Bachelor Theses
Each semester, 27 bachelor's theses are assigned within the specialization in International Accounting & Controlling and the specialization in Sustainability Reporting.
General criteria for evaluation of bachelor theses:
BaWiSo: Successful completion of
the STEOP,
all business-related courses of the CBK,
the PI Statistik, and
the PI Grundlagen wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens or Forschungsmethoden
BaWiRe: Successful completion of
the STEOP,
the CBK courses, and
the PI Grundlagen rechtswissenschaftlichen Arbeitens
Please note: According to §11(3) of the BAWIRE curriculum, the topic of the Bachelor's thesis must be taken from the compulsory and optional law courses of the curriculum!
BBE: Successful completion of
the Introductory Phase and
the two courses in the area of Academic Skills
For an allocation, successful completion of three courses from the elective/SBWL International Accounting & Controlling or Sustainability Reporting is mandatory.
Registration
… via Canvas during the registration period
During the registration period, all students will have access to a registration link and a deregistration link for the Canvas Club on our website. By clicking the respective links, you will be automatically registered for or deregistered from the allocation process.
In the Canvas Club “„Bachelorthemenvergabe SBWLs Intern. Accounting & Controlling u. Sustainability Reporting“, you will receive an overview of the topics available for supervision during the registration period.
The offered topics are assigned to the three subject areas of the supervising academic units:
A – International Accounting (Department of International Accounting)
B – Sustainability Reporting (Department of Accounting & Reporting)
C – Corporate Accounting & Controlling (Department of Corporate Accounting & Controlling)
In a Forms survey, please enter your details and rank the subject area in which you would like to write your thesis.
IMPORTANT: The Canvas Club is used solely for registration for the allocation process. Topics will only be allocated after the registration deadline and after a supervision commitment has been received, during a mandatory preliminary meeting. Students may apply only for the subject area in which they wish to write their thesis, not for individual topics. Topic allocation is carried out decentrally by the individual departments after completion of the application process and will be communicated by email.
Ranking
... of the students on the following basis:
Submitted preferences
Grades of courses I to III of the SBWL International Accounting & Controlling OR grades of courses I to III of the specialization Sustainability Reporting (from summer semester 2025 onwards)
Academic success (grade point average)
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.
Assignment
... of the Bachelor thesis topics and mandatory kick-off meeting
After the end of the registration period, those students who are assigned a Bachelor thesis will be notified by email. All other students will be placed on a waiting list and, if a Bachelor thesis topic is not assigned, will move up. Students have six months from the date of assignment to work on and submit their Bachelor thesis. The thesis is submitted via Learn@WU.
Scedule for the upcoming term
| February 16th - March 1st 2026: Registration is open. The advertised topics are briefly described in the corresponding folder in the Canvas Club. You are required to submit your preferences via the Forms survey in the Canvas Club.from March 20th 2026 onwards: you will be notified by email whether you have received a supervision commitment. If no topic could be allocated to you, you will be informed accordingly.. |
Multiple registrations
Multiple registrations are allowed. You can freely register for the various preregistration clubs from Finance, Statistics and Mathematics and the accounting fields. If you receive a topic from more than one field, you will be informed and then have to choose a topic within 48 hours. The rejected topics will be passed on to students ranked on the waiting lists.
Further information
Our department does not offer a specific course in Academic Writing (Standards wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens und Zitierens/Grundlagen rechtswissenschaftlichen Arbeitens). It is sufficient to take one of the academic writing courses (Standards wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens und Zitierens/Grundlagen rechtswissenschaftlichen Arbeitens) in any department (WISO/WIRE), or to complete the Introduction to Academic Writing course (BBE).
Once the topics have been assigned, a kick-off meeting takes place in November or April to discuss the requirements for the Bachelor thesis.
If you are having trouble registering, please contact bachelorarbeiten-accounting@wu.ac.at.
If you have any further questions about the Bachelor thesis, please contact sbwliamc@wu.ac.at.
Timeframe and lock
From the date of allocation, students have exactly 6 months to write and submit their bachelor thesis.
In the new allocation system, NO postponement of the bachelor thesis to subsequent terms nor seat reservation is permitted. By registering, you explicitly declare that you want to write your bachelor thesis in winter term 2025/26.
However, it is possible to unsubscribe from the clubs within the registration period.
In the event of unjustified delays, supervision can be withdrawn and the topic may be blocked. In any case, a new registration for the allocation process is required - in a future semester!
Submission
The completed thesis must to be uploaded as a PDF to myWU at which point it will automatically be checked for plagiarism. The file name is assigned according to the pattern "Students ID Number.pdf".
Please note that the time between submission and grading can be up to 4 weeks!
The grading is carried out purely electronically, as soon as the supervisor has entered and signed the grade in the system, it can be viewed by you in the LPIS system.
The submission of any supplied, separate forms, data sets, calculations, illustrations, etc. is usually not done via myWU, but directly to the supervisor and should be discussed directly with them.
Submission/Deregistration Link
| Submission Link https://canvas.wu.ac.at/enroll/RK7EDY |
| Deregistration Linkhttps://canvas.wu.ac.at/enroll/RK7EDY |
General formal regulations and citation rules
Please observe the general formal regulations and citation rules as well as the requirements of your supervisor!
More Information and forms can be found here.