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30 June 2022
Implementing the sixth version of “MaRisk”

Henning Heuter

For the implementation of the sixth version of "MaRisk", there are a number of challenges for risk managers of medium-sized credit institutions. According to this, the supervisory authority expects the application of the normative and the economic perspective without an additional transition phase.
13 March 2023
How should financial controllers respond to high inflation rates?
Prof. Dr. Ronald Gleich
A multitude of new realities are currently preoccupying senior management teams and financial controllers. They are obliged to work in a permanent state of crisis caused by the Covid pandemic – and this in turn, for over a year now, has been overshadowed by the ongoing war in Ukraine.
The experience of auditors over the last few years shows that new ways of committing fraud are becoming increasingly commonplace, impacting companies via two key vectors: social media and their employees. Typically, fraudsters pose as members of the company’s senior or top management and instruct employees to carry out certain actions.
3 March 2023
CEO fraud: Using the “grandparent scam” in business
Patrick Müller
22 February 2023
New business development: continuing uncertainty over current trends
Dr. Götz Volkenandt
In the past, it was difficult to convince many senior managers of the importance of artificial intelligence. Now, following the emergence of ChatGPT, the whole subject has been foregrounded so effectively by the media that the result could almost be described as an overreaction.
Buying and selling companies or business units is common practice both during and after a crisis, serving, for example, to generate cash or restructure portfolios. After a period of many years during which corporate insolvencies steadily declined, they suddenly rose again in 2022, as did the number of companies in crisis.
1 February 2023
Peculiarities of M&A transactions in times of crisis and insolvency
Julian Coley
28 January 2022
CFOs as future drivers of digitalisation

Nils Gimpl

According to recent studies, in order to successfully manage the challenges facing finance functions in companies, a CFO must increasingly take on the "role of driver" of digital changes in the company and in his or her own area of responsibility.
11 January 2022
Using Fintech developments in the democratisation process

Khun Cho Thar Htay

The competition among telecom providers has made access to mobile internet far easier, radically changing people's lives, and exposing them to financial inclusion and literacy, and bringing them from cash to digital finance. This has not only strengthened the individual and institutional capacities but has incorporated access to digital financial services.
23 January 2023
Energy transition? Yes please – but not at any price!
Jan Andreas
In previous years, the development of renewables was mainly driven by the need to limit climate change. But in 2022, people became clearly – and painfully – aware that renewables also satisfy another key requirement: the need for energy independence.
Das Studium hat mir tiefes Wissen in komplexen Problemstellungen und gängigen Konstellationen mit meinen Kunden gegeben. Auch erkenne ich in Situationen neue Ansätze, Lösungen oder Fallstricke, auf die ich hinweisen und zu denen ich aktiv Unterstützung anbieten kann. Das überrascht auf Kundenseite und öffnet mir neue Türen.
13 January 2023
Meine Entwicklung zur Sparringspartnerin im Financial Planning
Sandra Mahler
9 January 2023
ESG due diligence and M&A transactions – deal maker or deal breaker?
Prof. Dr. Johannes Hofinger & Jens Schulte
The due-diligence process – a standard tool in the M&A toolbox for many years now – is an in-depth investigation of the target company that aims to provide deeper insights into the latter’s business conduct and financial strength prior to signing a contract. But is it enough to confine due diligence to such traditional criteria as business models, accounts, law and taxation?
The successful real estate industry of recent years has to deal with new framework conditions. Markets are changing permanently, types of use are affected differently, and real estate project developments and real estate financing are being approached more cautiously.
13 December 2022
Latest property trends – a turning point in the real-estate sector?
Jürgen Pfeffer
4 November 2021
Let data do the talking – business process mining in internal auditing

Dr. Stefan Michel

Due to the increasing digitalisation and the exponential growth of data, the practise of auditing is facing a change. Internal auditors must consider the use of technology-based data analysis methods as part of their professional due diligence and base their audit findings on appropriate assessments.
21 September 2021
SPACs: turbocharging IPOs

Prof. Dr. Christoph Schalast

With the arrival of SPACs (Special Purpose Acquisition Companies), the German stock market is experiencing a type of IPO which we would never have anticipated – especially during a pandemic. Even so, SPACs can do much more than they’re generally given credit for.
21 November 2022
Implementing Basel IV in the EU
Annette Blank
The Basel IV implementation in the EU relates to all risk types in banks. In view of the dynamic development and the relatively short time span until implementation, regular updates for employees in regulatory reporting, risk management or other business units are essential in order to achieve compliance with the new regulations by 2025.
At first glance, whistleblowing and sustainability have little to do with one another. The former is a tool to enhance corporate governance and the latter is a set of practices to preserve and enhance the value of a company. Whistleblowing includes all situations where a person reports or forwards a suspected legal or regulatory violation to an organisational body.
7 September 2022
What do whistleblowers have to do with sustainability?
Steven Bechhofer
Implementing the sixth version of “MaRisk”
30 June 2022
Henning Heuter
How should financial controllers respond to high inflation rates?
13 March 2023
Prof. Dr. Ronald Gleich
CEO fraud: Using the “grandparent scam” in business
3 March 2023
Patrick Müller
CFOs as future drivers of digitalisation
28 January 2022
Nils Gimpl
New business development: continuing uncertainty over current trends
22 February 2023
Dr. Götz Volkenandt
Peculiarities of M&A transactions in times of crisis and insolvency
1 February 2023
Julian Coley
Using Fintech developments in the democratisation process
11 January 2022
Khun Cho Thar Htay
Energy transition? Yes please – but not at any price!
23 January 2023
Jan Andreas
Meine Entwicklung zur Sparringspartnerin im Financial Planning
13 January 2023
Sandra Mahler
Let data do the talking – business process mining in internal auditing
4 November 2021
Dr. Stefan Michel
ESG due diligence and M&A transactions – deal maker or deal breaker?
9 January 2023
Prof. Dr. Johannes Hofinger & Jens Schulte
Latest property trends – a turning point in the real-estate sector?
13 December 2022
Jürgen Pfeffer
SPACs: turbocharging IPOs
21 September 2021
Prof. Dr. Christoph Schalast
Implementing Basel IV in the EU
21 November 2022
Annette Blank
What do whistleblowers have to do with sustainability?
7 September 2022
Steven Bechhofer