Accounting & bookkeeping industry performance report

Benchmark your practice against other UK firms and see how Xero partners stack up against the wider industry.

Online accounting and growth go hand in hand

Here are key findings from our survey of 503 Xero accounting and bookkeeping partners across the UK.

51% of firms said their client base was growing faster or at a similar pace than pre-pandemic.

Almost a third of firms (30%) reported that they are looking to hire more full-time staff in the year ahead.

59% of respondents’ business clients were already using online accounting software. 11% stated their entire business client base did.

Practices growing faster than prior to the pandemic were most likely to have 100% of their clients using online accounting software (17%).

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