A Master’s of Economic Sciences degree represents the general foundation of post-graduate education, which provides post-graduate degree eligibility in the field of advanced studies in the major subject. Post-graduate accounting and finance studies can be completed in the areas of

• Management Accounting 
• Financial Statement Information 
• Finance
  

You will find more precise descriptions of the areas of emphasis in research from our website under the research partition.

During the early stage of post-graduate studies, it is important to formulate a research plan through which means the project can be presented in, for instance, the Department’s research seminars. For each approved post-graduate student, one or more personal mentors shall be selected from the professors in the subject. The subject professors (Markus Granlund, Kari Lukka, Hannu Schadéwitz, Mika Vaihekoski) are quite willing to discuss post-graduate projects with you.

We have gathered some useful links below for post-graduate students, and information about our most recent doctoral theses is also available there.

Accounting and Finance doctoral theses and licentiate research

The doctoral theses and licentiate research by those who have graduated from Turku School of Economics have been situated in the TSE Library collections. The Library’s database, Valpuri, contains information on the literature available in these collections. You can obtain more exact details concerning the collections and information retrieval from the Library Information Service pages or directly from Valpuri. The thesis research has been published in TSE’s A series, and part of the licentiate research has also been released in various TSE series. You can obtain more information about publications here. The Accounting and Finance doctoral theses from the first decade of the 21^st century are listed below.

Useful links for post-graduate students

You can also find many types of useful information on the web pages of the Academy of Finland.

The most essentially important general body for accounting in Europe is the European Accounting Association (EAA).

The American Accounting Association (AAA) is the equivalent in the United States.

Correspondingly, the European Finance Association (EFA), European Financial Management Association (EFM) and American Finance Association (AFA) represent the finance side. An important international network in the field of management and education is The European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM).

The purpose of research networks in the social sciences is to increase global interaction between researchers and practising professionals:

Social Science Research Network (SSRN), and in particular: Accounting Research Network (ARN), Financial Economics Network (FEN) and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Nordic Accounting Research Network is an informal cooperation between Nordic accounting departments at high quality business schools and universities. The immediate ambition is to increase supply as well as quality of PhD education in financial accounting and auditing.

Some pivotal scientific publications in accounting and corporate finance