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Outsourcing for accountancy practices

We muck in.

A permanent, dedicated team that does your accounts production, back office and content — inside your systems, every month, as part of your firm. So you stop producing, stop recruiting, and get back to running the practice.

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Same people every monthSouth African team, UK sign-offRolling monthly, no lock-in
Your Muckin teamOn shift
  • AP
    Accounts preparer
    Year-end, CT & SA · in your software
    Review-readyyour working papers
  • BK
    Bookkeeper
    Bank recs, VAT, supplier ledger
    Kept currentevery month
  • PR
    Payroll & admin
    Runs, pensions, onboarding, AML
    On the dayevery run
  • CW
    Marketing
    Site, guides, newsletter, socials, ads
    Publishedunder your name
One named lead · one monthly invoiceSame team every month
What this is actually for

Every hour you spend on production is an hour you're not running the firm.

Nobody started a practice to reconcile a bank feed at 9pm or sit through another round of interviews for a part-qualified who leaves in eighteen months. A seat gives you 160 hours a month back. Here's what practice owners do with it.

01

Advisory work

Management accounts meetings, tax planning, cash-flow conversations — the work clients value, pay more for and stay for.

02

Winning the next clients

Proposals, referral lunches, the three warm leads you never called back. Fee growth comes from the owner's diary, not the production queue.

03

Pricing and fee reviews

Most practices are under-priced because nobody has had the time to re-price 200 clients. That's a week's work that pays for a year of seats.

04

Running the team

One-to-ones, training, a proper review process — the things that stop your good people leaving.

05

Buying another firm

Acquisitions fail on integration capacity. A standing production team is what lets you absorb a block of fees without hiring first.

06

Not recruiting. Ever again.

No adverts, no agency fees, no interviews, no counter-offers, no three-month notice periods. The seat is filled, and stays filled.

160ha month back from one full seat — about 40 client meetings, or 20 proposals, or every Friday
0recruitment rounds this year. Cover, replacement and training are ours
+1hPretoria is one to two hours ahead of the UK — your team is at its desk when you are
1named lead who knows your practice, plans the month with you and answers the phone
The problem

You don't need overflow. You need people who stay.

Every outsourcer sells you the January rush. Then March comes, the work goes back to your team, and you're hiring again by June. Muckin is built the other way round: a standing team, sized to your practice, that flexes up and down without ever leaving.

The usual outsourcing

  • Send a job, get a job back — no one knows your clients
  • Different preparer every time
  • Billed per job, so every query costs
  • Priced for the peak, dropped at the trough
  • Accounts only — the admin and marketing still land on you

Muckin

  • A named team that gets to know your clients and how you work
  • Same people, month after month
  • One monthly fee for a set amount of capacity
  • Scale seats up for January, down for summer — team stays
  • Accounts, back office and marketing — the whole load
What we do

Three kinds of work. One team that does all of it.

Accounts production

Year-end accounts, corporation tax, self assessment and management accounts — prepared to review-ready standard inside your software.

What we take on

Back office

Bookkeeping, VAT, payroll, onboarding, AML admin, credit control and the inbox. The work that eats a practice from the inside.

What we take on

Marketing

Your website, the guides on it, the newsletter, the socials and the ads — written, built and published every month, under your name.

What we take on
The portal

You can see exactly where every job is.

Most outsourcers take your work away and go quiet. Every Muckin practice gets a login: raise a job with the files, watch it move, answer queries in one list, and see how much of your seat you have left this month.

It is included with every seat. There is nothing extra to buy and nothing to install.

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A clock you can trust

The turnaround clock starts when your document pack is complete, and pauses while we are waiting on you — so the deadline is always honest.

One query list

Every question about a job in one place with a due date, not scattered across twenty emails.

Seat meter

Hours used against your plan this month, with a projection for where you will land.

Nothing to install

A link in an email lets a partner upload a file or answer a query without even signing in.

Getting set up

Connect your software, not your passwords.

Most outsourcers make you add them as a user inside every client's Xero, or email logins around. With Muckin you connect Xero once — you approve it on Xero's own screen, your client list comes straight into the portal, and we work in the books from there. No shared passwords, and you can switch it off in a click.

One approval, not fifty

Sign in on Xero and pick the clients you want us on. Every one you share comes across at once — no adding a user in each client's settings.

We never see a password

You authorise us on Xero, not here. We get a connection you control and can revoke anytime — from the portal or from your own Xero account.

Your client list, already in

The moment you connect, your clients are in the portal ready to send us work. Nothing to type in twice, no spreadsheet to upload.

How it works

Inside your systems. Under your name. Reviewed by you.

We don't take your work away to somewhere else. We log in to your software, follow your working papers, and leave everything review-ready for your signature. Your clients see your firm. We're just the people upstairs.

Four roles, one team

Accounts, bookkeeping, payroll & admin, content. Mix them however the month needs.

Thirty days to full speed

Access, working papers, first jobs, first review cycle — done inside a month.

No lock-in

Rolling monthly. Change the size of the team with a month's notice, either way.

The team behind Muckin

Muckin is staffed by Buzz Accounting's own team.

Buzz Accounting runs its own network of specialist practices — the brands below — from its production office in Pretoria. Muckin is how another firm buys time on that same team: the people who sit inside your systems are Buzz's own accountants and bookkeepers, UK-reviewed, doing this exact work every day.

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Why practices switch

Hiring is slow, fragile and eats the owner's year. This doesn't.

A part-qualified takes three months to find, three more to get productive, and leaves in eighteen. Every cycle costs you a quarter of your own time — time that should have gone on clients, pricing and growth. Muckin gives you a dedicated seat, filled from day one, reviewed and signed off in the UK, with cover built in. The money saved is real; the time is the point.

  • Fixed monthly fee per seat — £23,400 a year for a Production seat against £36–44k all-in for a UK bookkeeper — with no recruitment fees, notice periods or holiday cover to find
  • Work done in your software, to your working-papers standard, review-ready
  • Month-by-month capacity — add a seat for year-end season, drop it in the summer
  • One team for the lot: accounts, the back office and the marketing that brings the next clients in
Work out how many seats you need
£1,950

Production seat

160 hours a month of bookkeeping, VAT, payroll, admin or marketing. From £650 part-time.

£2,650

Accounts seat

160 hours a month of year-end, CT, SA and management accounts, UK-reviewed. From £850 part-time.

35%+

Under a UK hire

£23,400 a year for a Production seat against £36–44k all-in for a UK bookkeeper.

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Same working day

Pretoria is one to two hours ahead of the UK all year. Your team is online when you are.

Who it's for

Built for practices between "too busy" and "big enough to hire".

The sole practitioner

You're doing the work and selling the work and chasing the work. A part-time seat gives you your evenings back and a proper pipeline for once.

The 3–10 person firm

You've got a team, but January breaks it every year and every leaver costs you a quarter. A standing seat or two takes the pressure off for good.

The growing firm

You're buying fees or winning clients faster than you can staff. A Muckin team scales with you — add seats as the book grows, without a hiring round.

Ready for a team that mucks in?

Tell us what's piling up. We'll come back within one working day with who we'd put on it and what it costs.

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