Research Projects
Corporate Disclosure gradually removes from national regulatory approaches. This becomes visible in wider dissemination of international accounting rules, the IFRS. In countries with formerly strong influence by the government this influence declines. At the same time, countries with formerly low influence experience a stronger role by the government. These developments result in a convergent solution with transnational, partly supranational arrangements and
Empirical Capital Market research is a key element of current accounting research. Its focus is on the relation of capital markets and financial statements. The relevance of this research subject is the result of Fundamental Analysis and Valuation, Market Efficiency Tests and the role of financial statements for signing contracts and in political processes. Main topics of our capital market research is Fundamental Analysis and Valuation, Earnings Management, Value Relevance of financial statements and Corporate Governance.
Corporate Governance describes rules of controlling and directing companies. Nowadays there exist a wide range of codes for leading a company. Within the scope of this research topic we examine whether and to what extent these codes have influence on firm performance at capital markets.
The Political Economy of Accounting deals with the formation and development of accounting rules in consideration of the complex interests of social actors. The conjecture is that accounting is neither a technical nor a neutral discipline but rather has different effects, depending on its design, on the welfare of the individual stakeholders. Therefore, an accounting information produced by the prevalent accounting system can have intersubjectively a different value depending on decision and preference of the individual.
In the area of accounting education, the chair deals with topics related to optimal university education in accounting. With regard to advancing digitalisation, the question of effective teaching and learning processes is increasingly arising in the context of accounting and controlling. Thus, the correlations of mobile and digital learning on teaching and learning success are being investigated. The influence of gamification is also of interest here, as playful elements in teaching can increase motivation and enhance learning performance. The focus is particularly on research into design requirements and usage effects in the context of the specially developed WiWiNow app, with which students can access teaching material and organise their daily study routine regardless of location and time.