AML Compliance Kit – Master Checklist and Document Index

Start here. One checklist that takes a practice through setting up, running and evidencing its AML and practice compliance – in order – with a clickable link to every template in the pack, a regulation-by-regulation map and an ACCA visit pack list.

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Accountancy practice – compliance & management

AML Compliance Kit – Master Checklist and Document Index

About this document

What it’s for

The front sheet for the whole compliance pack. It tells you which document to complete, in what order, how often and who should own it – and links straight to each file. It also maps every requirement of the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 (as amended, including by SI 2026/621) and the main ACCA practice requirements to the template that helps you meet it, so you can show a supervisor where each obligation is dealt with.

When to use it

  • When you first set up or overhaul your AML and practice compliance
  • For every new client, during the relationship and when a client leaves
  • At each annual review, and before an ACCA monitoring visit

What’s inside

The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.

  • How to use this checklist
  • Part 1 – Set up the kit (once, in order): registration and approvals, governance and risk, people, systems and supporting policies
  • Part 2 – Every new client, before you start work
  • Part 3 – While you act: ongoing monitoring and trigger events
  • Part 4 – When a client leaves
  • Part 5 – The annual compliance cycle
  • Part 6 – Regulation-by-regulation map
  • Part 7 – ACCA monitoring visit pack
  • Part 8 – Full document index with a link to every file

How to complete it

  • Unzip the pack and keep all the files in one folder – the links open the other files from that folder
  • Work through Part 1 once, then use Parts 2 to 4 for each client and Part 5 every year
  • Tick and date each step, name the owner and keep the completed checklist on your compliance file

Key points to check

  • The links only work when this file and the other templates are saved in the same folder – if you rename or move files, use the document numbers in Part 8
  • Engagement letters and client-facing letters are in the separate Accountancy Practice – Client Documents pack
  • It is a guide: ACCA expects every firm to complete and tailor each document and follow it in practice

Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.

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Accountancy practice – compliance & management

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Guidance notes in every document

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