Accreditation scheme
If you wish to accredit your product please see our “How to get accredited” section.
How can your product benefit from ICAEW accreditation?
As an accredited software provider, you can benefit from an extensive marketing support package including:
- Use of the ICAEW accredited software logo on product packaging, website and promotional materials.
- Free access of up to 20,000 records (mailing only) per year from the membership database (market value is £5,000)
- Description of your accredited software with a downloadable product evaluation report on the ICAEW corporate website with a link through to your website.
- Discounted marketing via ICAEW marketing channels
- Access to sponsorship of ICAEW events and products at discounted rates.
- Provision of speakers where relevant and depending on availability.
Questionnaires
The following list provides questionnaires and guidelines for the scheme
- Company Secretarial questionnaire
- Employee Expense Management questionnaire
- Accounts Production questionnaire
- Data Validation questionnaire
- Document Management questionnaire
- E-Commerce questionnaire
- Financial Accounting questionnaire
- Fixed Asset questionnaire
- Practice Management questionnaire
- Tax Software questionnaire
- SaaS Security and continuity processing and reporting questionnaire
Evaluation
ICAEW has a policy of appointing a top accountancy firm as the scheme's independent assessor. This is currently RSM. The assessor has the final say as to whether a product has passed the accreditation process.
The scheme's independence is very important as it means software companies cannot simply pay to join the Scheme but must meet the required criteria laid out in the questionnaire.