With the winter semester 2019/2020, the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences bid farewell to Dr. Beate Kremin-Buch, Professor of Global Financial Accounting and Cost Management at the Department of Management, Controlling, HealthCare, after more than 25 years of service to students and the university.
Prof. Dr. Beate Kremin-Buch, who for many years played a decisive role in shaping the course offerings in the field of controlling at the faculty, most recently as head of the master's program in controlling, was awarded the teaching prize of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 2007. This honor illustrates her outstanding commitment to teaching and the great esteem in which she was held by the students. In keeping with a fairly recent tradition at the department, Prof. Dr. Kremin-Buch bid farewell to the students, academic staff, and non-academic colleagues with a lecture. Her farewell lecture, entitled "On the Enthusiasm Factor of Cost Accounting", was dedicated to the topic that accompanied her from the beginning of her academic career as a doctoral student of Paul Riebel at the University of Frankfurt until her retirement from this university: the understanding, design and further development of cost accounting in order to be able to properly depict operational processes and prepare them in a decision-oriented manner. The attributed enthusiasm factor refers on the one hand to the fact that improvements in cost accounting can bring about a disproportionate increase in corporate success; on the other hand, however, it also refers to how students can be enthused about this complex and important topic.
During the farewell lecture, university president Prof. Dr. Peter Mudra and the dean of the department, Prof. Dr. Eveline Häusler, honored the outstanding commitment, professional expertise and personality of Beate Kremin-Buch: In her laudation, Dean Häusler emphasized Kremin-Buch's qualities in the development of the study programs and teaching in particular, in addition to her expertise, high level of work commitment, eloquence and intensive exchange with entrepreneurial practice: "Over many years, the successful study programs in the field of controlling have borne your signature," Häusler said, adding, "With you, an academic teacher has also been honored who is known for her very high professional standards, but also for supporting the students with all her might. The attitude with which you approach students is not a lecturing one, but one that understands teaching as a bidirectional process of gaining knowledge."
"Beyond the department, Mrs. Kremin-Buch has decisively shaped the profile of the university: as a women's representative from the early days as well as a constructive and committed long-time member of the departmental council and the university council. In 2008, she was awarded the university medal for her services," added university president Mudra. Both also highlighted Beate Kremin-Buch's "outstanding contribution, both professionally and personally, to the success of the department and the university as a whole," and praised her empathy and "genuine interest in people." Ms. Kremin-Buch was a role model for many teachers in more ways than one, and the great response the farewell lecture received was an expression of the high esteem for an impressive personality, Mudra emphasized.
Prof. Dr. Beate Kremin-Buch's curriculum vitae:
After training as a bank clerk, Beate Kremin-Buch studied economics and business administration in Mainz and Frankfurt before earning her doctorate from the chair of Prof. Dr. Paul Riebel at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. After working in the controlling department of a bank and as managing director of a medium-sized company, Kremin-Buch accepted the professorship "Business Administration, in particular Accounting and Controlling" at the then University of Applied Sciences in Ludwigshafen in 1994 and taught and published on topics such as international accounting, strategic cost management and accounting for intellectual capital. In addition, she conducted seminars for the further education of executives in the banking sector. In 2007 she received the teaching award of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate for her extraordinary commitment to academic teaching, and in 2008 she was awarded the university medal for her services to the Department of Management, Controlling, HealthCare and to the university as a whole. After leaving the university in Ludwigshafen at the end of the 2020 winter semester, the dedicated university lecturer will change sides and take up a degree in philosophy.
