About us

Karen qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant in 2001, with United Norwest Co-op. Karen began her accountancy career as a management accountant in the Pharmacy Wholesale division, and developed as the business grew to become Financial Controller of the whole Pharmacy division. More recently, she was the accountant for a locally-based children’s charity.

Karen joined the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers in 2013, gaining full membership status in October. The Counting House holds a practice licence with the ICB, and is supervised by this body for the purposes of the Money Laundering Regulations. The Counting House also holds indemnity insurance. You can check our membership credentials by visiting

www.bookkeepers.org.uk/Find-a-Bookkeeper.

Based in Staffordshire, The Counting House can help small accountancy practices grow their business by taking on ad hoc tasks as needed.

We produce good quality draft accounts that are fully supported by excellent balance sheet files. We are skilled at checking client accounting records and ensuring that the information is accurate as possible.

No job is too big, or too small, whether accounts for sole traders, partnerships or large limited companies, you can be sure each one will receive our full attention.

We can also assist with regular client bookkeeping and systems implementation and training when moving clients to packages such as Xero, Quickbooks, Sage and FreeAgent.

The Counting House was established in 2013 by Karen Stevens, a Chartered Management Accountant and member of the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers. We aim to offer a personal service to businesses of all sizes.