Bookkeeping Services in Dubai

12+ Years Of Experience

Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping services in Dubai cover the day-to-day recording, categorising and reconciling of every transaction your business makes — so that your VAT returns, corporate tax filing and annual accounts are built on records that hold up. We does this monthly for a fixed fee based on your transaction volume, not a guess at your revenue.

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How We Onboard You in 7 Days

Most bookkeeping pages list nouns. Here is the calendar you’ll be on.

Days 1–3 : Documents in.

You send bank statements, sales invoices, supplier bills, petty cash slips and payroll summaries. Upload them to your portal, forward them by email, or drop them in a shared folder whichever you'll actually stick to.
Days 4–7 : Recording and categorisation.

Every transaction is posted to the correct account in a chart of accounts we build around your business, not a generic template. Supplier bills are matched to purchase orders where you use them. Sales are recorded against the right revenue line so your margin reporting means something.
Days 8–9 : Reconciliation.

Every bank account, credit card, payment gateway and petty cash float is reconciled to the statement. Nothing is "in suspense." If a transaction can't be identified, you get a short query list — usually five to ten items — rather than a guess buried in the ledger.
Day 10 — Reports out.

You receive a profit and loss statement, balance sheet, aged receivables and payables, and a cash position summary. Attached is a two-paragraph note on what moved and why: which customer slipped, which cost line jumped, what your runway looks like.
Quarterly - VAT-ready handover.

Your ledger is closed, locked and reconciled to the point that a VAT return can be prepared directly from it, with the input tax already segregated and evidenced. The difference between bookkeeping that works and bookkeeping that doesn't is whether the period gets closed. An open ledger that anyone can post back into is not a record — it's a draft.

What Clean Books Have to Look Like Under UAE Law

This is not optional record-keeping any more.

UAE Corporate Tax law requires your taxable income to be derived from financial statements prepared under IFRS or IFRS for SMEs, and every supporting record must be retained for seven years after the end of the tax period it relates to. For VAT-registered businesses, the audit trail has to run from the return, back to the ledger, back to a valid tax invoice.

That last link is where most Dubai businesses lose money. Input VAT can only be recovered against a tax invoice that meets FTA format requirements — supplier TRN, sequential numbering, the tax amount stated in AED. A supplier’s PDF that omits any of it isn’t recoverable, and you won’t find out until a review. We check invoice validity at the point of entry, not at year end.

If you need the tax side handled too, that sits with our VAT return filing and corporate tax teams — but it all runs off the same ledger we maintain here.

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The Five Things That Break Dubai Books

After 10 years doing this locally, the same issues account for most of the mess we inherit:

Related-party transactions between the owner's entities.

Money moves between two companies the same person owns, gets recorded as revenue in one and expense in the other, and nobody eliminates it. This becomes a real problem the moment corporate tax or a Tax Group is involved.

Owner's personal spending run through the company account.

Extremely common, entirely fixable — but only if it's identified and posted to a director's current account rather than absorbed into expenses, where it distorts your margins and your tax position.

Multi-currency purchases never revalued.

The dirham is pegged to the dollar, so USD suppliers are simple. EUR, GBP and INR suppliers are not, and unrevalued balances quietly misstate both your payables and your P&L.

Payment gateway settlements booked as one lump sum.

Network International, Stripe and Telr settle net of fees. Booking the net amount as revenue understates both your sales and your costs.

Petty cash with no paper.

Cash-heavy trading and F&B businesses lose recoverable VAT here every single month.

None of these are exotic. They're the default state of a growing Dubai SME whose founder has been doing the books between customer calls.

PRICING

Bookkeeping Pricing by Transaction Volume

We charge based on the only thing that truly affects bookkeeping work— your monthly transaction volume. Every package includes dedicated support, cloud accounting software, and fixed monthly pricing.

Package	Monthly Transactions	What's Included	Monthly Fee
Starter	Up to 50	Transaction Recording Bank Reconciliation Monthly Profit & Loss Report	AED 699
Essentials	51 – 150	Everything in Starter Balance Sheet Aged Receivables & Payables Cash Flow Summary	AED 1,199
Growth	151 – 400	Everything in Essentials Multi-Bank Reconciliation Payment Gateway Reconciliation Monthly Review Meeting	AED 1,999
Custom	400+	Multi-Entity Accounting Multi-Currency Bookkeeping Dedicated Accountant Custom Reporting	Custom Quote

Transparent Pricing. Your monthly fee is agreed before work begins. Software licence is included. If your transaction volume changes, we'll discuss the new pricing before your next invoice—never afterwards.

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Softwares We Work In

We work in your existing system, or migrate you to one that fits. Migration includes chart of accounts rebuild, opening balance verification, and a parallel month so you can see both sets of numbers agree before we cut over. You keep the licence and the login — the file is yours, not ours, and it stays yours if you ever leave.

That last point matters more than it sounds. Some firms hold client data in their own subscriptions. Ask any provider you’re considering who owns the file.

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Who This Is For

Small businesses and startups

on a new mainland or free zone licence, where getting the chart of accounts right in month one prevents an expensive rebuild in year two.

Free zone companies

in DMCC, IFZA, Meydan, JAFZA, SPC or DIFC. If you're claiming Qualifying Free Zone Person status, your statements will be audited — so we keep the books to audit standard by default rather than tidying them up in a panic each year.

Trading, e-commerce and F&B businesses

with high transaction counts, multiple payment channels and inventory movement.

Businesses with an in-house finance person

who needs the reconciliation and month-end close taken off their plate so they can focus on collections and cash.

Why Us

Why Businesses Move Their Bookkeeping to Us

Dubai accounting firm since 2014 — through VAT, ESR, corporate tax and now e-invoicing
ACCA Approved Employer — independently accredited. Verify →
Bookkeeping, VAT, tax and audit in-house — no handover gaps
Business Bay office — Office 1929, Tamani Arts Offices Tower
Registered with FTA, DED, DMCC, IFZA, JAFZA, DAFZA, Meydan and more
A named bookkeeper, not a shared inbox — same person every month

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Years Of Experience

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Let’s Work Together

Send us three things: your trade licence, your last three months of bank statements, and your VAT registration status. You'll get a fixed monthly fee and an honest assessment of your current records within one business day — including whether you actually need us monthly or quarterly.

FAQS

Frequently Asked Querstions

Most Dubai SMEs pay between AED 500 and AED 2,500 per month for outsourced bookkeeping, depending on transaction volume, number of bank accounts and whether multi-currency or inventory is involved. Businesses under 50 transactions a month sit at the lower end. Ask any provider to price on volume rather than revenue.

Bookkeeping is the ongoing recording and reconciliation of transactions. Accounting builds on those records to produce financial statements, tax computations and analysis. You cannot do the second properly without the first — most compliance failures start as bookkeeping failures.

Seven years from the end of the relevant tax period, under UAE Corporate Tax law. Records must support the figures in your financial statements and be produced on request. Digital copies are acceptable provided they are complete and retrievable.

If you hold a trade licence, you are required to maintain financial records regardless of size. Even under Small Business Relief you must still register, file annually and keep seven years of records to evidence you stayed under the threshold. The question is who does it, not whether it's done.

Yes. The service runs entirely on cloud accounting software with digital document submission, so you can be anywhere in the UAE or overseas. Clients who prefer face-to-face meetings can visit our Dubai office or request an on-site visit.

Usually two to four weeks for twelve months of records, depending on transaction volume and how much documentation survives. We rebuild from bank statements outward and flag any VAT or corporate tax exposure the backlog created.

Xero, Zoho Books, QuickBooks Online, Tally Prime, Odoo and Sage. We can work in your existing file or migrate you, and the licence is included in your monthly fee. The file stays in your name.

VAT return preparation and filing is a separate service, quoted separately, but it runs off the same ledger we maintain — so there's no duplication of work or handover gap.

Yes. A common arrangement is that we handle recording, reconciliation and month-end close while your internal person manages collections, supplier relationships and day-to-day cash.

Your trade licence, the last three months of bank statements, VAT registration details if applicable, and access to your current accounting file. Setup takes three to five working days.

12+ Years Of Experience