Published prices. No discovery call required.
Most Dubai firms make you sit through a meeting to find out what they charge. Here is the number. Every package is a fixed monthly fee with a written scope, billed exclusive of 5% VAT.
Essential
Startups and small companies keeping clean books and meeting every deadline.
Billed monthly, excl. VAT
Up to 150 entries a month
Start with Essential- Bookkeeping
- Up to 150 entries per month
- Monthly bank reconciliation
- Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet, monthly
- Accounts receivable & payable ledgers
- Tax & compliance
- VAT return preparation & filing (quarterly)
- Corporate tax return, filed annually
- Deadline tracking & reminders
- Support
- Named accountant on WhatsApp
- Annual review call
- Payroll & WPS processing
- Management accounts & KPIs
- Cash flow forecasting
Growth
Growing SMEs with staff on payroll that need management information, not just compliance.
Billed monthly, excl. VAT
Up to 500 entries a month
Start with Growth- Everything in Essential, plus
- Up to 500 entries per month
- Management accounts with KPI commentary
- Payroll & WPS for up to 15 employees
- Gratuity & leave accrual tracking
- Tax & compliance
- VAT health check, twice yearly
- UBO & ESR filings included
- Audit-ready file maintained year-round
- Support
- Quarterly review call with a senior advisor
- Accounting software support & training
- Rolling cash flow forecast
- Board / investor reporting pack
Accelerate
Scaling businesses that need forecasting and advisory alongside the compliance work.
Billed monthly, excl. VAT
Up to 1,000 entries a month
Start with Accelerate- Everything in Growth, plus
- Up to 1,000 entries per month
- Rolling 13-week cash flow forecast
- Annual budget & monthly budget-vs-actual
- Unit economics & margin analysis
- Advisory
- Monthly strategy session with a senior advisor
- Tax optimisation & structuring review, annually
- Inventory costing & stock control
- Operations
- Unlimited employees on payroll & WPS
- Full external audit liaison
- Board / investor reporting pack
- Multi-entity consolidation
Enterprise
Groups, multi-entity structures and anyone past a thousand entries a month.
Quoted on your workload, excl. VAT
More than 1,000 entries a month
Talk to Enterprise- Everything in Accelerate, plus
- More than 1,000 entries per month
- Multi-entity & group consolidation
- Board / investor reporting pack
- Bank facility & funding application support
- Advisory
- Virtual CFO: monthly board attendance
- Transfer pricing & group structuring review
- Treasury & multi-currency management
- Operations
- Named team rather than a named accountant
- Custom reporting built to your template
- Priority response, agreed in writing
All prices exclude 5% UAE VAT. An entry is one line in your bank statement, or one sales or purchase invoice. Group structures and multi-entity consolidations are quoted individually.
Moving from another agency
Three months free when you switch
Changing accountant mid-year is the thing most business owners put off, usually because the handover feels like more trouble than the problem. We take the handover on: the ledger, the opening balances, the FTA portal access and whatever is sitting unfiled. Three of your first twelve months cost nothing.
How the free months work
- Available on Essential, Growth and Accelerate, on a rolling monthly retainer
- The free months are your 4th, 8th and 12th — you pay months 1 to 3, then month 4 is free, and again at 8 and 12
- You must be moving from another accountant or agency, and the first three months must be paid in full
- Handover work is included. Any unfiled returns or backlog we find are quoted separately before we start
Enterprise is quoted individually, so the equivalent is agreed on the call. The annual Scale and Strategic plans are a single yearly fee and are not part of this offer.
Newly incorporated
Annual plans for companies in their first two years
A company that has just been licensed does not have a monthly bookkeeping problem. It has a year of filings ahead of it and not much volume yet. These two plans are priced for that: one fee, paid once, covering the whole year.
Scale
Your first year or two of trading, with light activity and everything still to file.
Paid once for twelve months, excl. VAT
Up to 500 entries a year
Start with Scale- Bookkeeping
- Up to 500 entries per year
- Quarterly bank reconciliation
- Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet, quarterly
- Year-end closing entries & financial statements
- Tax & compliance
- VAT returns for the year, prepared & filed
- Corporate tax return, filed annually
- Deadline tracking & reminders
- Support
- Email & WhatsApp support
- Annual review call
- Monthly management accounts
- Payroll & WPS processing
Strategic
More activity than Scale, and you want monthly numbers rather than a year-end scramble.
Paid once for twelve months, excl. VAT
Up to 1,000 entries a year
Start with Strategic- Everything in Essential, plus
- Up to 1,000 entries per year
- Monthly bank reconciliation
- Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet, monthly
- Accounts receivable & payable ledgers
- Tax & compliance
- VAT returns for the year, prepared & filed
- Corporate tax return, filed annually
- VAT health check once in the year
- Audit-ready file maintained year-round
- Support
- Named accountant on WhatsApp
- Two review calls in the year
Who qualifies. Companies incorporated within the last two years, counted from the issue date on your trade licence. Past that point the monthly packages apply, and we will tell you which one fits before your renewal rather than after it.
The allowance is annual, not monthly. Scale covers 500 entries across the whole year — roughly 40 a month. Strategic covers 1,000, roughly 85 a month. If you go over, we flag it in the month it happens and move you to the monthly package that fits. You are never silently upgraded or back-billed.
One-off & add-on services
Priced separately, quoted in writing
You do not need a retainer to use these. Registrations, catch-up work and projects can be taken on their own.
| Service | Basis | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| VAT registration (TRN) | One-off | AED 500 |
| VAT return filing, standalone | Per return | AED 750 |
| Corporate tax registration | One-off | AED 500 |
| Corporate tax return, under Small Business Relief | Per return, no financial statements | AED 500 |
| Corporate tax return, with financial statements | Per return | AED 2,000 |
| Corporate tax return, turnover above AED 3 million | Per return | from AED 3,000 |
| Internal audit only, without bookkeeping | Per year, for companies with an in-house accountant | AED 5,000 |
| Training for a new in-house accountant | Per month, minimum three months | AED 1,500 |
| Accounting software setup, migration & training | Project | from AED 3,500 |
| goAML registration & AML policy pack | One-off | from AED 3,500 |
| UBO & ESR filing, standalone | Per filing | from AED 1,500 |
| Payroll & WPS setup | One-off + AED 50/employee/month | from AED 1,000 |
| Audit coordination & audit-ready file | Per audit | from AED 4,000 |
| Corporate bank account assistance | Per application | from AED 2,500 |
| Business or intangible asset valuation | Project | On request |
Not sure which tier
Send us last month's bank statement
Transaction count is the only thing that decides your tier. The free assessment works it out from seventeen questions in about three minutes and shows you the tier, the fee and your own filing deadlines — no contact details needed to see the result. If you would rather we did it, send a single month of bank statements and we will confirm the tier by email.
Behind on filings? Catch-up work is quoted on top of the retainer, priced on the state of the records once we have seen them rather than from a rate card. Penalties for late corporate tax registration and filing accrue monthly, so the cost of waiting is rarely lower than the cost of fixing it.
Ask which package fits
Tell us your monthly volume and we will confirm the tier and the price.
Pricing questions
The fine print, in plain English
What counts as an entry?
One line in your bank statement, or one sales or purchase invoice. A month with 40 supplier bills, 60 customer invoices and 90 bank movements is 190 entries. If you are close to a tier boundary we will tell you before you sign, not after.
Who can take the Scale and Strategic annual plans?
Companies incorporated within the last two years, counted from the issue date on the trade licence. The allowance on both is annual, not monthly: Scale covers 500 entries across the whole year, Strategic 2,000. Past the two-year mark the monthly packages apply, and we tell you which one fits before your renewal.
Is an annual plan cheaper than a monthly package?
For a genuinely quiet company, yes — by a wide margin. The cheapest monthly package is AED 12,000 over a year whatever your volume, because someone still reconciles, closes and files every month. Scale covers a year of that work for AED 5,000 and Strategic for AED 7,000.
Per entry it works out dearer, and that is the honest trade: a year of filings costs roughly the same whether you raised 300 invoices or 1,500. Once your volume is steady enough to fill a monthly tier, the monthly tier is better value and we will say so.
Is VAT included in these prices?
No. All fees are quoted exclusive of 5% UAE VAT, which is added to your invoice.
What if my volume goes over the tier?
We flag it in the month it happens and quote the next tier. You are never silently upgraded or back-billed.
I am moving from another accountant. How does the three months free work?
You pay months one to three as normal, then your 4th, 8th and 12th months are free. It is spread rather than given up front because a handover is judged on how the year goes, not on the first invoice.
It applies to Essential, Growth and Accelerate on a rolling monthly retainer, and you need to be coming from another accountant or agency. The handover itself — ledger, opening balances, FTA portal access — is included. Anything unfiled or behind that we find is quoted separately before we start, so there are no surprises in month two.
Is there a lock-in contract?
Monthly retainers run on a rolling basis with 30 days' notice. Annual plans are paid up front for twelve months, which is where the two free months come from.
What do you need from me to start?
Trade licence, Memorandum of Association, Emirates ID and passport of the owners, bank statements for the period, prior filings and any existing accounting file. We send a checklist after the first call.
Do you handle companies that are already behind on filings?
Regularly. We quote the catch-up work separately, bring the records current, then file — using voluntary disclosure where that reduces exposure. Being behind is a reason to call sooner, not later; penalties accrue monthly.
Can I pay in instalments?
Monthly retainers are billed monthly in advance. Larger one-off projects — a migration, a two-year catch-up — are usually split across milestones.
Find out what your compliance actually costs
A 30-minute review of your books, filings and deadlines. You leave with a written fixed-fee proposal and a list of anything overdue. No obligation, no sales script.