, as you can see from the Placement & Awards page.
Third, our department offers numerous occasions for interaction with world-class researchers through various department-organized events, such as the Duke/UNC Fall Camp and the Accounting Theory Summer School. Please refer to the Events page for more information on these events.