Bachelor Theses
The number of supervised theses is based on the capacity of the Full Professorship of Financial Accounting. We strongly recommend that you only apply for a bachelor thesis if you conducted your project study or an elective course at our chair. Students from other disciplines must have attended at least one of our seminars before they can apply for a thesis.
Application process:
- Select a topic from the list of open topics of Full Professorship Financial Accounting in the Koinon Portal. If no topics are listed, we are currently not offering any new topics. In this case, you can either wait until new topics are announced or apply with your own topic proposal (see details regarding the chair's research fields and how to propose your own topic below). The listed topics can be written in either English or German unless otherwise stated. Applications for a thesis topic must include a current CV and a current transcript of records.
- The registration date, i.e., the starting date for your thesis, must be within the next 7 days once your application has been accepted. This means that you must start working on your thesis immediately and cannot "reserve" a topic. We do not provide any additional information on the topic before registration is completed than that available in the Koinon Portal.
- We evaluate your application and check whether you fit our qualification profile. Please wait until your potential supervisor confirms your registration. If we receive more than one suitable application on the same topic at the same time, we will assign the thesis according to the first-come-first-serve principle.
- After receiving an acceptance email from your supervisor, both of you will discuss all further details regarding content, methodology, and timeline.
List of research fields:
| Topic | Supervisor |
| Non-Financial Reporting, Sustainability | Isabel Hertl |
| Alina Straßer | |
| Financial and Non-Financial Disclosure, Disclosure Regulation, Current International and National Accounting Topics, Enforcement | Felix Müller |
| Lino Ballof | |
| Financial and Non-Financial Disclosure, Sustainability, AI in Reporting, Current International and National Accounting Topics | Sebastian Fröhle |
| Financial Disclosure, Current International and National Accounting Topics, Corporate Governance | Mihovil Cuzic |
Proposing your own topic:
It is also possible to approach us with your own topic suggestion. In this case, please provide an exposé of 1-2 pages, answering the following questions:
- Why is your topic relevant?
- What is your research question?
- What literature on the topic is already existent?
- What methodology would you like to use?
- How would you expect the results to look like?
Please send the exposé together with your current CV and transcript of records directly to your preferred supervisor or, if you are not sure which supervisor is best suited for your topic, send the application to isabel.hertl@tum.de.
How to develop a research question?
Please watch the following video to get a basic understanding on how to develop a research question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71-GucBaM8U
To get further instructions on how to develop a research question please check the following link: https://www.scribbr.com/research-process/research-questions/