Accounting is fundamental to modern business decisions. External investors and creditors need information derived from accounting to understand firms’ operations and profitability to make investment and loan decisions. Top managers of firms need accounting information to make plans and budgets, implement controls, and conduct performance evaluations and assessments. Accounting is the "business language" and the currency for communication between various organizations in the market economy, and it is an area that requires high levels of professionalism, technical skills, and sound judgments.

Learning Objectives

The program aims to cultivate high-end talents in accounting research and practice, who have a mastery of international cutting-edge accounting theory and research methods, understand global accounting standards and accounting system development trends, and are familiar with the rules of international and domestic economic development and capital market operations.

Teaching Plan

During the four years of undergraduate study, special emphasis is placed on the acquisition of comprehensive knowledge and development of quantitative skills for problem analyses. Students are required to study not only accounting, auditing, finance, taxation, and accounting information systems, but also economics, finance, strategic management, marketing, and law, as well as mathematics and computer sciences.

Academic Strengths

Most of the major’s courses are taught in English, and all courses use acclaimed international textbooks and materials. Faculty members possess rich practical experience and strong scientific research abilities, and most have doctoral degrees from prestigious overseas universities. The teaching and research of the accounting program is also strongly supported by the Accounting Research Institute of Tsinghua University.

Career Prospects

Graduates from the accounting program usually continue to pursue postgraduate studies in China or abroad, or obtain employment opportunities at internationally renowned investment banks, the Big Four international accounting firms, internationally renowned consulting firms, large domestic and foreign banks, multinational corporations or large state-owned enterprises. Since admitting its first batch of undergraduates in 1994, the program’s alumni network has expanded all over the world.