ACCOUNTANCY D'HOOGHE

Accountancy D'hooghe is an accounting practice based in Ternat, in Flemish Brabant, on the edge of Brussels. The office presents itself as a registered accountant and tax adviser, and builds its position on three words it claims explicitly: knowledge, trust and quality. Its guiding line is the tailored approach: the firm starts from the view that every entrepreneur places their emphasis somewhere different, and that a service package cut to their situation lets them devote themselves fully to their own business.

The first field is accountancy proper: preparing the balance sheet and the annual accounts. The firm does not present these as a box to tick but as the basis on which management decisions are taken, which in its view justifies professional and careful handling. It relies for this on digital tools meant to make the work efficient and transparent, and gives every client permanent access to their file through a secure web application.

The second field is tax, which the office defines from the outset as more than filing a personal or corporate return. It announces proactive advice and frames it as three questions: which new tax or legal avenues might interest the business, how to match the owner's personal plans with sensible optimisations, and which future tax measures are worth anticipating today. It is a definition of tax advice that looks forward rather than back.

The practice specifically supports new businesses. It notes that deciding to start your own company or practice is exciting but rarely comes with a command of the legal, financial or accounting side, and that this is no obstacle with an expert alongside. The office is an approved SME portfolio service provider, the Flemish scheme that lets a small business have part of its advisory and training costs subsidised. For a start-up, that administrative detail is real help at launch.

The fourth strand covers acquisition and succession: buying another business, transferring or winding down an activity, arranging one's own succession. The firm describes these as pivotal moments in an entrepreneur's life, where a sounding board helps reach the right decisions, and positions itself as a trusted adviser to see them through on the legal, financial and accounting fronts. To widen the frame it has surrounded itself with a network of specialists (a company auditor, a notary, a lawyer) sparing the owner from assembling the team themselves around a transaction they will carry out only once.