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The purpose of this section is to answer some of the most common questions practitioners have in relation to practice compliance. If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us at practicemembers@charteredaccountants.ie.
Practice Consulting have a suite of toolkits for all your practice needs. You will find them in the Shop on our website in practice toolkits.
The Public Practice Regulations can be found on the Professional Standards section of the website, along with Guidance on Public Practice Regulations.
The Institute’s ethics resources can be found in the Ethics Resource Centre. Resources here include the Chartered Accountants Ireland Code of Ethics.
The Practice Consulting team can provide all your training needs through their various workshops. You can also visit CPD with whom we work closely to support our members training requirements.
Please see the Professional Standards Department’s AML section of the website, including reporting obligations and guidance on the Money Laundering Supervision Regulations (ROI).
Our popular Anti-Money Laundering Policies and Procedures practice toolkit is available in our online shop.
Please see our dedicated GDPR resources section, including our GDPR resources for practices.
While not aware of any legal requirement that would prohibit you simply maintaining a scanned electronic copy of such “wet” signed financial statements for your clients, our Institute advice would be to still hold a hard copy of these financial statements.
Two examples of what can go wrong with scanned copies of any document –
While these scenarios do not happen very often thankfully, it is still important to have the original hard copy to hand for financial statements and indeed other important legal contracts.
Please see this summary of CPD requirements, and this list of documents that have been prepared to assist you in understanding and complying with the requirements of CPD Regulations.
Please see our Statement of Independence and Confidentiality and Confirmation of Fit and Proper Status at Helpsheet F1.
Please see here for guidance on completing your firm’s annual return. Any queries on your annual return should be directed to professionalstandards@charteredaccountants.ie.
Our team in Practice Consulting can provide comprehensive compliance support. We offer tailored in-house training, coaching and advice on all compliance issues. We can also carry out annual compliance reviews for audit, investment business and AML. Please see here for information on our charge-out rates.