Berit Adam

Professor
Department of Public Administration
Berlin School of Economics and Law
Germany

Biography

"Professor at the FHVR Berlin (now Berlin School of Economics and Law – BSEL) Freelance consultant to various local authority bodies in several federal Länder concerning the transition from cameralistic accounting to double-entry bookkeeping; also conducted courses and seminars for project teams, work groups, the staff of public audit offices and local council representatives Drew up an opening balance sheet for the federal government; project leader of an internal project of Deloitte & Touche GmbH for drawing up an opening balance sheet for the federal government – results were published under the names of Dressler, S., Northoff T. (editors), title: “The balance sheet of the federal government”, Munich 2006 Author of a report for the KGSt (a specialist association for local authority management), title: “Auditing in the new system of local authority budgeting and accounting – the auditing of the opening balance sheet and the end-of-year accounts” Author of a professional report on the transition of public accounting to international standards (IPSAS) for the management agency of the NATO Airborne Early Warning & Control Programme (NAPMA) – in collaboration with Deloitte auditors, the Netherlands Provided on-going support to the pilot project of the town Uelzen (Lower Saxony) on the transition from cameralistic accounting to double-entry bookkeeping (together with Prof. Dr. Klaus Lüder and Dr. Christiane Behm): produced the project documentation Doctorate under Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. Klaus Lüder at the DHV Speyer (University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer); title of thesis: “International accounting standards for public administration (IPSAS): a critical analysis with specific regard to their applicability in Germany” Project coordinator at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Deutsche Revision AG (the auditing arm of PwC – now integrated into PwC AG) within the context of the comparative European research project “Reforming governmental accounting and budgeting in Europe” under the academic direction of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Klaud Lüder and Prof. Dr. Rowan Jones; co-author of the study, which was produced as part of this project, about public budgeting and accounting at all levels of public bodies in Germany (together with Prof. Dr. Dietrich Budäus and Dr. Christiane Behm) Research assistant at the University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer under Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Klaus Lüder, Professor of Public Administration and Economics, in particular Financial Management and General Business Administration Studied Business Administration at the University of Hamburg and the London School of Economics and Political Sciences"

Research Intrest

Administration and Economics

Global Scientific Words in Business and Management