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## Agent Guide

**What this page is:** Accounting firm insurance for bookkeepers, CPAs and tax preparers: professional liability, cyber, crime and workers’ compensation, compared on what you handle.

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# Spot for Finance and Accounting Firms

Get quotes from finance and accounting insurance providers with Spot.

We get your firm quotes that reflect the books and money you handle, compare them with you and take care of renewals as you grow.

- Professional liability, cyber and crime kept distinct
- Client funds and payment-access scenarios put to each insurer
- Keep your broker or switch, with no commissions on premiums

[Get Started](https://app.spot.insure/signup?coverage=professional-errors-omissions&industry=finance-and-accounting&icp=financial-services). Spot is not an insurance carrier and takes no commissions on premiums; you can keep your broker or switch.

## How Spot helps

1. **Tell us who handles client records and money.** Your Spot team asks which services you provide, what client records you keep, who can access accounting systems and who can change payment instructions, then puts it into one clear submission.
2. **Compare what each quote actually covers.** Once brokers have shopped your firm’s submission, Spot reads how each one defines your services and whether its crime form addresses employee theft, client funds or redirected payments.
3. **Check client and lender requirements against your policies.** When a client, bank or landlord sends insurance requirements, Spot checks them against what you have and flags what’s missing before you sign.
4. **Renew before tax season starts.** Spot keeps your policies and documents together and brings renewals forward, so you’re not reworking an application during your busiest weeks.

## Who we help

- **Bookkeepers and accountants.** Clients rely on your reporting and records, so the services in the quote need to match the engagement letters you sign.
- **Tax preparers.** You collect identity, bank and payroll records every season, which makes cyber terms and vendor handling matter.
- **Outsourced finance and payroll teams.** Staff may see payment instructions or move money for clients, so crime and social-engineering questions belong in the submission.
- **Fractional CFOs and advisory firms.** Taking on decisions about a client’s finances is advisory work, and the services on your application should say so.

## Coverage

- [Professional errors and omissions (E&O)](https://spot.insure/insurance/professional-errors-omissions)
- [Cyber liability](https://spot.insure/insurance/cyber)
- [Crime](https://spot.insure/insurance/crime)
- [Workers’ compensation](https://spot.insure/insurance/workers-compensation)
- [Commercial property](https://spot.insure/insurance/commercial-property)

## When to get this coverage

- **You’re taking on a new kind of client work.** Adding tax preparation, payroll or advisory work changes the services the professional liability form needs to name.
- **You collect tax, bank or identity records.** Each season brings records an insurer will ask about. Check your cyber terms and the vendors holding that data before the rush.
- **Staff can access client money or accounting systems.** Ask how a crime form treats employee theft, client funds and redirected payments. The insurer answers each one separately.
- **You’re hiring your first staff accountant.** California generally requires workers’ compensation even with one employee. Give the broker each employee’s state, duties and payroll.
- **You’re signing or renewing an office lease.** Schedule the computers, paper client files and equipment at that office with current values before you sign.

## Common questions

Also known as accounting firm insurance, accountants insurance, CPA insurance, bookkeeper insurance, bookkeeping business insurance and tax preparer insurance.

### Is CPA insurance the same as professional liability?

Professional liability, also called accountants’ E&O, is the core of it. Most firms also need cyber for client records and crime for payment fraud, plus workers’ compensation for staff. Spot compares them on what your firm actually handles.

### Does employee-theft insurance cover client payment fraud?

Not necessarily. Employee theft and a client’s redirected payment are different scenarios. Spot asks each insurer how its crime form treats both, and shows you the answers side by side.

### Do tax-security rules tell us which policy to buy?

No. IRS security guidance for tax preparers helps frame what data you hold and how you protect it, but it doesn’t choose a policy. Spot compares each proposal’s cyber wording with the taxpayer data you receive and the vendors who can access it.

### What should we send to get quotes?

Send a list of the services you provide, the kinds of clients you serve, who can access client records and accounts, your staff and work locations, and any lease or client insurance requirements.

### Our broker has placed our professional liability for years. Do we have to move it?

No. Spot works alongside your broker on that renewal and the rest of your program, and takes no commissions on premiums. If your broker doesn’t place crime or cyber for accounting firms, you can switch to one who does.

## More

- [Business Insurance by Industry](https://spot.insure/insurance-for)

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