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This PhD course is designed to help you critically engage with the empirical complexities of corporate sustainability research. Registration deadline: September 6, 2026 Abstract and Learning Objectives  In the realm of Environmental, Social, and Governance…

Registration deadline: September 6, 2026 The learning objective of the course is to enable participants to apply these techniques in design-oriented and/or quantitative empirical research projects. The course is targeted at PhD students and young…

Course objective and motivation The purpose of this course is to provide participants with a better understanding, both conceptual and practical, of a wide range of econometric tools and procedures that are relevant to accounting…

Course objective and motivation The overarching objective of this course is to provide students with insights into the economic foundations and aspects of financial statement auditing and assurance. Auditing and assurance services are economic goods…

Course objective and motivation The course considers the use of accounting information for incentive purposes and performance evaluation in hierarchies. We will study seminal papers on incentives, performance measurement, and how incentives and performance measurement…

Designed for students with a foundational knowledge in research tools, corporate finance, and financial accounting, this course also incorporates a rigorous discussion of recent empirical tax literature. It is ideally suited for students interested in…

Course objective and motivation The course has three objectives. First, you will become familiar with some topics and paradigms in management accounting research. We will discuss a number of alternative approaches to both analytical and…

16th ACMAR Doctoral Colloquium Organizers: Lukas Löhlein, Marko Reimer and Utz Schäffer Institute of Management Accounting and Control (IMC), WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management In 2027, the ACMAR Doctoral Colloquium will be held…

Using published work in the areas of financial accounting, auditing and management accounting, we will discuss (1) the main rationales for choosing a qualitative research approach; (2) differences between different qualitative research designs, such as…