Challenges in Business Management (CBM)

Feedback from prior participants

CBM-Participant WT 2016/17

„Opportunity to get a great insight of Siemens‘ digital transformation/ get in touch with employees and understand the long business processes“
CBM-Participant ST 2018

„Current topics, get in touch with real companies/ paper and presentation before exam period“
CBM-Teilnehmerin WS 17/18

„Sehr interessantes Thema/ Praxisbezug und tiefer Einblick in das Unternehmen/ sehr gute Betreuung durch das Siemens-Mentorat“

Course Details

Economics: free elective module
FACT: focus module
International Business Studies: elective module
Management: compulsory optional module (case studies and projects in management II)
Marketing: elective module (practical applications seminar)
Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen: elective module (current issues in FACT I)
Wirtschaftspädagogik: elective module
Master programs of exchange students

Seminar Challenges in Business Management (CBM Stage A)

English and German, 2 SWS, 5 ECTS

Topic:	Trends and challenges for corporate disclosures – Reporting landscape 4.0
Supervisors:	Prof. Dr. Thomas M. Fischer	Prof. Dr. Ralf P. Thomas
Contact Person:	Sebastian Gaschler, M.Sc.
Term:	Winter Term 2018/19, Stage A (XV), Stage B (XIV)

Agenda	Date	Time	Room
Screening of Topics	Oct, 15 2018	03.45 pm	LG H5
Kick-off Session	Oct, 26 2018	08.30 am	LG 4.154
Workshop „Academic Writing and Presentation Skills“	Oct, 26 2018	10.30 am	LG 0.225
Presentation Day	Dec, 7 2018	08.30 am	LG 4.154

Seminar Challenges in Business Management (CBM Stage B)

Available for participants of CBM Stage A who have completed the seminar with honors. Read more.

Learning objectives, skills, and support

Challenges in Business Management is an interactive seminar with a focus on controlling and financial management tools for the analysis on the enterprise, business segment and project levels. The course offers a great opportunity to extend professional studies in the field of Accounting and Controlling. The students analyze and discuss case studies on current challenges of a global technology enterprise. Each participant receives support for his individual topic from a Top-level Siemens Manager.

The main topic for the seminar in Winter Term 2018/19 is „Trends and challenges for corporate disclosures – Reporting landscape 4.0“.

Application and Course Material

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Workload, method of examination, and grading

Students prepare a working paper, which will be presented and discussed in class. Students can choose to write the seminar paper in English or German. All presentations and discussions will be in English or German. The working paper and the presentation are the basis for the final grading.

Students who successfully pass the seminar are eligible for a Master thesis at the Chair of Accounting and Management Control.

Workload: Attendance time: 30 h, Self-Study: 120 h

Grading:

Seminar paper (15 pages, 60 %),
Presentation (15 minutes, 30 %), and
Class participation/discussion (10 minutes, 10 %)

Duration and module frequency

Each module 1 term (Stage A and, optional, Stage B), Winter and Summer Term

Challenges in Business Management (CBM)