Institute of Management, Accounting & Finance
Organisational unit: Institute
Organisation profile
The Institute of Management, Accounting & Finance (IMAF) concentrates on sustainable management & control, (non) financial reporting, corporate finance and corporate taxation in research, teaching and practice.
Main research areas
The main research topics of the institute represent:
- Professorship of Business Administration, esp. Accounting, Auditing & Corporate Governance (Prof. Dr. Patrick Velte): Financial, Sustainability & Integrated Reporting, Financial Audit, Sustainability Assurance and Sustainable Corporate Governance
- Professorship of Business Administration, esp. Managerial Accounting (Prof. Dr. Rainer Lueg): Sustainability Management & Control, Strategy Implementation and Strategic Performance Measurement Systems, Diffusion and adoption of management innovations, role of top management teams and external consultants, customer profitability analyis
- Capital Structure and Tax Policies in German Family Firms: Empirical Focus on Bank Debt and Tax Avoidance- Wendt, M. (Partner), Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) & Prigge, S. (Project manager, academic) - 01.01.16 → 31.01.19 - Project: Dissertation project 
- Financial penalties and the banking sector- Pelster, M. (Partner) & Köster, H. (Partner) - 01.01.16 → 01.01.18 - Project: Research 
- The Impact of audit committees on corporate governance quality- Weber, L. (Partner) & Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) - 01.01.16 → 17.07.20 - Project: Dissertation project 
- Social trading and the wisdom of crowds- Pelster, M. (Project manager, academic) & Kapraun, J. (Project manager, academic) - 16.03.16 → 31.12.17 - Project: Research 
- Essays on Say-on-Pay: theoretical analysis, literature review and empirical evidence from Germany- Obermann, J. (Project staff) & Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) - 15.04.16 → 31.03.19 - Project: Dissertation project 
- Determinants and Consequences of Integrated Reporting Adoption, Quality and its Assurance: Empirical Evidence and Critical Voices From an International and German Perspective- Gerwanski, J. (Project staff) & Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) - 15.06.16 → 15.06.20 - Project: Dissertation project 
- Tax Avoidance, Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance. Agency-theoretical analysis, literature review and empirical investigation- Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) & Kovermann, J. H. (Project manager, academic) - 01.09.16 → 12.12.19 - Project: Dissertation project 
- European Harmonization of National Tax Accounting Rules – a conceptual and empirical analysis with a focus on the German setting- Mock, O. (Project manager, academic) & Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) - 01.10.16 → 30.09.19 - Project: Dissertation project 
- E-Learning basierte Einführungskurse in das Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement und die Betriebswirtschaftslehre (sowie inhaltsbezogen studienrelevante Englisch-Kompetenzen)- Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic), Velte, P. (Project manager, academic), Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Kaliampos, J. (Project staff) & Blume, C. (Project staff) - 01.05.17 → 30.09.17 - Project: Other 
- Extended auditor reporting (Key Audit Matters)- Issa, J. (Project staff) & Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) - 01.01.18 → 31.05.20 - Project: Dissertation project 
