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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
We are your competent partner in the field of Private Wealth Tax Services
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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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Accounting & Tax Compliance Services
Grant Thornton Austria - Your Partner for Experts for Accounting & Tax Compliance Services. In an evolving regulatory landscape, efficient accounting, tax compliance, and financial statement preparation processes are crucial for maintaining an accurate and up-to-date view of your company’s financial position while ensuring compliance with all legal requirements. We provide tailored solutions that not only save your time and resources but also ensure compliance with complex regulations. Our experts are here to support you, allowing you to focus on your core business.
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Payroll & People Advisory Services
Ensuring Compliance, Efficiency, and Strategic HR Solutions In an evolving legal landscape, it is crucial for companies of all sizes to have efficient and legally compliant payroll accounting systems. The ever-changing regulations and increasing complexity make this an ongoing challenge. At Grant Thornton Austria, we provide comprehensive, precise payroll processing as part of our Payroll & People Advisory Services. Additionally, we offer customized advisory services to help clients optimise their HR strategy, improve operational efficiency, and minimize potential risks.
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Tax Controversy Services
Your Partner when it matters most! In increasingly complex environment and considering frequent changes in tax regulations, businesses are facing intensified scrutiny from tax authorities. This has resulted in a significant rise of complex tax audits, investigations and potential disputes. Our Tax Controversy Services are tailored to help you navigate these challenges proactively and effectively. Our experts will guide you through all stages of tax proceedings, ensuring robust defence of your position and advising you on preventive measures to minimize the risk of future tax disputes.
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Tax Technology Services
Your digital partner for an efficient future! In an increasingly digitalised business world, companies must constantly look for optimisations and adjustments to ensure their long-term success. In order to best prepare for the future and to achieve efficiency increases and process optimisations in the digital area, the experts at Grant Thornton Austria are at your side as a reliable partner as part of our Tax Technology Services.
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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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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
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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Cyber Security
Cyber incidents, IT system failures, the resulting business interruptions and the loss of critical data are one of the greatest business risks for companies. Recent cases underline the need for strategic protection and awareness of the issue and require a holistic approach and technical expertise that takes into account all legislative, regulatory and technical aspects of cyber security to protect companies against the daily increase in cybercrime incidents.
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Sustainability Services
Sustainability is no longer a trend, but the only way to create a future worth living. Our experts will support you in successfully developing your sustainability strategy and preparing your sustainability reporting in compliance with regulations.
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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 Project Coordination
Our International Engagement Management team is your central point of contact for international projects in all our service lines. We take care of operational project management for you and act as a central point of contact and coordination for your projects. We support companies that start international projects from Austria as well as companies from abroad that want to gain a foothold in Austria or use Austria as a hub for their international projects, especially in the DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) and CEE region.
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International Desks
As a member of the Grant Thornton network, we guarantee direct access to resources from our worldwide circle of partners. This global connection enables us to seamlessly integrate highly qualified specialists and industry experts from different countries around the world into our teams. Through our broad perspective and diverse expertise, we ensure that we can optimally meet the individual requirements of our clients in an increasingly globalised economy.
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.
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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.
