Financial Management, Accounting & Taxation

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There are still places available on the Financial Management, Accounting & Taxation degree programm.

Do you want to help steer and shape a company? In our degree course in Financial Management, Accounting & Taxation you will learn the key to a company’s success!

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The degree programme imparts holistic business management knowledge, particularly numerical decision-making to ensure entrepreneurial and sustainable action.
Professionally, of course, I have learned an enormous amount. That has got me to where I am now. Without this knowledge I couldn’t have achieved my goals so quickly. What I found especially good was the commitment of the professors, who were genuinely interested in imparting knowledge and supporting me on an individual basis.

Nils Renchen, graduate

To understand business success in all its facets, one should have a comprehensive understanding of finance.

Professor Joachim Vogt

The degree programme imparts holistic business management knowledge, particularly numerical decision-making to ensure entrepreneurial and sustainable action.
Professionally, of course, I have learned an enormous amount. That has got me to where I am now. Without this knowledge I couldn’t have achieved my goals so quickly. What I found especially good was the commitment of the professors, who were genuinely interested in imparting knowledge and supporting me on an individual basis.

Nils Renchen, graduate

The degree programme imparts holistic business management knowledge, particularly numerical decision-making to ensure entrepreneurial and sustainable action.
Professionally, of course, I have learned an enormous amount. That has got me to where I am now. Without this knowledge I couldn’t have achieved my goals so quickly. What I found especially good was the commitment of the professors, who were genuinely interested in imparting knowledge and supporting me on an individual basis.

Nils Renchen, graduate

Course Profile

Course Content

The degree programme in Management, Accounting & Taxation is essentially based on the knowledge of classical business administration and also imparts in-depth knowledge in the fields of accounting, auditing, controlling, finance and taxation.

Students on this degree programme will:

Become acquainted with the mechanisms, actors and instruments of the financial markets

Learn how to create, present and analyse annual and consolidate financial statements

Learn how to record and optimise the tax situation of a company

and to analyse and assess the efficiency, profitability and liquidity of a company.

The degree programme is rounded off by a practical semester comprising first-class guest lectures, networking events and a potential semester abroad.

Course Structure

The study programme is modular. A module can comprise one or more teaching events that are grouped thematically.

In the first two academic semesters you will be taught sound basic business skills which are divided into the following modules:

Foundation studies (1st and 2nd semesters)

Economic principles of management

Management decisions in operational performance processes

Quantitative methods and business information systems

Business English

Principles of corporate accounting

Legal and tax framework of management

Academic work

In the main course, the ‘FAT’ degree programme will teach you in-depth skills in the areas of finance, external and internal accounting and business taxation. This will also include international technical aspects as well as building-up and extending language skills in business English. The degree programme is rounded off by a practical semester, outside visits, guest lectures, networking events and the potential of a semester abroad. The following comprise the higher-level modules of the main study programme:

Internal accounting (management accounting)

External accounting: Annual and consolidated financial statements

External accounting: Financial statement analysis and further reporting instruments

Financial management

IT in corporate accounting

Business taxation (tax management)

Business law, auditing and digitalisation

Business English

Ethical and social issues of management

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Then why not have a look in our Study Info Media Library? There you will find a course presentation on Financial Management, Accounting & Taxation.

Career Prospects

EExperts in financial management are indispensable for corporate governance. Their analytical skills enable them to prepare and present facts for decision-making and to find new approaches in competition with other firms. In this way, they act as navigators of entrepreneurial success. The degree in Financial Management, Accounting & Taxation enables you to undertake skilled jobs in the following areas:

Accounting

Finance departments

Internal auditing

Controlling

Management consultancy

Auditing

Tax consultancy.

After successfully completing the Bachelor’s programme, there is the opportunity to take the Master’s degree in Business Analytics, Controlling & Consulting (MSc) which builds on the previous course content. This is also offered at the Schwäbisch Hall Campus.

Entry requirements and application

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A look at the course

Do not let maths worry you!

Unsure whether your maths knowledge is good enough for your studies? Then take our mathematics preparatory course! This voluntary and free of charge course makes your start as a student easier.

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Schwäbisch Hall Campus

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Fancy spending some time abroad?

Interested in an exchange semester abroad or looking to do your practical study semester abroad? We are happy to help you achieve your plans so you can gather valuable experience abroad.

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