Bachelor: Seminar (2025/2026)

General topic: Presentation and disclosure in financial reporting and their influence on the information’s decision usefulness.

  • We will analyze and compare financial statements of several companies and see how the presentation and disclosure of these financial statements influence the investors and other stakeholders in their decisions.
  • Specific topics will be discussed and assigned at the kick-off meeting.

Seminar language: English and German

Organizational:

  • We will use MS Teams for all information exchange – documents, information, virtual sessions and office hours.
  • Please send me an e-mail to kronenberger@uni-mainz.de as soon as you have been assigned the bachelor’s seminar in accounting, so that I can organize an MS Teams group. Use only your official Uni. Mainz e-mail address.
  • All information will be uploaded on Teams!

 

Timetable:

  • To be announced soon!

Performance requirements for the seminar:

  • Mandatory full attendance at all meetings.
  • Exposé
  • Presentation of exposé (10 minutes + discussion)

Performance requirements for the thesis:

  • Thesis (approximately 20 pages long)
  • Mid-term meeting(s) – at least one during the two-month writing period

 

Language:

  • The seminar will be held in English and German language. This means that the presentations and papers in both languages are welcome and equally treated. The kick-off meeting (presentation) will be in English. However, the students may choose to write and present their exposé and bachelor’s thesis in English or German language. Correspondence is