School of Accounting is one of the earliest teaching units established at Guangdong University of Finance and Economics. Its predecessor was the Accounting Teaching and Research Section founded in 1983. In 1985, the Department of Accounting was established, and in 1999 it was renamed the School of Accounting. In response to the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, the University established the School of Intelligent Finance and Accounting Management at its Foshan Campus in 2021. In 2024, the School of Intelligent Finance and Accounting Management merged with the former School of Accounting to form the new School of Accounting.
The School currently offers three undergraduate programs: Accounting, Auditing, and Financial Management. The Accounting program is designated as national first-class undergraduate major, national-level featured specialty, and Guangdong Provincial distinctive specialty. The Auditing program is recognized as national first-class undergraduate major and pilot major for comprehensive professional reform in Guangdong Province. The Financial Management program is acknowledged as national first-class undergraduate major and demonstration major for applied talent cultivation in Guangdong Province. The International Accounting (ACCA) Experimental Zone for Provincial Innovative Talent Cultivation is the first "Gold Approved Learning Partner" in South China accredited by ACCA headquarters. The School is authorized to confer the Master of Accounting, Master of Professional Accounting (MPAcc), and Master of Auditing (MAud) degrees. In recent years, its graduates have maintained strong employment outcomes.
The school has 91 faculty and staff, among whom are 70 distinguished full-time teachers, including 10 professors, 27 associate professors and 26 lecturers, 61 of whom hold doctoral degrees, accounting for 85.92%.. It has 5 doctoral supervisors, 55 master's supervisorsand 2 postdoctoral co-supervisors, with139 engaged off-campus practice supervisors. Additionally, the school has 4 National LeadingAccounting Talents designated by the Ministry of Finance, 4 Guangdong Provincial LeadingAccounting Talents, 11 candidates of theThousand-Hundred-Ten Talent project of Guangdong's universities, 4 Guangdong Nanyue Outstanding Teachers, 4 outstanding young teacher trainees of Guangdong Province, and 1 Guangdong Provincial University Counselor of the Year. The School has 6 provincial-level teams and 1 provincial Overseas Distinguished Scholar Project. The provincial-level teaching teams are the Accounting Teaching Team, the Auditing Teaching Team, the Internal Control Demonstration Team for Curriculum-Based Ideological and Political Education, and the Accounting Programme Demonstration Team for Curriculum-Based Ideological and Political Education. The provincial-level research and innovation teams are the Greater Bay Area Capital Market Finance and Accounting Innovation Research Team and the Big Data Auditing Research Team. The provincialOverseas Distinguished Scholar Project is “Cultivating and Introducing Innovative Accounting and Finance Talent for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area”.Nearly 30 teachers have undertaken visiting scholarshipsin the United States, Canada, Australia, and other countries.
The School shares two national-level experimental teaching centers: the Economics and Management Experimental Teaching Center and the Enterprise Integrated Operation Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Center. It hosts the GDUFE Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Capital Market and Audit Governance Research Institute, a key research base for humanities and social sciences in Guangdong's regular higher education institutions; the Internationalized Applied Accounting Talent Collaborative Cultivation Platform, a provincial collaborative education platform; the GDUFE Comprehensive Capacity Enhancement and Practice Base for Composite Applied Auditing Professionals, supported by central government funds; and provincial industry-education integration platforms such as the Intelligent Finance and Accounting Management Modern Industry College and the Accounting Digital and Intelligent Transformation Industry-Education Integration Practice Teaching Base.The School has also established more than 60 off-campus internship bases.
Guided by the University's development strategy, the School will practise the University motto of "Integrity, Dilligence, Commitment, Innovation" and fulfil the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education. Rooted in Guangdong and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, it will explore the development and innovative practice of the "New Liberal Arts" in the era of intelligent technologies.Taking discipline and program development as its focus and adhering to a development path of collaboration and integration, the School pursues both domestic and international collaboration and advances technological integration, industry-education integration, and regional integration. It is committed to building a distinctive and irreplaceable discipline of finance, accounting, and auditing, and to cultivating high-calibre professionals in these fields for the development of the Greater Bay Area and the broader economy and society.