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About the Ph.D. Prep Program BYU's School of Accountancy offers a specialized PhD Prep Track as part of the Masters of Accountancy (MAcc) degree. The program is designed to prepare students to enroll in a Ph.D. program in accounting at another university after finishing their master’s degree. Students in both the five-year integrated program and the two-year graduate program are eligible to apply to the PhD Prep Track. The program involves Ph.D.-style seminars to learn about research and academic work, as well as coursework in mathematics, econometrics, and statistics. Students who participated in this program have been highly successful in placing at research intensive Ph.D. programs. Those who complete their Ph.D. in accounting enter a field where there is high demand, and it is projected that this will be the case for the foreseeable future. Starting salaries for new professors in accounting are two to four times higher than starting salaries for MAcc graduates. Learn more about the Prep Track by reading the History of the Prep Track. Advice, Suggestions, and Resources This site is meant to provide useful advice, suggestions, and resources for all users. These are separated by topical area: Ph.D. Prep Track and Doctoral Student Q&A Research Teaching and Service Other Topics File:Duke.jpg University Information File:Belltower.jpg External Sites People One purpose of this website is to improve networking among past Ph.D. prep students, current Ph.D. prep students, and friends of BYU. Please make sure you are included in the website and you keep your information up to date. File:Writing.jpg Current Ph.D. Prep Track Students Current Doctoral Students File:Eraser.jpg Current Faculty File:Accounting.jpg Practitioners Also, please see our collective Accomplishments and Successes. Announcements Please see the 2009 Accounting Symposium Schedule for details of the upcoming symposium. For students interested in Accounting Information Systems Research see this page. Help brainstorm ideas and provide comments on how the BYU Accounting Family can Serve Others. Please help out! Not sure what to do or how to do it? See the Help page. Featured PhD Prep Student File:Coyne Joshua.JPG Joshua Coyne Why did you decide to pursue a PhD? "While pursuing both an undergraduate and graduate degree at BYU, I realized that the real draw of the academic environment was the opportunity to discover new knowledge. A Ph.D. is focused on training individuals to do just that." Current Projects Madsen, P., J. Coyne. The Hot-hand Effect or the Cold-hand Effect? Superstitious Learning from Prior Success and Failure Among Serial Entrepreneurs. (Working paper) Coyne, J., S. Summers, B. Williams, D. Wood. Accounting Program Research Rankings by Topical Area and Methodology. Issues in Accounting Education. (submitted) Quote "My family helps to keep me from taking myself too seriously. It is helpful for all...to remind ourselves from time to time that accounting research does not exactly cure cancer. If journals publish interesting research that facilitates a richer understanding of accounting and more effective accounting education, that is all we can ask. But there are more important things in life, such as family." Steven J. Kachelmeier, June, 2009, "Annual Report and Editorial Commentary for The Accounting Review." - more Quotes