Our mission: impact on our surroundings
Peer Accountants started life in 2014 with a mission. We want to help highly qualified financial talent to flourish, even if that requires extra effort on our part. We look beyond people’s past history, their blemishes and their personal challenges.
Heading your own team as an accountant
We are offering you the chance to lead a team of Peer Accountants. You will be the face of Peer Accountants for the business owners, leading your own team for our financial compilation work.
Read more about heading your own Peer team
We don’t just welcome people with good qualifications and experience. We also help people who show affinity, interest, commitment and willingness along the path towards a career in accountancy.
Every day, we demonstrate that there’s a place in accountancy for everyone who shows financial commitment. Based on this belief, we have built up a solid team of well-qualified, engaged, experienced professionals, who can answer every financial question posed by business owners.
We are happy to involve anyone who can help us to achieve our goal.
The future of Peer
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Peer Accountants dreams operating a chain of branches, spread across the country.
Throughout the land, talented accountants are in the starting blocks, ready to make a career in accountancy. The only thing they need is a nudge in the right direction and the right guidance and supervision. Peer Accountants is needed everywhere.
We also want to be there for companies and other organisations looking for an accounting firm that makes a visible contribution to society.
To make this dream come true, we are looking for accountants who want to set up and manage their own team, and help to implement our plans.
This is our social impact
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We commissioned a study to find out exactly what we are achieving. These are the results.
Impact specialist Irene Hemels studied the social impact of Peer Accountants. These are our results for the years she investigated:
- Realisation of ten paid jobs for talented individuals who need extra support
- In the years of the study, 99% of our funding came from selling our services and the founder’s own assets
- Realisation of twelve work experience trajectories
- Peer invested an average of € 15,000 per new employee and € 30,000 per newcomer (asylum permit holder)
- Employees spent an average of 1.5 to 2 hours per day supervising each other and onboarding new colleagues
- 85% of our invoiced revenue was generated by employees from target groups
- All employees have achieved personal growth since starting work at Peer
- Employees indicate that their general sense of well-being has improved considerably, they feel happier, more energetic, and more accepted by those around them. Most employees claim that their quality of life has improved (often greatly improved).
Peer’s people
Otto Reuchlin
Jan Veldhuizen
works for Peer Accountants as an accountant, heading up the financial compilation engagements. As a partner, he also works for VHM Accountants & Adviseurs in Veenendaal.
Team leader RA/AA
We are offering you the chance to lead a team of Peer Accountants. You will be the face of Peer Accountants for the business owners, leading your own team for our financial compilation work. Read more about heading your own Peer team.
Our partners in our mission
De Normaalste Zaak
brings employers together to share experiences of inclusion.
Social Enterprise NL
is the umbrella organisation for social entrepreneurs.
The Social Enterprises Code
registers companies that visibly comply with the five principles of social enterprise. Peer works on the qualification.
PSO 30+
Stichting De Omslag
The City of Amsterdam and Stichting De Omslag jointly manage the marketplace for corporate social responsibility. de marktplaats voor sociaal verantwoord ondernemen.. Peer is gekwalificeerd als partij die Social Return kan invullen voor ondernemingen die hiervoor een verplichting hebben.
Buy Social
makes purchasing from social enterprises simpler.
Het VriendenLoterij Fonds
supports social enterprises and has invested in Peer.
Rabo Foundation
is an impact financier for global economic, social and ecological change.
Dichter Bij Huis
Stadsdeel West Amsterdam
Sociaal Werkkoepel Amsterdam
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Peer as social enterprise
Peer Accountants is a recognised social enterprise, also known as social business or impact business. A social enterprise is a business that prioritises its societal mission, using profits as a means to this end.
Why social enterprises are thriving
Samenwerken met social enterprises helpt organisaties om hun maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemerschap vorm te geven. Daar is steeds meer behoefte aan. Klanten en overheden stellen steeds meer eisen aan bedrijven over maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen.
Healthy revenue model
Een social enterprise ziet er hetzelfde uit als een gewone onderneming. Het verschil met een liefdadigheidsinstelling is dat een social enterprise een bedrijf is met een gezond verdienmodel dat niet afhankelijk is van donaties of subsidie. Een bekende norm is dat minstens 50 of 75 procent van de omzet komt uit diensten en producten (bij Peer is dat overigens meer dan 90 procent). Winst wordt geheel of gedeeltelijk weer in het bedrijf geïnvesteerd.
Well-known companies as social enterprises
The number of social enterprises in the Netherlands is rising. There are now some five thousand, including well-known companies like Ben & & Jerry’s and Tony Chocolonely. There are also financial social enterprises, such as Triodos Bank and Qredits. Increasingly more organisations are including social enterprise in their core activities.
Our quality mark for social enterprises
Peer Accountants has the PSO 30+-certificate, the quality mark for social enterprises. Like us, many social enterprises are affiliated to the Social Enterprise NL trade organisation. We follow the guidelines of the Social Enterprises Code Foundation. Social enterprise is also recognised at European level.