Doctor of Philosophy in Accounting - Judgement and Decision Making

University of Waterloo

Conduct academic research in your chosen area of specialization and prepare for an academic career.

If you're motivated and have a high degree of intellectual curiosity, the PhD in Accounting program will prepare you for a challenging and rewarding academic career. You'll receive the training necessary to develop expertise in a specialty area of accounting research.

Choose a specialty area by selecting a core discipline like economics or psychology, a subject area like financial accounting or management accounting, and then a methods specialty like archival or experimental. With the School of Accounting and Finance's large faculty, their diverse expertise and research interests will give you many potential supervisors and specialty areas to choose from.

You'll develop expertise in your specialty area through coursework, a research paper, and six research internships, along with a breadth of knowledge of accounting research to prepare you for a successful academic career.