Course Description
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are the global financial language. The course systematically builds your expertise in preparing and analyzing IFRS financial statements.
The course has three objectives:
- To convey knowledge about the institutional and conceptual foundations as well as the most important topics of IFRS;
- To develop your structured reasoning (or ‘algorithmic thinking’) skills by practicing how to map firms’ economic activities into their IFRS financial statements; and
- To foster your critical thinking and financial intuition.
Our course “Trends in Corporate Governance & Audit” by Professor Dr. Martin Plendl (in the second half of the semester) is a perfect complement that provides valuable practical application.
Format and Features
- Lectures (MO 8:30-10:00) and tutorials (TUE 8:30-10:00) live and interactive on Zoom
- Videos and free textbook for self-study
- Interaction w/ expert practitioners (guest lecture, interviews)
- Moodle as main communication channel
- Blocked in the first half of the semester
- 6 ECTS
- 120-minute online exam
scheduled around the beginning of
June
- Trainer/in: Carina Brettschneider
- Trainer/in: Alexander Paulus
- Trainer/in: Thorsten Sellhorn
- Trainer/in: Victor Wagner