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Fraud, Compliance & Sustainability

Module name (EN):
Name of module in study programme. It should be precise and clear.
Fraud, Compliance & Sustainability
Degree programme:
Study Programme with validity of corresponding study regulations containing this module.
Accounting and Finance, Master, ASPO 01.10.2017
Module code: MARPF-592
SAP-Submodule-No.:
The exam administration creates a SAP-Submodule-No for every exam type in every module. The SAP-Submodule-No is equal for the same module in different study programs.
P420-0547
Hours per semester week / Teaching method:
The count of hours per week is a combination of lecture (V for German Vorlesung), exercise (U for άbung), practice (P) oder project (PA). For example a course of the form 2V+2U has 2 hours of lecture and 2 hours of exercise per week.
4VU (4 hours per week)
ECTS credits:
European Credit Transfer System. Points for successful completion of a course. Each ECTS point represents a workload of 30 hours.
6
Semester: according to optional course list
Mandatory course: no
Language of instruction:
German
Assessment:
Oral examination

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Applicability / Curricular relevance:
All study programs (with year of the version of study regulations) containing the course.

MAMS-592 (P420-0547) Marketing Science, Master, ASPO 01.04.2016 , optional course
MARPF-592 (P420-0547) Accounting and Finance, Master, ASPO 01.10.2017 , optional course
MASCM-592 (P420-0547) Supply Chain Management, Master, ASPO 01.04.2017 , optional course
Workload:
Workload of student for successfully completing the course. Each ECTS credit represents 30 working hours. These are the combined effort of face-to-face time, post-processing the subject of the lecture, exercises and preparation for the exam.

The total workload is distributed on the semester (01.04.-30.09. during the summer term, 01.10.-31.03. during the winter term).
60 class hours (= 45 clock hours) over a 15-week period.
The total student study time is 180 hours (equivalent to 6 ECTS credits).
There are therefore 135 hours available for class preparation and follow-up work and exam preparation.
Recommended prerequisites (modules):
None.
Recommended as prerequisite for:
Module coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Jochen Pilhofer
Lecturer:
Andreas Drossel
Dipl.-Kfm. Patrick Weber von Freital
Michael Weis


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Learning outcomes:
After successfully completing this module, students will be able to:
  
I) Fraud
•        understand what fraud is, in what forms it can occur in corporate practice, by whom and in what context fraud typically occurs;
•        understand what practical risk factors and "red flags" may indicate an increased incidence of fraud;
•        understand which legal regulations are relevant for the external (financial) statement auditor;
•        understand what the scope of the (financial statement) auditor´s responsibilities are in the case of fraudulent acts;
•        recognize how the (financial statement) auditor identifies fraud in professional practice and addresses it as part of its audit approach;
•        explain which reporting requirements (internal and external) exist.
  
II) Compliance
•        Students will be able to explain the meaning of the term "compliance" and distinguish it from related topics, explain the main compliance fields in a company, show the risks of non-compliance, as well as the goals and benefits of compliance, and present the components of a compliance management system.
  
III) Sustainability
•        Students will be able to understand the meaning of the term "sustainability" and what regulatory requirements are placed on companies in terms of corporate financing and corporate reporting.
•       They will understand the legal framework for sustainability in the context of external accounting.
•        They will understand how the external auditor addresses sustainability-related risks in its risk-oriented audit approach and which audit approaches are used to audit sustainability reporting (based on a case study).


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Module content:
I) Fraud
•        Definition of fraud, its various manifestations, and the economic context in which fraud happens;
•        What are the differences of internal and external fraud and the resulting consequences and the connection with money laundering;
•        Practical case studies for the identification of fraud and the analysis of fraud factors, inkl. Greenwashing
•        Fraud from the perspective of the external (financial) statement auditor;
•        Detection of irregularities in the course of the audit of financial statements (IDW PS 210), scope of application, effects on the audit approach, reporting obligations, discussion based on practical examples;
•        Maintaining a critical attitude is one of the auditor´s professional duties (“Der Betrieb” issue 3/2022) and problematic areas in practice;
•        Principles of planning annual audits (IDW PS 240) against the background of fraud based on a specific use case;
•        Identification and assessment of error risks and the auditor’s reactions to said error risks (IDW PS 261) based on a use case;
•        Other related auditing standards (audit evidence, reporting requirements, quality assurance), as well as the regulations of the profession, liability risks of the auditor in case of non-recognition; presentation based on practical examples.
  
II) Compliance
A)        Presentation and organizational matters
B)        Compliance - requirements and relevance
I.         Stakeholders of compliance requirements
II.        Relevance within the company
III.       Topics and concrete requirements
C)         (Non)-Compliance - goals, benefits, risks
I.         Goals and Benefits
II.        Sanctions for non-compliance
D)        Compliance management systems
I.          Introduction
II.         IDW PS 980
III.        ISO 37301
IV.        Compliance culture and goals
V.         Risk assessment
VI.        Compliance program
VII.       Compliance organization
VIII.      Compliance communication
IX.        Monitoring and improvement
X.         Implementing a CMS in practice
  
III) Sustainability
•        Definition of the term sustainability
•        Regulatory requirements of the EU and the German legislator in the area of corporate financing
•        Regulatory requirements of the EU and the German legislator in the area of corporate reporting (CSRD, ESRS, EU Taxonomy, SFDR, Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz)

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Teaching methods/Media:
Lecture and tutorial

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Recommended or required reading:
I) Fraud
•        Publikationen des IDW: IDW Prüfungsstandards
  
II) Compliance
•        Hauschka/ Moosmayer/ Lösler: Corporate Compliance, 3. Auflage 2016
•        Bay/ Hastenrath: Compliance-Management-Systeme, 3. Auflage 2022
•        IDW Prüfungsstandard: Grundsätze ordnungsmäßiger Prüfung von Compliance Management Systemen (IDW PS 980)
•        Zertifizierungsstandard ISO 37301 für Compliance-Managementsysteme
III) Sustainability
•        CSRD-Richtlinie der EU
•        EU Taxonomy Regulation
•        Supply Chain Due Diligence Act
•        SFDR

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