Accounting Outsourcing Services for Accounting Firms
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Accounting Outsourcing for Firms (Without Losing Control)
Add IFRS-trained accountants as long-term team members without losing control, quality or responsibility.
Contact us59% of Dutch accounting firms are struggling with staff shortages. This structural challenge increases pressure on quality, deadlines and partner capacity
Accounting Outsourcing for Firms
Many accounting firms are exploring accounting outsourcing to solve staff shortages, reduce hiring pressure and increase capacity.
Modern accounting outsourcing is no longer about sending work to an external provider. Firms increasingly use outsourcing to build long-term remote teams that operate as an integrated part of their organisation.
FairChain Workforce offers a different outsourcing model. Instead of outsourcing tasks, you work with a dedicated IFRS-trained accountant who becomes a long-term member of your team, collaborates daily with your staff and follows your workflows and quality standards.
You gain additional capacity and flexibility without losing control, responsibility or quality.
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What is Accounting Outsourcing?
Accounting outsourcing means working with external accounting professionals who support your firm’s bookkeeping, reporting, compliance and year-end activities.
Accounting outsourcing services are used by firms to:
- Increase capacity without expanding local headcount
- Reduce recruitment pressure and hiring time
- Access qualified accounting professionals
- Improve scalability during peak periods
- Build a flexible long-term workforce
Many firms choose to outsource accounting staff as a structural solution to ongoing talent shortages.
Why firms consider accounting outsourcing
Across Europe and North America, accounting firms are facing increasing pressure from:
- Structural talent shortages
- Rising salary levels
- High recruitment costs
- Limited availability of experienced professionals
Accounting outsourcing helps firms:
- Increase capacity without long recruitment processes
- Maintain service quality during peak periods
- Support partners and managers with additional resources
- Scale teams without long-term local commitments
- Improve operational flexibility
Many firms reduce personnel costs by 30–50% while maintaining full control over quality and client relationships. Firms comparing accounting outsourcing often also evaluate nearshoring and offshore accounting models to find the right balance between cost, collaboration and operational control.
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The challenges of traditional accounting outsourcing
Traditional outsourcing providers often operate on a task-based service model. While this may reduce costs, it can create new risks such as:
- Limited visibility and control over daily work
- Communication delays or coordination challenges
- High staff turnover and lack of continuity
- Knowledge loss when team members change
- Quality inconsistencies
- Unclear responsibility between provider and firm
For accounting firms, where accuracy, compliance and client trust are critical, these risks can outweigh the potential benefits.
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A different outsourcing model: dedicated team members
FairChain Workforce provides an alternative to traditional accounting outsourcing.
Instead of delivering services, we provide dedicated accountants who work as part of your firm.
Your accountant:
- Works in your systems and follows your procedures
- Collaborates daily with your team
- Joins meetings and internal workflows
- Builds long-term knowledge of your clients and standards
Your firm remains fully responsible for review, sign-off and client relationships. We support the setup through local employment, workplace supervision, training and performance management.
This approach combines the flexibility of outsourcing with the control and continuity of an internal team member.
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What working with us looks like
A structured approach to building long-term accounting capacity
01. Onboarding
We start with a clear intake of your workflows, systems and standards
02. Integration
Your accountant works in your tools, joins your meetings and follows your procedures
03. Support
We provide continuous training, coaching and performance guidance in the background and join regular meetings
04. Growth
Your team member develops with your firm for the long term
Why Accounting Firms Choose FairChain WorkForce
With FairChain WorkForce, you don’t outsource tasks. You hire a CPA-registered accountant who becomes part of your organisation and supports these activities within your team
Role 2: CPA-Registered Audit Accountant
Hire a CPA-registered accountant who supports the preparation of financial statements and all work leading up to the year-end close, such as compilation and auditing.
This professional works within your team, systems and supports:
- preparing draft financial statements
- compiling annual reports
- supporting the year-end closing process
- reviewing balances and supporting schedules
- preparing files for partner review and audit
- supporting VAT returns and year-end tax filings
- assisting with internal controls and compliance checks
This allows your firm to scale its year-end capacity without increasing local headcount, while maintaining full control over quality and final responsibility.
Role 1: CPA-registered Accountant
Hire a CPA-registered accountant who supports your bookkeeping processes in an increasingly automated environment.
This professional works within your team, systems and supports:
- reviews AI-generated bookings
- validates data quality
- corrects exceptions
- prepares and validates reports
- supports VAT returns and reconciliations
- safeguards compliance
- and takes responsibility for accuracy and completeness of their work
In this model, AI creates efficiency. Your accountant provides the human control layer that ensures quality and accountability.
Why firms trust FairChain WorkForce instead of traditional outsourcing
Accounting firms choose FairChain Workforce because they want more than a short-term solution..
Communication
Our accountants work confidently in English. Many are native English speakers, ensuring smooth collaboration in international accounting environments.
Continuity
We build remote team members who grow with your firm and work from our business centers, ensuring stability and continuity in your operations.
Support
Every accountant is trained, coached and supported by FairChain Workforce, with Dutch-speaking account managers ensuring clear communication and ongoing guidance.
Impact
Fair pay, continuous development and no brain drain. We create sustainable careers for accountants in Kenya while supporting accounting firms worldwide.
Talent
Access to a large pool of CPA-registered accountants from Kenya, trained in IFRS standards as part of their professional qualification.
HOW WE ENSURE QUALITY, CONTINUITY AND COLLABORATION
Remote collaboration only works when responsibility is clear. That is why FairChain Workforce takes ownership of supervision, communication and continuity, while professional responsibility remains with your firm.
We guarantee completeness, accuracy and timeliness in every task through:
- Clear KPIs tailored per client
- The 4-eyes principle on all critical work
- Business Center Managers performing weekly quality checks
- Continuous training and frequent performance reviews
- A feedback loop with your Dutch-speaking account manager
- Monthly scorecards to track quality and satisfaction
To ensure smooth collaboration and stability, we also provide:
- overlapping working hours with Europe
- clear reporting lines and daily collaboration in your tools
- built-in backup capacity, structured knowledge transfer and fast replacement when needed
You gain capacity. We remain accountable.
Every professional is tested and trained before they work for you
We understand that quality and reliability are critical in accounting. That’s why our process doesn’t stop at recruitment. All professionals undergo rigorous assessments, structured training, and ongoing coaching before they start working on your client projects. This way, your firm gains talent that is prepared, trustworthy, and able to deliver consistent results without the risks of traditional staffing models
4 Different ways to build your capacity
Nearshoring Europe
What you get
- Nearby Accountant
Limitations
- Limited cost advantage
- Restricted Scalability
- Longer hiring times
Migration
What you get
- Physical Presence
Limitations
- Ethical Challenges
- Operational complexity
- Long Hiring times
FairChain WorkForce
What you get
- IFRS-Certified Accountant
Why firms choose this
- Scalable (short hiring times)
- Assurance (continues guidance)
- Responsible (meaningful jobs)
- Cost-effective (40% cheaper)
Local Recruitment
What you get
- On-site Accountant
Limitations
- High costs
- Long hiring times
- Limited acces to talent
Why FairChain WorkForce?
Ethical Outsourcing
Your open position is a life changing opportunity.
Small time difference
Kenya and Ethiopia are 2 hours ahead of the Netherlands in winter and 1 hour ahead in summer.
Remote Work from Business Centers
Our professionals work from modern Business Centers in Ethiopia or Kenya.
Cost Effective
Outsourcing your roles to Ethiopia and Kenya is cost-effective.
On the Ground Management
Our Business Centers have dedicated managers to ensure each professional excels.
Monthly Check-ins & Soft Landing
Our Account Manager will check in monthly and ensure each new professional has a smooth soft-landing month.
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Pricing for integrated accounting team members
The rates below apply to IFRS-trained, CPA-registered accountants who work as long-term team members within your accounting firm, under your supervision, supported by local workplace supervision and a Dutch-based Account Manager.
CPA-Accountant (2-4 years experience)
IFRS-trained, CPA-registered accountants supporting accounting firms with bookkeeping and reporting activities.
- Working Remotely as part of your team
- English Level C1+
- CPA-Registered
- Supported by FairChain WorkForce
- Cancelable on a monthly basis
CPA-Accountant (4-7 years experience)
Experienced IFRS-trained accountants supporting accounting firms with ongoing accounting, reporting and year-end activities.
- Working Remotely as part of your team
- English Level C1+
- CPA-Registered
- Supported by FairChain WorkForce
- Cancelable on a monthly basis
CPA-Accountant (7+ years experience)
Senior IFRS-trained accountants supporting complex reporting, review preparation and year-end processes.
- Working Remotely as part of your team
- English Level C1+
- CPA-Registered
- Supported by FairChain WorkForce
- Cancelable on a monthly basis
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Frequently asked questions
Here are some common questions about our company.
Accounting outsourcing means using external accounting professionals to support activities such as bookkeeping, reporting, audit preparation or compliance, instead of hiring additional local staff.
In many traditional models, work is delivered as a service by an external provider. At FairChain Workforce, outsourcing works differently. You work with a dedicated IFRS-trained accountant who becomes part of your team, works within your systems and supports your workflows on a daily basis.
Your firm remains fully responsible for review, sign-off and client relationships.
The accountant works under your supervision and follows your procedures, standards and quality requirements. FairChain Workforce supports this setup by employing the professional and providing local workplace supervision, performance management and ongoing development.
This ensures clear professional responsibility while maintaining operational support and continuity.
Yes. Your accountant works directly in your tools, software and client environments.
They follow your workflows, naming conventions, documentation standards and internal controls. This ensures full transparency, easy collaboration and seamless integration with your existing team.
Quality is ensured through a structured support model, including:
- Local workplace supervision in our business centers
- Weekly quality reviews and performance monitoring
- Continuous training and coaching
- Clear KPIs aligned with your firm’s expectations
- The 4-eyes principle for critical work
- A Dutch-speaking account manager for alignment and escalation
This approach ensures completeness, accuracy and continuity in daily operations.
All accountants work confidently in English and collaborate directly with your team.
We also provide:
- Overlapping working hours with Europe
- Daily collaboration within your systems and communication tools
- Clear reporting lines and structured onboarding
- Ongoing support from a Dutch-based account manager
This ensures fast communication and smooth integration into your workflows.
Most firms start within a few weeks.
We begin with a structured intake to understand your workflows, systems and expectations. Many firms choose to start with a one-month pilot, allowing both teams to evaluate the collaboration before scaling.
Our IFRS-trained accountants typically support:
- Bookkeeping and reconciliations
- Reviewing automated or AI-generated entries
- Preparing draft financial statements
- Supporting IFRS reporting
- Year-end closing activities
- Audit preparation and supporting schedules
- VAT preparation and compliance support
All work is performed within your systems and under your supervision.
Traditional outsourcing providers deliver tasks as an external service, often with changing staff and limited visibility.
FairChain Workforce provides dedicated accountants who:
- Work as long-term members of your team
- Operate in your systems and follow your procedures
- Build knowledge of your clients and standards
- Receive ongoing supervision, training and performance support
This combines the flexibility of outsourcing with the control and continuity of an internal team member.
Yes, in the sense that your accountant is based outside your country. However, the collaboration model is different from traditional offshoring.
The accountant works as part of your team, under your supervision, with overlapping working hours and structured local support. The focus is on long-term collaboration, quality and responsible employment rather than task-based service delivery.
Accounting outsourcing often involves working with professionals outside your country, which is commonly referred to as offshore accounting. The key difference is how the collaboration is organised. At FairChain Workforce, accountants work as dedicated members of your team, within your systems and under your supervision—rather than as a task-based service.
Yes. Many firms choose a dedicated full-time accountant who works exclusively for their organisation. This creates continuity, accountability and long-term familiarity with your clients, standards and internal processes—while still delivering the flexibility and cost benefits associated with outsourcing.