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On May 17, 2022 the long prepared presentation of the group work from our students of the Bachelor’s program in Finance, Accounting and Taxation of FHWien der WKW took place in the large event hall of Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederösterreich-Wien AG. The Financial Management Study Programs of our university of applied sciences was represented by Dr. Thomas […]Read more on FHWien students presented risk management concepts at Raiffeisen

Together with S+B Gruppe AG, FHWien der WKW started a company project in the last winter semester, which enabled the students to test their knowledge in practice and to develop an accounting manual for an international recognized project developer in the real estate industry. […]Read more on University meets business: Proper accounting to be learned in practice!

Another exciting guest lecture took place in the 3rd semester of the Bachelor's program in Finance, Accounting & Taxation. This time, the lecture was about the issue of chain transactions in the Austrian VAT business and was held by the experts Mag. Harald Galla and Stefan List, MSc. […]Read more on Boundless joy in the field of taxation – Expert talk on serial transactions in value added tax

Exciting and up to date: On November 24, 2021 the students of the Bachelor's program in Finance, Accounting and Taxation learned all news in the field of tax industry, on the subject of input tax deduction from experts at first hand. […]Read more on Safe steering through the tax jungle! Current issues of input tax deduction in sales tax law

On December 18, 2020 the final presentations of the course "Business project" took place. […]Read more on Lecture “Business project”

During a guest lecture, students of the Bachelor’s program in Finance, Accounting and Taxation had the opportunity to gain insights into the practice of the current transformation of the financial sector due to the rapid developments in the fields of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Process Automation. Afterwards, students had a chance to exchange […]Read more on Finance 2.0 – The digital transformation of finance

Current situation in Austrian companies During a guest lecture held by our cooperation partner KPMG, students of the Bachelor’s program in Finance, Accounting & Taxation (Finanz-, Rechnungs- & Steuerwesen) had the opportunity to gain insights into the recent developments and problems of auditing practices caused by the current Covid-19 crisis. The lively discussion that followed […]Read more on Impact of COVID-19 on accounting

The tax law block of the Bachelor’s program in Finance, Accounting and Taxation (Finanz-, Rechnungs- & Steuerwesen) comprises a total of five courses. Particular emphasis is given to an interdisciplinary teaching and a practice-oriented approach. Therefore, it was especially exciting for the students to attend the guest speech of Harald Gutmayer on November 30, 2020. […]Read more on Current jurisdiction in group tax law

In the course “Value Added Tax and Transfer Taxes” in the 3rd semester of the Bachelor’s program in Finance, Accounting and Taxation an exciting guest lecture took place on November 23, 2020: The topic of the guest lecture was the deduction of input tax according to § 12 of the Austrian Value Added Tax Act. […]Read more on Current questions of the input tax deduction in sales tax law

In the January issue of CFO aktuell, the Competence Center for Business Controlling & Accounting presented the case study of an Austrian publicly listed company, in which the effects of IFRS on controlling were analyzed. The introduction of IFRS resulted in various simplifications in the case presented, such as the elimination of calculative interest and […]Read more on Publication on IFRS effects on controlling