The accounting discipline at Dongbei University of Finance and Economics has a long and profound history. Its origins can be traced back to the Department of Economics established at Northeastern University in July 1928, which offered courses such as Accounting, Advanced Accounting, Cost Accounting, and Auditing. The accounting program itself can be traced back to the accounting class founded at Northeast People's University (now Jilin University) in November 1949, which later became the Department of Accounting. These educational resources were gradually integrated into the accounting discipline of DUFE. When DUFE was founded in October 1952, it established an Accounting Specialization Program. In August 1953, the Department of Accounting was formed, and in July 1954, the accounting major was moved to the Department of Finance and Credit. In July 1981, the university reinstated the Department of Accounting. In December 1995, the Ministry of Finance issued its approval for the establishment of the School of Accounting and the School of Finance and Taxation, and the university founded the School of Accounting based on the original Department of Accounting. The School of Accounting at DUFE became the first accounting school established within a higher education institution in China.

The accounting discipline at DUFE was authorized to award master’s degrees in 1981 and doctoral degrees in 1993, making it the first doctoral program in accounting in Northeast China. The discipline was designated a key discipline of the Ministry of Finance in 1997, a national key discipline by the Ministry of Education in 2002, and this national key status was reaffirmed in 2007. In 2022, the School reinstated its undergraduate program in Auditing. In 2024, DUFE became one of the first universities in China authorized to offer a professional doctoral degree in accounting. The School is a vice-chair unit of the Accounting Society of China under the Ministry of Finance and serves as the permanent secretariat for the Financial Cost Sub-Society of the Accounting Society of China. 

The School currently comprises four teaching departments: Department of Accounting, Department of Financial Management, Department of Auditing, and Department of Asset Valuation. It also hosts several research institutions, including the China Internal Control Research Center (a key research base in humanities and social sciences at the provincial level), the Accounting Intelligence Laboratory (a provincial key laboratory), the Sino-German Management Control Research Center, the Tax Accounting Research Center, the Accounting Standards Research Center, the Asset Valuation Research Center, the Management Accounting Research Center, and the Financial Management Research Center. The School enjoys first-class infrastructure, advanced experimental facilities, and abundant data resources. It offers a comprehensive talent training system across undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels. Undergraduate programs include Accounting (CPA track), Accounting (International Accounting track), Financial Management, Asset Valuation, and Auditing—four majors with five tracks. Academic master’s programs include Accounting and Financial Management. Professional master’s programs include Accounting (MPAcc), Auditing (MAud), and Asset Valuation (MV). Doctoral programs (academic) include Accounting, Financial Management, and Auditing, while the professional doctoral program is in Accounting. The School currently has 2,564 enrolled students, including 1,631 undergraduates and 933 postgraduates.

The School boasts a strong faculty, with 76 full-time instructors, including 25 professors, 44 associate professors, and 17 doctoral supervisors. Among current faculty members, there is one recipient each of the following honors: National “Ten Thousand Talents Program” for Philosophical and Social Sciences Leading Talent, the National Talent Program for Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talents, the National Cultural Master and “Four Batches” Talent, the Distinguished Professor of the National Major Talent Project of the Ministry of Education, and the Young Scholar of the National Major Talent Project of the Ministry of Education. The School also counts one expert receiving the State Council Special Allowance, one National Outstanding Teacher, one National-Level Course Ideology and Politics Distinguished Teacher, two recipients of the Ministry of Education’s “New Century Excellent Talents” award, two recipients of the Ministry of Finance’s National Accounting Masters Training Program, one recipient of the Ministry of Finance’s Special Support Program for National Accounting Leading Talents, and ten recipients of the Ministry of Finance’s National Accounting Leading Talents award. Other honors include one recipient of the Liaoning Provincial May Day Labor Medal, one Liaoning Provincial Outstanding Teacher, nine Liaoning Provincial Undergraduate Teaching Masters, one Liaoning Provincial Outstanding Science and Technology Worker, two recipients of the “Xingliao Talent Plan” Teaching Master award, two recipients of the “Liaoning Distinguished Professor” title, three recipients of the “Hundred-Talent Level” of the Liaoning Provincial Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talents Project, and four recipients of the Liaoning Provincial University Innovative Talent Support Program. The Financial Management Teaching Team was awarded the first batch of National Outstanding Teaching Teams, the Accounting Faculty Team was named a Liaoning Province Huang Danian-style Faculty Team, the Graduate Supervisor Team was recognized as a Liaoning Provincial Outstanding Graduate Supervisor Team, and the School has twice received the title of Liaoning Provincial Advanced Education Collective. 

The School fosters a strong research culture and has established and refined a “five-in-one” system of research activities (academic conferences, accounting and finance forums, research training camps, paper workshops, and grant proposal experience-sharing and thematic seminars), achieving regular, high-quality, and fully participatory research engagement. Driven by this vibrant research environment and a distinguished faculty, the School has achieved remarkable research results. In recent years, faculty have published over a hundred papers in top domestic and international journals, including The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Economic Research Journal, Management World, Journal of Management Sciences in China, China Economic Quarterly, World Economy, Accounting Research, Journal of Financial Research, Nankai Business Review, and China Industrial Economics. Since 2019, the School has consistently published in top international journals, ranking fourth among domestic accounting schools in cumulative publication volume. The School has been awarded more than 60 national-level research projects, including key projects of the National Social Science Fund and general projects of the National Natural Science Foundation. It has also received over 100 provincial/ministerial-level research awards, including prizes for outstanding achievements in humanities and social sciences from Chinese universities and provincial government philosophy and social science achievement awards.

In talent cultivation, the School emphasizes educational reform, actively promotes modern teaching methods, and maintains first-class teaching quality. The School has won 5 National Teaching Achievement Awards and 24 Provincial Teaching Achievement Awards, along with the first batch of ACCA Annual Teaching Achievement Awards. It boasts 8 National Excellent Courses, 7 National Excellent Resource-Sharing Courses, 2 National Bilingual Demonstration Courses, 8 National First-Class Undergraduate Courses, 27 Provincial First-Class Undergraduate Courses, and 5 Provincial Virtual Simulation Experimental First-Class Undergraduate Courses. The teaching team for Introduction to Auditing was awarded the first batch of National Course Ideology and Politics Teaching Teams, and the Financial Accounting course team was named an "Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Team of Liaoning Province". The School has 19 national-level planned textbooks, with Intermediate Financial Accounting winning the first National Outstanding Textbook Award. Faculty have received awards including the First Prize in the National University Teaching Innovation Competition and the Grand Prize in the Liaoning Provincial University Teaching Competition. Over the past decade, the School has produced 9 Liaoning Provincial Outstanding Master’s Theses and 8 Outstanding Doctoral Theses, with 5 MPAcc theses winning the National Outstanding MPAcc Thesis Award. Thirty-one teaching cases, submitted over ten consecutive batches, have been selected as national MPAcc case bank entries, with 6 winning the MPAcc Outstanding Teaching Case Award. In the eleven national MPAcc student case competitions held to date, the School’s faculty and students have advanced to the finals nine times, winning 1 first prize, 8 second prizes, and 4 third prizes. 

After years of effort, the School has achieved its goal of being “top domestically and influential internationally.” In 2019, the School’s Accounting and Financial Management undergraduate programs were selected among the first batch of National First-Class Undergraduate Programs. In 2021, the Asset Valuation undergraduate program also received this designation. In 2018, DUFE passed the MPAcc Education Quality Certification, receiving the highest A-level rating, and again obtained an A-level rating in the 2023 reassessment. The Business Administration first-level discipline, under which Accounting and Financial Management fall, was rated A- in the fourth round of Ministry of Education disciplinary evaluations and made significant progress in the fifth round. The School has supplied a large number of high-end talents in accounting and related fields to government agencies, universities, large corporations, listed companies, major accounting firms, and multinational corporations, earning an outstanding social reputation and extensive social influence.

As the first accounting school established within a Chinese higher education institution, we will continue to uphold the university motto of “Erudition and Service to Society.” Grounded in China’s financial and economic management practices and guided by the need to serve national strategic priorities, we are committed to building an accounting discipline system that is rooted in China and integrated with the world, cultivating versatile talents with international vision, national commitment, and professional responsibility, and contributing wisdom and strength to high-quality economic and social development in the new era.