Professorship for Business Administration, esp. Accounting, Auditing & Corporate Governance
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Organisation profile
The professorship for Accounting, Auditing & Corporate Governance works in the areas of financial accounting, external audit and corporate governance. The research activities involve the study of selected issues in regulation, in particular such topics as the economic impact of audit committees, integrated and CSR reporting, aspects of auditor independence and board diversity. The professorship also teaches in the Master’s and Bachelor’s programmes, including modules in the Business Administration Major as well as interdisciplinary modules in the complementary studies programme and integration modules.
Topics
Audit Quality
Following EU legislation on reform of the audit market, provisions on mandatory firm rotation and limits to non-audit services raise issues of the impact of major regulatory measures on safeguarding the independence of the audit firm. Internationally, empirical research on auditor independence has seen considerable attention for a number of years, with mixed findings on its economic impact. This also holds for the impact of joint audits, even though European regulation did not make this a mandatory requirement. This research project studies the effect of audit and non-audit fees of German capital market oriented companies on audit quality.
Integrated-/CSR Reporting
After the most recent financial crisis 2008-9, there has been a decline in trust of stakeholders in capital-market oriented reporting by corporations. As a result, traditional financial reporting should be complemented by corporate sustainability reporting, which would ideally be unified into integrated reporting. While there has been considerable empirical research into CSR reporting, this is not yet the case for integrated reporting in the 2013-framework published by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). This research project examines the content elements investors demand and their relationship to the quality of integrated reporting in the German capital market.
Audit Committees
In both one and two-tier systems, the appointment of audit committees with independent financial experts is seen as a necessary measure to ensure good corporate governance. There has been considerable research undertaken into the Anglo-American board system and the impact of audit committees on financial reporting quality and on the cooperation with the external auditor and with the internal auditor. This research project studies to what extent characteristics of the audit committee as established by supervisory boards in German companies are able to contribute to the discussion on quality.
Board Diversity
Recently there have been a large number of reform efforts aiming at improving corporate performance by increasing board diversity. In addition to introducing the legal gender quota now at the focus of much political discussion, other diversity characteristics such as ethnicity or occupation are increasingly being studied in empirical research on corporate governance. This research project looks at the dual system of corporate governance in Germany and studies the effects of diversity in the management board and supervisory board on the capital market.
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Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung nach der CSRD: Eine kritische Würdigung
Wulf, I. & Velte, P., 30.09.2022, In: Zeitschrift für Corporate Governance (ZCG). 17, 5, p. 223-232 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer
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Nachhaltigkeitsexpertise als Kompetenzprofil des Aufsichtsrats: Deutscher Corporate Governance Kodex und Impulse durch die EU-Sustainable Finance-Regulierungen
Velte, P., 31.03.2023, In: Zeitschrift für Corporate Governance (ZCG). 18, 2, p. 78-86 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer › peer-review
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Nachhaltigkeit und Transparenz der Vorstandsvergütung: Eine empirische Untersuchung im DAX30 unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Bemessungsgrundlagen der variablen Vergütungsanteile
Eulerich, M. & Velte, P., 2013, In: Zeitschrift für Internationale Rechnungslegung. 8, 2, p. 73-79 7 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer › peer-review
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Nationale Umsetzung der Mitgliedstaatenwahlrechte der europäischen CSR-Richtlinie beim Ausweis und bei der Prüfung der „nichtfinanziellen Erklärung"
Müller, S., Stawinoga, M. & Velte, P., 2015, In: Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik & Umweltrecht. 38, 3, p. 313-340 28 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Net deferred tax assets and the long-run performance of initial public offerings
Kovermann, J. H. & Velte, P., 08.08.2019, In: Corporate Ownership & Control . 16, 4, p. 111-127 17 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Neuerungen durch das Abschlussprüfungsreformgesetz (AReG). Zentrale Reformmaßnahmen zum Verhältnis zwischen Prüfungsausschuss und Abschlussprüfer
Velte, P. & Stawinoga, M., 2016, In: Steuern und Bilanzen . 18, 8, p. 297-302 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer
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Normierungen zur Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung: Auswirkungen auf die Interne Revision
Velte, P., 2023, In: Zeitschrift Interne Revision. 58, 6, p. 253-260 8 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer
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Novellierungen zur Vorstandsvergütung und Unabhängigkeit des Aufsichtsrats: Die Neufassung des DCGK 2019
Velte, P. & Obermann, J., 2019, In: Zeitschrift für Internationale Rechnungslegung. 14, 7-8, p. 295-298 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer
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Ökonomische Wirkung der Berichterstattung des Abschlussprüfers über key audit matters im Bestätigungsvermerk: Bestandsaufnahme der empirischen Forschung und kritische Reflexion –
Velte, P., 10.10.2017, In: KoR : internationale und kapitalmarktorientierte Rechnungslegung. 17, 10, p. 434-441 8 p., KOR1241199.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Ownership structure and corporate tax avoidance: A structured literature review on archival research
Velte, P., 28.05.2024, In: Journal of Applied Accounting Research. 25, 3, p. 696-731 36 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research