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SPEZIAL
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CONTROLLING INTERNATIONAL
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ISSUE 12
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SEPTEMBER 2015
CONTROLLER
SPAIN
Ulrich Müller Bosom,
Leader ICV working group
Spain
On May 28–29, 2015, at the University Abat Oliva in
Barcelona the 6th ACCID Congress took place with
700 participants (ACCID: Associació Catalana de
Comptabilitat i Direció). The experts from business
and the University of Barcelona meet every two years
at this international event to discuss current financial
and management issues. In the organising com-
mittee works Ulrich Müller Bosom, the Head of the
working group Spain at the International Controller
Association (ICV).
The “special controlling program” was designed largely by
ICV Spain and presented by well-known speakers. Prof. Dr.
Heimo Losbichler, Deputy ICV Chairman and the President of
the Board of the International Group of Controlling (IGC) and
Programme Director Controlling, Accounting and Financial
Management of FH Upper Austria in Steyr, discussed the
topic “Controlling 4.0 – Management Control Processes
and Controllers’ Role of the Future” with the focus on: “The
Change in Controlling? – Current trends and outlook”; “The
New World of a Sharing Economy – The Power of Sharing”;
and “Controlling Tools and Skills of Tomorrow”. Among the
ICV speakers was also Dr. Hendrik Vater, CFO DHL Supply
Chain Southern Europe, Member of the ICV Board. The Head
of ICV Expert Group “Working Capital Management” focused
on the topic “Trends and Success Factors in Working Capital
Management”. ICV Member Dr. Jürgen Faisst, Partner of
Hichert + Partner AG, presented the lecture “With SUCCESS
to International Business Communication Standards (IBCS)”.
The Associació Catalana de Comptabilitat i Direció will or-
ganise the next conference in May 2016, this time in the city
of Lerida (Catalonia). Again, ICV will be present with a con-
trolling lecture. This biennial alternative to the congress in
Barcelona is organised regularly in one of the four provinces
of Catalonia. The last was held in Gerona in 2014.
SPAIN GAINS A FOOTHOLD
WITH THE ICV WORKING GROUP
The ICV working group Spain can report on a variety of activities:
in Barcelona it co-organised a leading congress that is going to be
continued in 2016, a series of controlling seminars was successfully
launched, and of the ICV publication series, the one entitled
“Working Capital Management” is now available in Spanish.
