Built around the reality of running a small practice.

FAB brings together the people doing the work and making the decisions every day:

  • Practice Owners
  • Managing Partners
  • Sole Practitioners
  • Bookkeepers
  • Practice Managers
  • Accountants

Whether you're building your first team, growing your client base, improving profitability or simply trying to create more time in the week, FAB is built around the challenges and opportunities that come with running a smaller practice.

Shaped by small practices and bookkeepers.

Our Small Practice & Bookkeepers Advisory Board brings together people working at the heart of the profession to help shape FAB 2027.

Their experience and insight help us understand the real challenges facing smaller practices and ensure the event delivers practical ideas, relevant conversations and valuable connections.

"So many insightful, informative and entertaining sessions and great chats with software suppliers, a lot to take home and digest.

But it's the moments between the sessions - meeting in person people you've connected with online, catching up with colleagues and friends from the industry and mining the experience of fellow accountants while waiting for a talk to begin that make FAB such a special event."

Amy Good-Chin
Founder |  Origami Accounting & Advisory

"Events like this are always a fantastic opportunity to reconnect with colleagues across the bookkeeping and accounting profession. It’s a very supportive community and we all learn a lot from each other.

Taking time away from the office isn’t always easy, but investing in learning and staying up to date with industry changes is incredibly valuable – and ultimately helps me improve the support I provide for my clients."

Suzannah Whelan
Owner |  Sinclair Whelan Bookkeeping

"I’ve listened and learned, I feel up to date and more prepared as an accountant for the huge changes coming this year.

I may be tired and have partially lost my voice but it was all worth it!"

Karen Waters
Accountant / Bookkeeper |  K W Accounting Services

Practitioners like you are helping shape FAB.

FAB is shaped by the people it is built for.

Our small firms and bookkeepers community helps us understand what's really happening on the ground, from the pressures affecting practices today to the opportunities practitioners want to explore next

Running a small practice can be surprisingly lonely. Two days at FAB can change that.

Connect with people who understand the reality of running a small practice. Compare notes on MTD, AI, pricing, recruitment and growth, share what's working and make useful connections you can take beyond the show.

Because sometimes the most valuable thing you leave with isn't a new tool or idea. It's someone you know you can call when the next challenge comes along.

 

Answers, not theory

Sessions built around what small practices are actually asking this year.

Find your people

Roundtables, brain dates and peer-led panels, social events with sole practitioners and bookkeepers who understand the realities of a smaller firm.

Get business done

Use the new event app to book 1:1 meetings with vendors and peers before you arrive and plan your time at FAB.

Answers, not theory

Sessions built around what small practices are actually asking this year.

Find your people

Roundtables, brain dates and peer-led panels, social events with sole practitioners and bookkeepers who understand the realities of a smaller firm.

Get business done

Use the new event app to book 1:1 meetings with vendors and peers before you arrive and plan your time at FAB.

The issues you're dealing with. Not generic accounting content.

The questions small practices and bookkeepers are actually asking, spread across two days so you can focus on the things that matter most to you.

MTD without the chaos.

How are other practices managing the workload, client communication and staffing implications as MTD becomes reality?

AI that actually works for small practices.

Where can AI and automation genuinely save time, improve client service and create capacity without requiring a huge investment?

Recruitment & capacity.

How are smaller practices finding and retaining good people, and creating more capacity without simply working longer hours?

Pricing & profitability.

As technology changes how work is delivered, how should you price your services, improve margins and communicate your value?

Winning and retaining the right clients.

How do you stand out, build stronger client relationships and grow without taking on more of the wrong work?

Technology that earns its place.

Which tools are genuinely making a difference in smaller practices, and how do you know what is worth investing in?

You don't need another session telling you AI will change accounting.

You need to know what you can actually do with it.

FAB's AI content focuses on practical, achievable ways smaller practices can use AI and automation to save time, improve productivity and create capacity.

See what's working for other practitioners, explore tools built for practices like yours, and get practical advice you can take back to the office.

  • Affordable AI tools for smaller practices
  • Where automation can genuinely save time
  • What shouldn't be automated
  • Client-data security and AI governance
  • How to measure whether a tool is delivering ROI
  • Where professional judgement still matters

 

 

  • Practice Accelerator session
  • Practice Accelerator session
  • Bookkeeper Session
  • Networking

 

 

Two days, your biggest practice challenges, thousands of people who can help solve them.

Don't just attend FAB. Make it work for your practice.

Come with the questions you need answered. Find the people who can help. Discover practical ideas you can put into action. And leave with new connections, new possibilities and a clearer idea of what's next for your practice.

10-11 March 2027. NEC, Birmingham.

Register your interest for FAB 2027 today