The Department of Accounting, originally called the Department of Accounting and Statistics, was one of the departments of the Taiwan Provincial College of Engineering before 1952. The College of Business was established when this school was reorganized into the Taiwan Provincial Cheng Kung University in 1956. The Department of Accounting and Statistics then became one of the departments in the College of Business at that time. In August 1966, the evening school of the Department was established. In 1969, the Department of Accounting and Statistics was divided into the Accounting Section. In August 1974, the Department was formally divided into the Department of Accountancy and the Department of Statistics. In August 1980, the College of Business was renamed the College of Management Science. In August 1992, the Graduate School of Accountancy was founded and was divided into two programs: the Accounting  information program and the finance program. In 2000, the Graduate School of Finance was formally founded.