BDO AG

BDO AG
legal form	Corporation
founding	1932
Seat	Zurich , Switzerland
management	Werner Schiesser ; ( CEO ) ; Heinz Vogel ; ( Chairman of the Board of Directors )
Number of employees	1298 (2018)
sales	211.5 million CHF (2018)
Branch	Auditing , fiduciary , tax , business consulting
Website	bdo.ch

BDO AG (until 2009 BDO Visura ), based in Zurich, is a Swiss auditing , trust and consulting company . It has 34 branches in Switzerland and generated sales of 211.5 million Swiss francs in 2018 with 1298 employees.

The company is majority owned by 95 partners who work as specialists at BDO AG. They hold 80.5 percent of the shares. Another 19.5 percent are held by their own pension foundation.

Field of activity

The field of activity of BDO AG includes the areas of auditing, fiduciary services, management consulting as well as tax and legal advice . She specializes in particular in small and medium-sized companies as well as in public administrations and non-profit organizations . As an auditing company recognized by the Swiss Federal Banking Commission , it also performs advisory and auditing activities for banks , securities dealers , collective investment schemes and casinos .

history

The company was founded in 1932 as Visura Treuhand-Gesellschaft in Zurich and joined BDO International in 1992 . At the end of 2000 the company was renamed BDO Visura and at the end of 2009 it was renamed BDO AG.