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The Accounting Excellence Awards celebrate the people, businesses and organisations doing exceptional work. Explore the categories and help recognise someone shaping the future through their achievement, leadership and impact.

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Bookkeeping and Payroll Firm of the Year Award

Keeping the numbers and the payroll right, every time.

About this category

This award recognises a bookkeeping, payroll or outsourced finance business that delivers accurate, reliable services and genuine support to its clients. Judges look for service quality, systems and client outcomes.

Eligibility

  • Open to bookkeeping
  • Payroll and outsourced finance businesses of any size

Judging criteria

  • Accuracy and reliability
  • Systems
  • Client support
  • Growth
  • Client outcomes

Qualitative criteria

  • Dependable
  • Proactive service clients can forget about

Metrics

  • Clients served
  • Error rates
  • Deadlines met
  • Retention
  • Growth and feedback

Additional criteria

Entries should include a concise case study, supporting figures and, where possible, client or colleague evidence. Client names and commercially sensitive numbers may be anonymised or given as percentages and ranges, and nothing in an entry is ever shared beyond the judging panel. Judges consider the size of the practice or team, so sole practitioners and smaller firms compete on equal terms.

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