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Welcome to the Chair of Management, Accounting and Corporate Governance

The Chair of Management, Accounting and Corporate Governance focuses its research and teaching on the systematic collection, planning and reporting of financial and non-financial data, as well as on the design of corporate governance structures for various types of organisations (public companies, family businesses, foundations, cooperatives or non-profit organisations). Interaction with stakeholder groups is particularly important in this context. The research is carried out in close cooperation with industry and other research institutions.

Our research focuses

Our team is engaged in the research focus on accounting, reporting, audit and corporate governance of listed companies and medium-sized family companies. The questions relating to the above research areas are as follows:

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Accounting

  • What are the effects to proceed with the internationalzation of accounting for medium-sized family accompanies? (Regulation of Accounting)
  • What are the impacts of minority interests (such as private equity) at an accounting firm? (Earnings management and accounting policy)
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Auditing

  • In what ways do curruption and fraud in a company can effectively be detected and prevented? (Compliance Management, Forensic Auditing & Fraud Auditing)
  • What are the sustainable remediation concepts included and what are the risks that will arise to an auditor as part of the renovation? (especially in a situation of Insolvency)
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Corporate Governance

  • How the systems work for corporate management and how can they be improved? (Risk Management, Internal Audit & Valuation)
  • What should be considered in the designing of governance mechanisms in medium-sized family company? (Family Business Governance)