Our Mission
As a professional school in a major public research university, the Fisher School of Accounting (FSOA) is committed to scholarly research, teaching, and service to advance knowledge and prepare future leaders for business, professional, and academic careers.
Shared Purposes
The FSOA serves business and accounting professionals and educators through innovative and high-quality teaching and research with a focus on providing the education necessary for successful careers in leadership positions. The School promotes the understanding and practice of accounting and business through its research, teaching and service.
Shared Values
The mission is supported by the shared values listed below. We value a commitment to:
- The achievement of continuous improvement.
- High-quality, innovative and relevant research.
- High-quality, innovative and relevant professional and doctoral education.
- Utilization of the unique skills, talents and contributions of individual faculty and staff members.
- The sentiments and advice of the faculty are important to faculty governance.
- Academic excellence in the actions undertaken to fulfill our mission.
- An environment of collegiality and mutual respect.
- Active participation and support by our alumni and friends for our programs.
- Outreach to the business and professional community.
Measures of Success
- Consistently ranked among the top ten public university accounting programs.
- Consistently ranked in the top half among the accounting programs of a select set of benchmark schools.
- Accounting research at Florida is competitive with that produced by our set of benchmark schools.
- Recognized for the high quality and diversity of our students, faculty and staff.
- Faculty and staff continuously work to improve teaching quality and develop new courses and programs.
- Faculty are sought out to serve on editorial boards of major academic research and professional journals and fill key professional leadership positions.
- Faculty work to continuously grow their intellectual capital.
- Highly-satisfied stakeholders.
- External support and fundraising levels continue to improve.
