Theses at our chair

The application process for a topic for your Bachelor's thesis is carried out jointly with the Chair of Professor Günther und der Chair of Professor Dobler. The application process takes place once a year, starting in January. In addition to the application process, you have the opportunity to apply for advertised topics that are still available or to propose your own topics.

*Note: The application procedure is closed and will not take place again until 2025. You can still apply for a supervision place . You can find all information in the section “Assignment of topics outside the application procedure”.

Schedule

Issued topics of the professorships

The list of topics of the participating professorships will be published here before the start of the application period.

Application documents

The following application documents are required:

•  Application form

• Transcription of records from HISQIS

• CV (max. 2 pages)

Fill in and submit

In the application it is possible to specify three desired topics. Fill in the application form electronically for completing the prescribed form fields e. g. the Adobe Reader can be used ) and save the PDF file on your computer with the following file name: „»surname«_»forename«_bewerbungsformular“. Bundle your assets (Transcription of records from HISQIS and tabular CV) in a PDF file and save it with the following file name: „»surname«_»forename«_anlagen“.

Send the completed application form and your assets via e-mail to (contact person: Mrs Lorenz). You do not need to print your application. An electronic submission of the application documents is sufficient. Incomplete applications will not be considered. You should therefore carefully follow the described application procedures.

After your application

The provisional allocation of topics will be announced from 15 March 2024. In any case, you will receive an email about the acceptance or rejection of your application for a supervision place.

Please decide by 14 April 2024 whether you would like to accept the topic assigned to you. Please inform your Supervisor personally of your decision to accept the topic assigned to you.

Assignment of topics outside the application procedure

You can apply outside the application process for topics that are still vacant, which are newly advertised or were not awarded during the application process. Please note that this option is only available once the application process has been completed later in the year. Please submit a current transcript of records and a CV, stating the desired topic, to the responsible member of staff at our professorship under the tab Contact.

The constantly updated list of advertised topics for a bachelor thesis at our professorship can be found here.

You are also welcome to apply for a supervision position at our professorship with your own topic proposal. You can find all the information you need under the tab Own topic and exposé.

Registration

According to the Prüfungsordnung (§ 25 PO) you are only allowed to register a bachelor thesis as far as you have acquired the necessary credits from completed modules in your specialist field. Therefore, the subjects are awarded with reservation. If you plan to purchase this score by April 1 of the particular year, you can therefore apply to us (to be confirmed) for the bachelor thesis. If you do not reach the required score, contrary to expectations, you can again apply to us in the next year.

There is no centralised application process with fixed application deadlines for the allocation of supervision places for Master's and diploma theses. It is therefore possible to apply at any time.

Application documents

Please submit a current transcript of records from HISQIS and a curriculum vitae in tabular form, stating the desired topic, to the responsible member of staff at our professorship under the tab Contact.

Topics advertised by our professorship

• Topic 1: Political capital in top management: An empirical analysis of the relationship between political capital and executive compensation

Further information on the call for proposals can be found here: Politisches Kapital und Managementvergütung

Application with your own topic

You are also welcome to apply for a supervision position at our professorship with your own topic proposal. You can find all the information you need under the tab Own topic and exposé.

You can apply for a supervision place at our professorship with your own topics for Bachelor's, Master's and Diploma theses. Your own topic suggestions should be related to management accounting and control. We are also happy to supervise theses in cooperation with a practice partner.

If you are applying with your own topic, please submit a current transcript of records from  HISQIS, a CV (max. 2 pages) and a exposé. The exposé should clearly state the objective of the thesis and its relation to Management Accounting. Please send the application documents and the exposé to the responsible member of staff at our professorship under the tab Contact.

You can structure the exposé as follows:

• Starting point and motivation: Why is your proposed topic interesting? What is the initial situation in the partner company?
• Objective of the thesis: What research gap is being filled? What is the goal of the partner company?
• Research question or hypotheses: What scientific question do you want to answer or what hypotheses (for empirical work) will you test? What is the research question? The research questions and hypotheses should be derived from the objective of the thesis.
• Planned methodology: Will your thesis be a literature work, a conceptual work, an empirical work, or a model-theoretical work? Which approach do you plan?
• Literature: What literature will your thesis draw on? You should try to point out some papers from reputable journals that deal with your topic. You can determine the reputation of a journal by various rankings, for example the VHB ranking.

The exposé should usually contain about three pages.

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