GT-KMU GmbH is part of the Grant Thornton Organisation in Austria. It is a practice of Public Accountants and Statutory Auditors authorised under Austrian law by the Chamber of Certified Public Accountants in Austria. The team of Grant Thornton in Vienna comprises six partners and about 35 staff. All the professional personnel are university graduates with a high level of education and professional training.

Grant Thornton in Austria sets a particular focus on international service in the specific environment of our clients. We precisely adjust our services to our clients' needs and offer the following kind of services:

• Accounting
• Tax Consulting
• Auditing
• Corporate Finance.

Our accounting team provides e.g. bookkeeping, monthly reporting, legal reporting, reporting based on US-GAAP and IAS/IFRS, salary accounting, salary reporting, compensation consulting, legal advice for employment contracts.

Our tax specialists offer services such as preparation of the tax returns and the analysis of the decrees and all other official communications, planning and organization of official tax audits, elaborate appeals, filing at the Supreme Court, advice to our Austrian clients as to international base decisions, the establishment of foreign branch offices using the Grant Thornton organisation, fiscal representation of foreign businesses in Austria. We provide cross border consulting in double taxation treaties with foreign Grant Thornton offices.

We offer our clients our wide range of services in consideration of the particular demands of each industry. Of course we adapt our service structure according to the business sizes of our clients as we attend to all business sizes from start up-enterprises to large listed companies.

Out of our many years experience we have expertise and competence in the following industries:

• Manufacturing companies in the farming and food industry up to nationwide organisations
• Retail, wholesale and mail-order sale of essential consumer goods
• Recently established businesses of international – mainly trading – groups in Austria
• Mechanical engineering enterprises
• Middle- and large-sized construction businesses
• Passengers and goods transport businesses, shipping agencies
• Undertakings in the high technology sector with large research expenditures
• Telecommunication businesses
• Software- and consulting companies of the IT industry

Our partners have specialized in single industries and always group together the perfect team according to the individual needs of each client. Because of our in-house matrix organisation we can guarantee both knowledge of the respective industry and the corresponding expertise for our clients.

All our clients located all over Austria are serviced from our office in Vienna. Most of our clients have established subsidiaries in the Eastern European Countries and we helped them on their way there by relying on the Grant Thornton network and on our own experience we made in the past 20 years. With such knowledge we may help our clients who choose Vienna as their headquarters for Austria and Central European Countries.

For more than 75 years Grant Thornton has been consultant for thousands of entrepreneurs. The focus lies on middle-sized businesses run by their owners that are active in the national and international markets. The Grant Thornton organisation has been helping their clients since 1980 in the current form. The worldwide network consists now out of more than 585 offices. More than 21.500 employees and about 2.270 partners in 110 countries offer their services in auditing, accounting, tax and business consulting.

Please contact for any further information you need:

Sascha Berkovec,
Tel.: +43 1 914 42 56 35
Fax: +43 1 914 51 35 13
or Mail: sascha.berkovec@grantthornton.at.
Our office address is: A 1140 Vienna, Henckellgasse 19.