Please use these forms to notify us about changes to your practice if you work in any of the following regulated areas:

• ATOL
• Audit
• DPB (Investment Business)
• Probate

If you wish to withdraw your firm from a service, please complete this form.

You must notify us of any changes to the standing data of your firm within 10 business days of the change.

Ensure you save the form to your computer first and then fill it in electronically. You can use the tab key to move from one answer to the next.

• Read the notes provided for each question before answering. If you have any questions as you complete the form, call +44 (0)1908 546 302. This may avoid delays in dealing with your application.
• Ensure the changes you are making do not impact on your firm’s eligibility.
• Consider that you may need to submit more than one form and refer to the guidance notes below.

Use this form to add or remove principals from your firm record. A principal is defined as a director of a limited company, a member of an LLP, a partner in a partnership or a sole trader. This will include individuals being held out as principals.

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Use this form to add or remove offices to or from your firm record. You need to tell us about all the offices in your firm. This includes market day offices which are locations where no records are held and where no staff are based. Typically, a market day office is a place only for collecting post or holding local meetings.

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Use this form to tell us about the trading names your firm uses or any changes to these trading names.

We will record a new trading name as an additional branch office, but it will not be included in the office fee calculation. The firm will be charged a fee if it uses the trading name when signing audit reports. When calculating your firm’s annual audit registration fee, the trading name cost is equivalent to the cost of the firm having an additional office.

If your firm holds a DPB licence, we charge £100 to add a trading name.

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Use this form to tell us about shareholder, voting rights, and management board changes. This information is used to determine the firm’s ongoing eligibility to hold certain regulatory registrations (eg, audit registration and probate accreditation). We also use this information to determine whether the firm meets the definition of an ICAEW member firm in the Principal Bye-laws and is eligible to use the term Chartered Accountant.

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• Read our helpsheet: Regulated firm restructures

Use this form to tell us about changes to compliance and contact partners, responsible individuals and authorised individuals. 

Note this form should be completed by the CURRENT contact.

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1. Failure to notify us of changes to your firm means you are in breach of the Audit Regulations and Guidance, Legal Services Regulations, DPB (Investment Business) Handbook and the ICAEW Licensed Practice Handbook.
2. The information we record (as shown below) must be accurate and up to date to ensure the following national registers display current information:
   • Register of statutory auditors (audit registered firms);
   • FCA’s financial services register (DPB Investment Business firms);
   • ICAEW probate register (ICAEW probate firms);
   • Find an insolvency practitioner (the Insolvency Service directory of IPs);
   • CAA’s list of ATOL Reporting Accountants; and
   • Find a chartered accountant (for all firms that have an ICAEW Chartered Accountant as principal or employee).
3. When we issue fee notices to regulated firms in November (for the following fee-year), they are based on the structure of the firm shown on our database at that time. If you haven't notified us about any principal retirements or ceased offices etc, the amount you are charged may be incorrect and you may incur higher costs.