1C:Accounting service

2025: "1C" intensively introduces AI into software for accountants - their shortage is higher than programmers

Against the background of a shortage of accountants, 1C is actively developing AI in its products and services designed to perform accounting functions. Boris Nuraliev, founder and director of the company, spoke about this at the annual 1C business forum in November 2025. Read more here.

2013: Network Launch

In early 2013 , 1C began to actively attract partners to create a network of accounting outsourcing service providers in Russia. By the summer of 2014, the network has 112 partners in 66 cities of Russia, and plans to cover all regions of the country. Thus, 1C expects to master the not yet formed, according to the company, segment of the outsourcing market, the potential annual volume of which is estimated at $2 billion.

Small market with great potential

According to the data provided by 1C, the accounting functions outsourcing segment in Russia in 2010-2012. grew at an average rate of about 20-25% per year, and in 2012 its volume amounted to about $200 million. For 1C itself, which began to create the basis for the development of this area in 2011, it also remains small: according to the results of 2013, its volume amounted to approximately $3 million in prices for end users.

1C Director Boris Nuraliev notes that this market has significant growth potential: from 2013 to the first quarter of 2014, the number of clients in regular service in the direction of accounting outsourcing from the company's partners increased by 134%.

Growth in the number of clients in continuous accounting outsourcing services with 1C partners

It is quite difficult to predict exactly how much this segment will grow in the near future, adds Nuraliev. The company estimates that its annual volume may increase 10 times, to $2 billion.

One of the factors providing a favorable environment for the development of the 1C business in the accounting outsourcing segment, Boris Nuraliev calls the lack of formation and fragmentation of this market in Russia. Despite the fact that the number of its participants per se throughout the country can be in the thousands, there are no large, federal players among them yet, he says.

Small players often cannot provide the proper quality of service. According to a HeadHunter study conducted at the end of 2013, 51% of companies surveyed with experience in outsourcing accounting functions have refused to support certain functions. The main reasons for this were the poor quality of the provider's work and the poor organization of the service delivery process.

Federal Outsourcing Network

Boris Nuraliev notes that the purpose of his company is to create a network of federal partners providing under a single brand - "1C:Accounting service" - services of professional accounting, personnel accounting and payroll according to unified standards developed and controlled by "1C." Specialists of " network pass exams and are certified "1C" to guarantee the required level of their professionalism.

Cloud technologies are used to serve customers: 1C provides customers and partners with access to the 1C: BuhService service via the Internet, and all data is stored and processed in a single company data center. Thus, customers of the service and accountants of 1C partners enter the database remotely.

Boris Nuraliev creates a federal partner network of accounting outsourcers under the 1C:Accounting service brand

The 1C partner network began to form back in 2011, creating joint ventures with several companies. One of the first, for example,. were "1C-Praton" and "1C:Accounting service Stavropol." The company began to actively attract partners to the new direction only at the beginning of 2013, the company says. According to 1C, as of the beginning of June 2014, the number of its partner network in accounting outsourcing is 112 companies in 66 cities of Russia, of which 5 are located in Moscow.

According to Boris Nuraliev, 12 partners in the current network are joint ventures with which technologies, techniques and standards for providing an outsourcing service were initially worked out, and all other partners are franchisees. 1C plans to ensure the presence of accounting outsourcing partners in all regions of Russia.

Nuraliev believes that in the implementation of the conceived "1C" it serves as a help to the company's existing experience in building a partner network on a national scale, a well-known brand, as well as a good understanding of Russian legislation.

Customers: from SMB to "goss" and large companies

The director of 1C told TAdviser that while users of 1C:Accounting service service are mostly represented by small companies, however, large customers are gradually beginning to appear: the company is working on several such projects.

Nuraliev also notes that 1C observes interest in accounting outsourcing from large state entities in the regions, stemming from a desire to centralize accounting and its resources.

According to the HeadHunter accounting functions outsourcing market, at the end of 2013, 29% of surveyed companies and another 10% of non-outsourced organizations are going to try it out in the future.