Center for Financial Reporting and Auditing

Phone: +49 30 21231 1286

Our mission

The Center for Financial Reporting and Auditing (CFRA) provides an effective contribution to scientific research and practice-oriented transfer of knowledge on financial reporting and auditing. We serve as a platform for evidence-based exchange between science, practice, and politics in light of enhanced regulatory and political scrutiny on national and international levels. We aim to:

Stimulate high-quality research on issues in financial reporting and auditing.
Disseminate research results (our own and others) through publications and events.
Liaise with scholars and practitioners about research issues in financial reporting and auditing, including those important to standard setting and other regulatory activities.
Address standard-setting processes and related regulatory activities internationally through academic research and practice.

CFRA

Who we are

Per Olsson

Professor of Accounting and Director, CFRA, ESMT Berlin.

Phone +49 30 21231 1298
per.olsson@esmt.org

Katja Kisseleva

Research Associate, CFRA, ESMT Berlin.

Phone +49 30 21231 1291
katja.kisseleva@esmt.org

Christiane Wieland

Center Manager, CFRA, ESMT Berlin.

Phone: +49 30 21231 1035
christiane.wieland@esmt.org

Tijana Ristic Kern

Coordinator, CFRA, ESMT Berlin.

Phone: +49 30 212 31 1286
tijana.ristickern@esmt.org

Affiliates

Stanley Baiman, Distinguished Affiliate Professor of Accounting, ESMT Berlin, and the William H. Lawrence Professor Emeritus of Accounting, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Ulf Brüggemann, Affiliate Researcher, CFRA, ESMT Berlin, and Assistant Professor of Accounting, Humboldt University at Berlin
Joachim Gassen, Distinguished Affiliate Professor, ESMT Berlin, and Professor of Accounting, Humboldt University at Berlin

David T. Robinson, Distinguished Affiliate Professor, ESMT Berlin, and Professor of Finance, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business
Henry Sauermann, Associate Professor of Strategy, POK Pühringer PS Chair in Entrepreneurship, and Director of the Institute for Endowment Management and Entrepreneurial Finance (IFEE), ESMT Berlin

Academic advisory council

Stanley Baiman, William H. Lawrence Professor Emeritus of Accounting, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Distinguished Affiliate Professor of Accounting, ESMT Berlin

Tim Baldenius, Paul M. Montrone Professor of Private Enterprise in the Faculty of Business, Columbia Business School, Columbia University

Joachim Gassen, Professor of Accounting, Humboldt University at Berlin and Distinguished Affiliate Professor, ESMT Berlin

Annette Köhler, Professor of Accounting and Auditing, Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen
Laurence van Lent, Professor of Accounting and Economics, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Katherine Schipper, Thomas F. Keller Professor of Accounting, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University