Department of Accounting

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.

Professor Joshua Ronen authored an op-ed: “Regulators Should Stop Trying to 'Whack' So-Called Junk Fees.” Read more

Professor Ilan Guttman's co-authored paper,  "Earnings Management and Earnings Quality: Theory and Evidence," has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 FARS Best Paper Award. Read more

Professor Amal Shehata was interviewed on NPR's Planet Money, "Accounting and The Last Supper". Read more

Professor Eli Bartov won the Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award from the American Accounting Association.