As part of the TAF Brown Bag Seminars Marina Köllermeyer has hold a presentation on 3rd December 2024. The title of the presentation was “Disclosure Under the Supply Chain Due Diligence Law”.
As part of the TAF Brown Bag Seminars Yuri Piper has hold a presentation on 26th November 2024. The title of the presentation is “Exploiting the Promise of Revenue-neutrality? The Case of the German Property Tax Reform”.
Are firms ready for the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)?
The CSRD comes with a lot of changes for German firms in sustainability reporting. Prof. Urska Kosi and co-author Paula Relard, who is a graduate of the TAF Master Study Program and currently works at PwC Deutschland, analyze how these changes impact firms' sustainability reporting practices. Their findings suggest that firms, which are already mandatory reporters,…
On June 6, the UGO prizes for outstanding Bachelor's and Master's theses from the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics were awarded at Gräflicher Park Bad Driburg.
We are very proud that Aliana Görtz was honored for her Master's thesis on “The effects of firm transparency on the insolvency process: Evidence from Germany”. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Urska Kosi, Chair of Financial Accounting and Auditing at the Department…
In module "Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestures" (TAF Master program), we hosted Armin Budde (former managing director of Budde GmbH & Co. KG), Sven Nuener (chief strategy officer PreZero Stiftung GmbH & Co. KG), Martin Westhoff (tax consultant and partner at Horstbrink & Partner) and Dr. Andreas Börger (lawyer, tax consultant and partner at HLB Stückmann). They prepared a very interesting guest lecture and explained how PreZero acquired Budde…
In our module "Fundamentals of Auditing" the students learn how to audit financial statements from two very experienced practitioners. The lecturers are Hendrik Koch and Stefan Kiertscher from KPMG Bielefeld.
This winter semester our students also got an exclusive opportunity to work on a case study about the accounting scandal of FlowTex Technologie GmbH & Co. KG. They applied their knowledge to the practical business case and presented their…
The paper, titled Does private peers' disclosure affect public firms' information environment?, is co-authored by Bianca Beyer (Aalto University) and Vanessa Flagmeier (University of Passau). It examines how private peers' disclosure creates externalities for the public firms' information environment. It finds that the negative externalities occur primarily when private peers are opaque. Prof. Dr. Kosi was honoured to present the paper at the UQ…
On June 6, the UGO prizes for outstanding Bachelor's and Master's theses from the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics were awarded at Gräflicher Park Bad Driburg.
We are very proud that Aliana Görtz was honored for her Master's thesis on “The effects of firm transparency on the insolvency process: Evidence from Germany”. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Urska Kosi, Chair of Financial Accounting and Auditing at the Department…
In module "Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestures" (TAF Master program), we hosted Armin Budde (former managing director of Budde GmbH & Co. KG), Sven Nuener (chief strategy officer PreZero Stiftung GmbH & Co. KG), Martin Westhoff (tax consultant and partner at Horstbrink & Partner) and Dr. Andreas Börger (lawyer, tax consultant and partner at HLB Stückmann). They prepared a very interesting guest lecture and explained how PreZero acquired Budde…
In our module "Fundamentals of Auditing" the students learn how to audit financial statements from two very experienced practitioners. The lecturers are Hendrik Koch and Stefan Kiertscher from KPMG Bielefeld.
This winter semester our students also got an exclusive opportunity to work on a case study about the accounting scandal of FlowTex Technologie GmbH & Co. KG. They applied their knowledge to the practical business case and presented their…
The paper, titled Does private peers' disclosure affect public firms' information environment?, is co-authored by Bianca Beyer (Aalto University) and Vanessa Flagmeier (University of Passau). It examines how private peers' disclosure creates externalities for the public firms' information environment. It finds that the negative externalities occur primarily when private peers are opaque. Prof. Dr. Kosi was honoured to present the paper at the UQ…
TRR 266/TAFResearch Seminar
On May 19, 2026 Prof. Hans B. Christensen University of Chicago Booth School of Business will present a paper at the TRR 266/TAF Research Seminar.
Hans Christensen's current research primarily focuses on the effect on society of regulation aimed at incentivizing firms to act socially responsible. This includes the effect of transparency regulation on healthcare prices and labor safety, as well as, foreign corruption…
TRR 266/TAF Research Workshop
On 7 July 2026, Dr. Doron Reichmann (Goethe University Frankfurt) will hold a presentation at the TRR 266/TAF Research Workshop (TAF Department).
Doron Reichmann is a post-doctoral researcher at the AccSus department of Goethe University Frankfurt. In his research, he examines the information content of verbal and nonverbal communications in financial markets. In this context, he primarily focuses on (i) using…
