Which record proves what
Where every fact in the Cyprus Provider Index comes from, and what has not been checked yet.
Version 1.0 · published 25 September 2026
How this index is built
ICPAC publishes a register of individual practitioners. We group those records into firms by the employer they name, and take the office most of the records share.
Where the register gives a website, we read it and record the services the firm names for itself.
Take no money — no fee to be listed, no fee to rank, and no ranking to buy.
What a “firm” is here
We build each firm by grouping the individual accountants on the ICPAC register who name the same employer. Every fact is a register fact; the firm itself is our own work, and each profile says so with the number of records behind it.
Three states, not two
For anything we read from a firm’s website there are three outcomes and we keep them apart: the site listed something; the site was read and listed nothing; the site has not been read yet. “Not recorded” is never shown as a zero or a no.
1What the register holds, and what it does not
The Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus keeps a public register of individuals holding a practising certificate. For each person it records a name, a member number, the employer’s name, an office address and city, work telephone and email, and whether the holder may also provide corporate and fiduciary (administrative) services. Where a website is recorded, we keep that too.
The register does not hold the services a firm offers, the languages it works in, or its company registration number. Anything on this site under those headings did not come from the register, and each row says so.
2How a firm is built
The 683 firms in this index are our own grouping of individual accountants on the ICPAC register. Records that name the same employer are grouped into one firm. Where the records give more than one office address, the firm’s address is the one most of its records share; the other cities are listed as further offices. A firm with one record is one practitioner.
So every fact on a profile is a register fact; the firm around it is our own work. Each profile says this at the top, with the number of records behind it.
3What we read from a firm’s own website
Where we hold a website, our crawler reads its public pages. From them we take the list of services the firm names for itself, mapped to the service headings used across the index, the languages it says it works in, and the contact details it publishes. We do not take claims, awards, client names or anything else.
Three outcomes are recorded separately and never merged: the site listed something; the site was read and listed nothing; the site has not been read yet.
3bWhat we check, and what we never check
From the public register, checkable by anyone
The firm’s name, its city, its office address, how many registered accountants it has, their registration numbers, and whether it also provides corporate services.
From the firm’s own website
The services it says it offers, its languages, its contact details. We record whether we have read that website, and say so on every firm’s page.
What we never check
Whether a service is actually delivered, whether the firm is any good, what it charges, or whether a client was happy. We publish no reviews, no ratings and no score.
What we never ask of a firm
We do not ask any business to apply, to send documents, to pay a fee, or to contact us at all. A firm that has never heard of this index is checked exactly as thoroughly as one that writes to us, and nothing a firm does can change where it appears.
3cWhat a firm cannot change here
A firm cannot
- Change where it appears in any list
- Pay to appear higher
- Buy a badge or a label
- Add a service we cannot find a source for
- Pay to be listed in the first place
This is not a policy we have chosen to follow. There is no mechanism in this website by which a firm’s position could be changed, so there is nothing for anyone to ask us for.
4What we have not checked
Counts across all 683 published firms, read from the data as it stands. A fact is offered as a filter only when it is held for enough firms to filter on honestly.
5One firm, end to end
Every fact shown on the profile of KPMG LTD, with the record it rests on.
6Version and changes
25 Sep 2026 · 1.0 — First published with v4 of the index: filters and sorting on listings, practitioner registration numbers on profiles, and this page.