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At the invitation of Nanjing University, Prof. Utz Schäffer gave a talk on "Controlling - State of the Art in German-speaking Countries" in Nanjing, China, on May 12th. After the presentation, he discussed the...

Utz Schäffer has been appointed Visiting Professor at the Accounting School of Dongbei University of Finance and Economics (DUFE) in Dalian, China. Located in the north-east of metropolitan Dalian and originally established in...

The Internationaler Controller Verein e.V. (ICV) [International Controller Association] is the largest association of controllers in continental Europe. For the first time since it was founded in 1975, a chronicle has been...

Prof. Frank Hartmann, RSM Erasmus University, addressed this question in his presentation at the WHU Research Colloquium on April 24, 2012. He showed that management accounting research problems are not only amenable to...

What are successful companies doing differently than less successful ones? What is the impact of managerial accounting in that regard? How much can management accountants expect to earn? How do management accountants manage the...

This year’s Annual Conference for Management Accounting Research (ACMAR) took place at WHU on 8th – 9th March. It is the largest event of its kind in the German-speaking world and is aimed at researchers in the field of...

Special issue editors, Andrea Dossi and Utz Schäffer, invite authors to submit their papers for an issue of the Journal of Management Control entitled “Top Management Impact on Management Control”. This issue focuses on the...

“Einführung in das Controlling” by Jürgen Weber and Utz Schäffer has been the best-selling German-language textbook on the subject of Controlling for a number of years. Last year saw the publication of a new workbook providing a...

John Burns, University of Exeter Business School, has been Visiting Professor at the IMC since last year. During his latest visit to WHU, he held a PhD course “How to develop theory from case study research in management...

Reports on the sustainable consequences of implementing Management and Control in public institutions are rather rare – at least until recently.

The working group "Steuerung und Controlling in öffentlichen...