Ms Katja Glawion, M.Sc., received the Study Award of the Stadtsparkasse Kaiserslautern for outstanding academic achievements as well as extracurricular commitment in the Master's programme. Ms Glawion presented her Master's thesis "The informational content of value creation as a measure of operational success - an empirical analysis in operational practice" (Abstract). The team of the chair congratulates very warmly on this.

Ms Lena Baumann, M.Sc., received the study award of the Stadtsparkasse Kaiserslautern for outstanding academic achievements as well as extracurricular commitment in the Master's programme. Ms Baumann presented her Master's thesis "Implications of Industry 4.0 for Controlling and Budgeting" (Abstract). The team of the chair would like to congratulate her.

The Chair of Management Accounting and Control would like to congratulate Mr Dipl.-Kfm. techn. Mattias Oppold, external doctoral student at the Chair, on his outstanding first place at the 10th International Vernon Smith Prize (certificate). This year's prize was awarded to three outstanding essays on the question "Does Tolerance Become a Crime When Applied to Evil?" (Abstract).

Mr Oppold dealt with this question from a philosophical point of view, basing his explanations on the moral theory of Immanuel Kant and the legal theory of David Hume. He concluded "that tolerance is not a crime when applied to evil, but rather evil when applied to crime." The presentation of the three award-winning essays took place on 05th February 2017 in Vaduz (Liechtenstein).

The Chair of Management Accounting and Control congratulates Mr Fabio Britz, M.Sc. on an excellent third place in the Controlling Young Talent Award. This year's award was again given to outstanding theses that address both controlling innovations and classic controlling topics in application. In the course of this, Mr Britz's Master's thesis, which he wrote at the Chair of Corporate Accounting and Controlling with the topic "Transfer Pricing between Controlling and Taxation: Clarification of Conflicts of Objectives on the Basis of a Case Study" (Abstract) , was also awarded with excellence. The award ceremony will take place on 18th November 2017 at the 17th Controlling Innovation Berlin (CIB) conference in Berlin.

Ms Lena Baumann, B.Sc., graduate of the Chair of Management Accounting and Controlling, has been awarded the study award of Hornbach Holding AG for outstanding academic achievements as well as extracurricular engagement in the Bachelor's programme with her Bachelor's thesis "Enterprise Gamification - Corporate Use of Game Design Elements as a Contribution to Value Creation"(Abstract). The team of the chair congratulates very warmly on this.

MrFlorian Fuchs, M.Sc., research assistant at the Chair of Corporate Accounting and Controlling, and Mr Fabio Britz, M.Sc., received the Study Award of the Stadtsparkasse Kaiserslautern for outstanding academic achievements and extracurricular commitment in the Master's programme. Mr Fuchs presented his Master's thesis "The phenomenon of reciprocity and the contribution of controlling to a reciprocity-focused incentive system" (Abstract). Mr Britz's thesis, on the other hand, dealt with the topic "Transfer prices between controlling and taxation: clarification of conflicting objectives using a case study"(Abstract). The team of the Chair congratulates the two prize winners very warmly.

Further information can be found in the press release of the Sparkasse under the following link.

Mr Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Stefan Willersinn has received the Study Award of the Stadtsparkasse Kaiserslautern  2013 for outstanding academic achievements as well as extracurricular commitment in the main course of studies with his diploma thesis "Critical analysis on the implementation of dual process models in controlling research" (Abstract) erhalten. The team of the chair congratulates very warmly on this.

Mr Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Ulrich Koffler, research assistant at the Chair of Management Accounting and Controlling, has received the Study Award of the Stadtsparkasse Kaiserslautern for outstanding academic achievements as well as extracurricular commitment in the main study period with his diploma thesis "Entwicklung von Controllingansätzen im Spiegel der jeweiligen Lehrbücher" (Abstract) erhalten. The team of the chair congratulates very warmly.

For further information, please see the press release of the Stadtsparkasse Kaiserslautern, under the following">link.

In 2007, the prize of the Kreissparkassen Foundation went to Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Michael Zürn, among others, for his diploma thesis "Possibilities and limits of a location assessment based on cost calculation and TOC using the example of the Festo AG & Co. KG Rohrbach plant".

Further information can be found in UNISPECTRUM

Mr Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Christian Sagawe received the Study Award of the Stadtsparkasse Kaiserslautern for outstanding academic achievements as well as extracurricular commitment in his main course of study with his diploma thesis "The use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process for risk assessment: Development of a cognition-oriented controlling tool" (Abstract)

In 2005, the prize of the Kreissparkassen-Stiftung went, among others, to Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Peter Hauck for his diploma thesis "Strukturierung und Erweiterung des Risikohandlings bei der proALPHA Software AG" (Abstract).