IanBurgess
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I am an FCA with over 20 years of experience in Chartered Accountancy general practice, specialising in IT. In 1998, I established BHIS Limited (www.bhis.co.uk), producing the highly regarded PC Share Register Plus company secretarial software which is now used by approximately 1,500 sites.
When developing software for accountants, I have always aimed to produce applications that are simple to use, easy to learn and intuitive, and work in a way that addresses the needs of accountants in practice.
Our new Anti Money Laundering (AML) compliance software Anti Money Laundering Compliance Plus (www.amlcplus.co.uk) aims to simplify the process of AML compliance for accountants in practice and, as with our Cosec software, is simple to use, easy to learn and intuitive.
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Anti Money Laundering Compliance Plus - Evaluation version v Reg
In our Anti Money Laundering Compliance Plus software, whilst in evaluation mode, the software will not allow you to add more than 5 clients and any printed report will have an "Evaluation" watermark. Other than that, the functionality is identical.
Ian Burgess
BHIS Ltd.
www.amlcplus.co.uk
Anti Money Laundering Software including electronic ID checks
Our "Anti Money Laundering Compliance Plus" software is a fully automated system that allows you to record all the AML data for all your clients plus it deals with all other aspects of AML compliance. It guides you through the process of compliance, highlighting which areas are non-compliant/require action.
The software is far more than a series of checklists:
The software provides expert help, hand-holding and "wizards" within the software as to what is required to achieve complianceIncludes built-in Electronic ID checks at reasonable costCovers all aspects of compliance recording and monitoring including: Details of all clientsKnow Your Customer informationRisk AssessmentRecording of associated persons of all clients together with supporting ID checksFirm’s Policies & ProceduresStaff trainingStaff confirmations of money laundering awarenessRecording suspicions and reporting to the MLRODetailed help filesBuilt-in facility to download and search the regulations and key guidance notesBuilt-in facility to download and search the latest HM Treasury’s Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets in the UKAutomatically identifies non-compliant areas and highlights the actions required in order to prevent non-complianceScans and saves supporting documents within the software or attaches existing supporting documentsFull integration with PC Share Register Plus, company secretarial software and also Sage Cosec softwareInbuilt free Companies House check of company dataEasy import of client records from other software via generic CSV files from other software packages
Take a look at the short videos on the website that will give you an insight into the way it works - see www.amlcplus.co.uk/videos.htm See also the list of features - www.amlcplus.co.uk/features.htm
The system has inbuilt ID checks (including PEP/Sancions checks) supplied by GB Group at £3.00 per check and inbuilt PEP/Sanctions checks only at £1.25 per check, with no minimum usage requirement - see www.amlcplus.co.uk/AMLSearch.htm
Pricing is according to the number of clients and starts at £95 p.a. - see www.amlcplus.co.uk/pricing.htm
In order to evaluate the software you can download a copy and run it as an evaluation copy with no time limit - see www.amlcplus.co.uk/download.htm
The software has been developed in conjunction with a leading provider of UK Money Laundering Compliance expertise, SWAT UK Limited, in order to ensure that the software achieves all its objectives and to provide the expert help etc. within the software.
Ian Burgess
BHIS Ltd.
Anti Money Laundering Compliance
Re your requirements to comply with anti money laundering - our "Anti Money Laundering Compliance Plus" software is a fully automated system that allows you to record all the AML data for all your clients plus it deals with all other aspects of AML compliance. It guides you through the process of compliance, highlighting which areas are non-compliant/require action.
The software is far more than a series of checklists:
The software provides expert help, hand-holding and "wizards" within the software as to what is required to achieve complianceIncludes built-in Electronic ID checks at reasonable costCovers all aspects of compliance recording and monitoring including: Details of all clientsKnow Your Customer informationRisk AssessmentRecording of associated persons of all clients together with supporting ID checksFirm’s Policies & ProceduresStaff trainingStaff confirmations of money laundering awarenessRecording suspicions and reporting to the MLRODetailed help filesBuilt-in facility to download and search the regulations and key guidance notesBuilt-in facility to download and search the latest HM Treasury’s Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets in the UKAutomatically identifies non-compliant areas and highlights the actions required in order to prevent non-complianceScans and saves supporting documents within the software or attaches existing supporting documentsFull integration with PC Share Register Plus, company secretarial software and also Sage Cosec softwareInbuilt free Companies House check of company dataEasy import of client records from other software via generic CSV files from other software packages
Take a look at the short videos on the website that will give you an insight into the way it works - see www.amlcplus.co.uk/videos.htm See also the list of features - www.amlcplus.co.uk/features.htm
The system has inbuilt ID checks (including PEP/Sancions checks) supplied by GB Group at £3.00 per check and inbuilt PEP/Sanctions checks only at £1.25 per check, with no minimum usage requirement - see www.amlcplus.co.uk/AMLSearch.htm
Pricing is according to the number of clients and starts at £95 p.a. - see www.amlcplus.co.uk/pricing.htm
In order to evaluate the software you can download a copy and run it as an evaluation copy with no time limit - see www.amlcplus.co.uk/download.htm
The software has been developed in conjunction with a leading provider of UK Money Laundering Compliance expertise, SWAT UK Limited, in order to ensure that the software achieves all its objectives and to provide the expert help etc. within the software.
Ian Burgess
BHIS Ltd.
Anti money laundering (AML) compliance software
Our "Anti Money Laundering Compliance Plus" software is a fully automated system that allows you to record all the AML data for all your clients plus it deals with all other aspects of AML compliance. It guides you through the process of compliance, highlighting which areas are non-compliant/require action.
The software is far more than a series of checklists:
The software provides expert help, hand-holding and "wizards" within the software as to what is required to achieve complianceIncludes built-in Electronic ID checks at reasonable costCovers all aspects of compliance recording and monitoring including: Details of all clientsKnow Your Customer informationRisk AssessmentRecording of associated persons of all clients together with supporting ID checksFirm’s Policies & ProceduresStaff trainingStaff confirmations of money laundering awarenessRecording suspicions and reporting to the MLRODetailed help filesBuilt-in facility to download and search the regulations and key guidance notesBuilt-in facility to download and search the latest HM Treasury’s Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets in the UKAutomatically identifies non-compliant areas and highlights the actions required in order to prevent non-complianceScans and saves supporting documents within the software or attaches existing supporting documentsFull integration with PC Share Register Plus, company secretarial software and also Sage Cosec softwareInbuilt free Companies House check of company dataEasy import of client records from other software via generic CSV files from other software packages
Take a look at the short videos on the website that will give you an insight into the way it works - see www.amlcplus.co.uk/videos.htm See also the list of features - www.amlcplus.co.uk/features.htm
The system has inbuilt ID checks (including PEP/Sancions checks) supplied by GB Group at £3.00 per check and inbuilt PEP/Sanctions checks only at £1.25 per check, with no minimum usage requirement - see www.amlcplus.co.uk/AMLSearch.htm
Pricing is according to the number of clients and starts at £95 p.a. - see www.amlcplus.co.uk/pricing.htm
In order to evaluate the software you can download a copy and run it as an evaluation copy with no time limit - see www.amlcplus.co.uk/download.htm
The software has been developed in conjunction with a leading provider of UK Money Laundering Compliance expertise, SWAT UK Limited, in order to ensure that the software achieves all its objectives and to provide the expert help etc. within the software.
Ian Burgess
BHIS Ltd.
Anti money laundering (AML) compliance software
Our "Anti Money Laundering Compliance Plus" software is a fully automated system that allows you to record all the AML data for all your clients plus it deals with all other aspects of AML compliance. It guides you through the process of compliance, highlighting which areas are non-compliant/require action.
The software is far more than a series of checklists:
The software provides expert help, hand-holding and "wizards" within the software as to what is required to achieve complianceIncludes built-in Electronic ID checks at reasonable costCovers all aspects of compliance recording and monitoring including: Details of all clientsKnow Your Customer informationRisk AssessmentRecording of associated persons of all clients together with supporting ID checksFirm’s Policies & ProceduresStaff trainingStaff confirmations of money laundering awarenessRecording suspicions and reporting to the MLRODetailed help filesBuilt-in facility to download and search the regulations and key guidance notesBuilt-in facility to download and search the latest HM Treasury’s Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets in the UKAutomatically identifies non-compliant areas and highlights the actions required in order to prevent non-complianceScans and saves supporting documents within the software or attaches existing supporting documentsFull integration with PC Share Register Plus, company secretarial software and also Sage Cosec softwareInbuilt free Companies House check of company dataEasy import of client records from other software via generic CSV files from other software packages
Take a look at the short videos on the website that will give you an insight into the way it works - see www.amlcplus.co.uk/videos.htm See also the list of features - www.amlcplus.co.uk/features.htm
The system has inbuilt ID checks (including PEP/Sancions checks) supplied by GB Group at £3.00 per check and inbuilt PEP/Sanctions checks only at £1.25 per check, with no minimum usage requirement - see www.amlcplus.co.uk/AMLSearch.htm
Pricing is according to the number of clients and starts at £95 p.a. - see www.amlcplus.co.uk/pricing.htm
In order to evaluate the software you can download a copy and run it as an evaluation copy with no time limit - see www.amlcplus.co.uk/download.htm
The software has been developed in conjunction with a leading provider of UK Money Laundering Compliance expertise, SWAT UK Limited, in order to ensure that the software achieves all its objectives and to provide the expert help etc. within the software.
Ian Burgess
BHIS Ltd.
Anti Money Laundering Compliance Software
Further to my previous post, the "Anti Money Laundering Compliance Plus" software will go on general release on Monday 8th November 2010 - see www.amlcplus.co.uk for details.
Ian Burgess
BHIS Ltd.
www.bhis.co.uk
Anti Money Laundering Compliance Plus software
We are about to release a brand new product, Anti Money Laundering Compliance Plus, which addresses all of the areas you're looking for, and more.
Our objective was to develop a simple to use and cost effective piece of software that provided a complete solution to anti money laundering compliance.
The first thing we did was to forge a relationship with a leading provider of UK Money Laundering Compliance expertise, SWAT UK Limited, in order for them ensure that the software achieved all the objectives and to provide the expert help etc. within the software.
We then set about writing the software in order to achieve all of the objectives and, like our PC Share Register Plus software, was intuitive and easy to learn and use. The result is our new ground-breaking AML compliance software, Anti Money Laundering Compliance Plus.
The software manages to achieve all of the requirements of firms that we consulted.
Extremely cost effectiveIntuitive to useProvides useful help/wizards to assist with complianceIncludes assessment of "Risk"Determines what supporting ID is required for each entity and their associated individualsAllows the MLRO easily to identify, at an early stage, matters that require attention, thus avoiding non-compliance of AML regulationsIdentifies areas of non-compliance so that these can be remediedIncludes an Integrated document management system allowing importing of existing documents held and also the scanning of paper supporting documents from scratchFully integrated Electronic ID Checking at a very competitive cost - see Electronic ID CheckInbuilt free Companies House check of company dataIncludes comprehensive help on use of the software and technical help on Money Laundering complianceFull integration with PC Share Register PlusEasy import of client records from other software via generic CSV filesBe sure that you are complying with money laundering regulations
For more information, and to download a 'beta' version of the software prior to its official release, see our website at www.amlcplus.co.uk
-- Ian Burgess BHIS Ltd. The home of PC Share Register Plus, Company Secretarial Software www.bhis.co.uk
"Voting Rights" - for Annual Returns, "Prescribed Particulars" f
There is a great deal of confusion regarding "Voting Rights" and "Prescribed Particulars" by users of our company secretarial software, so much so that we have drafted a guide on our website that hopefully clarifies matters - take a look at http://www.bhis.co.uk/votingrights.htm
Ian Burgess
BHIS Ltd.
www.bhis.co.uk
Annual Return Voting Rights
Take a look at our guide online at http://www.bhis.co.uk/votingrights.htm which may assist.
Ian Burgess
BHIS Ltd.
www.bhis.co.uk
Voting Rights - be cautious of Companies House "acceptance"
The fact that CH have accepted a return with "Full Voting Rights" does not necessarily mean that it is the "correct" wording to use. It is likely that CH are so snowed under with the 1st October changes, that they are not giving priority at the moment to checking annual returns. Furthermore, even if Companies House are "happy" with a return and accept it, one must bear in mind that they do not undertake to check that what is entered for "Voting Rights" is actually correct. You may find that the return, in future, is queried by either your client (if you are an accountant filing on behalf of a client) or a third party that has relied on the information. Either way, I would have thought that it was inadvisable to attempt to shortcut the requirement to use appropriate wording. Companies House have made it clear that the wording used must be such that the voting rights can be understood by anyone looking at the filed return without the need to look any further at previously filed documents.
The exercise of drafting the wording is a one-off as, unless the articles are changed, the wording will be used in subsequent returns. Rather than viewing this drafting as lost time, I would have thought that it can be viewed as an opportunity to offer clients a chargeable service to review the terms of the articles and draft the appropriate wording.
Ian Burgess
BHIS Ltd.
www.bhis.co.uk