Research guide An independent accounting comparison and research guide. We publish informational comparison content about accounting providers; we do not provide accounting, tax, payroll or financial advisory services.
How the comparison works, how providers are selected, where information comes from, how often it is checked, whether pricing can change, and how to visit a provider's official website.
Answers about how this guide is built, what it does and what it does not do. All answers are informational; none of them is accounting, tax, legal or financial advice.
The short version. This site is an independent informational comparison and research guide. It is not an accounting firm, it does not provide accounting services, it collects no financial or personal information and it has no accounts, login or payment functionality. Providers are compared on published facts, and the decision is yours.
Every provider is stored as a structured record with the same fields: country, coverage, services, business sizes served, languages, software, remote support, office model and pricing model, together with the official website, the source used and the date it was last checked. Filters and the comparison table read those fields directly. When you apply filters, the site shows the providers whose recorded attributes match the criteria you selected. It does not rank them, score them or choose on your behalf.
Providers are included when they are real organisations that publicly describe accounting, bookkeeping, payroll, tax-compliance, cloud-accounting or related services for businesses in a European market, and when they publish enough information for a factual profile to be written. Inclusion is not an endorsement, is not paid for, and is not a quality judgement. The dataset does not claim to include every provider in any market; it covers the organisations recorded in the directory, and the methodology page explains how to check a provider that is not listed.
Almost entirely from the provider's own website: service pages, business-size pages, locations, software and tools pages, pricing pages where they exist, and legal or imprint pages. Where a provider publishes nothing about an attribute, the profile records 'Not publicly confirmed' rather than an assumption. Every profile shows the source and the date it was last checked, and each profile links to the provider's own website so that you can verify anything that matters to you.
Every record carries the date on which it was last checked, shown on the profile and in the comparison table. Because provider websites change without notice, a check date is a statement about when the information was read, not a guarantee that it is still current. Where you spot a change, the corrections page explains how to tell us, and corrections are made against a fresh reading of the provider's own site.
Yes. Accounting fees depend on transaction volumes, headcount, the number of entities, the software used and the scope agreed in the engagement letter, and most providers do not publish prices at all. Where a provider does publish a starting price, the profile records the figure, the source and the date, and states that current pricing must be confirmed directly with the provider. No price on this site should be treated as a quotation.
Start with the obligations your business actually has in the country where it is registered, including which tasks are reserved to a holder of a statutory professional title. Then choose the attributes that matter to you, filter the directory on those attributes to build a shortlist, and compare the profiles side by side. The how-to-choose page and the guides go through the criteria in detail, and the question sets can be used directly in a conversation with a provider.
That depends on where your business has substance. A local provider usually knows the register, the filing platform and the local practice of the authorities, and works in the local language. A provider with coverage in several countries gives you one coordination point and consistent reporting, which matters when a group has to consolidate entities on one timetable. Many businesses combine both: a local firm for domestic compliance and a coordinated provider for group reporting. The guide on local versus international providers sets out the trade-offs.
Ask what is inside the recurring fee and what is billed separately; who will do the work and who reviews it; the closing date each month and the payroll cut-off; the internal deadline ahead of each statutory filing date; where your data is held and who can access it; what happens when a question is uncertain; and how the fee responds if the business grows. The questions page and the guide 'Questions to Ask an Accounting Firm' provide a fuller set that can be worked through item by item.
No. This website is an independent informational comparison and research guide. It is not an accounting firm, it does not provide accounting, bookkeeping, payroll, tax or financial advisory services, it does not act as an accountant for any visitor, and it does not give individualised tax, legal or financial advice. It also does not collect financial or personal information and has no accounts, login or payment functionality.
Every provider profile links directly to the provider's own website using its official address, and links are labelled 'Visit official provider website'. Nothing opens automatically: an external site is only opened when you click the link yourself. Any arrangement you make, and any terms you accept, are between you and the provider, and the provider's own website and engagement terms govern that relationship.