Why Invest Money − and If So, in What?
Part 1: Thoughts about Investing Money in Times of Zero Interest Rates 51 % of Germans save and feel happier than non-savers, because saving creates security and opens up room for maneuver. This is what […]
Articles by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Zirus
The Going Concern Principle and its Significance for Accounting and Auditing
Any reasonable accounting rules and regulations contain rules to ensure that financial statements comprise correct, non-arbitrarily originated values, and that the financial statements of subsequent years are comparable in substance and form. In the German […]
Academic Writing (Part 4): Plagiarism
Part 1: What is the truth? Part 2: Research Part 3: Scientific Language The work of a “plagiarius” (Latin for “seller of souls”) – a plagiarism – inevitably results in a grade of 5.0, and […]
Academic Writing (Part 3): Scientific Language
Academic Writing (Part 1): What Is the Truth? Academic Writing (Part 2): Research “[Traditional company budgeting] encourages management to lie and deceive […].”[1] Such a sentence is a strong statement making drastic allegations and is […]
Impact Investing or the Desire for “Doing Good While Doing Well” (Part 2)
Our first article on the subject of “Impact Investing” (IMPIN) provided a first view of the special characteristics of IMPIN. We showed that the purpose of this new investment field is not only to achieve […]
Academic Writing (Part 2): Research
Is academic writing only something for (future) scientists and researchers? Our thoughts on truth (see Academic Writing (Part 1)) have already made it clear: Dealing with academic writing and its methods is of invaluable benefit […]
Academic Writing (Part 1): What is the Truth?
None of us would call oneself a liar. We claim to be telling the truth. But do we really know this truth? We all have vested interests, perspectives and values which coin our very own […]
Impact Investing or the Desire for “Doing Good While Doing Well” (Part 1)
The yearning for a world where people treat each other and their environment with more care and respect is probably the common wish shared by the vast majority. So far, governmental systems are the most […]
TTIP – a Fact-Based Analysis
MBS hosted the post-graduate workshop titled “Europe and the world” within the DBA program. Pressing issues around the European Union were the subjects of a scientific, profoundly fact-based examination of imminent challenges. One of the […]
The Consequences of a German Leadership Role Within the EU
MBS hosted the post-graduate workshop titled “Europe and the world” within the DBA program. Pressing issues around the European Union were the subjects of a scientific, profoundly fact-based examination of imminent challenges. One of the […]
Brexit – Will it Come? What Britain’s Exit of the European Union Means
MBS hosted the post-graduate workshop titled “Europe and the world” within the DBA program. Pressing issues around the European Union were the subjects of a scientific, profoundly fact-based examination of imminent challenges. One of the […]