Looking for an accountant for your startup?

Dutch law does not ask for an accountant because you have a BV. It asks for one once your company is large enough, and size is defined by three figures: your balance sheet total, your net turnover and your headcount. KVK sorts every legal entity into four classes on those three, and you fall into a class once you meet at least two of its three criteria in two consecutive years.

In the list of documents a medium-sized entity has to file, KVK includes an accountant's report. In the list for micro and small entities it does not. That is the practical line.

• Micro: assets below 450.000 euro, net turnover below 900.000 euro, fewer than 10 people.
• Small: assets from 450.000 to 7,5 million, turnover from 900.000 to 15 million, 10 to 50 people.
• Medium: assets from 7,5 to 25 million, turnover from 15 to 50 million, 50 to 250 people.
• Large: assets above 25 million, turnover above 50 million, more than 250 people.

A startup in its first years is almost always micro or small. What recurs is not an audit but the monthly and quarterly rhythm, and the year-end close at the end of it.

That is the work. It is not glamorous and it does not need a protected title, it needs to be done on time and to be right.

• Bookkeeping that is current, so you are not reconstructing a quarter in the week the deadline lands.
• VAT returns, including a nil return in a quarter without turnover.
• Payroll and the payroll tax return, from the moment you pay yourself as director-shareholder.
• The corporate income tax return and the year-end close.
• Annual accounts filed with KVK, which every BV has to do regardless of turnover.
• Figures that hold up in a due diligence, because the questions come at the worst possible moment.

We are not on the accountants register and we do not present ourselves as an accountancy firm. That is a real limit and it is worth being precise about where it runs, because it changes nothing about the work above and everything about one specific document.

• The complete administration, kept current daily rather than caught up quarterly.
• VAT, payroll and corporate income tax returns.
• The year-end close and the full set of figures underneath it.
• The set that goes to KVK, quoted up front as separate work.
• Dashboards and investor reporting, straight out of the bookkeeping.
• A formal set of annual accounts carrying an accountant's report. That belongs to a registered firm.
• An audit, a review, or any other assurance engagement.
• Tax planning and structuring advice.

A fixed monthly price that moves with your invoice volume, per entity. Starter is 250 euro a month for 0 to 75 invoices, Growth 325 euro for 76 to 125, Scale 475 euro for 126 to 200. Bookkeeping, the returns, the year-end close and the dashboard are included, and so are onboarding and the migration from your current provider.

Payroll is always 20 euro per employee per month, including payslips and the payroll tax return. Every amount is per entity: a holding and an operating company are two administrations and therefore two prices.

A full switch takes five working days and runs in parallel with your current bookkeeper, so nothing stops while it happens. We take over the administration, connect your bank accounts and tools, import the history and set up your dashboards. You only have to cancel your old contract.