Continuing professional development section

We are committed to ensuring that our people have the skills and expertise necessary to provide the range of quality services and technical excellence required by our clients.

All partners and qualified staff are required to keep up to date with professional guidance, including the firm’s own risk management, ethical and independence requirements.

All those within specialist disciplines or serving specialist markets including statutory audit must comply with mandatory training requirements, which are actively monitored. On an annual basis, all our people are required to prepare a training plan and, where relevant, submit continuing professional development returns, which the firm actively monitors. Internally, we provide technical resources and support which can include electronic technical updates, training workshops, professional and personal development courses, and access to national technical teams.

While the majority of technical training takes place within member firms, Grant Thornton International makes a significant investment to train auditors in all member firms in the global audit methodology. The audit methodology, known as Horizon, is supported by state-of-the-art technology. Significant effort and resource have been committed to make the training programme technically rigorous to support implementation throughout member firms so that the audit needs of both public interest and privately held companies can be met appropriately, regardless of their size or complexity.