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• Current and past Ph.D. Prep Track students may obtain they own user name by sending an email to phdprep.byu@gmail.com. Please include your desired user name and graduation date.
• Please make suggestions for next year's BYU Accounting Research Symposium.
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Featured Topics

Researching Resources

• Financial Accounting Framework Database
• List of Journals in Business, with impact factor, etc.
• Research Ideas
• Research Interests
• SAS Coding Help
• The IAAER Executive Committee is very pleased to announce that the Association is providing a limited time offer to doctoral students in accounting and accounting related programs. Students completing the membership form provided on our website (http://www.iaaer.org/?page=Joining%20IAAER) and returning it no later than May 31, 2008 will have their fee for a three-year membership waived.

Future Featured Topics

Suggestions, Advice, and Questions and Answers

This is a section for mentoring. Please answer the questions below or ask your own questions.

Topic For Ph.D. Prep Track Members

Should I get a Ph.D?

• Should I work in industry before getting a Ph.D.?
• What do accounting professors research?
• What is life like as a doctoral student?
• What is life like as an accounting professor?
• Why I didn't get a Ph.D.
• How do you succeed in a Ph.D. program?

How can I prepare for a Ph.D. program?

• What classes should I take?
• How can I get some research going before my Ph.D. program?
• Am I ready for a PhD Program? And, which program is right for me?
• Should I find a teaching opportunity before my Ph.D. program?
• Where can I find teaching opportunites?

How do I decide which program is right for me?

• What Ph.D. program should I attend?
• What should I expect when I visit a campus?

Doctoral Student

How can I be successful?

• What are the keys to success in a Ph.D. program?
• What should I do to excel during coursework?
• How do I determine my dissertation topic?
• How can I build my research pipeline while in my Ph.D. program?
• Where can I find data?

My dissertation is finished, now what?

• What should I expect when I go on the road with my dissertation?
• Now that I have a Ph.D., how do I get a J.O.B.?
• Where can I learn about job openings?

Faculty Member

Research

• How do I find good co-authors?
• Where can I find data?
• What is the best way to manage the review process?
• How do I publish lots of papers?

People

• If you have a biographical page that contains the information that would be placed on the wiki biography page, please only provide the link to your biographical page. This way we will avoid having to update two places when the information changes.

Students

• Current Ph.D. Prep Track Students
• Past Ph.D. Prep Track Students

Other Students or Faculty who are Friends of BYU

• Current BYU Faculty
• Non Ph.D. Prep Track Students who are Friends of BYU
• Non Ph.D. Prep Track Faculty who are Friends of BYU

News

• Accomplishments and Successes
• In the News

Resources

Teaching Resources

• Accounting Humor - Great for the classroom
• Accounting Quotes - Great for the classroom

How to Stay Connected to the Profession

• How to gain an in-depth understanding of institutional characteristics as a Ph.D. student without prior work experience

Ph.D. Prep Track Student Resources

• Course Requirements
• GMAT Suggestions
• Should I get my CPA? If so, when?
• Suggestions From Students

Other Resources

• BYU Accounting Symposium
• Publication Requirements for Tenure
• University Information

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