The Accountant's role is changing - some would say quite dramatically - in that Accountants are being continually advised to expand the range of services being offered to SMEs beyond the traditional income tax, corporate compliance and audit work. However, gearing up to provide additional professional services is not easy and consumes an enormous amount of time. The benefit of ESS BIZTOOLS to professional Accountants and other professional advisors is that the hard work has already been done. ESS BIZTOOLS is a web-based resource service that provides accountants with business advisory information, products and tools to help support their small to medium (SME) business clients. In addition, developed by ESS BIZTOOLS and Real Advantage, ESS BIZGrants is a new system that will enable accountants to easily identify any possible government grants that are available to their client’s business. As many small to medium businesses are missing out on government grants, accountants can offer a worthwhile referral service for their clients as to which government grants are available.