A-COUNT KORTRIJK

A-count is an accounting practice operating from two offices in Flanders, one in Kortrijk and one in Deinze. The Kortrijk office is on Langemeersstraat and forms a separate entity, registered with the ITAA under number 52.393.336. It is led by Koen Vanhoutteghem, partner and accountant, alongside Yves Windels for the Deinze office. The firm reports supporting more than 450 entrepreneurs.

The positioning is summed up in a phrase the firm repeats: moving accounting "from paper to pixels". In practice, documents no longer travel in folders. Purchase invoices arrive over the Peppol network, bank statements through the CODA channel, and the links between tools are automatic. The office names Octopus, Odoo, Silverfin, WinBooks and Yuki, a range that lets it take over a file without forcing the client to change invoicing software.

The point of this way of working is not the technology itself but when the figures become readable. The firm highlights permanent access to results and to the VAT position, and presents those current figures as the basis of its advice. A director who sees the margin during the year can still weigh an investment or a salary while there is time; faced with annual accounts closed several months after the year-end, all that is left is to note the outcome.

The firm places equal weight on the human counterbalance, and says so plainly: here you reach a fixed contact who knows the file, not a help desk. That answers a common criticism of fully digital offices, where automation often comes with a thinning of contact. The two-office structure aims at the same balance: the closeness of a small practice, with the backing of a larger organisation.

Services cover bookkeeping, periodic returns, preparation of the annual accounts and tax returns, rounded out by advice to the director. The office describes itself as a long-term partner growing with the business, a formula that covers the move from sole trader to company and the structuring questions that follow.

The make-up of the teams is published role by role, and it says a good deal about the organisation. The Kortrijk office brings together file managers, a back-office coordinator and an education coordinator, the last of which is unusual in a practice of this size. It signals investment in building skills internally, which matters more to a client than it might seem: in a profession with high staff turnover, the stability of the team decides whether knowledge of a file survives from one year to the next. The firm also publishes its vacancies by office and highlights work-life balance, which points the same way.

The published testimonials give a sense of the client base: a professional drone operator, an interior architect, a lawyer, a paramedical practice, an industrial refrigeration company. That is a profile of small and mid-sized companies and independent professionals in West and East Flanders, with no claimed sector specialisation. For a self-employed person around Kortrijk looking for a digital office without giving up a named contact, the combination is coherent and the twin local presence makes it workable.