UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Accounting & Finance
Part of the Faculty of Law, Business & Social Sciences and a federated member of the Business School

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Research

The Department received a “5” rating in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise and is aiming for an even stronger performance in the 2008 Exercise.

In a recent ranking of 253 European universities in terms of publications in 19 top accounting journals, Glasgow University was ranked 7th overall in Europe for accounting research output, rising to 5th in the more recent period.

In a recent study* which looks at the global ranking of accounting programmes, Glasgow rates 34th in the world and 6th in the UK during the most recent period studied (1998-2005). A total of 1,087 academic institutions worldwide are evaluated.  The 34th ranking represents an excellent improvement from 54th position during the earlier period (1991-1997). Departments are ranked based on publications in 24 leading journals. Over the combined period, 60 of the top 100 are US institutions. The five UK institutions ahead of Glasgow are Manchester, Cardiff, LSE, Edinburgh and Lancaster.

* Chen, K.C., Chen, C.R. and Cheng, L.T.W (2007), 'Global ranking of accounting programmes and the elite effect in accounting research', Accounting and Finance, 47(2): 187-220.


Research areas

Members of the Department are actively engaged in research, with their individual and collaborative research interests falling into the following main areas:


The Wards Trust

As a direct result of a substantial benefaction, the Wards Trust fund, in 1981, the Department has established a comprehensive research resource centre, the Wards Research Library.  The Wards Trust fund also provides a visiting professorship scheme, which enables distinguished overseas visitors to spend longer periods of time researching and collaborating with the Department.  The fund supports the Wards Seminar Series presented by distinguished UK and overseas visiting lecturers.  In addition the Department has a regular staff workshop programme.

Accounting and Business Research

Professor Pauline Weetman is the Academic Editor of Accounting and Business Research.

British Accounting Review

With effect from April 2005, the Joint Editorship of the British Accounting Review, the research journal of the British Accounting Association, transferred to Professors Vivien Beattie and Clive Emmanuel.