Disclosures

Bookkeeping Index is operated by Pleiades Consultancy, a marketing firm. Some of our clients are bookkeeping and accounting firms, and some of them appear in this index. You should know that before you use a list, so here's exactly how it works.

The Featured placement

A firm that's a Pleiades Consultancy client gets a separate Featured box on the page for its market. The box sits at the top of the firm list, above the first firm, carries no rank number, and isn't part of the list's structured data. Its link to the firm's website is marked as sponsored. It carries this sentence, word for word:

"Commercial disclosure: [Firm] is a Pleiades Consultancy client and receives this separate Featured placement. This does not affect its score or organic position."

Clients are scored like everyone else

A client firm also appears in the normal list or table, at whatever position its evidence earns, with the same disclosure beside its name. The weights, the coverage bar and the listing rules are the same for every firm. There's no paid way to raise a score or move up a list.

Our clients are read from the same sources as every other firm: their own website, the state records and the directories we can check. Pleiades Consultancy builds or maintains the websites of several client firms, so we hold ourselves to one rule there. Nothing goes on a client's site to earn points unless the service behind it is real. Each self-reported item on a client's profile links to the page it came from, like any other firm's, and a credential still needs a third-party record before it counts.

What else we don't do

We don't take payment from firms that aren't clients, we don't sell listings, and we don't let a firm edit its own entry. Claiming a listing confirms who runs the firm. It doesn't change the score. Corrections go through a person, who checks the evidence first.

The client firms that currently hold a Featured placement are listed below.