Mission & Philosophy of the Accounting Department
The Accounting Department's mission is to create, debate and disseminate knowledge about the measurement and communication of financial and non-financial information that will inform our students, alumni, managers and capital market participants and facilitate rational financial, economic and policy decisions.
Stern's Department of Accounting offers a wide range of courses and programs for students interested in acquiring the skills that will better enable them to serve the information needs of professional clients and the organizations that employ them.
We offer a Ph.D. degree with an emphasis in accounting as well as an M.B.A. degree with a major or double major in accounting. Students often select a menu of courses stressing financial statement analysis. In the undergraduate college, we offer two accounting majors - one with a C.P.A. emphasis; the other less technical in nature. The latter option is often taken together with finance or information systems as a double major. All students have access to the faculty of departments throughout the Stern School.
Our faculty are committed to the pursuit of excellence in their teaching and research activities. The Department is consistently ranked as one of the top accounting faculties in the United States, and we pride ourselves in the knowledge that more of our accounting graduates have entered the ranks of senior partner of the major accounting firms than any other business school.fa
Tim Baldenius Chairman Vincent C. Ross Professor of Accounting | Alex Dontoh Deputy Chairman Professor of Accounting |
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Received an honorary doctorate from the Universiteit Hasselt in Belgium (given once every five years), and was appointed as the Copernicus Chair in Economics from the University of Ferrar in Italy.
Announcements
The 2011 Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance (JAAF) Conference hosted by the Vincent C. Ross Institute of Accounting Research, will be held on November 4 & 5, 2011. The theme of this year's conference will be Frontiers in Accounting Research.Conference location:
Henry Kaufman Management Center
44 West 4th Street
New York, NY 10012
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New Faculty
 | Michael Tang Assistant Professor of Accounting Ph.D., Accounting, University of Rochester |
 | Yiwei Dou Assistant Professor of Accounting Ph.D., Accounting, University of Toronto |
News
Professor April Klein on companies that shrink their cash holdings. Read MoreProfessor Stephen Ryan was recently nominated to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Financial Advisory Roundtable Read More
Prof Frederick Choi received Teaching Excellence Award. Read More
NYU Stern's Ross Roundtable on trends in financial enforcement and securities litigation More>
Prof Frederick D.S. Choi received the University of Hawaii Distinguished Alumni Award- 2012 More>
Professor Emeritus of Accounting Kashi Balachandran was honored at a dinner held in conjunction with the Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics: Accounting Symposium. More >
