About EarthOne

Started to give UK firms a straightforward offshore option.

Qualified people, honest pricing, proper data protection, and no lock-in. That is what we set out to build, and those are the only terms we operate on.

Our Story

A decade of building accounting talent. Now serving UK clients.

When you outsource accounting work, you are trusting someone with your clients' numbers or your own business finances. That trust has to be earned. Here is the background EarthOne brings to that responsibility.

EarthOne Accounting LLP is part of the AccountingBaba Group, a set of businesses founded by Ketul Patel, a Chartered Accountant with over 10 years of experience across MSME accounting, finance staffing, training and leadership hiring. The group spans training, recruitment and C-suite hiring across India and the UAE. EarthOne is its UK chapter.

We made three commitments when we started. They are not aspirations, they are how we operate from day one.

  • Publish the prices.No discovery calls required to find out what something costs. Rates are on the website.
  • One month's notice, not 12.We earn your next month every month. You are never locked in.
  • GDPR-aligned DPA signed upfront.A Data Processing Agreement is in place before a single file moves. Not promised, signed.
EarthOne office
EarthOne at a glance
10+
Years of CA experience across MSME accounting, finance & training
8
UK accounting services, focused, not spread thin
100%
UK-focused, not spread across six jurisdictions
ICAI
Qualified Indian CAs on every file, every time
Group Heritage

Three businesses. One standard of rigour.

The people filing your accounts come from a talent pipeline we built and tested ourselves, not sourced from a general jobs board.

Training

AccountingBaba Training Institute

Founded in 2018, AccountingBaba is Surat's oldest CA-run accounting training institute with three branches. Curriculum covers Tally, Excel, finance software, compliance workflows and AI tools for accounting practitioners. One of the first institutes in the region to deliver structured AI training for finance professionals.

10,000+
Students trained
Recruitment

AccountingBaba Recruitment

A finance-only recruitment agency built on the talent pipeline the institute created. No IT hiring, no sales roles. Accountants, finance managers and CAs only. Known across India and the UAE for a 7-day shortlist commitment and 90-day free replacement guarantee.

1,000+
Placements across 300+ clients in India and the UAE
Leadership Hiring

Boardroom CXO

The group's C-suite hiring practice, placing CFOs, CHROs, CTOs and COOs into IPO-bound companies, PE-backed firms and funded startups. Every mandate is handled with full confidentiality, structured role mapping and post-hire support across India, the UAE, the US and Singapore.

30,000+
Screened senior finance leaders in the passive network

What this means for you as a UK client

You are not engaging a start-up. You are working with a group that has spent a decade building talent pipelines, placing finance professionals and operating at board level. EarthOne brings that depth to UK accounting firms and businesses that need qualified CA support, at published prices, on one month's notice.

AI-Ready Team

Our team uses AI-assisted workflows for document review, working paper preparation and quality checks. Your files move faster, errors are caught earlier, and your time on review is reduced.

We apply the same discipline internally that we teach in the classroom. AI is not a selling point here. It is how we work.

Our Mission
"To deliver UK accounting outsourcing work that a senior partner could review at any time and find nothing to fix."

We are not trying to be the biggest firm in this space. We are trying to be the most reliable one for the clients who choose us.

The Founder

A qualified CA behind every engagement.

Ketul Patel, Founder, EarthOne Accounting
Ketul Patel
Founder, EarthOne Accounting · Indian Chartered Accountant

Ketul is a Chartered Accountant with more than 10 years of experience across MSME accounting, finance leadership, staffing and training across India and the UAE.

He founded AccountingBaba to place and train accounting professionals, and built EarthOne to bring that same standard of qualified CA talent to UK accounting firms and businesses, with transparent pricing and proper data protection from the first engagement.

When you write to EarthOne, you write to Ketul directly. Your message does not go to a sales team.

Indian CA (ICAI) 10+ years experience AccountingBaba Group
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The Team

Every professional on your file holds an Indian CA qualification.

Senior review is built into our process. Work does not leave us without a second qualified pair of eyes on it.

ICAI Qualified on Every File
Indian Chartered Accountants, trained in IFRS and fluent in UK GAAP, MTD for VAT, RTI payroll and the full UK accounting software stack.
Senior Review Built In
Every piece of work goes through a second qualified reviewer before it leaves us. This is not an option, it is how we operate on every engagement.
UK Software Fluent
Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, FreeAgent, IRIS, BrightPay, TaxCalc, Capium, Dext, Hubdoc. Your team works inside your tools, not ours.
Why India-Based, UK-Focused

The deepest pool of qualified accounting talent in the world, applied exclusively to the UK.

India has one of the deepest pools of qualified accounting talent in the world. Indian CAs are trained in international standards and work fluently in HMRC processes, UK GAAP and the UK software stack.

Most outsourcing firms use that talent to serve clients across six or seven countries at once. We have chosen to focus exclusively on the UK. That means our team stays current on UK-specific changes, MTD for ITSA, Corporation Tax updates, HMRC practice guidance, rather than dividing attention across jurisdictions.

UK
Only, exclusively UK accounting, not 6 jurisdictions
ICAI
One of the world's most demanding accounting qualifications
MTD
Current on MTD for ITSA, VAT, CT updates, always
GDPR
DPA signed before first file. Always. No exceptions.

Ready to talk?

Tell us what you need. We will tell you what we would charge, who would work on it, and what the next step looks like.

Book a consultation hi@earthoneaccounting.com