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About RR Accountants

Built on standards. Not promises.

Founded in 2010 by Iftikhar Rashid. 16 years in UK practice. Compliance and advisory for ambitious UK business owners.

Every business tells a story. Not just of success, but of pressure, decisions, and standards. This is RR — a firm built on numbers, but driven by people who refuse to run an accountancy practice the volume-model way.

  • 16 years
    In UK practice
  • 4 UK offices
    Birmingham · London · Manchester · Bradford
  • Compliance Vault™
    Proprietary three-component system
  • GBCC member
    Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce
Why RR exists

The decision wasn't to start an accountancy practice. It was to build a different kind.

Iftikhar Rashid founded RR Accountants in 2010 with a specialist focus on property and landlord tax. Over the next decade, the firm grew — and ran into the same problem every quality firm runs into: the industry model is built for volume.

Volume firms run a pool of account managers, rotate them every 6 months, file returns late, miss planning windows, and discover their clients' tax bills the same day HMRC does. We watched landlords lose £15,000 a year to Section 24 because no one had raised it. Directors miss pension carry-forward windows. Contractors sign contracts inside IR35 unwittingly.

The decision was to build the opposite. Fewer clients. Named accountant. Published service standards in writing. A named proprietary system that turns the promise into something we can prove every month.

Standards aren't a marketing claim. They're a structural commitment.

What we built

Three structural moats that volume firms cannot replicate.

01

Compliance Vault™

A named three-component system: Evidence Pack, Deadline Lock, Portfolio Reporting Pack. Crunch has 'software'. TAP has 'subscription'. We have a system.

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02

Published service standards

WhatsApp typically under 30 minutes. Email within 1 working day. Documented in every engagement letter — not buried in fine print.

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03

Annual Compliance Review

Every client. Every year. The mechanism that proves the standards are operational, not stated. No competitor runs an equivalent.

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The team

Named people. Real continuity.

Two named team members on every engagement. No rotating account managers. No pool model.

Iftikhar Rashid

Founder & lead accountant

Rashid founded RR Accountants in 2010. 16 years in UK practice. His name is on every engagement letter — no pool model, no rotating account managers, no 'team' that's actually a stranger every quarter.

Specialism

Property and landlord tax, IR35, R&D

Mehmood Rajoka

Operations, content, CRM

Mehmood joined to professionalise the firm. The published service standards, Compliance Vault™ as a named system, and the Annual Compliance Review programme are all his work — the discipline that turns a service promise into an operational standard.

Specialism

Operations, brand, client experience

Our offices are also staffed by an extended team of qualified accountants and operations specialists — all working under the same Compliance Vault™ standard.

Who we serve — and who we don't

We're not for everyone — and that's the point.

We serve five verticals with equal depth: limited company directors, contractors, landlords, growing businesses, and established SMEs. Most of our clients are doing between £200k and £5m in turnover.

We don't serve price-shoppers, grey-area scheme seekers, chronic late record-senders, or 'just file it' clients. Every prospect goes through a 20-minute discovery call so we can confirm fit before we proceed. The call is the filter — not a formality.

Filtering protects the standards. The standards protect the clients who stay.

Where we're going

The most trusted standards-led UK SME firm.

Four UK offices today — Birmingham, London, Manchester, Bradford — with further locations planned. The growth target is depth, not volume: better service standards, deeper specialist expertise, a longer client tenure.

No PE backing. No exit horizon. No 'roll-up' acquisitions. The reason: those are the things that distort a firm's priorities away from the client and toward the next funding round. We're independent — and we plan to stay that way.

By 2027 we will be the most trusted standards-led compliance and advisory firm for UK SMEs.

Part of Rajoka

RR is the compliance and advisory brand within the Rajoka portfolio.

Rajoka is a portfolio of operating companies helping businesses start, run, grow, and exit better. RR Accountants sits within Rajoka's compliance pillar. The day-to-day client relationship sits entirely with RR — Rajoka provides parent-brand credibility and portfolio architecture, not client-facing involvement.

Book a 20-minute call with Rashid.

We'll confirm whether we're a fit, and if we are, we'll tell you exactly what working with RR Accountants would look like for your business.