VWT Annual Check-up 2026: A Review and How Smart AI Solutions Are Strengthening Accounting Firms Now
On March 5, 2026, the VWT Annual Check-up 2026 – Updates on Social Security and Tax Law took place at the InterContinental Vienna. The full-day event offered tax advisors a comprehensive update on the most important tax and social security law topics for the new year.
We were represented with our own information stand and experienced in numerous discussions,
how strongly the demand for digital, AI-powered solutions for automated accounting processes has grown.
In this article, we summarize the most important impressions – showing how digital document processing, automatic document capture, and smart client portals are already relieving the burden on tax firms today and making them fit for the future.
In exchanges with many visitors it became clear once again what accounting firms truly need today. Digitalization, automation, and AI are long since more than just future visions – they are increasingly becoming part of everyday firm operations. Our discussions at the information stand showed: We are moving in the right direction. Three trends have emerged particularly clearly.
What Accounting Firms Truly Need Today
1. Automated Accounting Processes – A Must for 2026
The time spent on traditional accounting remains one of the biggest burdens for many firms. At the same time, the shortage of skilled workers is increasing.
This is where automation comes in:
- automatic document recognition
- AI-powered data validation
- automated account assignment
- duplicate detection & plausibility checks
All of this enables accounting that largely runs in the background – while employees can concentrate on value-adding activities.
👉 Firms that already automate save up to 50% of time per client.
2. Digital Document Processing – End of Paper and Email Chaos
Many tax advisors and companies know the problem: Documents arrive on paper, email, WhatsApp, uploads, photos or other company tools, and bringing them together is time-consuming.
With our AI-powered document processing, this becomes a simple, digital workflow:
- Clients photograph documents or send them by email – even automatically.
- The OCR & AI recognition reliably extracts all content out.
- Documents are automatically assigned correctly by client and period correctly.
- Accountants only review – the rest runs digitally.
This creates a consistently digital process that reduces errors and saves time.
3. Client Portals – The New Standard for Smart Accounting Firms
More and more firms are asking themselves: How can I offer my clients a digital, modern service without using dozens of tools simultaneously?
A digital client portal achieves exactly that:
- Secure document exchange – documents share documents securely at any time.
- Full-text search for documents – quick access to all records
- Standardized work processes – from document upload to the posting
- Real-time insight into financial data – LIVE-accounting for clients
- Approval processes in the workflow – transparent document processing
- Seamless interfaces to tools such as z.B. SevDesk
👉 This makes collaboration significantly more efficient – and clients experience the firm as a modern, digital service provider.
What We Took Away from the VWT Annual Check-up 2026
1. The Pressure for Digitalization Continues to Rise
Almost all visitors confirmed: Without digital processes and automation, it will be impossible to remain economically successful.
2. Accounting Firms Want Simple, Integrated Solutions
Siloed solutions hinder progress. What is needed are systems that bundle document capture, accounting, client communication, and AI functions. Systems that can create interfaces to interfaces to tools like SevDesk.
3. AI Has Arrived in Tax Advisory Services
Not as a future vision – but as effective, practical support in daily firm operations.
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