Australia's Leading Quality Management Consultant for Accounting Firms
Helping accounting practices build compliant, efficient, and future-ready quality management systems that meet modern professional standards.
800+
We have helped accounting practices all over Australia
ALL SIZES
Clients vary from sole traders, partnerships to multi-partner firms
TOP 100
We have helped big firms, including those in the country’s top 100
We Help Your accounting Firm…
- Pass Quality Reviews with confidence
- Prepare complying APES 320, APES 325 and ASQM1 manuals
- Build an effective quality management system
- Reduce compliance risk
- Improve engagement quality
- Strengthen file documentation
- Meet APESB and professional body expectations
- Save partners valuable time
- Improve firm-wide consistency and quality standards
Meet Australia's Most Experienced Quality Assurance Consultant
Craig Allen, FCPA FIPA CA
With over 35 years in public practice, Craig Allen is one of Australia's most experienced quality management advisors for accounting firms.
Craig's credentials include 16 years as a CPA Australia Quality Reviewer, service as a Member of the CPA Australia Board of Quality Review, and extensive experience mentoring accountants through both Chartered Accountants ANZ and CPA Australia.
He has been trusted by more than 800 accounting firms across Australia. Craig provides practical, expert guidance on APES320, APES325, ASQM 1, quality reviews, risk management, and professional standards.
His hands-on experience helps firms build effective quality management systems, strengthen compliance, and approach quality reviews with confidence.
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:
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
Guy N Miller
B.Com, CPA, Tax Returns OnlineSimon Nielson
Ellenbrook TAX & ACCOUNTINGSimon Nielson
Ellenbrook TAX & ACCOUNTINGHarold Prag
CPA Principal in Public Practice
Your Long-Term Partner in Quality Management
Outsourced Quality Manager
Quality management isn't something you implement once and forget. As professional standards evolve, regulations change, and your firm grows, your quality management system needs to evolve too.
At Quality Assurance for Accountants, we do more than prepare manuals or help you through a quality review. We partner with accounting firms to build, strengthen, and maintain quality management systems that support long-term compliance, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
Other Solutions
Quality Review Preparation
Prepare for your quality review with confidence through a comprehensive assessment of your firm's systems, files, and compliance against professional standards.
Comprehensive Quality Management Review
Strengthen your firm's quality management system with an end-to-end review of your policies, engagement files, procedures, risks, and compliance framework.
Quality Review Remediation
Turn quality review findings into opportunities by implementing practical improvements that strengthen compliance and future performance.
Practice Due Diligence
Make informed acquisition or succession decisions with an independent assessment of a firm's quality systems, compliance, and risk profile.
Why Leading Accounting Firms Work With Us
We specialise exclusively in quality management for Australian accounting firms. Our recommendations are practical, commercially focused, and based on decades of real-world experience conducting quality reviews and being a sole practitioner in an accounting practice in Australia.
We understand what reviewers look for because we've been on both sides of the process and get regular client feedback on what has been done during their reviews
That means less guesswork, fewer surprises, and greater confidence.
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