Force HRM vs Your Accountant
A good accountant is valuable. Payroll processing is a narrow slice of what they do — and it competes with everything else on their desk.
What a part-time accountant costs
- A monthly retainer, typically starting around KES 25,000+ for payroll processing alone, on top of any other accounting work.
- Availability risk — leave days, other clients, and competing deadlines all sit between you and your payroll running on time.
- Filing is usually still manual on their end, which means the same human-error and deadline risk Excel carries, just outsourced.
When an accountant is the right call
- For broader tax strategy, audits, and financial advisory — work that genuinely benefits from a dedicated professional relationship.
- Many Force HRM clients keep their accountant for exactly this, while Force HRM takes over the monthly payroll cycle itself.
The real difference
- Force HRM is built specifically to run payroll — calculation, filing, and payslips are the entire product, not one task among many. That focus is why returns are filed by the 5th, four days ahead of the KRA deadline, every month.