PhD with Coursework (Accounting and Business Information Systems)
Overview
The PhD in Accounting and Business Information Systems offers students the opportunity to gain entry to an academic or research career.
The Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems is able to offer supervision of topics in any of these areas:
- Markets-based accounting research; contracting theory and research; earnings management; valuation; international financial reporting
- Economics of auditing and auditor behaviour; the pricing of audits; audit quality; audit judgement; the audit market; corporate governance; business forensics
- Accounting information systems; decision making in corporate recovery; intelligent decision aids; enterprise resource planning systems; assimilation of information systems; behaviour in information environments; information valuation and use; electronic commerce; escalation theory; organisation impacts; reliance measurement
- Performance management; performance impact of corporate downsizing; strategic cost management; strategy implementation; management control system design; organisational behaviour; interorganisational networks.
Program structure
The PhD with Coursework (Accounting and Business Information Systems) consists of three years of full-time study (or six years of part-time equivalent study).
- First year: coursework consisting of five semester length subjects, two advanced quantitative subjects, and one unspecified advanced level subject as approved by the Director of the PhD program. Students are confirmed as PhD candidates at the end of the first year, on the basis of satisfactory completion of the coursework component and a successful presentation and formal defence of a thesis proposal.
- Second and third years: full-time research
- Please visit the Course and Subject Handbook for current subject information
Admission requirements
To be eligible for entry to the PhD with Coursework (Accounting and Business Information Systems) you must:
- Hold a four-year honours degree in accounting from an Australian university, or a qualification or combination of qualifications considered by the University of Melbourne Research and Higher Degree (RHD) Committee to be equivalent; and
- Satisfy the University's English language requirements; and
- Complete the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) with a minimum score of 600; and
- Have prior academic research experience at 4th year or Masters level; and
- Supply a personal statement with your application.
Assessment
Normally, PhD candidates are first admitted as ‘probationary’ candidates. To advance from probationary candidature to confirmed candidature, you must pass all the required subjects and present an acceptable dissertation proposal.
To be eligible for confirmation, you must have an overall grade, based on an average of marks obtained in the subjects in first year, equal to or greater than 75%. Post-confirmation, in years two and three of the program, students will conduct research leading to the completion of their dissertation.
More information
- How and when to apply
- Scholarships
- Fees
- Download the Melbourne GSM 2010 Prospectus (PDF 7458 Kb)
- Visit the Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems website
- Visit the School of Graduate Research website
- Queries about research programs should be directed to research-melbgsm@unimelb.edu.au