Mag. Markus Leonhard Certified auditor and tax advisor

Areas of Specialisation

• Carrying out of statutory and voluntary year-end audits as well as specialist audits (audit and assurance)
• Consultancy in national and international tax law
• Property consultancy
• Advice on questions relating to financial statements, accounting and cost accounting
• Support producing prognoses of companies’ ability to continue as a going-concern
• Consultancy on direct and indirect public funding opportunities, with particular reference to fiscal Research and Development Allowance
• Judicial and private expert reports

Experience

• Managing director and partner, Leitgeb, Leonhard & Partner Wirtschaftsprüfung und Steuerberatung GmbH (since 2013)
• Lecturer in property trusteeship at WIFI institute, Vienna
• Author of professional literature

CAREER

• 2011–2013: Managing director of a Vienna-based tax consultancy
• 2008–2011: Company officer and Senior Manager of an Austrian auditing and tax consultancy firm with activities throughout central and south-eastern Europe
• 2006–2008: Tax advisor at a Vienna-based auditing and tax consultancy
• 2000–2006: Trainee at a Vienna-based auditing and tax consultancy

Qualifications

• Registered and judicially certified expert since 2013 (listed on the court register)
• Financial auditor since 2008
• Tax advisor since 2006
• Degree studies in financial consultancy professions at the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt, 1995–1999