adidas Chair of Finance, Accounting, and Taxation –

In 2019 the former Chair of Taxation was renamed as adidas Chair of Finance, Accounting, and Taxation.
The Chair aims at promoting its three major fields of research by providing solid scientific foundations, conveying them by teaching and not least promoting the exchange with the business practice.

When working in the fields of economics, finance, and accounting, taxation is an important aspect. Tax policy has a major impact on the behaviour of individuals and decisions of companies.
For example, corporate and personal taxes influence corporate location decisions, the distribution of profits in multinational corporations, capital structure, dividend policy, and corporate investments. Individuals decide for whom they work, whether to emigrate or become self-employed. All these decisions are influenced by taxes.

Adidas and WHU –
Business and Research in constant exchange.

As a result of the cooperation between WHU and the adidas Group, which was inaugurated in September 2019, the former Chair of Business Taxation was renamed as adidas Chair of Finance, Accounting, and Taxation. 
One of its goals is to deepen the interaction between research, education, and business practice. 
For this purpose, presentations and guest lectures of experts from various business units of the adidas Group take place regularly. On these occasions, they present best cases and share essential experiences from their daily business practice to the students.
Furthermore, the cooperation with adidas focuses on fostering the students´ practical competences in the field of Finance, Accounting, and Taxation, in order to endow them with crucial insights into the industry of consumer goods.
Besides, the adidas Group regularly offers topics, which can be handled in the context of a thesis-internship-combination program. Students can also apply for a mere internship, whether with a duration of three months in summer or six months during a gap year.