On 17 and 18September 2026, the profession gathers at the Infinity Hotel & ConferenceResort in Munich/Unterschleissheim. smartZebra will be there.

The 6th IDWJahreskongress is the central industry forum for German public auditors:two days of keynotes, more than 35 group sessions covering audit, financialreporting, business administration, advisory, tax law and leadership, alongsidea trade exhibition and an evening event. This year's congress opens with akeynote by Sigmar Gabriel on deregulation and cutting red tape.

We are lookingforward to meeting colleagues who prepare, review or sign off businessvaluations.

Why we are attending

In almost everyvaluation report, cost of capital is the point that gets discussed longest.Risk-free rate, market risk premium, beta factor, country risk premium, creditspread: every single parameter has to be derived, justified and documented, andif challenged it has to hold up in front of reviewers, courts or a tax audit.

That is exactlywhy we built smartZebra. Our database delivers every WACC component from asingle source, precise to your valuation date, with fully traceable raw dataand calculation paths.

For us, the IDWJahreskongress is the place to hear where practice actually stands right now:on the new version of IDW S 1, on IDW S 17 and the relevance of stock marketprices, and on the question of how much AI belongs in a valuation report.

Key topics for us

If you areattending the congress, we would be glad to discuss subjects such as:

•    Cost of capital and WACC – all six parametersindividually adjustable, updated daily and standard-compliant

•    Beta factors – flexible valuation dates, returnintervals, reference indices, tax shield, debt beta and statistical qualityfilters

•    Market risk premium – the IDW recommended range,the KPMG cost of capital study and Damodaran data compared directly

•    Risk-free rate – Svensson and Nelson-Siegelyield curves for more than 50 countries

•    Credit spreads – terms from 1 to 30 years,sector-specific or across sectors

•    Peer group selection – AI-assisted pre-selectionfrom more than 50,000 listed companies

•    Documentation – audit-proof derivation includingraw data download and Excel export

Our aim issimple: you should spend less time assembling parameters and more time on thevaluation itself.

What makes the IDW Jahreskongress a fixture forus

For many firmsthe congress is the annual fixed point for exchanging experience and takingstock professionally. Topics such as the further development of the IDWstandards, the digitalisation of audit work and the responsible use of AI areincreasingly at the centre of it.

That matters tous as a data provider, because as the standards evolve so do the requirementsfor data quality, transparency and traceability. A valuation result is only asrobust as the derivation behind it.

Everything about the congress

Meet us in Munich

Are youattending the IDW Jahreskongress 2026? Get in touch beforehand or come and findus on site. Whether you are working on beta factors, looking for a secondopinion on your market risk premium, or simply want to know how other firmsdocument their cost of capital, we would enjoy the conversation.

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