Center for Financial Reporting and Auditing

Phone: +49 30 21231 1286

Our mission

The Center for Financial Reporting and Auditing (CFRA) aims to provide an effective contribution to scientific research and practice-oriented, pragmatic transfer of knowledge on financial reporting and auditing, as well as financial management more generally. 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.

The CFRA designs and engages in activities to strengthen the dialogue between academics and practitioners and to make highly complex business and finance research (our own and others) more accessible to the broader public. Questions of standard setting and regulation in financial reporting, auditing, and the role of various forms of disclosures in capital markets are explored in publications, conferences, seminars, and international networks. CFRA programming is internationally oriented to examine the increasingly global regulation in these areas.

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Who we are

Per Olsson

Professor of Accounting and Director, CFRA, ESMT Berlin.

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

Joachim Gassen

Distinguished Affiliate Professor, ESMT Berlin

Phone +49 30 21231 1298
joachim.gassen.e@esmt.org

Katja Kisseleva-Scherenberger

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

Affiliate researchers

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-Universität zu 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, Distinguished Affiliate Professor of Accounting, ESMT Berlin, and the William H. Lawrence Professor Emeritus of Accounting, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Tim Baldenius, Paul M. Montrone Professor of Private Enterprise in the Faculty of Business, Columbia Business School, Columbia University
Joachim Gassen, Distinguished Affiliate Professor, ESMT Berlin, and Professor of Accounting, Humboldt University of 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