International Accounting Awards is the industry’s foremost recognition of excellence, attracting entries from all over the region and recognising the campaigns, accounting firms, along with regulators, and industry bodies, consultancies and advisories, law firms, technology providers, and individuals that define the cutting edge of work in the accounting arena. The gala awards presentation dinner has grown to be the premier event in the accounting calendar.

WHO SHOULD ENTER?

The awards are open to accounting firms, regulators, industry bodies, consultancies and advisories, law firms, technology providers, in-house departments, and solo practitioners from all countries in Europe.

ELIGIBILITY PERIOD

Entries must be for work conducted between January 2025 to January 2026 in order to be eligible to enter into the International Accounting Awards 2026. Your work must have made an impact during the time period and results you provide must be within this time frame. Elements of your work may have been introduced earlier and continued through this period, but your case should be based on data and results relative to the qualifying time period.

DATES AND DEADLINES

Entry Deadline: Friday 1 May 2026 5pm GMT. Entries and supporting materials must be submitted online via Evessio

Awards Presentation: Thursday 25 June 2026 Award winners will receive a trophy which will be presented at International Accounting Awards 2026 gala dinner at London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square on 25 June 2026.

Entrants should follow these simple guidelines to ensure your submission has the best chance of winning.

SUBMISSION RULES

1. Submissions can be made either on behalf of your own company or in recognition of a colleague or partner firm.
2. Entry must address the award category explicitly, not generic links to web sites, corporate marketing etc.
3. Submissions should highlight the key differentiator and competitive nature of the project or implementation
4. It is made explicit the Entrant; Judges and the publication will treat all information in strict confidence and any quotes or information to go into the public domain will be pre-cleared by the Entrant.
5. Submissions made after the publicised cut-off date will be treated on a case-by-case basis.
6. The Judges reserve the right to make no award for any specific category
7. The Judges reserve the right to move a submission to a more appropriate category at their discretion
8. The Judges’ decision is final

IMPORTANT NOTES 

Whilst we recommend you try to submit against as many of the criteria as possible, we appreciate that for some companies this may not be possible. The more you can respond against the stronger your application will be, but we would like to highlight that submitting against all criteria is not mandatory.

Each submission is highly recommended to be customised for each new entry to best describe how the case has performed well in the context of the particular category.