Master's Thesis Hub
Interested in writing an impactful master thesis? This is your opportunity! Read more below.
What we offer
The Deloitte Master's Thesis Hub bridges bright students with unanswered questions Deloitte is curious about.
In collaboration with subject matter experts, students have an opportunity to create an impactful master thesis!
Deloitte invests in providing relevant business insight, challenging your thought process, and giving access to a large network of experts in the specific problem domain.
We help develop your problem-solving skills and show you tips and tricks to present research findings concisely. Most importantly, the Master's Thesis Hub offers a room for reflection and shared learning between participants and experts.
Are you ready?
Problem Domain
- ESG performance reporting: integrating ESG as part of how business is managed.
- ESG compliance reporting: ensuring that companies can comply with
- regulations such as EU taxonomy, CSRD, etc.
- ESG data model: ensuring that the data models are in place to
- support automated report generation. Mirrored in system and process setup as well.
Deloitte’s perspective on finance functions
With regards to ESG reporting, we believe the finance function has two critical roles: one being the compliance officer reporting in line with regulation – as well as defining and owning the performance management reporting to evaluate and track how the sustainability strategies are being executed. As a result, Finance will become a key
enabler for realizing sustainability ambitions through ESG reporting.
Possible Research Angles
- Value creation (and quantification) through ESG
- Quantification (i.e., putting $) of key ESG metrics – to utilize for investment and decision-making
- Carbon taxation – what is the cost
- Carbon accounting methodologies
- Introducing ESG to investment decision: How to evaluate
Problem Domain
Almost two-thirds of all M&A transactions globally fail to deliver the synergies and value envisioned, and one in four transactions results in diminished value.
Deloitte’s perspective on finance functions
Rather than accepting that most acquisitions are doomed, CFOs need to reexamine their processes. Each subprocess needs to be viewed as part of a greater whole. If due diligence isn’t conducted properly, companies may overpay. Such miscalculations may also feed into unrealistic synergy targets, leading to missed milestones for investors and analysts to seize on.
Possible Research Angles
- Does the CFO play a significant distinct role in the transactions that deliver value?
- Which elements distinguish the successful companies from the lesser successful ones?
Problem Domain
1. Upgrading finance as partners in the organization- and enterprisewide transformation priorities and programs
2. Rethinking the Finance workforce & talent models
3. Boosting Finance efficiencies through modern finance technology
4. Embracing agile finance transformation journeys to drive change
Deloitte’s perspective on finance functions
The future of Finance is all about managing across functions, building the right mix of capabilities, and establishing a strong data foundation. That’s what will distinguish tomorrow’s winning Finance org. Relevant Deloitte sources: Crunch Time for CFOs | Deloitte, CFO Insights
Library | Deloitte , Four faces of the CFO | Deloitte & CFO Journal – WSJ
Possible Research Angles
- Does the CFO play a significant distinct role in the transactions that deliver value?
- Which elements distinguish the successful companies from the lesser successful ones?
Problem Domain
- Use digital technologies to accelerate innovation and new business models
- Utilize new technologies to improve efficiency, drive process automation and rethink existing business models
Deloitte’s perspective on finance functions
Digital transformation is the essential bridge between the business of today and the business of tomorrow. In the years ahead, cloud-based ERP, automation, and innovation will continue apace and create opportunities to make current finance processes more efficient and reinforce the possibility for finance functions to remain flexible in terms of scalability
Possible Research Angles
- How can businesses take advantage of new technologies to get a competitive advantage?
- How can new technologies be used to make businesses more resilient towards increasing regulations around data privacy?
- Which change management strategies are essential to ensure a smooth
Next Steps and Expectations
Deloitte guides students from the beginning of the writing process to the end of successful thesis defense and engages in students’ professional development.
Contact us
Jonas Sveistrup Søgaard
- jsveistrup@deloitte.dk
- +45 21 79 74 68