Professorship for Business Administration, esp. Accounting, Auditing & Corporate Governance
Organisational unit: Section
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.
- Published
Fiskalpolitische Maßgeblichkeit bei der Rückstellungsbewertung: Kritische Anmerkungen zum BFH-Urteil vom 20.11.2019 – XI R 46/17
Velte, P., 15.06.2020, In: Die Unternehmensbesteuerung. 13, 6, p. 360-363 4 p., 6.Research output: Journal contributions › Notes on court decisions › Transfer
- Published
Zur Notwendigkeit eines „CSR-RUG 2.0“: Eine Bestandsaufnahme empirischer Befunde zur Entscheidungsnützlichkeit der nichtfinanziellen Erklärung.
Velte, P., Simon-Heckroth, E. & Borcherding, N., 11.2020, In: WPg - Die Wirtschaftsprüfung. 73, 22, p. 1349-1357 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
Klimaberichterstattung in der betriebswirtschaftlichen Forschung: Normative und empirisch-quantitative Einblicke aus europäischer Perspektive
Velte, P., 2020, In: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium. 49, 12, p. 4-9 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Education › peer-review
- Published
Corporate Sustainability Committees, Chief Sustainability Officers and Environmental Performance – Empirical evidence from European firms
Velte, P., 2020, In: Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik & Umweltrecht. 43, 2, p. 191-213 23 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
Does it pay off? Integrated reporting and cost of debt: European evidence
Gerwanski, J., 01.09.2020, In: Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. 27, 5, p. 2299-2319 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
Mutualistic symbiosis? Combining theories of agency and stewardship through behavioral characteristics
Obermann, J., Velte, P., Gerwanski, J. & Kordsachia, O., 18.06.2020, In: Management Research Review. 43, 8, p. 989-1011 23 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
- Published
Clawback-Klauseln in Vorstandsvergütungsverträgen als effektives Corporate Governance-Instrument? Empirische Evidenz und kritische Würdigung vor dem Hintergrund des ARUG II
Velte, P., 2020, In: Der Konzern : Zeitschrift für Gesellschaftsrecht, Steuerrecht, Bilanzrecht und Rechnungslegung der verbundenen Unternehmen. 18, 2, p. 50-56 7 p., 2.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
Carbon performance and disclosure: A systematic review of governance-related determinants and financial consequences
Velte, P., Stawinoga, M. & Lueg, R., 01.05.2020, In: Journal of Cleaner Production. 254, 20 p., 120063.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
- Published
„Nachhaltige und langfristige“ Vorstandsvergütung nach dem ARUG II: Erste Anmerkungen zur zwingenden Einbeziehung von Sozial- und Umweltaspekten nach § 87 I 2 AktG
Velte, P., 2020, In: NZG - Neue Zeitschrift für Gesellschaftsrecht. 23, 1, p. 12-15 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Comments / Debate / Reports › Research
- Published
The impact of governance on integrated reporting: A literature review
Velte, P. & Gerwanski, J., 2020, The Routledge Handbook of Integrated Reporting. de Villiers, C., Hsiao, P-C. K. & Maroun, W. (eds.). 1 ed. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 210-226 17 p. (Routledge international handbooks).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review