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Here you can find a list of selected theses that I have supervised. (Due to data protection regulations, the company names are anonymised).

• The challenges of remote work in the Tax department of a Big Four accounting firm
• The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on leadership behavior in management consulting
• Gender pay gap- Analysis of the cause of the wage gap between genders in Germany using the example of a tax and audit firm
• Digitalization of business process management systems using the examples of a German shipyard
• Development of a controlling dashboard based on Tableau
• Lean management in hospitals
• Accounting treatment of goodwill under German GAAP (HGB) and IFRS in DAX-listed companies
• Strategic success factors in online food retail
• Key performance indicator-driven management of family businesses compared to external managed companies
• Sustainability reporting - Anaylsis of the non-financial reporting of a German automobile manufacturer
• Development of key figures to examine the efficiency of patient pathways in hospitals with the help of a Balanced Scorecard
• Optimisation of Key Account Management with the help of the instrument of calculating performance in customer business using the example of xy GmbH
• The industrialisation of credit processes with special focus on outsourcing
• Suitability of classic investment calculation for a profitability analysis of the commercial use of a thermal solar system
• The instruments of value-oriented controlling using the example of xy AG
• Central success factors for a sustainable expansion – exemplary illustrated using the Eastern Europe expansion of xy GmbH
• Development of a value-oriented corporate management using the example of the manufacturing industry
• Restructuring controlling as an integral part of investment controlling in capital market-oriented companies
• The financial handling of restructuring provisions according to HGB and IFRS – an empirical analysis of business reports of DAX 30-companies
• Benchmarking as an instrument of controlling using the example of a North German company
• Conception and implementation of a strategic planning system for a company from the IT service sector
• Project controlling as a strategic and operative instrument in the project management process
• Optimisation of subsidiary controlling with the help of a subsidiary scorecard based on the balanced scorecard
• Development of business profit and loss account according to IFRS in the sense of integrating external and internal accounting for the corporate management of a medium-sized newspaper publisher
• Succession in family businesses
• Analyses of the growth area ‘Energy efficiency’ for a North German energy supplier
• Sustainable value-oriented corporate management according to the economic value added in the context of corporate culture
• The accounting of provisions according to HGB under consideration of the accounting modernisation law in comparison to IFRS

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Theses

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