Source: every figure comes from Companies House records and the accounts companies file there. How the figures are produced.

Accounting firms in Birmingham ranked by number of employees

Ranked from each company's filed annual accounts. This list last changed on and was last checked against the data on . All 16 companies that qualified are shown.

Companies qualified
16 of 1,251
Ranked first
CLARITAS TAX LIMITED
Average employees of no. 1
53
Data as of

Summary

16 accounting firms with a registered office in Birmingham reported average employees of 10 or more in their latest accounts.

CLARITAS TAX LIMITED (opens in a new tab) ranks first, with 53 average employees, followed by LANGARD LIFFORD HALL LIMITED with 47.

9 of the listed companies were incorporated before 2010. The top three account for 42.8% of the combined average employees of the listed companies, which total 313.

The ranking

Accounting firms in Birmingham ranked by number of employees: 16 companies in rank order, with each company's number, latest and previous average employees, change, latest accounts date and age.
Rank Company Average employees Latest accounts Age (yrs)
Previous year Latest year Change Change %
1 CLARITAS TAX LIMITED (opens in a new tab)08172052 442023 532024 +9 +20.5% 12
2 LANGARD LIFFORD HALL LIMITED (opens in a new tab)03790803 462023 472024 +1 +2.2% 25
3 TAX PRO GROUP LIMITED (opens in a new tab)15046741 – 342024 – – 1
4 ONYX ACCOUNTANTS LTD (opens in a new tab)06052560 272023 272024 +0 +0.0% 18
5 SKN SERVICES LIMITED (opens in a new tab)05100416 182023 182024 +0 +0.0% 20
6 RUS & COMPANY (UK) LTD (opens in a new tab)03833778 162023 172024 +1 +6.3% 25
7 M. A. EDWARDS ACCOUNTANTS LTD (opens in a new tab)04685112 142024 152025 +1 +7.1% 22
8 SAS SERVICE LIMITED (opens in a new tab)09189758 142023 152024 +1 +7.1% 10
9 COLLINS ACCOUNTANTS LIMITED (opens in a new tab)15104819 – 132024 – – 1
10 LOWSON WARD LIMITED (opens in a new tab)06510612 122024 122025 +0 +0.0% 17
11 POLKADOT ACCOUNTANTS LTD (opens in a new tab)06436719 112023 112024 +0 +0.0% 17
12 THE FISCAL INCENTIVES GROUP LTD (opens in a new tab)09486275 112024 112025 +0 +0.0% 10
13 MICHAEL HEAVEN & ASSOCIATES LIMITED (opens in a new tab)02956557 112023 102024 -1 -9.1% 30
14 LI & COMPANY (UK) LTD (opens in a new tab)05966510 102023 102024 +0 +0.0% 18
15 P & H BURNELL LIMITED (opens in a new tab)08880679 92023 102024 +1 +11.1% 11
16 RMY CLEMENTS LIMITED (opens in a new tab)09911519 102023 102024 +0 +0.0% 9
Download CSV of this ranking 16 rows, the same as the table. “–” means the figure was not filed.

How this list was made

Industry
Companies with any of these SIC codes on their Companies House record:
  • 69201 – Accounting and auditing activities
  • 69202 – Bookkeeping activities
  • 69203 – Tax consultancy
Location
The post town of the registered office address is Birmingham.
Periods compared
Each company's latest annual accounts. The previous year's figure is shown for context and does not affect the ranking.
Ranking
Ranked by the average number of employees in the latest filed accounts. Companies with fewer than 10 employees are left out.
Exclusions
Companies that are dissolved, in liquidation, in administration or proposed to be struck off; dormant companies; and companies whose latest accounts end more than 21 months before the newest accounts in the data (or are dated after it). Figures that cannot be right, which are most likely filing errors, are also left out:
  • an employee number identical to the net assets figure, or above 100,000
  • more employees than the company's accounts category allows (micro: 50, small: 250, with a margin)
  • less than £5,000 of turnover per employee, or a round number of thousands with no turnover to check it against
Companies checked
Companies with a matching SIC code in Birmingham1,251
Not active−135
Dormant−113
Latest accounts too old or wrongly dated−527
Average employees not filed in the latest accounts−129
Average employees below 10−330
Figure too large or inconsistent to be reliable−1
Qualified for this list16