Universität Wien

040269 KU Special Topics: State of the Art: Current Issues in Accounting, Auditing and Corporate Governance II (2024W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 24 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 15.01. 11:30 - 16:30 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Thursday 16.01. 09:45 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Wednesday 29.01. 11:30 - 16:30 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Thursday 30.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Thursday 30.01. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Purpose:
The course's goal is to familiarize students with different published academic articles that greatly influenced the financial accounting literature's development and the current state-of-the-art research.

The class is very informative for students because they get feedback for each of the assignments, both from the instructor and students' peers. This procedure helps to better understand how to structure and organize students' future research papers. In addition, the instructor provides many valuable insights regarding the type and quality of research paper work and navigates the class dynamics.

Intended learning outcomes:
On completion of the course, the students will be able to:
Knowledge and understanding
1. Demonstrate knowledge about accounting research and the current state-of-the-art research.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of central streams, concepts, methods, and their influence and relevance to accounting, auditing, and financial reporting studies.
Skills and abilities
3. Demonstrate how the theoretical foundations of accounting, auditing research have been developed during the past decade and are currently modified.
4. Demonstrate ability to apply research-based literature to describe and analyze particular aspects of accounting research related to future master theses project.
Judgment and approach
5. Demonstrate a reflective approach to accounting research and its pronounced future research topics
6. Critically evaluate different methodological approaches about own studies project
Content:
The course covers financial accounting literature in several sub-fields, ranging from international accounting, auditing, financial reporting studies to accounting history. The academic papers have become essential points of reference in terms of framing an accounting field. This Seminar offers insights into accounting literature that we could expect to see discussed in the future.
Type of Instruction/Teaching format:
This is an intensive course of seminars, with individual studies required before the meetings. The course consists of self-learning, seminars, and discussions.
Participants are supposed to read the relevant assigned course literature and participate.

Assessment and permitted materials

Examination and grades:
The examination is recurrent through active participation during all tuition and through the fulfillment of individual assignments.
Active participation in the form of presentations and discussions at course meetings and a passing grade in the individual course papers.
The course will be examined in the following way:
(1) Two written assignments fulfill ILOs: 1,2,3,4,5,6
a. Assignment one: Word-Count summary of an assigned academic paper (10%)
b. Assignment two: Word-Count paper with the purpose based on the assigned 1) a) paper (30%)
(2) Two oral presentations fulfill ILOs: 1,3,5
c. Presentation of the assigned academic paper (15%)
d. Presentation of the own thesis paper (15%)
(3) Active participation in discussions fulfill ILOs: 1,2,3,4,5,6
e. Active participation through discussions. Each student gets an academic paper assigned for seminar 1 (15%).
f. Active participation through discussions. Each student gets a thesis assigned for seminar 2 (15%).

The use of AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) for the production of texts is only permitted if they are expressly requested by the course leader (e.g. for individual work tasks).

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Students are expected to attend all sessions and group presentations. If you are missing the first unit, you will be automatically deregistered from the course.

Grades will rely on the following scale:
• 1 ≥ 88%
• 2 ≥ 75,5%
• 3 ≥ 63%
• 4 ≥ 50%
• < 49,5%: 5 (fail)
o Late submission not in time = 1 grade lower
o Plagarism = fail

Students achieving less than 50% of the points will fail the course and must repeat the course (they must register the usual way the next time the course is offered).

Examination topics

Literature:
See separate literature list on Moodle.

Reading list

Literature:
See separate literature list on Moodle.

Association in the course directory

Last modified: Tu 20.08.2024 15:45