Professorship for Business Administration, esp. Accounting, Auditing & Corporate Governance

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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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    Erweitertes „Say on Pay“ nach dem VorstKoG: Vergütungsvotum durch die Hauptversammlung

    Velte, P. & Bähr, F., 13.09.2013, In: Steuern und Bilanzen . 17, p. 660-663 4 p.

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    Harmonisierung der Klimaberichterstattung?! Einbettung in die EU-Regulierungsinitiativen, Forschungslücken und Handlungsempfehlungen

    Velte, P. & Stawinoga, M., 2019, In: Der Betrieb. 72, 37, p. 2025-2033 9 p., DB1307200.

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    Herausforderungen in der Wirtschaftsprüfung durch den Einsatz von Big Data-Technologien: Welche Impulse muss die Prüfungsforschung geben?

    Velte, P. & Drews, P., 26.10.2018, In: Der Betrieb. 71, 43, p. 2581-2585 5 p.

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    Herstellungskosten und Rückstellungen nach den EStÄR 2012

    Velte, P., 2013, In: Die steuerliche Betriebsprüfung. 53, 8, p. 235-237 3 p.

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    Key Audit Matters im neuen Bestätigungsvermerk: Eine quantitative Berichtsanalyse für HDAX- und SDAX-Unternehmen im Geschäftsjahr 2017

    Diederich, M. & Velte, P., 2019, In: Deutsches Steuerrecht. 57, 9, p. 461-468 7 p.

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    Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung nach dem Referentenentwurf eines Umsetzungsgesetzes zur CSRD: Eine kritische Würdigung

    Wulf, I. & Velte, P., 2024, In: Der Betrieb. 77, 17, p. 1017-1024 8 p., DB1460035.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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    Plädoyer zur Einrichtung eines International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) als Pendant zum IASB

    Velte, P., 2020, In: Zeitschrift für Internationale Rechnungslegung. 15, 12, p. 525-526 2 p.

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    Regulierung der Abschlussprüfung nach dem FISG-RegE: Geplante Änderungen und kritische Würdigung der Reformmaßnahmen

    Velte, P., 2021, In: WP-Praxis . 2, p. 36-40 5 p., 2.

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    Regulierung der Corporate Governance nach dem Finanzmarktintegritätsstärkungsgesetz (FISG): Eine kritische Würdigung

    Velte, P., 2021, In: Steuern und Bilanzen . 11, p. 450-457 8 p.

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    Regulierung der europäischen Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung: Empirische Befunde zur Richtlinie 2014/95 und Handlungsempfehlungen

    Velte, P., 2022, In: Der Betrieb. 75, 18, p. 1081-1090 10 p., DB1403672.

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    Regulierung eines nachhaltigen Lieferkettenmanagements: Bestandsaufnahme bisheriger Normierungen und Ausblick auf die geplante EU-Gesetzgebung

    Stave, C. & Velte, P., 2021, In: Der Betrieb. 74, 32, p. 1791-1801 11 p.

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