• Thomas Budde

Georg van Hall

Katja Scholten

Professional education

Certified Public Accountant
Tax Advisor
Business studies at the Christian-Albrecht-Universität Kiel, degree: Diplom-Kaufmann

Professional experience

Audit assistant at Arthur Andersen GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, Düsseldorf

Senior, manager, lastly member of the management board of Rölfs WP Partner AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, Düsseldorf and partner of the RölfsPartner-Groupe

Incorporation partner at AccountingPartners, Düsseldorf

Key activities

Annual audits of financial statements and consolidated financial statements

Advising in accounting principles in connection with the transition to International Financial Reporting Standards

Advising in accounting related Corporate Governance Code Commitments

IT-Audits and implementation of SAP-supported consolidated financial statements

Assistance in cases of accounting related conflicts with third parties

Extract of projects

Partner in charge regarding annual audits of family controlled publicly traded or not publicly traded corporations

Partner in charge regarding accounting transition projects of two publicly traded companies to International Financial Reporting Standards. The projects include also the preparation of accounting statements as basis for decision for the management board and the development of evaluation concepts concerning impairment tests.

Preparation of separately mandated accounting statements in connection with IFRS transition projects

Development of a discounted cash flow related evaluation model for the purpose of impairment testing of cash generating units.

Publication: technical paper regarding IAS 36 „impairment of assets“

Partner in charge regarding due diligence projects and audits indicated by the German corporation law (Aktiengesetz)