Wednesdays by prior arrangement via email.

majors :

• Controlling, cost accounting and cost management
• Strategy transmission and strategic controlling
• Digitalization in controlling, in particular its influence on controlling instruments and their use and application
• Steering effect of controlling instruments

• Since summer semester 2025: Professor of general business administration and controlling at THM
• 2015 - 2025 Head of Strategic Controlling at Stabilus SE
• 2011 - 2015 Research Assistant at the Chair of Management Accounting at the University of Siegen
• 2009 - 2011 Trainee program in Strategic Controlling at ThyssenKrupp Rasselstein GmbH
• 2005 - 2010 Studies at Koblenz University of Applied Sciences (B.Sc. and M.Sc.)
• 2001 - 2005 Commercial apprenticeship/commercial employee

Kachel, 2017, The selection of controlling instruments for strategy transmission in medium-sized family businesses, Shaker Verlag, Aachen.

Hoch/Heupel/Kachel, 2016, Life-Cycle-Costing in corporate practice: techniques, strategic importance, implementation problems, pages 329 - 344, in Becker/Ulrich (eds.), Handbook of Controlling, Springer Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden.