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<title>Company Succession in Practice</title>
<cid>WIM22-WPM-W-404</cid>
<sapsubmodule>P450-0127</sapsubmodule>
<bkey>wim3</bkey>
<ctypes>
<hours>1</hours>
<type>V</type>
<hours>1</hours>
<type>PA</type>
</ctypes>
<cp>3</cp>
<semester>2</semester>
<mandatory>no</mandatory>
<language>German</language>
<exam>Project work</exam>
<curriculum>
<curriculum_entry>
<cid>WIM22-WPM-W-404</cid>
<branch>Industrial Engineering</branch>
<semester>2</semester>
<mandatory_tag>optional course</mandatory_tag>
</curriculum_entry>
</curriculum>
<workload>
30 class hours (= 22.5 clock hours) over a 15-week period.The total student study time is 90 hours (equivalent to 3 ECTS credits).There are therefore 67.5 hours available for class preparation and follow-up work and exam preparation.</workload>
<prerequisites>
</prerequisites>
<prerequisitesfor>
</prerequisitesfor>
<convenor>Prof. Dr. Andy Junker</convenor>
<convenor-person-key>aju</convenor-person-key>
<lecturers>
<lecturer>Prof. Dr. Andy Junker</lecturer>
<lecturer-person-key>aju</lecturer-person-key>
</lecturers>
<objectives>After successfully completing this module students will:
•      be familiar with the business, technical and operational aspects of business value enhancement
•       be able to apply these methods
•       be able to consider &quot;business succession&quot; as a special kind of &quot;business start-up&quot; and, in this context, introduce measures to increase the value of the business and present these in the project
•       be able to work on individual practical problems in case studies, find solutions and present them to the group
•       be able to present selected results in a final presentation - preferably with the cooperation partner SIKB - and, ideally, establish direct contact with potential company transferees.</objectives>
<content>1.      Current situation of company succession in Germany

2.      Business management methods for business value enhancement
        2.1.    Working capital management
        2.2.    Business valuation in medium-sized companies
        2.3.    Due diligence in company succession

3.      Technical and interdisciplinary methods of business value enhancement

4.      The &quot;phase model&quot; of company succession</content>
<media>Lecture with case studies</media>
<literature>•       Coenenberg/Salfeld: Wertorientierte Unternehmensführung, aktuelle Auflage.
•       Junker/Griebsch: Unternehmensnachfolge und Unternehmenswertsteigerung
•       IfM Bonn: diverse Studien</literature>
<offered>
</offered>
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