Trusted by SMEs across the globe

Online accountants for small business,
built for ambitious owners.

Accountaire is a remote firm of online accountants for small business owners in the United Kingdom, United States, United Arab Emirates, Canada and Australia. We keep the books, run the payroll, file the tax returns and close each month by the fifth business day, on a fixed monthly fee.

A written, fixed-fee proposal within 24 hours of the call. No deck. No pressure.

This month at Accountaire
5d
Average month-end close
100%
ACCA on senior team
4 hr
Query response
5
Markets served
SOC 2
Stack & DPAs
Cloud
Xero · QBO · FreeAgent
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Our approach

What online accountants for small business should deliver.

Those five markets are served by one team working to one process. The monthly cycle splits into cloud bookkeeping, payroll, VAT, GST and tax compliance and monthly management accounts, and the rest is set out in our accounting services directory. Guides to the filings behind each one are collected on the Accountaire blog.

The filing regimes behind that work are HMRC and Making Tax Digital in the UK, the IRS and state sales tax in the US, the Federal Tax Authority in the UAE, the Canada Revenue Agency and the Australian Taxation Office. Accounts are prepared under UK GAAP, US GAAP or IFRS, depending on what your entity reports on. Company filings in the UK go to Companies House.

We don't think small businesses should settle for slow, opaque accounting. So we built a firm that runs on modern infrastructure, employs only qualified professionals, and reports on a cadence operators can actually use.

01 / EXPERTISE

An ACCA-qualified team, every engagement.

You work with chartered professionals, not template-driven juniors. Each engagement is led by a senior accountant whose name and credentials are on file.

02 / CADENCE

Books closed by the 5th.

A five-business-day month-end SLA, written into every engagement letter. Your monthly pack arrives when operators actually need it, not three weeks late.

03 / RESPONSIVENESS

A 4-hour reply SLA, during your day.

Slack, email, Loom, Zoom: whichever fits your workflow. Working hours that overlap yours.

04 / AUTOMATION

AI does the rote work.

OCR, categorisation, anomaly detection. Your accountants spend their time on judgment and advisory.

05 / SECURITY

SOC 2 tools. GDPR contracts.

Multi-factor authentication enforced. Cyber-liability insured. Your data lives in your own cloud, not ours.

What we do

A full finance function for ambitious businesses.

From day-to-day bookkeeping to board-ready advisory. Pick the services you need, billed once a month, with a dedicated accountant as your point of contact.

CORE

Cloud bookkeeping

Daily transaction processing, receipt capture and bank reconciliation, running natively in your Xero, QuickBooks Online or FreeAgent account.

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CORE

Payroll

UK PAYE, US 941, UAE WPS, Canadian CPP, Australian PAYG & super, calculated, payslipped and filed.

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COMPLIANCE

VAT, GST & sales tax

UK MTD, US sales tax nexus, UAE FTA, AU BAS, CA GST/HST, prepared in-house, filed via agent portals.

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REPORTING

Management accounts

Monthly P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, variance analysis, board-ready, delivered by the 5th.

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ADVISORY

CFO-as-a-Service

13-week cash flow modelling, KPI dashboards, investor reporting, monthly strategy call.

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CLEAN-UP

Catch-up bookkeeping

Behind by months or years? We've cleared 14-month backlogs in six weeks. Flat fee, quoted upfront, penalty-mitigation guidance included.

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Modern.
Expertly run.
Reliably delivered.

We were built for how modern businesses actually run their finances, through cloud software, on a global team, with automation handling the noise so people can handle the judgment. The result is service that feels modern because it is.

How we onboard

Two weeks from discovery call to a clean first month.

A clear, documented sequence, so you always know what's happening and what's expected of you.

DAY 01

Discovery call.

30 minutes on Zoom. We learn your business, software, what's working, what isn't. Written proposal within 24 hours.

DAY 02–03

Engagement letter.

Signed digitally. Scope, price and SLAs documented in writing.

DAY 03–05

Access & setup.

Accountant-level access granted. Bank feeds connected. Document capture configured.

WEEK 02

First close.

First month closed and reviewed with you. You see the quality of work before paying for a second.

Client work

The kind of partner founders refer.

"Our previous firm took ten working days to close the month. Accountaire delivers the same pack by the third, and our reporting is finally something the leadership team actually reads."
F
Founder · DTC homeware brandLondon, United Kingdom
"The ACCA credentials, the SOC 2 tooling, the 4-hour SLA, every concern I had about working with a remote team got answered before I even raised it. They're now embedded in our finance function."
C
CEO · B2B SaaSAustin, Texas
"We needed someone who understood FTA VAT and IFRS reporting without us having to micromanage. Monthly pack lands on the 4th, every month. That alone made the switch worth it."
M
Managing Director · ConsultancyDMCC, Dubai
"They took on a year of unreconciled Xero, cleaned it up in six weeks, filed the back VAT returns and put us on a proper monthly cadence. Faultless execution."
D
Director · Architecture practiceManchester, United Kingdom
Stack & standards

Modern tools.
Established standards.

We work in the software you already use, and stay current with the regulations that matter in your jurisdiction.

CLOUD ACCOUNTING

Xero · QuickBooks · FreeAgent · MYOB

DOC CAPTURE

Dext · AutoEntry · Hubdoc

REPORTING

Fathom · Spotlight · Syft · LiveFlow

REGULATORY

UK GAAP · US GAAP · IFRS · ASPE · Australian GAAP

TAX PORTALS

HMRC · IRS · FTA EmaraTax · CRA · ATO

Pricing

Transparent monthly fees.

Four fixed-fee plans cover almost every SME we work with. No hourly billing, no setup fees, no contract lock-in beyond a 30-day notice. You can see our fixed-fee pricing in full, compare the tiers side by side, and switch as your business changes. If you would rather start with the people than the numbers, meet the team behind Accountaire first.

STARTER

From $500 / mo

Solopreneurs & freelancers · weekly bookkeeping, monthly P&L.

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GROWTH

From $900 / mo

Small businesses & startups · payroll, AP/AR, quarterly VAT.

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PROFESSIONAL

From $1,500 / mo

Established SMEs (10–50 staff) · full management accounts, dedicated lead.

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ENTERPRISE

Custom · CFO-as-a-Service, board-ready reporting, multi-entity consolidation. Let's talk.

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What clients ask first.

What services does Accountaire offer?
The full list sits in the services directory. The split that matters is between compliance work, which carries statutory deadlines and has to happen, and advisory work, which is optional and is what most owners under-buy. We do not carry out statutory audit. Where an audit is required, we refer it to a local firm rather than auditing books we prepared ourselves.
Are your accountants qualified for UK, US and UAE work?
Every senior accountant holds the ACCA qualification, the UK-headquartered chartered body recognised in 180+ countries. We're Xero Certified Advisors, QuickBooks ProAdvisors, HMRC Agents (UK), IRS e-File Providers (US) and FTA Tax Agents (UAE). We work natively in UK GAAP, US GAAP, IFRS, ASPE and Australian GAAP.
How do you keep my financial data secure?
SOC 2 Type II certified cloud tools only. Multi-factor authentication enforced on every account. UK GDPR-compliant Data Processing Agreements with every client. Professional indemnity and cyber liability insurance from Day 1. We never store financial data on local drives. The weak point in practice is rarely the tooling. It is shared logins, a bookkeeper who left with access still live, and invoice emails that quietly change bank details. Ask for an access review whenever someone with finance permissions leaves.
Will I work with the same accountant each month?
From the Growth tier upward, yes, a dedicated lead accountant and account manager. Communication via Slack, email, Loom and Zoom. The 4-hour query response SLA is part of your engagement letter, not a stretch goal.
Can you take over messy or backlogged books?
Backlogs stall on missing bank statements, on an account you closed and can no longer export from, and on personal spending run through the business card. Send us read-only bank access at the start and the job shortens. Where periods you already filed were wrong, correcting them is an amendment, priced and scheduled apart from the catch-up.
What happens if I want to leave?
You own your data, full stop. If you leave, we hand over a clean ledger, a transition document and revoke our access. No exit fees. Time the exit for just after a filing deadline rather than just before, so no return is half-prepared when access changes hands. Agent authorisations sit with the tax authority rather than with us, so your incoming firm has to register in its own right, which takes days.
Which countries can you actually file in?
The honest distinction is between filing and supporting. Where we hold agent status we submit directly; where a local signature is required, we prepare the return and a partner firm signs it. A group spanning two of the five is scoped as two engagements, because the calendars do not line up.
What does it cost?
Starter is $500 a month, Growth $900 and Professional $1,500, with Enterprise scoped individually. The fee is fixed against a written scope, so it moves only when the scope moves. Catch-up work is quoted separately at a flat $200 per month of books cleared.
Let's talk

Thirty minutes. Honest conversation.

No deck. No pressure. You'll leave with a fixed-fee proposal and a clear view of what working together would look like.