Institute of Management, Accounting & Finance

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.

News

22.Feb

Publication by Prof Velte included in IDW Practice Note 4/2023 on the internal control system (ICS)

06.Feb

Prof Velte publishes petition with over 40 other scientists on the adoption of EU supply chain regulation

15.Jan

Innovations have their Time

Events

15.May

Inaugural lecture by Prof. Dr. Ricardo Usbeck, Chair of Information Systems, in particular Artificial Intelligence and Explainability

22.May

Inaugural lecture by Prof. Dr. Henning Schröder, Chair of Business Administration, in particular Corporate Finance

29.May

Inaugural lecture by Prof. Dr. Stefanie Habersang, Junior Professorship of Business Administration, in particular Digital Transformation

More News and Events

20.Dec

Awards for bachelor theses in the fields of Accounting, Auditing & Corporate Governance

19.Dec

Research Prize 2023 (Best Paper Award) for our doctoral students Sophie Constanze Bornhöft and Mario Schuster

13.Dec

Honours for theses in the Master Management & Sustainable Accounting and Finance

21.Nov

New Supervisory Board Panel Study on Twin Transformation published by Prof Probst and Prof Velte

17.Nov

Prof Velte represented in two global researcher rankings

11.Jun

Inaugural lecture by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ghada Bouattour, Junior Professorship for Measurement and Sensor Technology in Production Engineering

News Archive

Research Activities

Business Administration, esp. Accounting, Auditing & Corporate Governance
Prof. Dr. Patrick Velte

Business Administration, esp. Entrepreneurial Finance
Prof. Dr. Henning Schröder

Business Administration, esp. Managerial Accounting
Prof. Dr. Rainer Lueg

Research

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

You can find more information on the current and completed projects in the research database, on the personal pages and on the Research & Projects pages of the individual work areas.

Teaching

The Institute is mainly responsible for the following study programs on the bachelor- and masterlevel:

Bachelor
Major International Business Administration & Entrepreneurship
Minor Betriebswirtschaftslehre

Master
Major Management & Sustainable Accounting and Finance

Phd programm

After graduation of the master´s programm you will have the opportunity to attend the Phd programm in order to obtain the doctoral degree "Dr. rer. pol." in the following subjects:

Doctoral Research Group Management, Accounting & Finance

School of Management and Technology