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Current situation regarding examinations

In the past days we received multiple enquiries with regard to the organisation of examinations undertaken in this summer term. Currently, the university's rectorate, our dean's office, the exmanination office and all Chairs are in close coordination in order to evaluate and plan how and when examinations will be offered this semester. Thus, we are unable to unilateraly provide information beyond what has been communicated by the dean's office and the examination office.

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Covid-19: Summer Term 2020 and Communication with our Chair

Teaching in Summer 2020

Due to the current Covid-19 pandemic, the upcoming summer term will start on April 20, 2020.

Our Chair will offer and teach all courses that were scheduled for the summer term. Nevertheless, we will make some adjustments, especially concerning the way courses are taught during the summer term. This will include a focus on digital learning opportunities. We are currently in close contact with the university's administration and our department and are working on any necessary adjustments with regard to our courses.

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Course "Managing Growth": Updated Time Slots & Rooms

Please note that we have slightly shifted the time slots and rooms for our lecture Managing Growth: Organizational Design and Financial Management in order to reduce conflicts with other courses:

The lecture/excercise will now take place in the first term weekly on Wednesdays, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. in room J 490. On Wednesday, May 13, 2020, there will not be any lecture due to the Symposium Oeconomicum. Therefore, we have scheduled another lecture on Monday, May 18, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. in room S 2.

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Controlling 2025: Exploring the future of Controlling

For the final lecture of this year's course "Strategic Management Accounting", Dr. Christian Pfennig of Deloitte visited our Chair. In his guest lecture on "Controlling 2025", Dr. Pfennig was able to provide the students with insights into which innovative technologies are already used in practice today and he also showed which digital transformations can be expected in the future.

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The team of Muenster taking it to the semi-finals at the John Molson International Case Competition

Beginning of January, our Chair and the Berens Research Team sent a team of highly motivated students to the John Molson International MBA Case Competition in Montréal, Canada. The University of Muenster was represented by Theresa Humpe, Carolin Krohn, Bastian Kerber, Florian Bunn and Robin Büchter and was supported and coached by Simon Jeurissen and Florian Droese. After a few days of getting to know the province of Quebéc, our team headed to Montréal where the competition took place.

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Wrapping up our Master Seminar at the AXA Germany HQ in Cologne

Last Friday, the participants of the master seminar "Predictive Analytics" and our Chair visited the AXA Germany headquarters in Cologne to wrap up the master seminar of the current semester. Throughout their research projects, the participants already had the chance to exchange ideas with various AXA employees from the Management Accounting and the Predictive Analytics departments and were thus able to draw conclusions relevant for research and practice.

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Management Accounting at BASF: Challenges and Transformation Processes

Last Thursday, the Chair of Management Accounting & Control was pleased to welcome Stefan Schnell, Head of Group Reporting and Performance Management at BASF, for his guest lecture on the current trends, obstacles and solutions in the domain of management accounting. Stefan Schnell did not only outline the current challenges within the finance department but explained in detail how BASF was, is and will be coping with the ongoing digitization of the management accounting domain.

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