De­part­ment of Ac­count­ing

Our common ambition is to further increase our impact on the international research community.

The department prioritises relevance and quality in our research demonstrating a major influence on both society and on businesses within our research fields. This impact is achieved directly through research and cooperation with businesses and society and indirectly through our education portfolio.

At the department, we educate and train a great deal of PhD students as well as numerous bachelor and master students through courses at various programmes, and students of executive education. In addition, we organize workshops, research projects, research seminars, conferences, etc.
 

Research centres

The department hosts two centres: Centre for Corporate Goverance and Centre for Owner-Managed Businesses.
The two centres, combined with the rest of the faculty at the department, hold a broad and nuanced array of competences, talents and expertise within the numerous aspects of accounting, auditing and corporate governance and together we explore these topics from national as well as global perspectives. This is also reflected through our multinational staff as we increasingly attract skilled faculty from all over the world.

The department prioritises relevance and quality in our research demonstrating a major influence on both society and on businesses within our research fields. This impact is achieved directly through research and cooperation with businesses and society and indirectly through our education portfolio.

Our research is partly based on historical development and partly on the department's curriculum. The department's researchers collaborate on specific research projects through this interdisciplinary structure.

The department's research fields are:

Financial Accounting
Within financial accounting the department concerns itself with theories, models and methods related to financial statement reporting, financial statement users and financial markets' applications of accounting information, national and international accounting regulation as well as accounting policies. The department's research in financial accounting is primarily focused on theoretical development of new reporting forms, share market-based accounting research, analytical descriptive study of Danish accounting policies - mainly accounting policies of listed companies as well as Danish and international financial regulations

Management Accounting
The research in management accounting deals with analysis, development, deployment and use of economic detection and control systems in various companies and organisations. The research partly aims towards more recent management accounting methods and systems such as Balanced Scorecard, Activity Based Management, Target Costing and Lean Accounting. It also aims in part towards more traditional issues in areas such as the establishment and application of transfer pricing, use of budget management and calculation models for various decision-making, planning and monitoring purposes.
The department also has a tradition of working with measurement problems that exist in connection with the registration and use of financial and non- financial ratios, and the specific issues and challenges associated with the use of IT-based management information systems.

Auditing
The research includes both auditing in the private and public sector and is focused on four main areas.
The first: research on national and international regulation of auditing and auditors, in which the department has a long research tradition.
The second: the auditing role in corporate governance and risk management, to which the department has contributed research both on the external, internal and public auditing role.
The third: research and development of private and public auditors' training and skills, where the department's research has both a national and international perspective.
The fourth: comprises broad-based empirical research in the private and public auditing organisation, leadership and execution.

The Department of Accounting hosts and teaches a number of courses at the following programmes.

The department’s courses cover its academic disciplines:
Corporate Governance
Auditing
Financial Accounting
Management Accounting
 

The PhD program is three-year program consisting of two years of research and half a year of course participation. For research fellows (hired by CBS) the remaining six months will typically be spent teaching CBS students. For industrial PhD fellows (employed by the company or other organization) the remaining six months will typically be spent working in the organization by which the fellow is employed.

CREATING THE KNOWLEDGE OF TOMORROW

The PhD programme trains students to carry out research, in part through work with their project and in part through participation in courses. These two elements are – together with a requirement of research communication – the core of the PhD programme. An approved thesis and a number of successfully completed courses are the formal conditions for awarding the PhD degree.

There are many different “routes” to a PhD. CBS offers several different ways of becoming a PhD student:

• research fellow
• 4+4 PhD student
• independent student
• industrial PhD fellow
• visiting PhD Student 

Each of these options is described in 5 ways of be­com­ing a PhD stu­dent