Lisbon Accounting and Business School (also known as ISCAL), established in 1759, is a public institution of higher education, integrated into the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon (IPL). ISCAL is a higher education institution oriented towards the creation, transmission and dissemination of culture, science and technology, and knowledge of professional nature, through the articulation of study, research and experimental development. ISCAL's has administration, management, business, finances, taxation, law studies, and auditing as its major areas of study.