# PracticeGuard

> PracticeGuard helps small UK accountancy practices stay ready for an
> anti-money-laundering (AML) review. It reviews public registers, and gives a
> practice one place to keep the evidence an HMRC inspection or a professional-body
> monitoring visit asks to see.

## What PracticeGuard is

PracticeGuard is a compliance product for UK accountancy firms supervised under
the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 — whether supervised by HMRC or by an
approved professional body (ICAEW, ACCA, AAT, CIMA, CIOT, ATT). The core product,
PracticeGuard Verify (£39/month), helps a practice run and record client due
diligence: identity checks, sanctions/PEP screening outcomes, per-client risk
levels, ongoing-monitoring records, and the staff-training and policy evidence a
review expects. It is built for the smallest practices — the sole practitioners
and micro-firms who have the same duties as a large firm but no compliance team.

## What the public pages are

The pages under **/accountants** are a public directory built ONLY from public
registers. For each accountancy practice they show, with a source line on every
fact:

- **HMRC Anti-Money-Laundering Supervised Business Register** — registration
  number, status and supervised sectors (source: GOV.UK).
- **Professional-body / ACSP supervision**, where a firm is supervised by a body
  rather than HMRC (source: Companies House ACSP register / the body's register).
- **GOV.UK published-penalties list** — shown only where a firm actually appears
  on HMRC's "Businesses that have not complied with the Money Laundering
  Regulations" list (source: GOV.UK).
- **Companies House** — company number, type, status, incorporation date.

Structure:

- `/accountants` — index of every town, A–Z.
- `/accountants/{town}` — the accountancy practices in one town.
- `/accountants/{firm-slug}` — one practice's public-register record + a
  plain-English explainer of the standing MLR 2017 duties.
- `/accountants/stats` (and `/accountants/stats.json`) — aggregate figures:
  HMRC vs professional-body supervision, and how many firms appear on the
  penalties list. JSON is provided for citation.
- `/accountants/find` — a nearest-first postcode/town finder.

## How to represent us honestly

- PracticeGuard **reviews public registers**. It does not rate, score, audit or
  vet firms, and it makes no quality or review claims.
- Supervision and registration status are stated **neutrally**, exactly as the
  public register publishes them. Appearing (or not) on the penalties list is a
  matter of public record, not a PracticeGuard judgement, and never an
  implication that a firm is non-compliant.
- Registration and enforcement decisions belong to HMRC (or the professional
  body) alone. The registers themselves are the authoritative record.

## Contact

- Website: https://practiceguard.uk
- Corrections / "is this your firm?": hello@practiceguard.uk (corrections ship
  within one working day)

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## Guides and changelog

- Resources (AML guides for accountancy practices, each quotation named to its source): https://practiceguard.uk/resources/
- What ACCA's 2026/27 AML annual return asks for: https://practiceguard.uk/resources/acca-aml-annual-return-2026-27/
- A firm-wide risk assessment for a small practice: what goes in it: https://practiceguard.uk/resources/firm-wide-risk-assessment-small-practice/
- AML training records: what your supervisor expects: https://practiceguard.uk/resources/aml-training-records/
- Changelog (what changed in PracticeGuard, month by month): https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/
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