AUDIT AND CONTROL STRATEGY AND COMPANY OBSERVATION

This course provides Master students with an in-depth knowledge on how financial accounting, management accounting, and strategy interact in today’s organizations, with a focus on multinational corporations (MNCs). In particular, students will re-explore core fundamentals of accounting theories and managerial techniques to start a dialogue on the limits to traditional accounting tools for decision-making.

The course proceeds with a debate on the importance and pitfalls of an internal audit process as a precursor for taking strategic management decisions. We will form opinions about topics related to centralisation, taxation, transfer pricing, value chain analysis and culture to achieve a better understanding on why strategic audit and business reporting are essential to achieve success in multinational corporations.

Finally, students will wrap up their improved awareness in a team work on strategic reporting and control issues in multinational organizations by the application of the Business Model Canvas. Lectures contain a basis of theory and proceed typically through the discussion of cases, press articles as well as business articles on the intersection of strategy and management reporting.