Sector benchmarks
Median price over revenue and price per employee in accounting tech acquisitions, for each vertical and each type of buyer, with the number of deals behind every figure.
107 acquisitions in accounting tech by 64 buyers, announced from May 2015 to Oct 2026. 17 of them state a price. Across all of them the median price over revenue is 5.3x from 2 deals and the median price per employee is $2.6M from 1 deal. Only deals that state the figures count toward a median, so each one says how many deals it rests on.
By vertical
- AI-Native Accounting Firms: 1 deal. Median price over revenue: no deal states one yet. Median price per employee: no deal states one yet.
- AI Accounting Agents: 5 deals. Median price over revenue: no deal states one yet. Median price per employee: no deal states one yet.
- General Ledger & ERP: 9 deals. Median price over revenue: no deal states one yet. Median price per employee: no deal states one yet.
- Close & Reconciliation: 3 deals. Median price over revenue: no deal states one yet. Median price per employee: no deal states one yet.
- AP, AR & Spend: 14 deals. Median price over revenue: no deal states one yet. Median price per employee: no deal states one yet.
- Tax: 10 deals. Median price over revenue: 8.3x from 1 deal. Median price per employee: $2.6M from 1 deal.
- Audit & Assurance: 5 deals. Median price over revenue: no deal states one yet. Median price per employee: no deal states one yet.
- FP&A & Reporting: 4 deals. Median price over revenue: no deal states one yet. Median price per employee: no deal states one yet.
- Practice Management: 2 deals. Median price over revenue: no deal states one yet. Median price per employee: no deal states one yet.
- Small Business & Consumer: 8 deals. Median price over revenue: no deal states one yet. Median price per employee: no deal states one yet.
- Accounting Firm Innovation: 2 deals. Median price over revenue: no deal states one yet. Median price per employee: no deal states one yet.
By type of buyer
- Accounting and finance software companies: 41 deals. Median price over revenue: no deal states one yet. Median price per employee: no deal states one yet.
- Tax and information publishers: 5 deals. Median price over revenue: 8.3x from 1 deal. Median price per employee: $2.6M from 1 deal.
- Private equity and holding companies: 21 deals. Median price over revenue: 2.4x from 1 deal. Median price per employee: no deal states one yet.
- Software and technology companies: 1 deal. Median price over revenue: no deal states one yet. Median price per employee: no deal states one yet.
- Accounting firms and finance services: 32 deals. Median price over revenue: no deal states one yet. Median price per employee: no deal states one yet.
- Fintech and payments companies: 6 deals. Median price over revenue: no deal states one yet. Median price per employee: no deal states one yet.
- Other: 1 deal. Median price over revenue: no deal states one yet. Median price per employee: no deal states one yet.
What the figures are
Price over revenue is the price paid divided by the target's revenue. Price per employee is the price divided by its headcount at the deal. A figure appears only where a public source states the price and the revenue or headcount. Each deal's sources are on its buyer's page.
Most active buyers
- Visma (13)
- Ascend (5)
- Sage (5)
- Thomson Reuters (5)
- Aprio (4)
- Bill Holdings (3)
- Caseware (3)
- Cherry Bekaert (3)
- Grant Thornton Advisors (3)
- Hg (3)
- Intuit (3)
- Baker Tilly (2)
- Citrin Cooperman (2)
- Sovos (2)
- Xero (2)
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