ICAEW to ACCA firm

ICAEW to ACCA firm

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Currently the firm is controlled by ICAEW directors.  Upon the retirement of one of the directors the control will lie with ACCA members.

Only 1 director has the auditing practising certficate and he is currently ICAEW.  We thought that simply he could transfer to ACCA from ICAEW so that the firm then transfers to an ACCA member firm.  That is correct and works fine.

Only problem being that ACCA seem to say that for firm to hold an auditing practising certificate the firm must be controlled by members who not only have ACCA pc's but also have the auditing pc.

Any advice on this would be very welcome as this causes a big headache!

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By jon_griffey
10th Mar 2016 11:27

51%

You would need to arrange your firm so that the auditing certificate holder has 51% of the votes.  That doesn't mean 51% of equity or profit share -  just votes.

 

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By djn24
10th Mar 2016 15:21

Your are right

jon_griffey wrote:

You would need to arrange your firm so that the auditing certificate holder has 51% of the votes.  That doesn't mean 51% of equity or profit share -  just votes.

 

 

I think this is the easiest way around it.

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By Mr_awol
10th Mar 2016 11:52

Upgrade one of the ACCA directors

Put them through the conversion and stay ICAEW?  Depending on how the costs and benefits will work out overall, whether you have an equal mix amongst the age ranges etc (or, as is somewhat more common I believe, your ICAEW partners* are the more 'experienced' whilst your ACCA partners* are, shall we say, further from retirement.

 

*partners, directors, etc (before the pedants descend)

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By djn24
10th Mar 2016 15:38

I suppose the same issue arises with ICAEW in that the control of the company has to be held with an ICAEW member with audit PC?

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