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Top 25 Accounting firms based in South Africa

Name: Accounting firms based in South Africa
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Aug 29, 2026 1,668 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 1,668 accounting firms headquartered in South Africa as of August 2026 and tracks 18,748 professional contacts across them, including 5,350 with verified work emails and 439 with mobile numbers. Johannesburg is the largest hub.

This list covers accounting firms headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed August 29, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Aug 29, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

1,668Companies

18,748Contacts tracked

5,350Verified emails

439Mobile numbers

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The 25 largest accounting firms based in South Africa

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 1,668 accounting firms based in South Africa, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Aug 29, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to accounting firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	BDO South Africa	Indirect evidence	Cape Town, South Africa	1,001-5,000	1,896 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Audit \| Advisory \| Tax The South African member firm of BDO International - The Leader for Exceptional Client Service since 1963 BDO clients experience a distinctive level of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
2	Forvis Mazars In South Africa	Indirect evidence	Cape Town, South Africa	1,001-5,000	698 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Forvis Mazars Group SC is an independent member of Forvis Mazars Global, a leading global professional services network.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
3	Nexia Sab&t	Indirect evidence	Capetown, South Africa	501-1,000	640 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The history of Nexia SAB & T dates back, when black business in general and black accountancy firms in particular were virtually unheard of.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
4	PKF In South Africa	Strong evidence	Welkom, South Africa	501-1,000	412 contacts →
	Strong evidence “PKF is one of the largest mid-tier accounting firms in South Africa, providing multi-disciplinary auditing, accounting and business advisory services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
5	Bvsa Group Groep	Strong evidence	Tyger Valley, South Africa	201-500	282 contacts →
	Strong evidence “BVSA is a leading Financial and Accounting Services group with a difference.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
6	RSM South Africa	Indirect evidence	Randburg, South Africa	201-500	210 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “RSM South Africa is part of a world leading network of audit, tax and consulting experts with member firms in over 120 countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
7	Rakoma And Associates INC	Indirect evidence	East London, South Africa	201-500	154 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Rakoma & Associates Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
8	LDP Chartered Accountants And Auditors INC	Indirect evidence	South Africa	51-200	153 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “LDP Chartered Accountants & Auditors is a leading independent audit and advisory firm based in Stellenbosch, South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
9	AFA	Strong evidence	Pretoria, South Africa	51-200	143 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Accounting and Financial Advisory is a team of highly skilled, highly motivated, performance driven financial staff.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
10	Ngubane	Indirect evidence	Randburg, South Africa	201-500	136 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Audit, tax and consulting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
11	Colenbrander	Indirect evidence	Hilton, South Africa	51-200	118 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Colenbrander is a leading firm of Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditors, located in Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
12	Sekelaxabiso	Indirect evidence	Waverly, South Africa	201-500	103 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “SekelaXabiso is one of South Africa’s leading majority black-owned professional services firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
13	Kreston SA	Indirect evidence	Pretoria, South Africa	201-500	90 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We provide a full range of accountancy, business advisory and financial services that will help you to achieve your personal and business goals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
14	Advoca Auditing	Strong evidence	Pretoria, South Africa	51-200	81 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Advoca believes in a dynamic approach to accounting and only use the latest technology and cloud based software packages, placing us at the forefront of change in the accounting…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
15	123 Consulting	Indirect evidence	Natal, South Africa	201-500	73 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At 1.2.3.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
16	Nexia Levitt Kirson	Strong evidence	Cape Town, South Africa	51-200	63 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Nexia Levitt Kirson is a member of Nexia, a leading, global network of independent accounting and consulting firms, providing a comprehensive portfolio of audit, accountancy, tax…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
17	KNM	Indirect evidence	Bryanston, South Africa	51-200	61 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Overview KnM is a pro-Pan African and proudly South African black-owned professional services firm that offers client-specific and industry-focused solutions to public and private…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
18	Chapu Chartered Accountants	Indirect evidence	Polokwane, South Africa	51-200	55 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are a professional services firm consisting of Chartered Accountants, Registered Auditors, Business Consultants, Tax specialists, and a diverse range of other experts, all…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
19	Lockhat Incorporated	Indirect evidence	Port Shepstone Port Shepstone Kzn, South Africa	51-200	55 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Lockhat Incorporated is a firm of registered auditors offering a range of financial services to both corporate business and government.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
20	The Beancounter	Indirect evidence	Sandton, South Africa	51-200	50 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Look, we aren’t your average accountants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
21	MMS Chartered Accountants	Strong evidence	Johannesburg, South Africa	51-200	49 contacts →
	Strong evidence “For more than 25 years, MMS has provided high quality accounting, tax and management services to a diverse and successful client base.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
22	SDK CA Group	Indirect evidence	Durbanville, South Africa	51-200	46 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “SDK\|CA Group is a well-established small to medium-sized firm based in Durbanville, built on long-term stability, trust, loyalty, and shared value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
23	Rödl & Partner South Africa	Indirect evidence	Johannesburg, South Africa	1,001-5,000	46 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “As attorneys, tax advisers, management and IT consultants and auditors, we are present with 110 own offices in around 50 countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
24	sme.tax	Strong evidence	Centurion, South Africa	51-200	41 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Accounting one-stop” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026
25	OHS Business Advisors And Chartered Accountants	Indirect evidence	East London, South Africa	51-200	40 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “OHS is a firm of Business Advisors and Chartered Accountants situated in East London, Eastern Cape.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: accounting firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names accounting firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of accounting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name accounting firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Accounting firms based in South Africa at a glance

As of Aug 29, 2026

28.5%Verified-email coverage

2.3%Mobile-number coverage

11.2Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

16.1%Largest-city concentration · Johannesburg

Aug 29, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

1,084

11-50

459

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among accounting firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “accounting firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names accounting firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among accounting firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking: Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification: Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 5,350 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh: This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on August 29, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names accounting firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many accounting firms are there based in South Africa?

RevenueBase identified 1,668 accounting firms headquartered in South Africa as of August 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

BDO South Africa, headquartered in Cape Town, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most accounting firms?

Johannesburg leads with 268 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (177) and Pretoria (142).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

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How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on August 29, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.