Chair of Accounting

Bachelor Theses

Application and assignment are done via the department's regular process via KIS.


1. Application and Process

  • The application for bachelor theses of the department usually takes place in the last week before the start of lectures. Please inform yourself on the pages of the department: https://wiwi.uni-kl.de/studium/rund-ums-studium/rund-um-pruefungen/.
  • At the beginning of the lecture period you will receive the acceptance or rejection.
  • Within the first two weeks of the semester, there is a joint kick-off meeting for admitted students, which provides the basics for the work and clarifies questions.
  • During the kick-off there will also be a selection of topics that will be divided among the students. The topics are basically within the research focus of the chair.
  • The duration of the project and the deadline are determined by the examination regulations and the registration date - as a rule, the processing time is at least 2-3 months.

2. General Conditions

  • Theses at the chair have to be written in English language
  • Systematic literature reviews are regularly assigned as theses
  • Theses in conjunction with practice partners are not possible for Bachelor theses due to the very short processing period.
  • There is a predefined number of topics, which is divided among the admitted students. A topic can only be worked on by one person at a time.

3. Final Presentations

All students present the results of their work in a colloquium towards the end of the semester.

4. Submission

Within or on time for the end of the official processing period, each student will turn in the following material:

  • By email: Send the thesis as PDF and DOC(X) in advance to advisor
  • Two hardcopy / physical copies of the final paper to the responsible examination office
  • One of the hardcopy copies must contain a CD-ROM or USB stick
  • USB stick or CD-ROM containing:
    • Your thesis in a “normal“ (with name) version (PDF and Word)
    • Your thesis in an anonymous version (PDF and Word)
    • All Excel, SPSS, Stata, Atlas.ti, or other raw data used as the basis for calculations referenced in the final paper
    • All open data and document files (xls, doc, pdf) and export from Zotero resources as Zotero RDF with PDF-files
    • All documents taken from the Internet (esp. web pages) in PDF format
    • All other documents (e.g. articles from scientific journals) that are available in electronic form
    • The CD-ROM should be attached to the last cover page of one of the hard cover copies in an appropriate envelope
    • All remaining (paper) documents must be kept and made available as needed until the grade has been officially communicated
  • E-Mail containing:
    • 2 PDF files of your thesis in a “normal” (with name) and an anonymous version
    • Use following syntax (where XX are the initials of your supervisor):
    • BA_2020SoSe_XX_LastName_Titleofyourthesis.pdf (“normal” version)
    • BA_2020SoSe_XX_LastName_Titleofyourthesis_anonymous.pdf (anonymous version)
  • Example:
    • BA_2020SoSe_DS_Mueller_Evolution of TAM.pdf
    • BA_2020SoSe_DS_Mueller_Evolution of TAM_ anonymous.pdf

5. Templates

  • Word format templates, citation templates as well as further instructions for theses will be made available via OLAT
  • We recommend the use of the free literature management system Zotero: https://www.zotero.org/