Holds ACCA Practising Certificate: This indicates a member holding a practising certificate issued by ACCA. This means that the member is authorised to provide a range of general accountancy services to individuals and businesses, including business and tax advice and planning, preparation of personal and business tax returns, set up of book-keeping and business systems, providing book-keeping services, payroll work, assistance with management accounting help with raising finance, budgeting and cash-flow advice, business start-up advice and expert witness.

Eligible for statutory auditor status: This indicates that the member is eligible, under the terms of the Companies Act 2006 (United Kingdom) or Companies Act 2014 (Irish Republic), for statutory auditor status, to hold an auditing certificate and, if such an auditing certificate is held, to carry out audits of limited liability companies. This means that the member holds an audit qualification and is eligible to accept audit appointments in the UK or Ireland provided that the firm in which they work is a statutory auditor. You can check if an ACCA firm is a statutory auditor by searching in the ‘Find an Accountancy firm’ online directory.