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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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    About: The PhD in Accounting and Management Control program focuses on advanced research techniques in accounting, financial management, and control systems. You'll develop critical analytical skills and scientific thinking necessary for tackling complex financial challenges in various organizations. The course encourages innovative approaches to research and supports work that contributes to both academic knowledge and practical applications in the field.
    Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue careers in academia, financial consulting, corporate finance, risk management, and policy-making roles within governmental or nonprofit organizations. Opportunities also exist in research institutions and industry-specific think tanks, where advanced expertise in accounting and management control is valuable.

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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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