AML documents · UK accountancy firms

Your firm-wide AML risk assessment and policies, written from your answers.

Free questionnaire. Seven documents to check, sign and keep, refreshed each year. £149 + VAT a year. ACCA firms also get a sheet of answers for the annual return.

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FreeThe questionnaire, no card
7Documents to check, sign and keep
£149/year + VATThe pack, refreshed each year
£39/mo + VATAdd Verify for client ID checks
New · for firms completing their AML supervisor's return

AML return pack — £149 + VAT a year, with or without Verify

ACCA's 2026/27 AML annual return asks firms to upload their firm-wide risk assessment and their AML policies and procedures. The pack writes both from about 20 minutes of questions about your practice with your facts to hand, with a sheet of your answers in ACCA's own bands. The same answers are laid out for ICAEW, AAT and HMRC-supervised firms. The pack gives you seven documents in all, and the AML diary and the inspection-ready pack come with Verify. Upload the documents you already have and we read them for suggestions you confirm one by one, list where they no longer match the current rules, and count your client list by code, without a model reading it. You check everything and you file it yourself.

“So easy, so useful. Going to buy a second one for my other business.”
Ash, Ash Accountancy · a PracticeGuard customer
See the AML return pack £149 + VAT a year · Verify is £39 + VAT a month
How the pack works

A free questionnaire, then seven documents to check, sign and keep.

01

Answer the questionnaire

About 20 minutes of questions about your services, your clients, where they are, how you onboard and monitor them, and what you already have in place — with your facts to hand. Nothing is asked twice.

02

Seven documents written from your answers

The first two are the ones ACCA asks you to upload: the firm-wide risk assessment, with its own proliferation financing section, and your AML policies, controls and procedures. Where a control is not in place yet, the document says so and gives you the action; it never claims something you do not do.

03

Check, sign and keep them

You check everything and you file it yourself. We do not file it for you.

04

Refreshed each year

Each year we remind you to review your answers, and the documents are written again from what has changed.

What's in the pack

Seven documents written from your answers.

The pack gives you seven documents written from your answers, and the return sheets for ACCA, ICAEW, AAT and HMRC.

  1. 01

    Firm-wide risk assessment

    The firm-wide risk assessment, with its own section for proliferation financing. One of the two documents ACCA’s return asks a firm to upload.

  2. 02

    AML policies, controls and procedures

    The AML policies, controls and procedures. The other document ACCA’s return asks a firm to upload.

  3. 03

    Internal suspicious-activity report form and register

    The form a member of staff uses to report a suspicion to the MLRO, and the register of those reports.

  4. 04

    Ongoing-monitoring checklist

    A checklist for the ongoing monitoring of each client.

  5. 05

    MLRO review worksheet

    A worksheet for the MLRO’s periodic review of the practice’s AML systems and controls.

  6. 06

    Training register

    A register of the AML training the practice’s people have had.

  7. 07

    Return preparation checklist

    ACCA’s return, question by question: which answer each one needs, where the pack gets it, and what is still to do.

A sheet of your answers in ACCA's own bands, to copy into the return. The same answers laid out for ICAEW, AAT and HMRC-supervised firms. You review every answer and file it yourself.

The add-on

Need client ID checks too?

Send your client one secure link. PracticeGuard gathers their identity evidence on their phone, screens them against the latest sanctions lists and PEP roster, re-screens them for sanctions and PEP changes on a schedule you set, and files a dated, inspection-ready audit pack — from £39 a month + VAT, with re-screening and every seat included. No per-user fees.

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Pricing

The pack, the Verify add-on, and one on the way.

Live · on its own or with Verify

AML return pack

£149 /year + VAT
with or without PracticeGuard Verify
  • Your firm-wide risk assessment, with its proliferation financing section
  • Your AML policies & procedures
  • Five more documents: an internal suspicious-activity report form and register, an ongoing-monitoring checklist, an MLRO review worksheet, a training register and a return preparation checklist
  • A sheet of your answers in ACCA's own bands, to copy into the return
  • The same answers laid out for ICAEW, AAT and HMRC-supervised firms
  • You review every answer and file it yourself
Start your free questionnaire See the AML return pack
Prices exclude VAT. The first two documents are the ones ACCA's 2026/27 AML annual return asks firms to upload: the risk assessment and the policies. The AML diary and the inspection-ready pack come with Verify. The return itself is ACCA's form, filed in ACCA's own portal.
Live · the add-on

PracticeGuard Verify

£39 /month + VAT
or £390/year + VAT — two months free · first month free, no card
  • 15 CDD checks a month included — £2.50 + VAT each after, never blocked
  • Identity evidence (document read and matched to a selfie) + sanctions & PEP screening, all included
  • Scheduled sanctions and PEP re-screening with logged runs — built in, not an add-on
  • Client files & dated audit packs, 5-year retention lock
  • Company & UBO checks for entity clients
  • Unlimited staff seats — no per-user fees
Start free — first month on us See client checks (Verify)
Prices exclude VAT. Re-screening, seats and audit packs are bundled, not billed separately. The free month is the full product, with the same 15-check allowance.
Coming soon

PracticeGuard Shield — AML training for your team, and more

Training for
your team, and more
Priced at launch
  • Everything in Verify, with a higher check allowance
  • Staff AML training with certificates (reg 24)
  • Bulk screening of your existing client book — not just new clients
  • Source-of-funds workflow, and a public trust mark clients can check
Join the waiting list
The seven AML documents are already in the AML return pack above, and the AML diary and the inspection-ready pack come with Verify. Shield adds AML training for your team and more. It launches after Verify; pricing announced at launch, and Verify subscribers get first access.

See it on your own practice.

The questionnaire is free. The PDF pack is £149 + VAT a year.

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