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Audit of annual and consolidated financial statements
Objectivity, expertise and experience are crucial when it comes to assurance services. And above all developing a strong working relationship with our clients is the foundation of our service approach.
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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.
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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 Taxes
Experts at Grant Thornton Unitreu have many years of experience and provide the full spectrum of tax services. They are familiar with the specifics of the Austrian market in all aspects of tax and economic law. Tax consultants at Grant Thornton Unitreu take pride in developing and concluding effective and individual solutions.s.
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International Tax
Our teams have in-depth knowledge of the relationship between domestic and international tax laws.
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Transfer pricing
The laws surrounding transfer pricing are becoming ever more complex, as tax affairs of multinational companies are facing scrutiny from media, regulators and the public
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Value Added Tax (VAT)
Experts at Grant Thornton Unitreu have many years of experience and provide the full spectrum of tax services. They are familiar with the specifics of the Austrian market in all aspects of tax and economic law. Tax consultants at Grant Thornton Unitreu take pride in developing and concluding effective and individual solutions.s.
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Private Wealth
Our experienced Private Wealth Team distinguishes itself through its long-term and trustworthy advice to private clients, owner-managed companies and private foundations.
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Real Estate Consulting
Real estate, buy-side tax due diligence when purchasing real estate by (i) acquiring shares in real estate companies (share deal) or by (ii) purchasing real estate directly (asset deal)
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Global Mobility Services
Assignment management is a task with many aspects and many contact persons. For successful expatriate management you need not only a local tax consultant, but a network, which successfully cooperates across borders. Grant Thornton has member companies in more than 130 countries with Global Mobility experts who regularly exchange information.
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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
Our business consulting services can help you improve your operational performance and productivity, adding value throughout your growth life cycle.
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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
M&A, Merger & Acquisition
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Restructuring & Going Concern Forecast
Recovery & Reorganization
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IT Audit
Increasing networking and digitalisation are bringing about far-reaching changes in the business world. Modern accounting is no longer conceivable without complex IT systems. At the same time, however, this also increases the risks for companies, especially when handling data. Confidentiality, availability and integrity of data are central security requirements that must also be met with regard to the correctness of IT-supported accounting. Our IT auditors are experts in operational IT operations and develop targeted measures for you to counteract risks and to check the security and reliability of your IT systems.
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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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Special Attestation
At present, practically all types of IT services can be outsourced to service providers. Advancing technological developments, especially the possibilities for virtualizing server systems, are a major driver for companies to increasingly outsource IT services. Frequently, nested outsourcing structures can also be found in which service companies outsource certain IT services to subcontractors.
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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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Crisis Management
Crisis Management
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Blockchain & Crypto-Assets
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 can support you throughout the transaction process – helping achieve the best possible outcome at the point of the transaction and in the longer term.
Corporate & Brand Strategy
Services
We support you in developing growth strategies for a sustainably successful future and in maximizing the potential of your brand.
Unless a company exclusively pursues a strategy of cost leadership, it should have a unique selling proposition in order to be able to grow profitably on the market in the long term. In a market environment in which abundance has replaced scarcity, however, it is becoming increasingly difficult for companies to clearly differentiate themselves from the competition.
Strategy as guide to sustainable growth
In many years of serving our clients, we have realized that every company is unique and has a wide range of extraordinary capabilities. In most cases, the challenges companies face are not based on a lack of competencies or an inadequate offering. It is often due to a missing strategy that provides internal and external orientation and expresses the company’s own strengths in the best possible way.
Strategy means clarity. Clarity about what mission I am pursuing as a company, what I stand for, what I can and cannot deliver, where I want to develop and how I will get there.
The brand as a strategic management tool
A medium that expresses the core competencies of a company in a condensed form and conveys what a company stands for is the brand.
A strategically managed brand enables companies to achieve clear differentiation from their competitors and to increase their attractiveness and desirability among consumers. In addition, a strong brand empowers companies to achieve higher prices, retain customers and employees in the long term, and optimize marketing efficiency. Attractive brands boost product and company value, raise market share and convey security, orientation and trust to consumers.
The brand is not just a visual surface (logo, design, slogan, etc.), but an extremely efficient and continuously demanding management tool that accelerates the implementation of the corporate strategy and is integrated into all areas of the company.
The corporate and brand strategy are thus the responsibility of top management and integral components of corporate governance.
Corporate & Brand Strategy Services
Corporate Strategy
Strategy Audit: We analyze and evaluate your existing corporate strategy and derive clear and practical recommendations for action for your future corporate management.
- Corporate identity: We consolidate the character and culture of your company and manifest them in the form of core values.
- Corporate purpose: We define the higher mission of your company with which you want to enrich your environment.
- Corporate goals: We formulate strategic goals for your company as well as a motivating vision of the future that will provide guidance for your future actions.
- Corporate strength: We identify the core competencies of your company and thus create the basis for your sustainable competitive advantage.
- Corporate alignment: We determine which strategic alignment is most suitable for your company, considering your core competencies as well as current market conditions.
Brand Strategy
Brand Audit: We analyze and evaluate your brand from an internal and external perspective and derive a range of recommendations for action for your future brand management.
- Brand personality: We define what your brand stands for and with which attributes it should be associated in the market.
- Brand positioning: We develop your USP and value proposition for a credible, attractive and differentiating positioning in the market.
- Brand architecture: We structure your brand and product portfolio and optimize the interaction of your corporate brand with individual or product brands.
- Brand innovation: We support you in systematizing your innovation process and sustainably increasing your innovative power.
- Brand principles: We define strategic guidelines for the implementation of your brand strategy and thus the standard for your marketing program.
Implementation
Living strategy: We empower you and your employees to live your corporate and brand strategy from the inside out and to integrate it into your everyday life in the form of concrete measures and rituals.
MODULS:
Executive and employee coaching | Brand ambassador programs | Strategy roll-out
Experiencing strategy: We make your strategy tangible and perceptible at all internal and external touchpoints, thus ensuring a consistent brand experience.
MODULS:
Customer Journey Management | Target Group Management | Go-to-Market Strategy | Product and Service Design | Employer Branding | Innovation management
Steering and measuring strategy: We ensure that strategy implementation is regularly measured against specific KPIs and continuously improved in its impact and quality.
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Steering committees | Performance monitoring
Why Grant Thornton?
We combine our clients’ strengths and competencies with current market developments and trends, and thereby open up new business and growth potential for them.
Due to our extensive expertise in the advisory sector and our international network, we offer our clients all-in-one advice from a single source.
Our consulting approach
INTERACTIVE
We develop strategies in close collaboration (coaching, retreats, workshops - analogue & digital) with our clients.
EMPIRICAL
We develop strategies that are data-driven and based on scientific methods and models that can be clearly measured in their implementation.
HOLISTIC
We develop strategies that are not only dedicated to a specific problem, but offer our customers holistic and longterm solutions.
We are your personal consultant in various strategic issues and are available to you as project and interface managers even beyond the strategy work.
Your additional value
We accompany you in the realization of your growth ambitions by developing a strategy and implementation concept tailored to your needs, which will help you to achieve measurable and sustainable success.
