Ownership structures are an important element of the theory explaining corporate governance. This study presents detailed descriptive evidence on the ownership structures of German manufacturing firms. It addresses several shortcomings of the previous German empirical literature: First, we study...

We empirically study the use of value-based management systems in listed German firms and examine implications for firms' stock market performance. Using a novel, hand-collected data set covering 1,083 firm years from 2002 to 2008, we find that value-based management systems become increasingly...

We analyse to what extent the accrual anomaly is related to the choice of the accounting system as well as firm-level heterogeneity in corporate governance mechanisms. Using a unique dataset of listed German firms over the period 1995 to 2005 we first corroborate former results indicating that...

Am Lehrstuhl für Rechnungswesen der Universität Kiel wird derzeit untersucht, wie die Rechnungslegungspraxis die gesetzlichen Regelungen bezüglich der Transparenz von Unternehmensverbindungen umsetzt. Grundgesamtheit der Analyse bilden die nach Umsatzerlösen geordneten Unternehmen im...