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 Trust and Fiduciary Services:

• Due Diligence
• Financial Supervision
• Foundation Law
• Trust Law
• Fund Law

Part Cross-Curriculuar 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.

Exception for SS 13: only 39 additional credits.

Die Veranstaltung dient dazu, die Studierenden mit den grundlegenden makroökonomischen Zusammenhängen und Gesetzmässigkeiten in Volkswirtschaften vertraut zu machen. Es geht darum, gesamtwirtschaftliche Entwicklungen zu beschreiben und gewisse gesamtwirtschaftliche Beziehungen zu erklären. Ein internationaler Vergleich kann hierbei Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten in der Entwicklung von Volkswirtschaften herausarbeiten. Darüber hinaus sollen die Studierenden sensibilisiert werden für aktuelle wirtschaftspolitische Probleme, eine Herausforderung stellt die Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise 2008/2009 und die Auswirkungen bis in die jüngste Zeit.

Introduction to the field of International Management.
Basic introduction to: internationalization process and -environment, reasons for internationalization, actors in the international environment, the role of culture, instruments for the identification and evaluation of markets, market entry strategies, international human resource management, international marketing, organizational structures, and the leadership and management of international companies.

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.

Exception for SS 13: only 39 additional credits.

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.

Exception for SS 13: only 39 additional credits.

Decision Theory: Expected utility theory und mean-variance theory & prospect theory.

Game Theory: Strategic Form Games: Dominant strategies and solvability, Nash equilibrium, mixed strategies, zero sum games, extensive form games, dynamic, static and repeated games. Rationality and games with incomplete information

Behavioral Finance: Comparison of empirical observations and decision theory. Behavioral biases & risk profiling,
gathering, processing and using information on experimental financial markets

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.

Exception for SS 13: only 39 additional credits.

• 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.

Exception for SS 13: only 39 additional credits.

See course description.

• 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.

Exception for SS 13: only 39 additional credits.

• Using English as a means of communication in cross-cultural contexts
• Academic writing in English

Grundlagen und Abgrenzung des Controlling (Funktion und Rolle des Unternehmens, Konzepte der Unternehmensführung, Unternehmen als komplexes System, Steuerungsmechanismen für Unternehmen), Grundlagen der Bilanzanalyse, Kennzahlensystem ROI, finanzielles Rechnungswesen als Analyse- und Informationsinstrument (Bewegungsbilanz, direkte und indirekte Cashflow-Ermittlung, Kapitalflussrechnung, Fallstudien), operative Steuerung mit Finanzkennzahlen (Liquidität, Stabilität, Rentabilität), Kapitalbedarfs- und Gründungsplanung, zukunftsgerichtete finanzielle Steuerung (Planungsinstrumente, Abgrenzung der operativen Planung, Leistungsbudget, Finanzplan, Planbilanz), wertorientierte Unternehmenssteuerung, Kostenplanung und Abweichungsanalyse.

• Positioning object-oriented modelling in the field of software engineering
• Object-oriented modelling process
• Modelling outcomes
• Modelling techniques
• Project tasks

In the module "Systems Modelling", students learn specific competences allowing them to describe information systems for the support of business processes. A focus is placed on methods of object-oriented modelling which are of highest importance in practice. On the basis of existing models and business-related information, they are able to create object-oriented software systems which are the founding principles for the systems implementation (cf. Module "Systems Development"). They are able to both evaluate the use of modelling in a company context, process and IT-system, and to deepen their knowledge in the overall context (cf. "Module "Business Process Analysis").

The students employ the necessary methods and tools confidently for modelling purposes. They have learned to distinguish the various degrees of abstraction and are able to draft project specific resp. project overarching components.

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