STATEMENT OF PURPOSE GUIDELINE FOR Ph.D. APPLICANTS

1. What experiences, questions and academic interests have led you to make the challenging commitment to seek a PhD in Accounting-Finance?(1 page)
   
   
2. Why have you selected our PhD Program? How does our program match with your expectations of a Ph.D. program? (1 page)
   
   
3. What are your career objectives upon completion of the PhD. (1 page)
   
   
4. Research is the focal point of our PhD program. Write a proposal about a research question that you would like to explore. In your proposal please clearly state your research question, why it is important, and how you would approach you might follow to answer the question.(max. 2 pages)
   
   
5. Why should we accept you as a Ph.D. candidate? Give us a brief self-evaluation describing your most important accomplishment, and how you achieved. Provide any additional information that depicts your unique characteristics that would help in your challenge. Specifically, give some discussion of the abilities and other attributes that form your strengths and some discussion of areas you would like to develop more fully. (1 page)
   
   
6. Provide any other information that was not covered elsewhere in the Statement of Purpose.