Prof. Dr. Peter Sorg
Department of Business and Economics
Professorship for Business Accounting
Professor
T: +49 (0)30 30877-1165
E: sorg@hwr-berlin.de
Visitor's address
Schöneberg Campus
Building B
Room 423
Badensche Straße 50-51
10825 Berlin
Postal address
Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin
Schöneberg Campus
Badensche Straße 52
10825 Berlin
Germany
Academic and Professional Career
- Degree in Business Administration
- Dr. rer. pol.
- External lecturer – permission to teach at the Technical University, Berlin
- Head of Finance and Accounting in a medium-sized enterprise with various production sites
- Research assistant at the Free University, Berlin within the Faculty of Economics
- Stand-in Professor of Business Administration at the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken.
- Since 1990: Professor of Business Administration, specialising in Business Accounting at the FHW Berlin / BSEL
Key Aspects of practise
- Tax and corporate consultancy
- Conduct of training seminars, specifically for tax advisers and lawyers
International contacts (e. g.)
- As a result of a large number of lectures, contacts to the DeutscheAnwaltAkademie (an academy providing in-service training to lawyers) and to almost all tax adviser associations in the different Länder of Germany.
Expert for
- Cost and performance accounting for SMEs
- Balance sheet tax law
Key Aspects in Teaching
- Financial accounting
- Cost and performance accounting
- Balance sheet accounting according to commercial and tax law
- Selection of current balance sheet accounting problems (commercial code, income tax law, IFRS -International Financial reporting Standards)
Research Projects and Fields
- Internal accounting
- External accounting
Planned projects
- Series of essays on balance sheet tax law
Selected, current Publications
- A. Bücher und Skripten
- Buchführung. Eine Einführung mit Aufgaben und Lösungen. Herausgeber: Verlag Moderne Industrie, Landsberg am Lech 1999.
- Handels- und steuerrechtliche Bilanzierung. Herausgeber: Dr. Grannemann & von Fürstenberg Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Freiburg 2002.
- Bilanzrecht leicht gemacht. Eine Einführung in die Buchführung und Bilanzierung. Herausgeber: Ewald von Kleist-Verlag, Berlin 2003, Nachdrucke 2004 und 2005 (zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Stephan Kudert, Europa Universität Viadrina).
- IFRS leicht gemacht. Eine Einführung in die International Financial Reporting Standards. Herausgeber: Ewald von Kleist Verlag, Berlin 2005 (zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Stephan Kudert, Europa Universität Viadrina); 2. Auflage, Berlin 2006.
- Rechnungswesen leicht gemacht. Eine Einführung in Buchführung und Bilanzierung. Herausgeber: Ewald von Kleist Verlag, Berlin 2005 (zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Stephan Kudert, Europa Universität Viadrina); Nachdruck 2006.
Die vollständige Liste aller Publikationen finden Sie unter userpage.fu-berlin.de/~sorg/Index.htm
Selected dissertation topics
- Real estate as an investment – motives, valuation, acquisition
- The forecast report in accordance with §289, paragraph 2, no. 2 of the commercial code – discrepancy between expectation and legal reality
- Inventory valuation of internally produced and capitalized assets with the help of activity-based costing
- A critical look at staff on-costs
- The valuation concept of the IAS/IFRS



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