Tim Florian Schacherer

Tim Florian Schacherer is a PhD candidate and Research Assistant at the Department of Controlling, School of Business Administration and Economics, University of Osnabrück. He has been employed since October 2022 at the Heinrich W. Risken Chair of Controlling under Prof. Dr. Robert Gillenkirch, where he contributes to research and teaching in the field of management and cost accounting.

His educational background includes a B.Sc. in Economics and an M.Sc. in Business Administration, both from the University of Osnabrück, with a focus on controlling, external accounting, taxation, and econometrics. Prior to his current role, he served as a tutor for Commercial Accounting and Annual Financial Statements and as a student assistant in the same department from 2018 to 2022.

His research and teaching interests center on controlling systems, strategic and value-oriented corporate management, cost accounting, company valuation, and incentive coordination. These areas align closely with the department’s emphasis on empirical and theoretical aspects of management control. While no recent publications are listed, his academic trajectory suggests active engagement in research related to performance measurement, corporate governance, and financial decision-making.

Professionally, he completed internships in controlling at Kotte Landtechnik GmbH & Co. KG and in auditing at Deloitte GmbH and PwC GmbH, gaining practical exposure to financial reporting and assurance processes. He currently teaches several core courses including Cost and Performance Accounting (Con B1), Strategic and Value-Oriented Corporate Management (Con M1a), Company Valuation (Con M1b), and Management Control, Coordination and Incentives (Con M2).

No scientific awards or honors are mentioned in the available information.

Tim Florian Schacherer advises no students at this time, and there is no mention of grant funding or leadership in research projects. However, his ongoing doctoral work indicates active research development under the supervision of Prof. Gillenkirch.

He is part of the research team at the Heinrich W. Risken Chair of Controlling, which focuses on theoretical and applied aspects of management accounting and control systems. The team contributes to academic discourse through seminars, publications, and collaborations within the Institute of Empirical Economic Research and the broader economics department.