About Us

Top 10 globally, over 40 years of leadership

AGN International is a worldwide association of separate and independent accounting and advisory businesses who provide assurance, accounting, tax and advisory services across the globe. With a heritage of over 40 years, back to 1978, AGN was created from the merger of predecessor organisations in 1996.

With high standards and great client service at the heart of our mission, AGN is consistently ranked globally in the top 10 of comparable organisations (4th – International Accounting Bulletin – IAB -, March 2024).

A globally co-ordinated organisation, we are locally embedded with four regions, sharing the goals of delivering great client service and building valuable businesses.

Find out more about our regions & leadership

Approaching…

200

Member firms

in over…

80

Countries

Amongst the largest of comparable organizations globally

Approaching…

200

Member firms

in over…

80

Countries

Amongst the largest of comparable organizations globally

AGN Mission, Vision & Values

Our Mission

Is to help members support businesses and individuals globally, with high standards, straight forward and practical business advice and local commercial know-how, wherever the need arises.

Our Vision

Is for members’ clients to have direct access to high quality and practical business advice globally without the complexity and cost of some global service providers.

Our Values

Are identified by our members worldwide and embody what we do and how we do it. We are proud to be excellent, connected and individual. See below.

Excellent
High standards and client service at the heart of all that we do.
Connected
A trusted global resource of professionals to meet clients’ needs.
Individual
Relationships with real people you actually want to do business with.

Standards at the heart of AGN

High standards and client service are at the heart of our mission.

Admission to membership requires a formal application and peer review process, which assesses the applicant’s structure, activities and approaches to matters including independence, ethics, regulation and oversight regimes.

AGN regularly scrutinises & confirms our members’ professional standing and client service performance, to ensure that our members and their clients can count on having their problems solved.

AGN is an “association” rather than a “network”. AGN members build their trust and reputation using their own brands and the business strategies, technical & client service methodologies that are appropriate to their clients’ needs and acceptable to local licensing and regulatory authorities. AGN does not mandate any particular methodologies. About 80% of AGN members are subject to regular independent review by their local regulators.

Delivering great client service

AGN members clients access to strong trust-based relationships. With a dedication to being commercial, pragmatic and genuine, all AGN members commit to published client service standards as a term of their AGN membership.

Client Service Excellence is supported by two main pillars:

Client service charter: The common client service framework that sets the benchmark for all AGN member firms. Find out more (pdf).
Customer satisfaction monitor: The online system for capturing, and acting on client feedback about their experience.