BDO International Business Compass

Banks are faced with ever faster change and growing regulatory, legal and accounting legislation requirements.

The entire energy sector is subject to profound change. At our Industry Expertise Centre for the Energy Sector, experts from our three divisions – auditing, tax and consulting services – are available to help you with bespoke auditing and consulting services for the tasks that you face.

Constant changes in health and social services and the constantly increasing pressure to achieve profitability are making change a growing challenge for management. In our top-selling healthcare industry centre, we can offer you the support of a variety of experts, such as accountants, tax consultants and lawyers, to help you with tailor-made audit and advisory services for your upcoming...

The boundaries between traditional and online trading are continuing to dissolve. Like in almost no other industry, process innovation drives opportunities in the industry: multichannel platforms, Web controlling, e-targeting and e-commerce solutions are being integrated into the existing business models.

Efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and citizen-friendliness are the main objectives of public authorities and their enterprises. To sustainably achieve this target, continuous observation of the current issues at all levels of decision-making is required.

Thanks to the relatively favourable and stable economic situation in Germany, the German real estate market is attracting massive investment from home and abroad. Our Industry Expertise Centre for Real Estate Services offers you tailor-made solutions for mastering the current situation in the real estate markets.

The importance of non-profit organisations increases year by year. The non-profit sector – also known as the third sector, or civil society – employs around three million people and contributes between 4 and 5% of GDP.

Technology is the elementary innovation driver of the coming years. There are few sectors of the economy that are not affected. Cashless payment, self-driving cars, inter-networked goods and the Internet of Things are the immediate future.

Delivering goods to their destinations faster, more reliably and at a lower cost than competitors: This is what characterises transport quality and outstanding logistics. And international competition is decided by these factors.

Germany’s insurance industry constantly faces significant challenges. Private insurers are facing increasingly complex legal requirements and, in particular, regulatory requirements. On the other hand, the competitive situation gives rise to a permanent need to adapt the product portfolio and numerous internal processes.