An accountant engagement letter sets out the services an accountancy firm will provide to a client, the fees, each side's responsibilities and how the engagement can end.
What changes each time
- Firm's name
- Firm's address
- Firm's email and phone
- Professional body and membership number
- Anti-money laundering supervisor
- Professional indemnity insurer
- and 22 more
Board minutes are the written record of a meeting of a company's directors: who attended, whether the meeting was quorate, what was discussed and what was resolved.
What changes each time
- Company and number
- Place, date and start time
- Directors present
- Others in attendance
- Apologies
- Quorum
- and 7 more
Board minutes declaring a dividend are the written record that a company's directors met and decided to pay an interim dividend.
What changes each time
- Company's full name
- Company number
- Registered office address
- Date of the meeting
- Time
- Place of the meeting
- and 16 more
A capability meeting letter invites an employee to a formal meeting about their performance, after informal attempts to deal with it have not worked.
What changes each time
- Employer's full name
- Employer's address
- Employee's full name
- Employee's address
- Employee's first name
- Date of the informal meeting
- and 13 more
A director's loan agreement records a loan from a company to one of its directors: the amount and purpose, how it was approved, any interest, and how and when it is repaid.
What changes each time
- Company, number and registered office
- Director and home address
- Who signs for the company
- Amount and purpose
- How and when it is paid
- Approval
- and 6 more
A disengagement letter tells a client that an accountant will no longer act for them, either because the firm is resigning or because the client has ended the engagement.
What changes each time
- Firm's name
- Firm's address and email
- Client's name, or contact name and company
- Client's address
- Client's first name
- Services we are acting for you in
- and 14 more
A dividend voucher is the record a company gives each shareholder when it pays a dividend, showing what was paid and on which shares.
What changes each time
- Company, number and registered office
- Voucher number
- Shareholder and address
- Interim or final
- Year or period ending
- Declared on
- and 6 more
An employer reference letter answers a request for a reference about a current or former employee, either as a factual reference or as a full one.
What changes each time
- Who asked
- Date of the request
- Type of reference
- Full name
- Dates of employment
- Job titles
- and 10 more
A financial adviser client agreement sets out the service a firm gives a new client, what it costs and the client's rights.
What changes each time
- Firm name
- Firm address
- Firm email
- Firm's company number
- FCA reference number
- Principal firm (if an appointed representative)
- and 20 more
A grievance meeting invitation letter invites an employee who has raised a formal grievance to a meeting to discuss it.
What changes each time
- Employer's full name
- Employer's address
- Employee's full name
- Employee's address
- Employee's first name
- Date of the grievance
- and 9 more
A grievance outcome letter tells an employee the decision on their formal grievance, point by point, and explains how to appeal.
What changes each time
- Employer's full name
- Employer's address
- Employee's full name
- Employee's address
- Employee's first name
- Date of the written grievance
- and 13 more
An introducer agreement sets out the terms on which a person or business passes prospective clients to another business in return for a commission.
What changes each time
- Business's full legal name
- Introducer's full legal name
- Company number
- Address
- Description of the business's services
- Email address for introductions
- and 8 more
A job offer letter tells the successful candidate they have the job, with the salary, start date and type of post.
What changes each time
- Candidate's full name
- Candidate's first name
- Candidate's address
- Job title
- Annual salary
- Start date
- and 8 more
A letter of authority lets a client's accountant or agent ask banks, pension providers, a previous accountant and HMRC for information on the client's behalf.
What changes each time
- Client or company name
- Address
- Company number
- Signatories
- Firm name and address
- Email and phone
- and 4 more
A letter of representation is a signed statement from a company's directors to its accountant or auditor, confirming that they have given complete and accurate information for the year-end accounts.
What changes each time
- Company's full legal name
- Registered office address
- Date
- Name
- Firm's name
- Address
- and 10 more
A partnership agreement sets out how a general partnership in England and Wales is owned and run: each partner's capital and profit share, drawings, decisions, and what happens when a partner leaves or the partnership ends.
What changes each time
- Business and firm name
- Start date
- Main place of business
- Partners, addresses, capital and shares
- Capital deadline
- Interest on capital
- and 11 more
A pay rise letter tells an employee in writing that their pay is going up, by how much and from when.
What changes each time
- Employer's full name
- Employer's address
- Employee's full name
- Employee's address
- Employee's first name
- Reason for the rise
- and 13 more
A personal guarantee is a written promise by an individual, often a company director, to pay a business's debts to a creditor if the business does not.
What changes each time
- Date of the guarantee
- Guarantor's full name and home address
- Creditor's full legal name, company number and address
- Customer's full legal name, company number or address
- Guarantor's relationship to the customer
- Credit being given
- and 12 more
A probation extension letter tells a new employee that their probation period will be longer than planned, and sets out what they need to achieve in the extra time.
What changes each time
- Employer's full name
- Employer's address
- Employee's full name
- Employee's address
- Employee's first name
- Name of manager
- and 13 more
A probation review outcome letter tells a new employee the result of their probation review: that they have passed, or that they have not and their employment will end with notice.
What changes each time
- Employer's full name
- Employer's address
- Employee's full name
- Employee's address
- Employee's first name
- Name of manager
- and 16 more
A professional clearance letter is how an accountant asks the client's previous accountant whether there is any professional reason not to accept the appointment, and how the previous accountant replies.
What changes each time
- Incoming firm's name
- Incoming firm's address and email
- Outgoing accountant's name
- Outgoing firm's name
- Outgoing firm's address
- Client's full name or company name
- and 8 more
A secondment agreement sets out the terms on which an employee is lent by their employer to work for another organisation for a fixed time or project.
What changes each time
- Date of the agreement
- Employer's full legal name
- Host organisation's full legal name
- Employee's full name
- Employee's home address
- Role at the host
- and 15 more
A variation of contract letter confirms in writing a change to an employee's terms that the employer and employee have already agreed, such as new hours, a new place of work or a new job title.
What changes each time
- Employer's full name
- Employer's address
- Employee's full name
- Employee's address
- Employee's first name
- Name of the person met
- and 13 more
A written resolution lets the members of a private limited company pass a decision on paper, without holding a meeting.
What changes each time
- Company number
- Company type: limited by shares or guarantee
- Company's full legal name
- Circulation date
- Type of each resolution: ordinary or special
- Text of each resolution
- and 7 more