Audit-Consulting Company BDO Boosts its Partner Team in Belgrade

BDO Beograd has recently been expanded by two new audit partners, Zdravko Gardovic and Miroslav Toncic.

In October 2006, directly from the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade, Zdravko Gardovic started his internship within the audit service line of BDO. He now has 15 continuous years of experience in the company and has gone from being an intern, to becoming an assistant and eventually a partner, and prior to his promotion, he successfully led BDO in Montenegro for a number of years and still remains in charge of that area, with a clear goal of upgrading it even further.

– I consider this a great honor for myself, but also an important message to all young colleagues, most of whom, like me, got their first opportunity for professional development in our company, that this company enables them to advance to the highest professional levels! I believe that, in addition to my persistence and continuous efforts, it is certainly my professional competence that recommended me for this promotion. I believe that I also possess the characteristics of a leader, that I am capable of solving concrete tasks and leading people toward a set goal. I believe that the colleagues who were my superiors have recognized this, but also the members of the team I led. I believe that I have plenty of new ideas and not just those strictly related to the job, but also the environment we live and work in. I am constantly thinking about the potential improvement of the whole atmosphere, in order to make people feel like they belong to the company, that the company is theirs in the full sense of the word, to have them talk about the company as a brand and to be the best ambassadors of the BDO brand. It is my desire for the company to constantly improve, to be a good organization for everybody, for its owners and managers and all people, and for them to love to work, to see a perspective here and to feel secure – Zdravko comments on his promotion.

Another new member in the audit partner team is Miroslav Toncic, who arrived to BDO after 29 years spent at Deloitte Beograd, where he advanced from an intern, through an assistant, to a partner in the regional company Deloitte Central Europe from 2001.

Miroslav believes that the auditing profession will go through great changes in the upcoming years.

– In some countries, an initiative to split audit-consulting companies so that auditing is separated from other services, has already been launched. Also, an initiative for implementing so-called joint audits (to have two auditing companies do an audit of the same client, a practice which is already mandatory in some big European countries) has been launched, and the implementation of the obligation of having one of the participants in the audit be a company from the so-called 2nt tier group, where BDO is the leader, is also being considered.

As for the operations during the coronavirus pandemic, he says:

– Through practice, I’ve learned an important lesson – each crisis has an end, and the crisis period is followed by an ascent and an economic boom. We need to be prepared for that period and ready for activities as soon as the crisis passes. At BDO, we plan things in the long term, we identify processes in the economy and in our field and we actively work on preparing for what is yet to come. That is a great comparative advantage over our competition. We shouldn’t forget that BDO has been operating in this market for three decades and that most partners have gone through earlier crisis periods, surviving each one with intact reputation – Miroslav Toncic concludes.

– The promotion of Zdravko Gardovic and the arrival of Miroslav Toncic are considerable boosts for our auditing team in Belgrade, which will secure a stable development and growth in the Serbian market, while providing clients with services of auditing and business support of the highest quality. Also, we are glad that, in the past years, BDO has become a desirable employer for the leading employees in the biggest companies from the field of financial services in the region – the leading partner for BDO Beograd, Podgorica and Banjaluka, Milovan Popovic, stated on the occasion of these appointments.

More about the company

With over 200 employees in the region and a large number of the most reputable local and foreign clients and with offices in Belgrade, Banjaluka, Podgorica and Skopje, BDO is one of the leaders in the market of financial services.

BDO Srbija was founded in 1992 as a business consulting company under the name of BC Excel. In 1997, it joined a member of the then-biggest world audit company, Arthur Andersen, and since 2004 it has been a member of BDO, one of the biggest world companies in the same field – BDO International Limited.

BDO International is active in 167 countries with over 1,800 offices. It employs more than 91,000 professionals, and in 2020, it had an operating income of USD 10.3 billion.

One of the main principles of the BDO network, which sets it apart from similar companies and networks in the markets is its accessibility to clients and insistence on understanding their special characteristics.

BDO Business Advisory Beograd

BDO doo Banja Luka

Bdo doo Podgorica

Deloitte Advisory d.o.o. Beograd

BDO International Limited

Zdravko Gardović

Miroslav Tončić

Milovan Popović

BC Excel

Arthur Andersen

business consulting

partner team

auditing