Management Accounting and Control







Main Research Areas

Management Accounting
  • Theoretical background of Cost Management
  • Cost Management instruments (Life Cycle Costing, Target Costing, Activity Based Costing, Benchmarking)
Strategic Management
  • Location planning for industrial companies
  • Strategic Management of supply chains
Investment Appraisal
  • Models for appraisal of new products and investment projects
  • Models for economic life and replacement time decisions
  • Investment decisions in divisional organization
Controlling
  • Controlling concepts
  • Process, production, logistic, and supply chain Controlling
  • Incentive schemes in controlling
Management and Engineering
  • Energy-efficient production
  • Life Cycle Cost optimization of radio networks
  • Innovation Management and Controlling
  • Economic Appraisal and Enhancement of Thermoplastic Sandwich Structures
  • Integrated Design of Energy and Information Grids
Cost-oriented Product Design
  • Target Life Cycle Costing (of high-strength aluminium materials)
  • Methodology for Cost-efficient Product Design (incl. IPE-Lab)
  • Cost Estimation and Quotation