On October 21, 2026 (Reiwa 8), the Bank of Japan published the materials of a workshop (held on October 14) on regional financial institutions taking on accounting work for small and medium-sized enterprises. The introductory lecture organizes the scope of such services from bookkeeping to monthly closing, payroll and preparing financial statements, and lists benefits such as easing staff shortages and reducing the burden of responding to the invoice system and the Electronic Books Maintenance Act, while pointing out cautions such as work becoming a black box and dividing roles with tax accountants.Companies have a job called accounting, where they record their daily sales and payments in their books. But small companies sometimes do not have enough people to do it. So more regional banks are taking on this accounting work for them, and on October 21, 2026, the Bank of Japan published the materials of a meeting that discussed this.
Scope of outsourced accounting as organized in the lecture
On October 21, 2026 (Reiwa 8), the Japan Fair Trade Commission announced that it will hold meetings with local experts in eight cities across Japan. The dates are November 26 and 27 and December 9 and 10, 2026, and in Obihiro City (Hokkaido), Niigata City and Gifu City a "One-Day Fair Trade Commission" will be held at the same time. At the One-Day Fair Trade Commission there will be briefings on the Act on Optimization of Subcontracting Transactions with Small and Medium Enterprises (the former Subcontract Act), the Freelance Act and the Antimonopoly Act, together with individual consultations. Attendance is free of charge, and applications close on set dates.When one company buys and sells from another, there are rules to stop a company in a strong position from forcing unreasonable terms on a company in a weak position. The government body that watches over those rules is the Japan Fair Trade Commission. On October 21, 2026, it announced that it will hold meetings in eight cities around the country. In Obihiro, Niigata and Gifu there will also be an event called the One-Day Fair Trade Commission, where you can attend briefings on the rules and get advice free of charge.
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