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Accounting & tax advisory in Germany_

As of 4 November 2026, 25,236 accounting & tax advisory companies are based in Germany; 2,317 are hiring right now and Berlin has the most.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies
25,236
Hiring now
2,317 · 240 new in 30 d
Largest niche
SME accounting tax practice · 18,610
Top city
Berlin · 1,189
Parent market
Business & finance services · 263,748
25,236accounting & tax advisory companies in Germany
2,317hiring today
240opened a role in the last 30 days
20niches inside the segment
02 — Niches, sizes, cities

Accounting & tax advisory in Germany, broken down

By niche
companiesshare
SME accounting tax practice
18,61074%
Specialist tax advisers
12,93251%
Statutory audit firms
1,8857%
Bookkeeping services
1,5816%
Personal tax preparation services
9734%
Payroll outsourcing bureau
7563%
Outsourced cfo finance BPO
5422%
General management consulting
2761%
Other accounting & tax advisory
2681%
Generalist law firms
2101%
Commercial corporate law firms
1541%
General business support bureau
1421%
Independent financial advisers
1180%
Virtual assistant services
750%
Employee income tax assistance
710%
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
3,988 · 18
2-10 employees
17,798 · 1,296
11-50 employees
2,919 · 721
51-200 employees
432 · 227
201-500 employees
54 · 33
501-1000 employees
21 · 13
1001-5000 employees
14 · 4
5001-10000 employees
6 · 3
10,001+ employees
4 · 2
By city
companiesshare
Berlin
1,1895%
München
8994%
Hamburg
7953%
Köln
5352%
Düsseldorf
3932%
Frankfurt am Main
3481%
Leipzig
2461%
Paris
2401%
Hannover
2391%
Nürnberg
2331%
Stuttgart
2061%
Dresden
1931%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest accounting & tax advisory companies in Germany

The largest companies of the segment, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.

25,236 accounting & tax advisory companies in Germany.

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04 — What they run

The stack of accounting & tax advisory in Germany

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25,236 accounting & tax advisory companies are based in Germany; 2,317 are hiring right now and Berlin has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/business_finance_services/germany/accounting_and_tax_advisory)
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  • ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
  • Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
  • HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
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Accounting & tax advisory in Germany: questions

How many accounting & tax advisory companies are there in Germany?

25,236 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.

What is a sub-vertical?

The middle level of our industry tree: Business & finance services → Accounting & tax advisory → leaf niches such as sme accounting tax practice, specialist tax advisers, statutory audit firms. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.

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