What accounting costs — and how we arrive at the price

How much does an accountant cost in Kosovo?

This is the first question every business owner asks, and it is an entirely fair one. Nobody wants to start a conversation without knowing whether the service is within reach at all. So we will not dodge it: below we explain precisely how the price is formed with us, what pushes it up and what brings it down, and how you get a concrete figure without wasting your time.

The short answer: an accounting fee depends on the volume of monthly work your business generates — not on the size of the name, and not on turnover in itself. Two businesses with identical revenue can involve entirely different amounts of accounting work.

Why we do not publish a rigid price list

A price list on the website would look honest, but in practice it would mislead you. A sole trader with three invoices a month, no employees and no VAT registration is not comparable to a construction company with eight employees, four hundred incoming and outgoing documents and monthly progress certificates. If we set a single price for both, we would either overcharge the first or fail to cover the work of the second — and the quality of the work would be the first thing to suffer.

There is a second reason as well. Prices published online are usually entry-level figures that hold only in the simplest possible case, and then grow through “add-ons” once the contract is signed. We prefer to give one figure that keeps its word: a fixed monthly fee, calculated on your actual business, with no hidden costs.

What the price of accounting services depends on

These are the concrete factors we look at when preparing a quote. The more of them you know in advance, the faster and more accurate the quote will be.

• Number of employees — every employee means a payroll list, calculation of payroll tax and pension contributions, and a monthly filing by the 15th. Five employees are a different job from thirty.
• Whether you are VAT registered — VAT registration brings a monthly filing in EDI by the 20th, reconciliation of the purchase and sales ledgers, and extra care over the right to deduct.
• How many invoices and documents you have each month — this is the single most important factor of all. The volume of documentation directly determines the hours of work.
• Your line of business — trade with inventory, construction with progress certificates and long-term contracts, manufacturing with product costing, and services each carry different accounting requirements. Construction and manufacturing are usually more demanding than services.
• Whether an audit is required — a statutory audit of the financial statements is a separate engagement, with planning, procedures and a report signed by a licensed auditor. It is not part of the monthly accounting fee and is priced separately.
• Whether payroll and contributions are included — some businesses run payroll themselves and leave us the rest; with others we take on the whole cycle, contracts and reporting included.
• Monthly work versus annual work — ongoing bookkeeping through the year is different from a limited engagement, such as preparing the annual financial statements or the annual tax return for a business that keeps its own books.
• The state of the books when we start — if past periods need correcting, reconstructing or reconciling, that is additional one-off work. We assess it separately and tell you clearly before we begin, never after the fact.

What the monthly accounting fee includes

When we quote a monthly fee for accounting services, it covers the whole regular cycle:

• Recording sales and purchase invoices and maintaining the accounting records
• Monthly VAT filing through TAK's EDI system
• Calculation of salaries, payroll tax and pension contributions, with the corresponding filings
• Reconciliations with the bank, with suppliers and with customers
• Recording and depreciation of fixed assets
• A reminder before every deadline and payment, so that no avoidable penalty ever catches you
• Preparation of the annual financial statements and the annual tax return
• Dealing with TAK on routine matters, and an answer to your questions within 24 hours

Whatever falls outside the monthly fee — a statutory audit, correcting past periods, special projects such as valuations or financial analysis for a bank — we tell you in advance, with a separate figure. No invoice ever arrives unannounced.

How you get the quote: within 24 hours, no obligation

1. Send us a few basic details — legal form (sole trader or SH.P.K.), line of business, number of employees, whether you are VAT registered, roughly how many incoming and outgoing invoices you have per month, and how far the books have been kept up to now.
2. We assess the actual work — if anything is unclear, we call or write to you. That takes a few minutes, not days.
3. You receive a written quote within 24 hours — with the monthly fee, what it includes, and every one-off cost clearly set out on its own.
4. You decide without pressure — the quote commits you to nothing. If it does not suit you, that is where it ends.

The first consultation is free. Even if we do not end up working together, you will come away from it knowing where you stand on your tax obligations — and that is the least we can do for your time.