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HMRC Insolvency Bulletin: Digital journey for Plastic Packaging Tax
- 30 Sep 2024
HMRC is streamlining its process for handling insolvency related to Plastic Packaging Tax by introducing a new Digital G-Form that is required to use when notifying HMRC of an Insolvency Event, submitting Plastic Packaging Tax Returns and deregistering from Plastic Packaging Tax. Be sure you make the necessary updates and follow the new procedure to help ensure your correspondence is handled efficiently.
Help The Gazette improve its services
- 30 Sep 2024
Best practice for many ICAEW-registered probate firms includes publishing details of the deceased’s estate in The Gazette and/or local newspapers. The Gazette has reached out to ICAEW for help to test its new website to ensure it meets the needs of practitioners.
HMCTS Probate Service User Group update
- 26 Sep 2024
ICAEW, along with other group members, met with the senior team at HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) in September. In this article, Rachel Clements, ICAEW Regulatory Policy Manager, shares the latest updates from HMCTS on a range of topics of interest to practitioners, including current service levels between April and July.
Access to working papers guidance: regulation 3.13
- 18 Sep 2024
The guidance supporting audit regulation 3.13 “access to working papers” has been updated following the UK’s exit from the EU, and to reflect some changes to FRC functions. Following Brexit, the regulation now applies to a registered auditor accessing another firm’s working papers where the other firm is based in a third country (ie, a country outside the UK including EEA member states). Previously the regulation only applied when accessing working papers from a firm outside the EEA.
Audit Monitoring Report 2023/24
- 11 Sep 2024
A key part of our role as an improvement regulator is to provide help and support to our firms, ensuring they have the tools and resources available to help them maintain the standards expected to strengthen trust in the profession. Access our latest Audit Monitoring Report, a valuable resource for firms regulated by ICAEW for audit services.
Webinar: 2023/24 Audit monitoring results
- 11 Sep 2024
Sign up for our free webinar to find out about the results of the audit monitoring visits undertaken by our Quality Assurance Department in 2023/24 and learn about some of the factors that contributed to these results. Attending could contribute to your CPD learning objectives. Date is 16 October.
Consumer hub to support ICAEW probate firms and their clients
- 10 Sep 2024
Visit our refreshed webpage for consumers of probate services, including: how Chartered Accountants can help, a glossary of legal terms, guides for beneficiaries and executors, and links to bereavement support and government sites. ICAEW will promote the hub to raise awareness of this service on behalf of firms, and firms are encouraged to use it as a resource.
Professional Standards Update September 2024
- 10 Sep 2024
Read our brand new Audit Monitoring Report and sign up for the accompanying webinar. Listen back to recordings of our recent events, read the first in our series introducing new IRB members and find out about concerns regarding student misconduct.
Leading the IRB: strengthening trust
- 09 Sep 2024
Paul Brooks was appointed as the new lay-chair of the ICAEW Regulatory Board (IRB) in August. In the first of our series introducing the new members of the IRB, Paul tells us about his background and his ongoing commitment to strengthening trust in the accountancy profession.
2024 Practice Assurance Monitoring Report – webinar recording
- 05 Sep 2024
ICAEW experts in the areas of Practice Assurance and anti-money laundering covered the top findings from nearly 1,300 monitoring reviews highlighted in our 2024 Practice Assurance Monitoring Report. Insights included learnings from detailed discussions held with larger firms around AML themes. Watch the recording if you missed it.
2024 Legal Services Regulatory update
- 04 Sep 2024
ICAEW's Quality Assurance Department took listeners through the recent common issues we are seeing on quality assurance monitoring reviews. We also heard from the Chair of the ICAEW Legal Services Committee, Miranda Winram, on the role of the committee and the committee's perspective on some of these common issues. The webinar concluded with a look at the current regulatory landscape, presented by the Regulatory Policy team.
Rising concerns with student misconduct in exams and assessments
- 02 Sep 2024
ICAEW is seeing a rise in reports of students engaging in activities with the intention of giving themselves an unfair advantage in an assessment or exam, and other poor behaviour by students taking exams and assessments. We look at the standards expected of ICAEW students and discuss the consequences of failing to comply with requirements.
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