Engagement Letter – One-off Advice and Projects

A flexible engagement letter for a single piece of advice or a defined project, with a project brief, deliverables, assumptions, change control, staged fees and limits on reliance.

Editable Word document
11
10pages
Guidance notes included
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Accountancy practice – client documents

Engagement Letter – One-off Advice and Projects

About this document

What it’s for

A covering letter and schedules for work that is not a recurring compliance service: tax planning advice, incorporation, a business sale or purchase, a funding application, a systems implementation, a review or report. It pins down exactly what you will deliver, on what facts, by when and for what fee.

When to use it

  • Any one-off advice or report, even for an existing compliance client
  • Projects with stages, such as incorporation or a software migration
  • Where you will give tax planning advice that must be confined to stated facts

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. Project brief
  2. What we will do
  3. Facts and assumptions
  4. Tax planning standards
  5. Change control
  6. Your responsibilities
  7. Our responsibilities
  8. Reliance and use of our report
  9. Professional rules and standards
  10. Identity checks and money laundering
  11. Confidentiality and data protection
  12. Fees and payment
  13. Our liability to you
  14. Changes in the law and to this engagement
  15. Ending the engagement
  16. How our agreement fits together

Also included

  • Fees
  • Timetable

How to complete it

  • Complete the project brief table in Schedule 1 in specific terms
  • List the facts and assumptions the advice will rely on
  • Choose a fixed fee, estimate or capped fee in Schedule 2
  • Keep the change control clause – it stops scope creep

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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Written for UK businesses

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