For more than 40 years of its existence the International Association of Controllers (ICV) has set standards both for the controlling and the controllers and therefore is today the controlling competence address in Europe. The approximately 6.500 members benefit from a wide-ranging network, central contacts, high-caliber specialist events, awards for excellent work and more than 60 work groups. These are regionally oriented or focused specifically on specific sectors or specialist topics. The Association brings together theory and practice, trends and test, newcomers and old hands, specialist knowledge and professional know-how and offers a complete range of products for controllers, CFOs and all those who are concerned with controlling. The International Association of Controllers (ICV) was founded by graduates of the CA controller akademie in Gauting, Munich in 1975 as the first of its kind. With its Honorary Chairman, Dr Albrecht Deyhle, the Association has made a lasting impression on the controlling scene in the German-speaking region, and has set standards for the profession. Prof. Dr. Heimo Losbichler, FH Steyr, is the Chairman of the ICV, Deputy Chairman of the ICV is Matthias von Daacke, BLANCO GmbH & Co. KG.