Accounting, Finance, Taxation (AFT)
The AFT group at the University of Passau is one of five focal points at the Faculty of Economics and comprises six chairs. On these pages you will find information about our activities and study programs that we offer or to which we contribute significantly.
Chair of Tax Management / Professor Markus Diller
Chair of Finance and Banking / Professor Oliver Entrop
Chair of Financial Data Analytics / Professor Ralf Kellner
Chair of Finance and Financial Control / Professor Niklas Wagner
Chair of Accounting and Control / Professor Robert Obermaier
Chair of Accounting and Auditing / Professor Christoph Pelger
Research focus and current projects
In teaching, the AFT group at the University of Passau contributes to a variety of study programs at both bachelor's and master's level.
There are AFT modules in the following degree programs:
Bachelor Business Administration and Economics: focus on AFT
Bachelor Digital Transformation in Business and Society: Major Management
Master Business Administration
Master Business Information Systems: Economics Fundamentals
Master International Economics and Business: e.g. Module Group C (Global Economy, International Trade and Finance)
Study Program Highlights:
Bachelor:
Bachelor BAE: Corporate Governance and Auditing (German) - Chair of Professor Pelger, together with practice partners
Bachelor BAE / Bachelor DTBS / Bachelor Information Systems: EEBDA (German) - Evidence-based decisions based on Big Data Analytics - Chair of Professor Diller
Master:
Master Information Systems: Seminar Applied Machine Learning in Finance - Chair of Professor Kellner
Master BA: Transfer prices - in the area of conflict between controlling and taxes (German) - joint event of the chairs of Professor Obermaier and Professor Diller, regular practical lectures
Master BA: Sustainability Reporting - Chair of Professor Pelger
Master's degree students in gerneral (WIWI).: Workshop Business valuation (German) - Chair of Professor Obermaier