Engagement Letter – Management Accounts

An engagement letter for preparing monthly or quarterly management accounts and reporting packs, with clear terms on the basis of preparation, estimates, reliance and management decisions.

Editable Word document
12
10pages
Guidance notes included
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Accountancy practice – client documents

Engagement Letter – Management Accounts

About this document

What it’s for

A covering letter and schedules for producing regular management information – profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow, KPIs and commentary – from a client’s records. It makes clear that management accounts are not statutory accounts, explains estimates, and protects you if lenders or investors see the figures.

When to use it

  • Monthly or quarterly management accounts for owner-managed businesses
  • Reporting packs for board meetings, lenders or investors
  • Adding budgets, forecasts or a “virtual finance director” service

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.

  1. Frequency and reporting pack
  2. Basis of preparation
  3. Records and bookkeeping
  4. Budgets and forecasts
  5. Management decisions
  6. Use of the management accounts by others
  7. Your responsibilities
  8. Our responsibilities
  9. Services not included
  10. Professional rules and standards
  11. Identity checks and money laundering
  12. Confidentiality and data protection
  13. Fees and payment
  14. Our liability to you
  15. Changes in the law and to this engagement
  16. Ending the engagement
  17. How our agreement fits together

Also included

  • Fees
  • Timetable

How to complete it

  • Choose the frequency and tick the report contents in Schedule 1
  • Agree the basis of preparation and month-end adjustments
  • Decide whether any third party will receive the reports
  • Use your bookkeeping letter for the underlying record-keeping

Key points to check

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 – client documents

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Editable Microsoft Word files

Guidance notes in every document

Written for UK businesses

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