Cooperation partners of the professorship

Below an overview of our cooperation partners from science and practice:

audalis

Partner of audalis Förderkreis at TU Dortmund University

audalis is an innovative association of business and consulting firms. With more than 50 auditors, tax consultants, lawyers and management consultants, audalis employs around 180 people at five locations in Germany. Internationally, audalis is integrated into the network of the globally active Alliott Group, an organization of independent auditing firms.

Baker Tilly

Partner of the "Audit Talents" development program

Baker Tilly - formerly - Baker Tilly Roelfs - is one of Germany's largest partnership-based consulting firms and an independent member of the global Baker Tilly International network. Together, auditors, lawyers and tax consultants as well as management consultants offer medium-sized companies, public institutions and wealthy individuals a wide range of individual and innovative consulting services.

Bußmann, Semer & Müller

Bußmann, Semer & Müller WP StB RA PartGmbB is a Dortmund-based auditing and tax consulting firm with clients throughout Germany, primarily in NRW. With four partners, more than twenty professionals and more than 40 employees, the company has been active for over 60 years. The company's activities focus on comprehensive, interdisciplinary support in the areas of tax and business consulting, auditing and legal advice.

EY

Partner of the AuditChallenge at the TU Dortmund University of Technology

EY (formerly Ernst & Young) is a global network of legally autonomous and independent companies in the fields of auditing, tax consulting and business or management consulting.

In 2017, the group employed more than 248,000 people at 700 locations in 150 countries. Total revenues of the global network amounted to US$31.4 billion in fiscal year 2016/17.

HUSEMANN ∙ EICKHOFF ∙ SALMEN & PARTNER

The commercial law firm Husemann, Eickhoff, Salmen & Partner GbR acts as a consulting partner for medium-sized companies and organizations in the public sector.

The commercial law firm is represented by over 140 employees at its offices in Dortmund, Berlin, Cologne, Bochum, Arnsberg and Munich.

KPMG Dortmund

KPMG is a global network of legally autonomous and independent companies in the fields of auditing, tax consulting and corporate and management consulting.

The company's name goes back to its founders Klynveld, Peat, Marwick and Goerdeler. With around 200,000 employees at locations in 154 countries and total revenues of USD 26.4 billion (2017), KPMG is one of the so-called Big Four international audit firms. The European group parent company KPMG Europe LLP is the largest European audit firm with 32,300 employees at more than 143 locations and EUR 4.997 billion in revenue (2012). In Germany, the company employs around 10,700 people at 25 locations; in fiscal year 2017, sales amounted to EUR 1.66 billion.

PricewaterhouseCoopers Düsseldorf

Partner of the PwC Award for Accounting at the Technical University of Dortmund

PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited (PwC) is a global network of legally autonomous and independent firms in the fields of auditing, tax consulting and business or management consulting.

Today, the global PwC network has member firms in 157 countries, which together employ more than 223,000 people worldwide. Total group revenue in fiscal 2016 was US$35.9 billion. PricewaterhouseCoopers is the world's largest professional services firm, formed by the merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand. Both original companies look back on a history of more than 150 years.