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Audit of annual and consolidated financial statements
We place particular emphasis on customized solutions and international service and adapt our services to your needs.
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Assurance related advisory services
Assurance related advisory services are based on the knowledge and expertise that are the staff of life of our auditors.
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Global audit technology
We apply our global audit methodology through an integrated set of software tools known as the Voyager suite.
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Accounting related consulting
Accounting in accordance with UGB, US-GAAP or IFRS is in constant motion. The integration of new regulations into their own accounting systems poses special challenges for companies.
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Corporate Tax
We are your problem solvers for corporate tax issues
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Restructuring, Mergers & Acquisition
Expertise and creativity for the perfect structure
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International Tax
We are here, whenever our clients require our assistance
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Transfer pricing
We are your experts for an optimal transfer pricing structure
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Indirect Tax & Customs
We take care of your indirect taxes so you can take care of your business
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Private Wealth
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Real Estate Tax
We are a valuable partner at every stage of your property's life
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Global Mobility Services
Local roots and global networking as a secret for successful assignment management
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Advisor for Advisor
As advisors for advisors, we support in complex situations
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Bookkeeping & Financial accounting
Financial accounting is the basis for many decisions in the company. Only those who prepare their figures clearly and get a good overview of their company can recognize weak points in time and react to negative developments. The use of state-of-the-art software (BMD) allows you to access your figures at any time. Digital document management and a document management system for data archiving are a matter of course. We take care of your financial accounting.
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Preparation of annual & consolidated financial statements
Depending on the size of your company and the legal form chosen, you are obliged to prepare annual financial statements. In addition, shareholders, owners and management want to be provided with financial information on a regular basis. We support you in fulfilling your recording obligations and thus ensure that you present companies, the bank and other addressees with meaningful and reliable figures.
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Payroll Services
Payroll services are among the subject areas that are changing rapidly and constantly gaining in complexity. This is where tax law, social security law, labour law, residence law and other legal matters come together. Our experts will help your team to stay up-to-date and solve complex issues. But we are also happy to take care of your entire payroll accounting.
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Tax Compliance
Tax authorities keep entrepreneurs and freelancers constantly engaged with tax issues, so they play a central role in almost every business decision. Depending on your needs, our services range from the preparation of tax returns, the execution of tax calculations with a thorough review of the data as a basis for assessment, to international tax compliance for several countries.
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Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a software-based technology that mimics a series of activities within and between systems based on a set of instructions typically to complete a process.
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Valuation
Valuations are a core competence of Grant Thornton Austria. As auditors and tax advisors we combine profound know-how with our practical experience to offer you customized solutions for your valuation assignment. Our industry expertise is based on years of services to our clients, including listed companies as well as owner-managed companies with an international focus. We advise on valuation matters related to arbitration and provide expert opinions.
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Forensic Services & Cyber Security
When it comes to risks in business, our experts are on hand. We support you not only in suspicious cases or in disputes, but also develop suitable strategies in the area of prevention to avoid serious cases as far as possible. Our Cyber Security team helps you to keep your networks and applications secure and is quickly on hand in the event of a security leak.
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Transaction Support
We can support you throughout the transaction process – helping achieve the best possible outcome at the point of the transaction and in the longer term.
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Merger & Acquisition
Companies start new activities and separate from old ones, cooperate and merge. Markets and competitive conditions are subject to constant and increasingly rapid change. As a result, existing business models are changing. Some companies have to restructure and reorganize. But new business opportunities also open up.
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Restructuring & Going Concern Forecast
Restructuring & Going Concern Forecast: Bundled services for your strategic, operational and financial decisions offer the right answers for companies, banks, shareholders and investors.
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Internal Audit
Internal Audit helps companies and organisations to achieve their goals by analysing and evaluating the effectiveness of risk management, controls and management and monitoring processes. Internal Audit focuses on independent and objective audit (assurance) and consulting services that improve the value creation and business activities of your company.
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Expert dispute resolution & advisory
Grant Thornton Austria offers comprehensive services in the field of business-oriented expert services with a broad range of competencies from banking to communication. The core activity of experts is the objective recording of findings and the preparation of expert opinions - regardless of all external circumstances. Our experts Gottwald Kranebitter and Georg H. Jeitler, as sworn and court-certified experts, ensure that the highest professional standards and the principle of objectivity are observed.
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Blockchain and Crypto-Asset
Blockchain as a carrier technology for crypto currencies and smart contracts, among other things, is becoming increasingly important. Grant Thornton Austria offers comprehensive audit and confirmation services for block chain technologies and business models.
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Corporate & Brand Strategy
We support you in developing growth strategies for a sustainably successful future and in maximizing the potential of your brand.
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International Engagement Management
As a member of the global Grant Thornton network, we support and manage international projects for our clients. Our team includes multilingual experts who have many years of experience in international assignments and enquiries and can support you in your international projects.
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Turkish Desk
An Austrian-Turkish multidisciplinary team accompanies you in development projects and transactions. We bundle comprehensive expertise for Turkish companies that want to venture into the Austrian market as well as for Austrian companies that want to position themselves in Turkey.
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French Desk
An Austrian-French team accompanies you in development projects and transactions. We bundle comprehensive expertise for French companies that want to venture into the Austrian market as well as for Austrian companies that want to position themselves in France.

The global pandemic combined with self-isolation and economic uncertainty is changing the way people consume products and services – possibly forever. Businesses will become irrelevant to their customer base if they fail to understand the changing behaviours and priorities brought about by the pandemic. Understanding the customer's new world has never been more critical. Mid-market businesses need to use this time to assess whether they have the right business intelligence and engagement tools to understand and meet their customers' changing needs.
The latest IBR data shows that 40.8% of global respondents have started to plan for the customers and markets they will prioritise in preparation for recovery. Meanwhile, 40.7% of global respondents said they'd started to plan what products or services that they will prioritise with 27.4% of businesses reporting they would need to make fundamental changes to what they take to market. Furthermore, over 35% of companies said they would need to make changes to more contractual flexibility in delivering products or services to customers' following the COVID crisis.
Audit your customer analytics
Agility is essential in a rapidly moving commercial landscape, and the right data analytics can give you a real-time overview of what is going on among your customers when activity picks up. Do you have an adequate array of tools to help you quickly get a handle on customer dynamics?
There are plenty of tools to consider in the mix, such as natural language processing and machine learning that can assess sentiment in recording calls with your customers and identify key themes and trends. Another is social media monitoring which can help you measure customer sentiment. Meanwhile, transactions and personal data analysis – particularly in the financial services – can alert you if customers are in a high-risk category following income drops or a sudden increase in expenditure, or are otherwise vulnerable.
Communicate with your customers and anticipate their changing needs
While analytics provide broad insight, customer communication remains more valuable than ever from both a basic survival and future trends perspective.
Ian Pascoe, CEO and managing partner at Grant Thornton Thailand, says: "Working much closer with your customers is critical. Engagement is vitally important. You've got to over-communicate and not hide things. Really engage with clients/customers and if there is a problem come out and say, 'There is a problem, but we are working on a plan'."
Beyond the firefighting element, use all engagement channels to measure the mood of customers and understand the issues they face. They can also provide an opportunity to offer solutions and showcase the brand. Pascoe says: "It is about looking at new ways of doing things and making sure that your name is still out there, so it doesn't disappear."
The decline of physical meetings presents challenges to relationships. However, alternative interactions such as video calling, prove to have benefits of their own and with people spending less time travelling there is more time to make those calls. Pascoe says: "When you're talking to clients in their homes, it's almost a better more personal relationship you're building. And now that people are used to and increasingly expect to see people on video, you're able to potentially offer a better service because you can bring relevant people in from anywhere in the world."
Improve digital engagement with consumers
Communications need to work particularly hard in the retail sector. Before COVID-19, you could walk into shops and have a strong sense of branding and see the display.
Pallavi Bakhru, chartered accountant at Grant Thornton India in New Delhi, says: "The whole customer experience set one shop apart from another, but in a time like this when everybody's probably shopping online, how you talk to your customers, how you communicate, what messaging you're giving out, has suddenly become a differentiator."
People around the world are turning to technology at a very rapid rate. That is providing new opportunities for those that have a robust online presence. Bakhru says: "Things that we would have done probably five years down the road, we're doing them today. I think it's also because everybody suddenly started feeling that technology is your interface with the world."
"People traditionally in India, were used to going to the market and buying their groceries, they didn't typically go online, but it's changed. In just these few months of the pandemic, people are now buying their groceries online because they're scared of stepping out of homes. So more businesses are now coming onto a platform."
Use digital channels to access customers beyond your borders
The geographical constraints for professional services have blurred now that the widespread adoption of digital enables more cross border advice and consultancy.
Bakhru says: "That geographical line that we all had for services, where you felt that the person should sit across from you in person and talk, all that is changing. There is going to be a larger market for service providers. If you are an architect, for example, you could advise on design to anybody, in any part of the world, and for clients, there'll be more competitive services available. Suddenly, talent will become a premium; as a customer, you'll go to the best or the most affordable available."
Don't ignore the value of reputations
While many businesses are focused on survival, resilience and recovery cannot be built on poor reputations. Fair treatment of staff, suppliers as well as good sustainability and environmental policies – at this time and in the future – will matter to customers.
Tony Markwell, managing partner private advisory Grant Thornton Australia, says: "When you have a recession, people fall back to staples, they'll fall back to things that are locally sourced and sustainable. If you're in a business that's not in that field, you have to say, 'I need to have an alternative plan to get into that field,' or shift in the market to make it clear to customers that I have local suppliers, or that my products aren't something to be feared."
The track ahead is overshadowed with uncertainty, and businesses need to retune their customer strategies and operations to meet the conditions. Against a backdrop of ever-changing economic and societal norms, understanding what your customers are doing and feeling – and why – has never been more important. Businesses need to know where their customer opportunities are and, once understood, be ready to engage with clarity and purpose. They will need to receive as well as they broadcast; to listen as well as they speak.
Speak to our expert Werner Leiter to better understand how to analyse your customers and adapt your offering to match.