The Accounting Department was founded in 1924. Since then, with great efforts through generations, it has developed into a national key subject with a strong faculty, fruitful scientific research, and excellent teaching and research facilities.
The Accounting Department of Xiamen University was the first to be authorized by the State Education Commission (now the Ministry of Education) to award master and PhD degrees; the Department offers three undergraduate programs: Accounting, CPA, and International Accounting, 8 masters specializations and 8 PhD specializations. Currently, the Department has over 923 on-campus students, including undergraduates, masters students and doctoral students.
In 1987, Accounting in Xiamen University became one of the first key subjects in China. In the 2001 national key subject assessment, Accounting in Xiamen University, coming out full score, ranked No 1 in China and was again designated a key subject.
The Accounting Department of Xiamen University has been devoted to education reform and faculty development. Department faculty consists of such highly-reputed economists and accounting professors as Professors Ge Jiashu, Wu Shuipeng, Qu Xiaohui, Liu Feng, Chen Hanwen, Huang Shizhong and Wang Guangyuan, and the Department’s strong team consists of full professors, associate professors and lecturers with master or PhD degrees. Currently, there are 19 professors, 12 associate professors in the Department.
Since China’s reform and opening, the Accounting Department has undertaken more than 30 key research projects with grants from the National Natural Science Foundation, the National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation, the Education Commission’s Doctoral Foundation, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance and Fujian Province, and published more than 1500 academic journal articles and others. Among them, many have won national and provincial level awards, including the Outstanding Achievements Award on Research Projects by the National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation and the first prize for Humanities and Social Science Research at Higher Institutions of Education.
