The assignment of bachelor thesis topics is based on a preference system and the students’ grade average.

Details of the process:

Students are invited to submit topic proposals (using a standardized form). Supervisors can take these suggestions into account within their own topic proposals. There is no guarantee that a students’ proposal will be accepted.

After reviewing student topic proposals, you find an overview of the bachelor thesis topics in the Learn-Club "Topic Assignment Bachelor Theses Finance". Then you will indicate five topics you want to be assigned to (if you submitted a topic, please indicate your topic and four more) and three topics you do not want to be assigned.

An optimization program assigns topics to students. It maximizes the number of topics assigned to students considering their indicated preferences of topics. Students of the SBWL Finance have priority over other students in this optimization. We cannot guarantee, however, that you will be assigned to one of your five preferences. The topics that you indicated as “don´t want to work on” will not be assigned to you (even if that means, you are not assigned a topic at all).

To sum up, the topic allocation algorithm takes into account the following parameters:

• preferences chosen

• academic success (grade average - GPA)

• completed course I of the SBWL Finance

• possible bonus for your own topic proposal

We recommend that registering students have at least positively completed Course I of the Finance specialization. Students who have not yet completed Course I, can still register, but have a lower chance of being assigned a bachelor thesis.

In the LEARN Club you will be asked to submit information about the completion of the basic course (Course I) of the SBWL. Please upload between tba in the LEARN Club a corresponding proof of success, where the relevant course is highlighted. This is mandatory.

Schedule for the upcoming term:

tba: Registration Finance open

tba: You can upload your own topic suggestions to the Learn-Club "Topic Assignment Bachelor Thesis Finance". You will find a standardized form there.

tba: The topic proposals (including accepted topic suggestions from students) are briefly described in the Learn- Club in the corresponding folder. It is mandatory to fill in your preferences via the online survey in the Learn-Club.

tba: If you are assigned a topic, you will be notified about which one and who your supervisor is. You will then contact your supervisor for an initial interview within one week. If you have not been assigned a topic, we will inform you too.

Registration

Registration for Finance takes place in the Learn-Club "Topic Assignment Bachelor Theses Finance" after logging in with your ID.

If you wish to unsubscribe again, you can do so directly at the club within the registration deadline.

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From the date of the allocation, students have exactly 6 months to process and submit their bachelor theses.

The allocation of bachelor thesis for SBWL Accounting and Taxation will take place again in summer term 2025. There will be 27 bachelor thesis topics available and will be supervised by the employees of the Financial Accounting and Auditing Group (Univ.-Prof. Aschauer), Business Taxation Group (a.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Petutschnig) and Accounting, Taxation and Auditing Group (Univ.-Prof. Hirschler).

A positive grade in Course I of SBWL Accounting and Taxation is a requirement for writing a bachelor thesis within the SBWL Accounting and Taxation.

The ranking of the candidates is based on the grade of Course I of the SBWL and the average grade of all completed courses from the STEOP. Although it is generally possible to write the bachelor thesis parallel while taking the course "Basics of Scientific Work", we recommend you to write the bachelor thesis after its successful completion.

SBWL Accounting & Taxation (BBE): Grades of Course I and II of the SBWL Accounting & Taxation

A mandatory preliminary meeting takes place for those students only, who have received a bachelor thesis from the SBWL Accounting & Taxation field.

When: tba

Where: tba

During the registration period, all students of SBWL ReSt can access a registration link. At the end of the registration period, those students who receive a topic for a bachelor thesis will be notified by email. All other students will be added to a waiting list and will be followed up if a bachelor thesis topic is not assigned.

From the date of the allocation, students have exactly 6 months to process and submit their bachelor thesis.

The topics have not yet been determined. However, they are likely to consist of current questions from the research fields of the scientific staff who are supervising and the scientific disciplines of the chairs involved.

Please contact rest@wu.ac.at for content-related questions about the bachelor thesis on this field.

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ATTENTION: You will not find any topic announcements in the LEARN-Club. This is purely for registration purposes, as the topics will only be assigned after the registration deadline has expired and a confirmation has been received at a mandatory preliminary meeting.

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The allocation of bachelor thesis topics is based on a preference system and the students’ grade average.

Details of the process:

In the Learn-Club "Allocation of topics for Bachelor theses in the electives/SBWL International Accounting & Controlling and Sustainability Reporting" you will find an overview of the offered topics.

The topics are assigned to the three subjects of the supervising academic units:

A - International Accounting

B - Sustainability Reporting

C - Management Accounting

In a survey, you first select your preferred subject (A, B or C). In the second step, you can select four topics within your preferred subject that you would particularly like to work on and deselect two topics that you do not want to work on under any circumstances.

If possible (but not guaranteed!), you will then be assigned a topic from your first four preferences, but you may also be assigned a different topic from the chosen subject. However, under no circumstances will you receive the topics you have deselected (even if it means you may not be assigned a topic at all). 

It is also possible to select the two subjects not chosen as alternatives if you are not allocated a topic in the selected subject. However, no further preferences for topics can be specified for these alternatives. 

By submitting your preferences in the online survey, you are submitting a binding application for the Bachelor's thesis!

If you unsubscribe from this Learn Club before the topic allocation has taken place, you will not be considered for the topic allocation - even if you have completed the online survey.

The topic allocation algorithm takes the following data into account:

• Submitted preferences

• Grades of courses I to III of the elective/SBWL International Accounting & Controlling OR grades of courses I to III of the elective/SBWL Sustainability Reporting (beginning with summer semester 2025)

• Academic success according to general GPA

The ranking of the students, according to which the allocation is made, is based on the grades of courses I to III from the elective/SBWL International Accounting & Controlling or courses I to III from the elective/SBWL Sustainability Reporting (beginning with summer semester 2025) and the general GPA.

For an allocation, successful completion of three courses from the elective/SBWL International Accounting & Controlling or Sustainability Reporting is mandatory.

Schedule for the upcoming term:

tba: Registration for the electives/SBWL International Accounting & Controlling and Sustainability Reporting open.

tba: The topic proposals are briefly described in the Learn- Club in the corresponding folder. It is mandatory to fill in your preferences via the online survey in the Learn-Club.

tba: If you are assigned a topic, you will be notified about which one and who your supervisor is. You will then contact your supervisor for an initial interview within one week. If you have not been assigned a topic, we will inform you as well.

Registration

Registration for the electives/SBWL International Accounting & Controlling and Sustainability Reporting takes place in the Learn-Club "Allocation of topics for Bachelor Theses in the electives/SBWL International Accounting & Controlling and Sustainability Reporting" after logging in with your ID.

If you wish to unsubscribe again, you can do so directly at the club within the registration deadline.

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Registration

Registration for Statistics and Mathematics takes place in the Learn- Club "Topic assignment Bachelor thesis Statistics and Mathematics" after logging in with your ID.

If you wish to unsubscribe again, you can do so directly at the club within the registration deadline.

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From tba you can submit your own topic suggestions (using a standardized form - see LEARN Club). Supervisors can consider these suggestions in their own topic proposals. There is no guarantee that a topic proposal will be accepted by a supervisor.

Accepted topic suggestions are proposed together with all supervisor topics. Each student can include their own topic proposal in their preferences. Students, whose topics are accepted will receive a "start advantage" in the allocation process, but no guarantee that “your topic” will be assigned to you.

In the Learn- Club you will get an overview of the topics (complexes), which are offered by tba.  You have to select three topics in a survey (tba) that you particularly like, and one that you do not want to work on under any circumstances. Participation in the survey is mandatory.

As far as possible (but not guaranteed) you will then be assigned a topic from your first three preferences. However, you will not receive the selected topic you do not want to work on (even if you are not assigned a topic at all).

The following parameter are taken into account for ranking the candidates:

BaWiSo:

• Grade STEOP Mathematics and Statistics

For BBE Students the

• grades in Quantitative Methods I and II

will be considered instead.

In the LEARN Club you will also be asked to provide information about your grades from the SBWLs Business Mathematics, Data Science or Finance or from the electives Econometrics or Mathematical Methods. Please upload between tba - tba in the LEARN-Club a corresponding proof of success, where the relevant grades are highlighted. This is mandatory.

Schedule for the upcoming term:

tba: Registration Statistics and Mathematics open

tba: You can upload your own topic suggestions to  the Learn-Club "Topic assignments Bachelor thesis Statistics and Mathematics". A corresponding form to fill out can be found the

tba: The topics proposals (including accepted topic suggestions from students) are briefly described in the Learn-Club in the corresponding folder. You fill in your preferences via the online survey in the Learn- Club (mandatory).

tba: If you are assigned a topic, you will be notified about which one and who your supervisor is. You will then contact your supervisor for an initial interview within one week. If you have not been assigned a topic, we will inform you too.

To give you an idea of possible topics, you will find a small selection of past topics here:

• The Impact of an "Early Exercise Feature" on the Price of a Put Option

• Analysing Hotel Reviews with Data and Text Mining Tools

• Estimation and backtesting of risk measures

• Predicting Cryptocurrency Price Trends: A Basic Machine Learning Approach

• Predicting housing prices in the Boston area

• Pricing of Derivatives in the Black-Scholes Model with Noise Parameters

• Methods for Classification: Logistic Regression vs. Naïve Bayes/Decision Trees

• European Approach to Artificial Intelligence

• Macroeconomic Factors and Their Impact on the U.S. Stock Market: An Econometric Analysis

Before writing your bachelor thesis, you will have to attend the information session on the BBE bachelor thesis process given by the BBE Program Coordinator. We recommend attending the session between semester 3 and 5. You can find more information about how to write a Bachelor Thesis for the BBE here.

If you want to write a bachelor thesis for the BBE at our department, the following rules apply:

First register for the centralized WU-LEARN Club "BBE Bachelor's Thesis Agreement" (Please only register for this LEARN club in the semester you are writing your thesis).

Then register for your chosen LEARN-Club "Topic Assignment Bachelor Theses Finance", "Topic Assignment Bachelor Theses Statistics and Mathematics" or "International Accounting & Controlling" (Club currently inactive).

Details of the process:

Find the details in the area of your spezialisation above and in the LEARN-Clubs you registered for.

A topic and a supervisor will be assigned to you on the allocation date (for summer term 2025: tba). In the topic sheet, you will find the exact content-related criteria that you have to meet with your bachelor thesis or your supervisor will discuss them with you in the first meeting.

Please fill out the Bachelor Theses Agreement, have it signed by your supervisor at the first meeting and upload your signed Bachelor Theses Agreement on LEARN in the centralized WU-LEARN Club "BBE Bachelor's Thesis Agreement".

From the date of the allocation, students have exactly 6 months to write and submit their bachelor thesis.