Department of Accounting & Business Law

The leading Accounting and Business Law department in the Nordic Region

The Department of Accounting & Business Law is Finland's leading Accounting and Business Law department. Our department consists of both Finnish and international faculty with expertise in Accounting and Business Law areas. Our research covers a broad range of industry-relevant issues and is regularly published in the top Accounting, Finance, Management, and Business Law outlets. Our ongoing research explores the impact of Digitalisation, Sustainability, and Inclusivity initiatives on Accounting, Auditing and Compliance activities in firms. Our faculty members take socially relevant roles supporting political decision-making, advising businesses, and steering firms' strategies.


Our department is very well networked both nationally and internationally. Our excellent seminar series covers both Management and Financial Accounting topics, attracting top researchers from all over the world. We have close tie-ups with leading businesses both for teaching and research purposes. Our faculty members regularly write opinion pieces for leading media houses in Finland, and international media reports have cited some of the cutting-edge research from our department. 


Theoretically advanced and practically valuable research enables us to provide industry-relevant education at both bachelors and masters levels. We regularly benchmark our bachelor and master level programmes against leading Nordic and European Accounting programmes. In our course and curricula design, we take input from our alumni and industry experts. We believe Accounting and Business law are essential parts of financially sound strategic solutions to often complex and ambiguous managerial challenges. Our degree programmes equip students with relevant skills enabling them to succeed in today's turbulent job markets.

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Faculty

Meet our faculty!

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Research

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Seminars & Events

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Impact

See how Department of Accounting engages actively in societal discussion.

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Events

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For Aalto community Other, Students

Aalto University & VTT: Christmas Carols

O come all Ye faithful and join us for the season’s most beautiful carols on Tuesday 10 December at 8:00 - the event will be held at Dipoli's Metso hall (Otakaari 24).
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For Aalto community Information sessions, Staff trainings, IT & digital tools, Training to support research

BIZ ACRIS helpdesk, 11.12.2024

Join online drop-in session hosted by the Open Science and ACRIS team.
Ask a Data Agent, weekly RDM support hour, 1-2 PM on Zoom
For Aalto community Support for teams, Training to support research

Aalto Data Agents' weekly support hour on Zoom

A weekly Zoom room to come and ask us anything about research data and open science: data management, data storage, data analysis, data sharing, reproducibility, responsible conduct of research, data privacy, ethics.
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For Aalto community Campus, Information sessions, Staff trainings

Travel and Expense Guidance

In this Teams event, we will provide guidance to travelers regarding business travelling. The event is held on the second Tuesday of every month.

News

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Awards and Recognition, Research & Art Published:

Last chance to nominate for 2024 Aalto University Open Science Award

The deadline for submissions is 3 Dec, 2024.
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Awards and Recognition Published:

Best Paper Award for Professor Jari Huikku and his colleagues

The award-winning study investigates which strategic factors influence the use of risk analysis techniques (RATs)
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Research & Art Published:

Auditor's expertise in climate risks affects the quality of the client's climate risk disclosures

The study was carried out in international cooperation with universities from several countries
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Awards and Recognition Published:

Aalto Master of Business Law student Päivi Utoslahti won the best VAT degree of the year award in an international competition

Aalto's success was complemented by student Oona Särkinen, who came second in the competition

For Students Interested in Accounting

Both our Bachelor’s and Master’sprogrammes are the largest at the business school and regularly receive top ratings from the students. Our PhD programme is well-funded and provides top-quality education, research relevant training, great networking possibilities, in proximity to practices, and excellent supervision.

The English-Finnish accounting dictionary for students can be found here.

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Applying to Bachelor's Programmes

The application period for bachelor's programmes in English is 8 – 23 January 2025 for studies starting in autumn 2025.

Admission Services
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Accounting, Master of Science (Economics and Business Administration)

The Master’s Programme in Accounting prepares students for producing and using financial and non-financial information to control and manage companies. Accounting, whether financial accounting or management accounting, is at the heart of every business and a critical part of planning and decision-making in companies. Accounting graduates possess invaluable and highly universal know-how for succeeding in different organisations across all industries and continents.

Study options
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The Master´s Programme in Business Law is taught in Finnish.
For more information visit our Finnish web site.

Study options

Contact information

Visiting address

Ekonominaukio 1, 3rd floor, 02150 Espoo

Postal address

Department of Accounting
Aalto University School of Business
PO BOX 21210
FI-00076 AALTO
FINLAND

Department Administration

Head of the Department: Teemu Malmi

Inquiries regarding

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