meet quality standards
and make quality reviews easier
Quality Assurance for Accountants is the only consulting firm in Australia that helps accounting practices improve their quality and risk systems to meet the standard required for quality reviews
The quality assurance expert
Craig Allen, FCPA FIPA CA
With decades of experience in quality assurance in accounting practices, Craig can help your firm meet quality standards and pass quality reviews with ease.
Craig's experience with quality assurance for accounting practices is second to none. He was a quality assurance reviewer for CPA Australia for 16 years, and a past member of its Board of Quality Review and Public Practice Committee. He is currently a mentor for the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) mentoring program.
Craig has helped more than 500 accounting practices in Australia as a quality assurance consultant or quality reviewer.
More importantly, Craig has been in public practice for more than 30 years. This gives him a unique understanding of the challenges faced by all practitioners – not only in their day-to-day operations but in meeting the quality standards set by their respective accounting bodies.
Craig is a member of all three professional bodies
Craig is an expert on quality assurance practices for the three major professional bodies: CPA Australia, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) and the Institute of Public Accountants (IPA). Follow these links for overviews of each organisation’s quality assurance programs:
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Our Solutions
Our packaged services have helped hundreds of accounting practices of all types and sizes, from sole practitioners to multi-partner firms
Basic Package
For Accounting Practices preparing for a quality review
Deluxe Package
For accounting practices looking to improve their overall QA system and prepare for a quality review
Post-review Package
For accounting practices that have already been reviewed and need help
Premium Package
For accounting firms looking for a regular quality practice consultant
Buy/sell Package
For Accountants looking to buy or sell a practice
WHY USE A QUALITY ASSURANCE CONSULTANT?
Instead of doing it all yourself, we can do it for you and free up time you can use to do chargeable work. Our solutions include...
- Providing expert independent advice to help you improve areas of your accounting public practice, before it is scrutinised in a quality review
- Preparing compliant APES 320, ASQM1 and APES 325 manuals
- Significantly increase your chances of being a compliant practice - Ensuring your quality control system meets the mandatory standards
- Eliminating the need for a full-time or part-time employee to oversee your practice’s quality control system
what our clients say about us
Gary Cain
Director, Cain & CoThank you for your assistance with preparing these manuals, as well as your other advice throughout this process. Your assistance has been invaluable, and the quality of the materials prepared has been excellent. I will refer other practitioners to you as the opportunity arises, as there are many more professionals that could benefit from the work you do. Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience arising from making these final changes at such short notice.
Craig Dawson
Activate Accounting GroupSteve Tyshing
Haines Muir Hill Chartered AccountantsThanks again for all your great help & advice. I will be sure to recommend your services should any of my colleagues find themselves in a similar situation to myself in the future. All the best