Since 2004, the Austrian Institute for SME Research has been carrying out regular structural and business cycle analyses as well as studies on the business situation and development of the knowledge-based service companies in the information, communication and consulting sector. A central research topic is the macroeconomic significance of support services for other economic sectors (e.g. in the field of digitalisation).
After Corona-related declines in turnover in 2020, the information and consulting sector developed positively again in 2021. Only in the printing, advertising and book/media industries was it not yet possible to reach the starting level of 2019.
This analysis of the financing structure and income situation is based on about 8,000 balance sheets an 3,500 income statements of companies from the information and consulting sector.
Since 2009, the "UBIT" survey describes the situation and development in the field of management consulting, accounting and information technology.