How do you succeed in a Ph.D. program?
This is a question that is asked by every prospective Ph.D. student and there are many sources of advice. The best available advice on the internet is from fields other than accounting but most of it applies to accounting. See the list of links and citations below.
21 blog posts describing "grad school rulz" from orgtheory.net [1]
Advice from top economists for young economists compiled by Ngan Dinh of the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program Vietnam Program of the Harvard School of Government [2]
Getting the Most from Your Doctoral Program: Advice for the Ph.D. Student in Finance, by Frank Alpert and Thomas H. Eyssell, Journal of Financial Education, Fall 1995