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HEC Paris - Executive Education PhD in Accounting and Management Control

HEC Paris - Executive Education

PhD in Accounting and Management Control

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Sep 2025

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Key Summary

    About : The PhD in Accounting and Management Control program is designed for students looking to develop advanced research skills in accounting practices and management control systems. This program emphasizes rigorous academic training and provides students with the opportunity to engage in innovative research that addresses contemporary challenges in the field.
    Career Outcomes : Graduates can pursue various career paths including academic positions in universities, research roles in think tanks, or advanced positions in corporate finance and accounting. Additionally, they may work in consultancy, governmental organizations, or as independent researchers.

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Introduction

The Accounting and Management Control specialization is designed to provide a thorough understanding of current accounting theory, practice, and research.

The Accounting and Management Control specialization is designed to provide a thorough understanding of current accounting theory, practice, and research, taught within the framework of modern economic, finance, and sociology theories as applied to the behavior of today’s corporations and financial markets.

The Curriculum

The curriculum covers a large array of topics in financial accounting, management accounting, and control such as:

Disclosure and transparency - financial reporting quality - information provision to capital and debt markets - agency conflicts - management control - regulation - control devices - management accounting technologies - performance measurement and management - corporate governance - risk management - organizational and sociological aspects of management control auditing - environmental management accounting - risk rating - social studies of finance.

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