PhD in administration - Accounting

Are you planning on an academic career in the field of accounting? Are you interested in financial accounting, audit, management control or governance?

Do your PhD in a milieu devoted to research, in a community of professors and researchers renowned for excellence.

Your PhD in short

• Offered by HEC Montréal jointly with Concordia and McGill universities and the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). This partnership gives you access to resources (faculty and courses) rarely available elsewhere in the world.
• Full-time program allowing you to complete your studies in 4 or 5 years.
• Program offered in French, English or both.
• Tuition fees waived and competitive funding for the first four years of your studies.

For a career in academia

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Among the best

The professors and researchers in the Accounting Department publish in top-tier journals, including:

• Accounting, Organizations and Society
• Comptabilité, contrôle, audit
• Corporate Governance: An International Review
• Journal of Accounting Research
• Journal of Business Ethics
• Management Accounting Research
• Organization Studies
• Review of Accounting Studies
• Strategic Management Journal
• The Accounting Review

Varied research interests

Professors’ research interests cover financial accounting, management accounting, auditing and taxation. This includes the following themes:

Our PhD students and candidates

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World-class research in accounting

HEC Montréal offers doctoral students in accounting an exceptional scientific milieu.

Seminars

A series of seminars featuring presentations by internationally renowned scholars.

Research chairs and professorships

• CPA International Research Chair in Management Control, directed by Professor Samuel Sponem
• Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Governance, directed by Professor Claude Francoeur
• Professorship Roland-Chagnon in Acounting and Tax: Professor Suzanne Landry
• Research Professorship in Comparative Governance: Professor Eduardo Schiehll
• Research Professorship in Sociology of the Accounting Profession: Professor Anna Samsonova-Taddei
• Research Professorship Roland-Chagnon in Audit: Professor Zvi Singer
• Research professorship in development of accounting expertise: Professor Mouna Hazgui

Researchers in this specialization work closely with several research groups and knowledge transfer hubs, including:

• Alphonse and Dorimène Desjardins International Institute for Cooperatives
• e3 Hub – Expertise in Energy and Environment
• IDEOS – Social Enterprises Management Hub
• Retirement and Savings Institute