Advanced Seminar Finance & Accounting: Challenges in Strategic Financial Transformations

What it is about

In this seminar you develop core foundations in controlling, information systems and digital transformation with a focus on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and cost accounting. You will learn how controlling instruments are to be placed in the overall context of strategy and digitalization and you will develop the ability to work scientifically and to formulate implementation strategies.

What you will be able to do

• Understand the possibilities and limits of controlling with the help of different providers
• Classify controlling and its information instruments in the context of digitalization and current challenges
• Acquire the ability to independently develop a scientific seminar paper
• Analyze a concrete partial aspect, evaluate solution options and derive action recommendations

What the module consists of

• Seminar/Group workTopic selection and joint development of content in groups
• PresentationConveying and communication of the developed results
• Written seminar paperDrafting and deepening a chosen topic
• Inputs from practitionersIntroduction to theoretical foundations and initial impulses from representatives of BearingPoint, SAP and Celonis

Teaching method

• Lectures by practitionersConveying theoretical foundations and impulses from practice
• Group workJoint development of content and elaboration of partial aspects
• PresentationsPresentation and communication of learning outcomes