An accounting office, a tax adviser and a law firm are three different markets
Since deregulation in 2014, bookkeeping services no longer require an accountant’s certificate, so accounting offices have no single official register. Tax advisers, advocates and legal advisers, by contrast, belong to professional self-governing bodies that keep public lists. In practice the same person may appear once as a business with code 69.20.Z and once on a professional list – with a different address.
Law firms often operate as professional or limited partnerships, while the partners also run their own sole-trader businesses. One address can therefore produce several records. If you want one record per firm, please say so: we will remove duplicates by address and phone number.
Legal form is also worth considering as a filter. A vendor of accounting software for offices with several workstations usually prefers companies; a provider of professional indemnity insurance needs exactly the one-person practices.
Sample enquiry
We sell software for handling accounting documents. We are looking for accounting offices (PKD 69.20.Z) in Wrocław and Wrocław county, ideally with a website. We do not need law firms or statutory auditors. Please send the number of records, the share with a postal address and the price.
This is a model enquiry, not a completed order. If you give us PKD codes, we will tell you how far they can be applied to our data – today the records mostly carry the source category.
What the export does not include
- the firm’s specialisation (e.g. employment law, insolvency)
- the entry number on the list of advocates, legal advisers or tax advisers
- the number of clients served or the accounting software used
- the name of the decision-maker in a company
- revenue and headcount