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What this guide fixes.
- You are not sure whether you need a practising certificate for the work you intend to do, and you are hoping the answer is no.
- You know you need anti money laundering supervision but you have not written the firm wide risk assessment, which is the document your supervisor will ask for.
- You are about to take a client before your supervision, your certificate position and your insurance are all confirmed, which is completely avoidable and puts your membership at risk.
- You are working from a checklist you found online that quotes thresholds and dates, in an area where those change constantly and a stale number is worse than none.
- You have an engagement letter you wrote yourself or copied from somewhere, rather than the current template your professional body publishes for members.
- You are six weeks in and choosing between two shades of navy for a logo, which is avoidance and you already know it.
What the fixes get you.
- The full permissions layer in order: professional body, practising certificate, anti money laundering supervision, and the insurance levels to check rather than assume.
- The six part anti money laundering setup, including the two documents supervisors actually ask to see.
- Your own structure, HMRC agent accounts, data protection registration and the engagement letter, with what to get signed before work starts every single time.
- The banking and payment setup, including the one change that does more for your cash flow than anything else you will do in year one.
- A minimum software stack in six lines, plus the dry run to do before client one that will find four things in your process that do not work.
- The genuine minimum client facing presence, the five things you do not need yet, and a set of recurring diary entries so nothing lapses in year two.
