Accounting Firm compliance programs
Accounting firms now face a compliance crisis: managing beneficial-ownership registries, identifying sanctioned persons hidden in corporate structures, and defending against a $1M failure-to-report liability. We cross-reference your corporate records against federal registries — before the regulator does.
The accounting firm compliance landscape in 2026
Accounting firms are now squarely within the FINTRAC reporting-entity framework — and their risks concentrate around one obligation: beneficial ownership. Material discrepancies in ownership data are not administrative errors; they are potential sanctions-evasion incidents.
Firms that maintain or certify corporate records face failure-to-report liability when those records contain sanctioned persons or shell entities — and the penalty applies at the firm level. We help you see exactly where your exposure lies.
Material discrepancies in beneficial-ownership data are the primary sanctions vector for accounting firms, increasingly masking sanctioned persons within corporate structures. The right workflow protects your firm.
We solve the beneficial-ownership crisis
AA+ Solutions provides the workflow to cross-reference corporate records against federal registries, identify sanctioned persons hidden within corporate structures, and integrate sanctions screening into a documented, scalable beneficial-ownership process — plus the shell-entity detection and defense documentation that insulate your firm from failure-to-report liability. Every engagement is tailored to your practice; contact us for a consultation to scope exactly what your program needs.
What accounting firms need
Compliance Program Design
A complete FINTRAC regime for accounting firms — including beneficial-ownership workflows, ISC cross-referencing, and sanctions-screening integration.
Policy Writing
Accounting-firm-specific AML/ATF policies covering beneficial-ownership verification, sanctioned-person identification, shell-entity detection, and STR filing.
Risk Assessment
A risk assessment that models your firm’s exposure to beneficial-ownership failures, sanctioned-person risk, and professional liability across your client portfolio.
Is your firm exposed to the $1M failure-to-report liability?
Book a free consultation and we’ll assess your beneficial-ownership verification workflow against FINTRAC’s 2026 requirements — and identify exactly where your professional-liability exposure lies.