Dear Students,
Welcome to the Department of Accounting at LSE. You are now part of our vibrant community of accounting students, alumni, faculty, and professional services staff. We trust that during your studies, you will have a fulfilling educational experience with a long-lasting impact.
Our Department is a globally recognized centre of excellence in teaching and research of accounting. It has a proud and distinguished history; it was the first accounting department in the UK and trained the first generation of academics in the field. Since our origins, we have strived to be innovative and lead the profession.
Our goal is to advance the knowledge on the critical role played by accounting in markets, organizations, and society as well as to share this knowledge with our students and the wider public, including practitioners and regulators. Our faculty members conduct interdisciplinary research in social sciences and address questions relevant to society using robust quantitative and qualitative methods.
Our passion for research permeates into our teaching, which is problem-driven and focused on big questions. Consistent with LSE’s motto “rerum cognoscere causas”, the emphasis is on understanding the causes of things, aided by strong theoretical foundations in economics and state-of-the-art analytical methods. During your studies, you will be challenged to think critically by our internationally recognised faculty. You will learn the importance of accounting in decision making, policy-setting and sustainability, as well as the role that disclosure plays in the well-functioning of markets and organizations.
Each year we admit only around 375 students to our undergraduate and graduate programmes. You are now among them. We encourage you to explore, learn, and make the most of the activities and the educational opportunities that the Department of Accounting and LSE offer.
On behalf of our faculty and our professional services staff, I extend you our warmest welcome.
Professor Ane Tamayo
Head of Department of Accounting