Course Details

In this session, Colm Owens and Claire Thomson consider what reviewers look for on monitoring visits in relation to non-audit files. This will be of interest to accountants who are expecting a monitoring visit in the near future which may include a non-audit element (or be a non-audit monitoring visit in itself) and to all accountants for on-going compliance and best practice. Monitoring visits can be stressful events, so being well-prepared can make them go much smoother and help to ensure they go well.


The following topics will be covered:

  • Audit-exempt criteria & who can claim audit-exemption?            
  • Audit-exempt files – the requirements
  • Audit-exempt financial statements
  • Monitoring visits – common issues

CPD Course Speaker

Practice Support Executive, OmniPro

Colm Owens

As a member of our Practice Support team, Colm’s focus is on helping practices achieve on-going best practice compliance, prepare for monitoring visits and assist with post-monitoring visits follow-ups.

Having spent the 6 years prior to joining OmniPro as a quality reviewer with Chartered Accountants Ireland Colm has a unique insight into how firms operate, the challenges facing firms and how firms are responding to current issues facing them and the profession.

Grant Thornton

Claire Thomson

Claire is a qualified Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, and trained with Grant Thornton Ireland. She spent 5.5 years in corporate audit, before moving to the firm’s risk & compliance team, where she spent 6 years supporting the all-Ireland practice as their UK financial reporting subject matter expert.

After a year in OmniPro’s Practice Support team, where she delivered webinars, developed technical content and provided post-monitoring support to firms, she has now joined Grant Thornton Northern Ireland, where she is Head of UK Financial Reporting and Accounting Technical, providing UK technical advice and support to local and international offices.