Introduction (e.g., Data, Information and Knowledge; Tasks of Information Management); Information Economics; Managing Information Demands (e.g., Information Requirements Analysis; Information Overload) Managing Information Supply (e.g. Information Quality; Meta-Data Management); Information Management Systems (e.g., Databases, Data Warehousing; Data Mining); Managing Information and Communication Technology (e.g., Predicting ICT Trends and Developments); Information Management Case Studies

The following conditions need to be met prior to registering for the module:

• successful completion of English I
• successful completion of additional first year programme modules amounting to at least 45 credit points.

Finanzwirtschaftliche Modelle, Finanzmathematik, Investitionsrechnung, Finanzierung, Finanzinstitutionen, Derivative Finanzinstrumente, Unternehmensfinanzierung, Unternehmensbewertung

Basics of financial accounting, stocktaking and inventory, modes of accounting (stock accounts, income statement accounts, private accounts, goods and inventory accounts, payment accounts in due consideration of reconsignments) reductions and discounts, income calculations, documentary evidence, system of value added tax and its accounting, accounting of further cases in trading firms and production companies, accounting of wages and salaries, accounts receivables, accounts payables, accounting problems of fixed assets (depreciation, amortization, revaluation, special forms of depreciation and index to appendices) accounting problems of current assets(calculation of goods and materials employed and its accounting, cases of valuation of receivables, inventory changes), accruals and deferrals, accrued liabilities, liabilities, problems of hidden reserves (creation and disclosure).

Part Private Banking:

• Banking and financial intermediation
• Characteristics of selected asset classes
• Fundamentals of portfolio management and asset allocation
• The wealth management process
• Client goals and constraints

Part Law of Asset Management:

• Introduction to the Law of Asset Management
• Scope of Asset Management Law & Regulation
• Types of Regulation

Part Cross-Curricular Integration Course:

• Recognition and application of contents presented in the lectures, in particular through case studies which combine the economic and legal perspective.

The following conditions need to be met prior to registering for the module:

• successful completion of English I
• successful completion of additional first year programme modules amounting to at least 45 credit points.

Corporate Finance:

• Investment Decision Rules
• Capital Budgeting
• Capital Structure
• Financial Distress and Payout Policy
• Corporate Valuation
• Long-Term Financing
• Short-Term Financing

Decision Theory:

• Expected utility theory
• Mean-variance theory
• Prospect theory.
• Asymmetric information
• Market efficiency
• Behavioral Finance

The following conditions need to be met prior to registering for the module:

• successful completion of English I
• successful completion of additional first year programme modules amounting to at least 45 credit points.

• Benefits of Enterprise Systems
• Life-Cycle of Enterprise Systems (esp. design and implementation, success factors, knowledge transfer, and training)
• Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (especially in the area of Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Sales and Distribution).
• Customer Relationship Management (esp. Strategies in CRM, Tools and Methods, components of CRM systems).
• Supply Chain Management (Logistics, Warehousing)
• Latest technological developments (esp. In-Memory-Computing, Cloud-Computing, Mobile Devices)
• Case Study: Enterprise Processes in SAP

The following conditions need to be met prior to registering for the module:

• successful completion of English I
• successful completion of additional first year programme modules amounting to at least 45 credit points.

See course description.

• Academic writing in English
• Academic presentation in English

Successful completion of module "English I"

• Communication skills
• Introduction to academic writing in English
• Business English

• Foundations of Entrepreneurship & Family Firm Research (new venture creation, SME management, entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial mindset, opportunity recognition, exploration vs. exploitation, entrepreneurial behavior in family firms).
• Building Blocks of "Corporate Entrepreneurship" (definitions, general frameworks, differences between Corporate Entrepreneurship and Start-Up Entrepreneurship, process of Corporate Entrepreneurship, forms of Corporate Entrepreneurship).
• Creating an entrepreneurial organization (human resource management in entrepreneurial organizations, personality of corporate entrepreneurs, motivations for entrepreneurial behavior, corporate strategy and entrepreneurship, elements and development of an entrepreneurial culture, innovation management).
• Entrepreneurial Performance (constraints on entrepreneurial performance, leading an entrepreneurial organization, assessing entrepreneurial performance, sustaining entrepreneurial performance).

The following conditions need to be met prior to registering for the module:

• successful completion of English I
• successful completion of additional first year programme modules amounting to at least 45 credit points.

Basics and assignments of controlling (functions und roles of enterprises, concepts of leadership/corporate governance, enterprises as a complex system, control mechanism for enterprises), fundamentals of financial statement analysis, Du Pont ratio system of financial control, financial accounting as analysis and information instrument (flow statement, direct and indirect cash flow determination, cash flow statement, case studies), operative control by financial ratios (liquidity, stability, profitability), planning of capital requirements for a start-up planning, prospective control by financial ratios (planning instruments, assignments of operative planning, earnings plan/budgeted income and loss statement, financial budget, budgeted balance sheet), value based corporate management, cost planning und variance analysis.