Explore vetted global accounting firms for accurate bookkeeping, payroll processing, and tax filing. We've also handpicked leading US-based accounting companies for efficient end-to-end revenue cycle management that complies with local and global regulations. 

We Compiled The Best Accounting Companies For You

1,341 Companies - Rankings updated: August 20, 2026

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  • Your Trust, Our Commitment Accounting Excellence, Always.

    Your Trust, Our Commitment Accounting Excellence, Always.

    At Fruci & Associates, we strive to create powerful business and financial services to assist our clients in identifying and achieving their professional goals. Our distinct performance standards aim to make us the “only ones who do what we do the way we do it...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Spokane, Washington
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Professionalism. Responsiveness. Quality.

    Professionalism. Responsiveness. Quality.

    Tax and finance advisory for the individual, small businesses, and non-profits...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Spokane, Washington
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Trusted Expertise in Audit, Tax, and Financial Services.

    Trusted Expertise in Audit, Tax, and Financial Services.

    Our firm provides outstanding service to our clients because of our dedication to the three underlying principles of professionalism, responsiveness and quality...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Spokane, Washington
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Professionalism. Responsiveness. Quality.

    Professionalism. Responsiveness. Quality.

    Atwood & Associates CPAs is a public accounting firm that provides business, personal and estate tax planning, as well as tax preparation, payroll and bookkeeping services...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Spokane, Washington
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Tax & Financial Experts

    Tax & Financial Experts

    Roediger Hoff values relationships and understands the sensitive nature of personal and business finances. Together with experienced and well-trained staff, we offer a personal touch in providing tax planning and preparation; business management and advisory services, periodic bookkeeping, and financial...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    • Business Consulting
    Location
    Tucson, Arizona
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Accounting Experts

    Accounting Experts

    Our Philosophy To provide professional service with an added measure of personal attention. The growth of our clients accounts for much of the growth of our firm and we place great emphasis on client relationships with individual professionals and with our firm. We adhere to the highest standards of our...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    • Business Consulting
    Location
    Tucson, Arizona
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Payroll and Human Resources made Simple and Personal.

    Payroll and Human Resources made Simple and Personal.

    United Payroll and HR Services, Inc is your one-stop solution for all your Payroll and Human Resource service needs!...

    Top Services:

    • HR Outsourcing
    • Accounting
    Location
    San Diego, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • There Is a Better Way

    There Is a Better Way

    Total Package HR is a U.S.-based human-resources and payroll services firm headquartered in San Diego, California. The agency provides full-scale HR outsourcing solutions, payroll processing, compliance support, staffing & recruiting services, and on-demand HR assistance for small and mid-sized businesses...

    Top Services:

    • HR Outsourcing
    • Accounting
    Location
    San Diego, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Stratus.hr HR Made Simple, Business Made Better.

    Stratus.hr HR Made Simple, Business Made Better.

    Stratus.hr® offers an alternative to a full-time HR department at a lower cost. Founded in December of 1999, Stratus.hr quickly emerged as the premiere PEO for human resources outsourcing in the Intermountain West...

    Top Services:

    • HR Outsourcing
    • Accounting
    Location
    Sandy, Utah
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • THE HOUSTON CPA FIRM YOU NEED

    THE HOUSTON CPA FIRM YOU NEED

    Hooker CPA Firm, PLLC is a Houston CPA firm founded on integrity, dedication, and the tireless pursuit of customer satisfaction. Our purpose is to serve the accounting, bookkeeping and tax needs of small businesses and individuals. We are confident we can provide an array of services that would exceed your...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $200/hr
    Minimal Budget
    Under $1,000
  • Empowering Workplaces, Elevating Success

    Empowering Workplaces, Elevating Success

    Solutions At Work empowers your business with smarter, more comprehensive HR solutions: HR compliance and consulting, recruitment, HRIS, and more...

    Top Services:

    • HR Outsourcing
    • Accounting
    Location
    Reno, Nevada
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • HR Simplified

    HR Simplified

    At HR Wise, our goal is to provide medium to small business payroll services and HR services to help you focus on growing your company instead of time-consuming paperwork. Our services are tailored to meet the needs of small and medium sized businesses...

    Top Services:

    • HR Outsourcing
    • Accounting
    Location
    Scottsdale, Arizona
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Empowering Businesses, Connecting Talent

    Empowering Businesses, Connecting Talent

    The Applied Companies (TAC) focuses on all things employment. We are your employment and HR experts through staffing, HR and benefits, and executive search...

    Top Services:

    • HR Outsourcing
    • Accounting
    Location
    Reno, Nevada
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Let Us Guide You to Your Business Success.

    Let Us Guide You to Your Business Success.

    Tobi Li Marshall CPA, APC is a certified public accounting firm based in West Covina, California, specializing in tax preparation, planning, payroll, bookkeeping, and business consulting services exclusively for small businesses. With a client-first approach, the firm offers tailored financial strategies to...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Los Angeles, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $300/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $1,000 - $10,000
  • Honesty, Intergrity, Accountability

    Honesty, Intergrity, Accountability

    Financial Planning & Analysis in Cash Management for Small Businesses "Your ready to go Fractional CFO/Advisory Service"...

    Top Services:

    • Business Consulting
    • Accounting
    Location
    Houston, Texas
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $150/hr
  • Tailored bookkeeping and financial solutions to support your companys goals

    Tailored bookkeeping and financial solutions to support your companys goals

    Our mission? To ensure that every client has clear and legible books and records, financial foresight, and the ability to make sound business decisions based on our work product and guidance...

    Top Services:

    • Business Consulting
    • BPO
    • Accounting
    Location
    Prosper, Texas
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $60/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $1,000 - $10,000
    Portfolios Count
    1 Project Listed
  • Wilkins Miller LLC is the largest accounting and consulting firm in the Mobile Bay Region.

    Wilkins Miller LLC is the largest accounting and consulting firm in the Mobile Bay Region.

    Wilkins Miller LLC is the largest accounting and consulting firm in the Mobile Bay Region. For over 50 years, our professionals have been providing audit, accounting, tax and consulting services to clients in the Gulf Coast area. We serve clients by satisfying their needs, solving their problems and being...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    • Business Consulting
    • IT Services
    Location
    Mobile, Alabama
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • We specialise in making tax simple. With over 40 years as Australias leading taxation experts, were fascinated by numbers and great results...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Thornleigh, Australia
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • IDEAS | PEOPLE | TRUST

    IDEAS | PEOPLE | TRUST

    BDO is a trusted adviser to clients seeking project management, audit, tax, and business consulting services. As one of the worlds leading audit and accounting organisations, we have clients of all types and sizes from large corporate organisations to private businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals across...

    Top Services:

    • Business Consulting
    • Accounting
    • BPO
    • HR Outsourcing
    • Market Research
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    Location
    Adelaide, Australia
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Bookkeeping & Business Services...

    Top Services:

    • Business Consulting
    • Accounting
    • BPO
    Location
    Brisbane, Australia
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • We are Osome - an international fintech startup making the lives of entrepreneurs easier. Osome is the silent hero in the background helping over 6,000 businesses spend less time on routine admin and more time on changing the world for the better...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    London, United Kingdom
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • We take care of bookkeeping for small business owners. And we do it in a way thats never been done beforeby pairing intuitive software with real, human bookkeepers. To us, its more than number crunching. It's giving entrepreneurs more time to focus on what they care about...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Vancouver, Canada
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • LiveCA is here and ready to help you through this by providing:

    LiveCA is here and ready to help you through this by providing:

    We're all adapting to the new realities of the pandemic. LiveCA is here and ready to help you through this by providing:...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Toronto, Canada
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Progressive, professional bureau, offering a full range of Bookkeeping and Payroll services to UK businesses. Our flexible approach encourages you to pick n mix the services you need...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Poole, United Kingdom
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Knowing what its like to move from surviving to thriving in business, Virtual Bookkeeping was founded in 1999 by Monica Ross to help people and small businesses grow and prosper through better bookkeeping, budgeting and accounting practices...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Moncton, Canada
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Phalanx Accounting Services has extensive experience in attending to all aspects of tax compliance and bookkeeping...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    • Business Consulting
    Location
    Melbourne, Australia
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Virtual bookkeeping, HST, payroll, payables & year end by an all-Canadian team of experts...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Burlington, Canada
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Zenbooks is your connected business advisor and guide to increased productivity and automation for your office...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Ottawa, Canada
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • weConnect helps companies expand globally by with its global employer of record and entity compliance services so they can focus on their core business...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Tokyo, Japan
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • An integrated HR solutions company.

    An integrated HR solutions company.

    We take pride in being in the unique position of operating with MNC-level precision while possessing the lean agility of an SME, responding quickly to all HR needs...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    • HR Outsourcing
    Location
    Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • We are a London based accounting firm specialising in accounting and finance solutions for entrepreneurs and tech startups. With over 8 years experience in helping entrepreneurs and startups in the tech industry grow and an impressive client list, ihorizon are establishing themselves as a key thought leader...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    London, United Kingdom
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Weve been the pioneers of hassle-free accountancy for over 14 years. Businesses all across the UK have benefited from our industry-leading practices...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Bridgend, United Kingdom
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $40/hr
  • Business Valuation I Forensic Accounting...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    • Business Consulting
    Location
    Brisbane, Australia
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Partnering with Businesses and Individuals to help them achieve their Compliance requirements and meet their Operational...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Ware, United Kingdom
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $20/hr
  • A team of Young qualified Accountants in London, serving clients nationwide. Proudly helping startups, Tech startups, Fintech Startups, Rugby football clubs, Contractors etc...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Morden, United Kingdom
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Delbridge Forensic provides forensic accounting services to a national client base, in all court jurisdictions, providing practical solutions in Family Law, commercial and other matters...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Newcastle, Australia
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • D.A. Clark & Co Ltd has more than 30 years of experience advising small and medium-sized businesses in Horsham and the surrounding area...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Horsham, United Kingdom
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • You Run The Business We'll Run The Numbers

    You Run The Business We'll Run The Numbers

    At SRJ we are committed to providing our clients with world class service. Known for our professional development and tax accounting services we provide services to numerous industries and associations across the GTA...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Toronto, Canada
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Element CPA provides professional accounting and bookkeeping services to startups in Kitchener-Waterloo and GTA areas...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Kitchener, Canada
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Forensic Accounting Group are small business finance leaders and our vision is to see Australias small and family business sector flourish...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Torquay, Australia
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • We provide a full range of financial services to startups & later-stage tech companies in Canada, from investor-ready #cloudaccounting to strategic CFO services...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Toronto, Canada
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Since 1987, Hutcheson & Co. has been a trusted resource for corporate and individual accounting and tax services...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Victoria, Canada
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Zero One Consultants is a long established, independent firm of Financial Accountants based in Cheetham Hill, Manchester providing accountancy and business consultancy services...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Manchester, United Kingdom
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Avant & Co provides unparalleled personalized accounting and consultancy services to a broad range of clients across the London area...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    London, United Kingdom
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Forensic Accountants & Insolvency Practitioners - experts in quantifying consequential losses...

    Top Services:

    • Accounting
    Location
    Manchester, United Kingdom
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
  • Strategic Solutions. Exceptional Results.

    Strategic Solutions. Exceptional Results.

    R. D. Hatchett Company LLC is an Event Management & Strategic Staffing company that focuses on organizational management and the entire life cycle of client events. We offer full-service meeting marketing and logistics, and create custom event strategies based upon individual program needs, as well as, best...

    Top Services:

    • Public Relations
    • Accounting
    Location
    Bowie, Maryland
    Number of Employees
    Under 49

Accounting Firm FAQs

What is an accounting agency?

An accounting agency is a professional service firm that helps businesses manage their financial records. This includes tracking income and expenses, preparing financial reports, handling taxes, and ensuring compliance with financial regulations. 

In short, an accounting agency makes sure a company’s finances are accurate, organized, and aligned with legal standards. 

How can an accounting agency help businesses streamline finances?

An accounting agency helps businesses streamline their finances by organizing and managing all financial activities in one place. This includes budgeting, bookkeeping, payroll, and tax preparation. 

By taking over these tasks, the agency reduces errors, saves time, and improves cash flow. It also gives business owners a clear view of where their money is going, helping them make smarter financial decisions. 

Which types of companies benefit most from outsourced accounting services?

Small to mid-sized businesses benefit most from outsourced accounting services. These companies often don’t have the time or budget to hire a full in-house accounting team. 

Startups, eCommerce brands, service providers, and growing businesses use outsourced accounting to save money, stay compliant, and focus on core operations. It’s especially helpful for companies that need expert financial support but want to avoid the overhead costs of hiring full-time staff. 

What are the top-rated accounting agencies on DesignRush in 2025?

The top-rated accounting agencies on DesignRush in 2025 are: 

  1. Marcum
  2. TGG Accounting
  3. Smith Schafer
  4. Kaufman Rossin
  5. Milestone 
  6. Wipfli 
  7. KMK Ventures 
  8. Invensis 
  9. Crowe 
  10. Baker Tilly 

What core and specialized accounting services do these agencies offer?

Accounting agencies offer core services like bookkeeping, payroll, financial reporting, tax preparation, and budgeting. These cover the basics every business needs to stay organized and compliant. 

They also provide specialized services such as forensic accounting, audit support, financial forecasting, and CFO consulting. These are useful for companies with complex financial needs, growth plans, or legal concerns. 

How much do professional accounting services cost in 2025?

Accounting costs vary depending on how small or big your needs are, who you hire, and where you're located. In 2025, accountants in the US typically charge between $150 and $400 per hour. Junior accountants or bookkeepers are more affordable, often ranging from $40 to $100 per hour. 

Basic monthly bookkeeping services can cost around $300 to $2,500 per month, depending on how many transactions you have and how detailed the work is. 

How quickly can businesses expect financial clarity and improvements?

Most businesses see financial clarity within the first 30 to 90 days of working with an accounting agency. This depends on how organized your current records are and the scope of services you need. 

For example, cleaning up books or setting up new systems can take a few weeks. But once that’s done, agencies usually deliver clearer reports, better cash flow insights, and fewer compliance risks fairly quickly. You’ll start noticing improvements as soon as the agency finishes its initial review and puts systems in place.  

What criteria should businesses use when choosing an accounting agency?

When choosing an accounting agency, look for: 

  • Experience with your industry 
  • Clear pricing and services 
  • Certified staff, like CPAs 
  • Good communication and quick responses 
  • Modern tools for reports and tracking 

Always check reviews or ask for referrals. A good agency should explain things clearly and help your business grow. 

What red flags indicate an unreliable accounting partner?

Watch out for these signs: 

  • Vague pricing or hidden fees 
  • Slow replies or poor communication 
  • No certifications like CPA or licensed staff 
  • Outdated software or manual-only processes 
  • Missed deadlines or frequent errors 

If an agency can’t explain things clearly or makes you feel unsure, it’s a sign to look elsewhere. 

What essential questions should you ask before signing with an accounting agency?

Before signing with an accounting agency, you should ask some of the following essential questions: 

  1. What services do you include in your fee? 
  2. Do you have experience in my industry? 
  3. Who will handle my account? Are they certified? 
  4. What tools or software do you use? 
  5. How often will I get reports or updates? 
  6. How do you handle deadlines and tax filings? 

Clear answers mean they know what they’re doing and that you’ll be in good hands. 

How does working with an accounting agency differ from using accounting software or in-house staff?

An accounting agency gives you expert support without hiring full-time staff. Unlike software, it doesn't just track numbers; it explains them and helps you plan. 

Compared to in-house teams, agencies are often more affordable and more experienced, especially for small businesses. You also get access to the latest tools and tax updates without managing it all yourself. 

What tools, reporting systems, and compliance platforms do top accounting agencies rely on today?

Top accounting agencies use tools like QuickBooks and Xero for bookkeeping, NetSuite for full financial management, and Gusto or ADP for payroll. 

They also use TaxJar or Avalara for sales tax compliance and Fathom or LivePlan for reporting and forecasting. These tools help automate tasks, reduce errors, and keep businesses compliant with tax and financial laws. 

How legitimate is the FAQs?

We prioritize providing practical and accurate information for both businesses and agencies. To do so, we partnered with Paul Scott, chief website strategist at the award-winning company GoingClear. He shared insights on how organizations can select the right firm for their business needs. 

With over 20 years of experience in marketing, branding, web technologies, and advertising, Paul Scott has helped many nascent and established businesses propel growth, earning the firm 40+ industry awards. Boasting certifications from Cornell, MIT, and Clark, along with a finance degree from Bentley University, he uses his strong business acumen to advance modern, digital-first brands.    

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