Finance department
Ranked in the top 150 in the world, the Finance department is part of the AUT Business School. The department was recently recognised as the premiere finance department in all of New Zealand by the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities. This ranking puts the AUT Finance department alongside top international universities in Australia, the US, the Netherlands, Canada and the UK.
AUT's world-class Finance department focuses on research projects that are contemporary and relevant to business, and is proud of its close ties with international universities and research institutes.
Undergraduate study in finance will give you a solid grounding in this area.
The Finance department offers a range of postgraduate degrees:
Research in finance
Our academics have research strengths in corporate finance and governance, financial markets and institutions, fund management, investments, market microstructure and international finance.
More about our researchApplied Finance Letters open access journal
Applied Finance Letters is an open access journal publishing mainly empirical research for industry and academia. It aims to encourage high quality contributions that foster discussion.
Applied Finance Letters on TuwheraUse real-time accounting and finance data
Get hands-on experience by using the same technology as global finance professionals. Our Business School Trading Room houses real-time databases – helping our accounting and finance students better understand economic events and the factors that affect them.
Databases include Thomson Reuters EIKON, Thomson Reuters Datastream, Thomson Reuters Tick History, Morningstar Direct, Standard & Poor’s Compustat Global and Audit Analytics.
Contact us
Tracy Skolmen
Department Coordinator
Phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext 6939
Key academic contact
Professor Aaron Gilbert
Head of Department
Phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext 5706
