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The Adam Smith Business School has AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS accreditation, and is accredited by several professional bodies.

Accounting and Finance, part of the triple-accedited Adam Smith Business School at Glasgow, has had an international reputation for high quality research since 1925. 

We are a broad subject group, bringing together expertise in the main areas of:

  • finance and market based research
  • financial reporting
  • management accounting and control

We also have specialist knowledge of accounting education, accounting history, auditing and corporate governance. If you study with us, you can gain career-enhancing professional skills and a degree accredited by all the major UK professional accounting bodies.

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1st in UK

Guardian University Guide [Accounting & Finance]

Complete University Guide

4th in UK

Complete University Guide [Accounting & Finance]

Times Good university guide

5th in UK

Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide [Accounting & Finance]

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World top 100

QS World University Rankings [Accounting & Finance]

Adam Smith Business School news

  • 19 May

    Launch of serious educational game aims to raise number of living wage employers

    Currently, 1.6m workers in the UK are not receiving a living wage. Research by academics at University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School and University of Edinburgh Business School has revealed that when employees pay a living wage it improves a worker’s physical and mental health and brings benefits to their employing organisation, their family and society, as well as being an important means of resilience to them all, especially post–pandemic.
  • 06 May

    Improving the experience of witnesses in health and care practice proceedings

    The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has awarded researchers from The University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School, The Open University (OU), Manchester Metropolitan University, and the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh more than £141,000 to expand their world-first study of witnesses’ experience of giving evidence during health and social care workers’ professional conduct hearings.
  • 28 Apr

    Professor Finch speaks at launch of virtual reality campus 

    As part of the celebrations to mark 125 years of Zhejiang University, Head of Adam Smith Business School, Professor John Finch, spoke at the launch of Zhejiang University International Business School’s (ZIBS) virtual ‘Metaverse campus’.
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