Course HM 004 16.10.2014, WS 2014 / 2015

For Today Organisational matters About the lecturer Expected Format, Deliveries About you Some basics Scope definition, Content Philosophy “Warm up” Open Issues

Organisational matters Name Tags Projected Timing Presence Other

Your lecturer Andreas Klingen German Scientist, MBA, Investmentbanker, Head of Strategy, CFO 20 years abroad Non Executive Director in nine eight countries including Russia Work experience throughout CEE / Western Europe + US + ZA Contact: axkaxk@live.com

Expected Format and Deliveries Small group - Interactive Format of the course The students are expected to participate actively, this may be voluntarily or involuntarily (!) Participation, Short Essays, Presentations, Group work, will form the basis for grading. Further details tbd

About you Avramenko Svetlana Berezovskiy Alexander Chepelev Nikita Korzh Tatiana Kuznetsova Elizaveta Nasretdinova Adelya Nikolaeva Natalia

About you (cont’d) Ovchinnikov Andrey Semenova Natalia Stepanov Alexander Trofimova Polina Veber-Kochetov Anton Yatsenko Maria

About you (cont’d) Who are you? What should I know about you? What do you know about “Controlling”? What do expect from the course? Any questions about you that should have been asked

Some basics A short bit of history What is controlling / management accounting? „contre“ + „role“ is that all? What is a controller? Is it important, if so why? How about…? May be the most important role of all?

Scope definition, Contents Controlling and Communication Operative contr., Transfer pricing, cost controlling etc Strategic Analysis & Tools Strategy Implementation „Strategic“ Controlling Practitioner Sessions Controlling as process Selected Corporate Finance Topics Investment decisions The relevance of financial markets Organisational Issue

“Philosophy” What is information? What does information depend on? Does information reflect “the truth” or “the company” the process What may the reason for the failure of organisations?

“Warm up “ Pick one entity (company, team, country?) Describe main perceived elements of its strategy Add a your view, assessment of that strategy One page (!) A4, absolute maximum two pages one line spacing , not less, no small print please Email to axkaxk@live.com until 22.10. 20h CET

Open issues Q & A Other

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