Course Details

ICAEW firms are subject to Practice Assurance requirements and receive periodic reviews by ICAEW’s Quality Assurance Department (QAD). QAD’s findings are summarised each year, indicating common areas of difficulty, and how they might be addressed. 

Although non-ICAEW firms have their own quality assurance and monitoring arrangements, the principles involved are similar, so this on demand CPD course, provided by Edward Rands of ECR Professional Ltd, will also be useful to them.

Topics covered include:

  • Background to the ICAEW Practice Assurance scheme and the four standards
  • Principal Findings: Professional Conduct Relating to Taxation
  • Overall review outcomes for 2020
  • Common issues in the review findings
  • Areas of focus for 2021 reviews

 

CPD Course Speaker

ECR Professional Ltd

Edward Rands

Edward Rands was for eleven years the Risk and Professional Standards partner at a large independent firm of chartered accountants.

He led the firm’s technical team, which was responsible for maintaining and updating accounting and auditing knowledge, and for dealing with complex problems and queries as they arose.

He was also the founder chairman of the UK technical committee of his firm’s international network, and a contributing author of the network’s commercially published IFRS manual.

He now works as an independent consultant, advising firms on technical and regulatory matters.