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Market overview of Accounting departments in Germany: Number of businesses, distribution by Bundesland, typical challenges, and current developments.
Status: Q4, 2026
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Market overview of Accounting departments in Germany: Number of businesses, distribution by Bundesland, typical challenges, and current developments.
Status: Q4, 2026
In Germany there are approximately 8991 Accounting departments.*
* This number is based on our list of Accounting departments in Germany. It contains approximately 8991 company addresses, of which 6126 include an email address. You can find the breakdown by Bundesland in the next section.
Distribution of Accounting departments in Germany by Bundesland.
| Bundesland | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Baden-Württemberg | 816 | 9.07 % |
| Bayern | 1458 | 16.21 % |
| Berlin | 133 | 1.48 % |
| Brandenburg | 286 | 3.18 % |
| Bremen | 59 | 0.66 % |
| Hamburg | 300 | 3.34 % |
| Hessen | 1252 | 13.92 % |
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 114 | 1.27 % |
| Niedersachsen | 586 | 6.52 % |
| Nordrhein-Westfalen | 2176 | 24.2 % |
| Rheinland-Pfalz | 578 | 6.43 % |
| Saarland | 103 | 1.15 % |
| Sachsen | 295 | 3.28 % |
| Sachsen-Anhalt | 180 | 2.0 % |
| Schleswig-Holstein | 382 | 4.25 % |
| Thüringen | 273 | 3.04 % |
All company addresses from this analysis as an immediately usable Excel list — including address, phone number, website, and email address, where publicly available.
List of accounting departments in Germany