Call for Applicants: ESSEC Business School Paris

                     ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL PARIS

                PhD Program in Accounting and Auditing


      We would like to invite academically excellent Masters
      students/graduates to apply to the PHD Program in the areas
      of Accounting and Auditing at ESSEC Business School Paris.


      ABOUT ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL AND THE ACCOUNTING
      GROUP:

      ESSEC is one of the leading European Business Schools. It
      has campuses in Paris and Singapore, offering mostly
      graduate level training in business administration (MBA,
      Exec MBA, specialized masters, PhD). It became the first
      AASCB accredited business school outside the United States
      and Canada in 1997. It is also accredited by EQUIS. ESSEC
      has developed a strategic alliance with Universite
      Pantheon-Assas, the University of Mannheim in Germany,
      Keio Business School and many academic partnerships with
      leading institutions worldwide (Kellogg, Chicago, Berkeley,
      Tuck, Instituto de Empresa, IIM Ahmedabad, Tsinghua, etc.).
      The MBA program was ranked number seven in the 2007 Wall
      Street Journal world ranking. In addition to its regular
      research activities, our department hosts a company
      sponsored chair, the KPMG Chair in Financial Reporting.


      ABOUT THE PHD PROGRAM IN ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING:

      Students can specialize in one of the following subfields:

      - Empirical financial accounting
      - International financial reporting
      - Auditing
      - Financial statement analysis
      - Organizational and social aspects of accounting

      The ESSEC PhD program in accounting and auditing is devoted
      to training doctoral candidates to conduct research at the
      highest level on questions dealing with the role of
      accounting information in an ever changing economic
      environment. The PhD program in accounting and auditing is
      broadly based and offers interdisciplinary training in
      order to apply basic knowledge from the various fields of
      business studies to address a variety of accounting and
      auditing issues.


      ABOUT THE FINANCIAL AID:

      PhD students may be eligible for financial aid according
      to need and merit:

      - Tuition fees waiver;

      - Tuition fees waiver plus a living allowance (currently
        15,000 euros for a full year of study).

        These financial aids are available during the four years of
        study.

        They are conditional upon students' progress and
        performance, which are reviewed annually.

      - External aid (e.g. French Government scholarships for
        foreigners, foreign government scholarships, CIFRE
        agreements);

      - Bank loans.


      APPLICATIONS/FURTHER INFORMATION:

      To find out more, please visit our web pages at:

                     http://www.essec.edu/phd
                or
      CONTACT:       ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL PARIS
                     Ph.D. Program
                     Avenue Bernard Hirsch
                     BP 50105
                     95021 Cergy Pontoise Cedex
                     France
      Tel:           + 33 (0)1 34 43 30 85 / 32 50
      Fax:           + 33 (0)1 34 43 30 01
      Email:         MAILTO:phd@essec.fr

      Candidates wishing to be considered for our PhD program in
      Accounting and Auditing are strongly encouraged to apply or
      enquire before 15th February 2009 (1st round) or at the
      latest 15th May (2nd round).

      CONTACT:       Professor Chrystelle Richard
                     Accounting & Auditing PhD coordinator
      Email:         MAILTO:richard@essec.fr
Posted 2/3/09