Career
Graduates of the study programme “Audit & Taxation” will predominantly be employed in national as well as international taxation and auditing companies and in consulting firms. They can also be employed in corresponding departments of big business companies.
Well-known and internationally operating taxation and auditing companies are e.g. Ernst & Young, Rödl & Partner, KPMG, PriceWaterHouseCoopers, Deloitte & Touche, etc.
After graduation students have to decide on the occupational field they want to focus on in the medium term: auditing or tax consulting. Because both occupational fields overlap to a great extend, it is quite common in the industry to start a career as certified tax consultant and continue eventually as auditor/certified public accountant. Both intended careers make it necessary to successfully pass the professional exam. A certain amount of work experience after graduation is required to be admitted to the professional exam.
After you have earned your Bachelor of Science degree at our university, you can: pass the professional exam in tax consulting after 3 years of work experiencepass the professional exam in auditing after 4 years of work experience orenrol in a Master degree programme that can partly be applied to the professional exam in auditing if applicable.
Career as Certified tax consultant
Graduates intending a career as certified tax consultant face a variety of different tasks including the following:
- Consulting in legal structuring options: anticipatory consulting to optimize tax burden: How should companies invest and economize to keep the tax burden as low as possible?
- Filing of tax returns: set up tax returns and check tax assessments
- Appeal against tax assessments: consult the taxpayer in appeals against tax assessments
- Business consulting: performance analysis, planning measures on a strategic and operational level, planning investments and restructuring
Career as auditor/certified public accountant
The scope of activities within a career as auditor/certified public accountant involves the following tasks:
- Audit activity: conducting all types of business audits especially the annual statutory audit
- Tax consulting: tax consulting and representing in all fields covered by a tax consultant
- Providing expert opinions: furnish an opinion, e.g. a business valuation
- Fiduciary activity: occupation as e.g. executor, administrator of a person’s or company’s estate, trustee, insolvency administrator, or liquidator
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