About the IAB
The IAB … the professional choice
With over 10,000 members across 60 countries, the IAB is one of the most prestigious not-for-profit organisations for professional bookkeepers in the world.
With qualifications regulated by Ofqual, the IAB is a statutory supervisory body under the Money Laundering Regulations. Setting world-class standards, it offers students worldwide the chance to gain the very best financial qualifications – as well as lifelong skills. The IAB is also a professional body for bookkeepers.
Decades of best practice
Founded in 1973, the IAB is both an awarding and professional body. Today, celebrating over 40 years of success, it not only offers a host of regulated bookkeeping and business qualifications, it supports and regulates professionals on their career path.
With membership attracting students, business owners and accounting professionals alike, the IAB’s sights are on the future – helping members maintain their skills and respected status.
Setting standards
At the forefront of benchmarking, the IAB works with government as well as standard setting bodies to promote the professional integrity of bookkeepers.
Under the UK Money Laundering Regulations, the IAB is a statutory supervisor – ensuring members in practice comply with the law. Alongside this, it also plays a key role in developing national qualifications too.
Promoting new opportunities
Young people and start-up businesses need a helping hand – the chance to gain skills and move ahead. The IAB supports many initiatives to make this happen.
It collaborated with the Financial and Legal Skills Partnership to pave the way for new bookkeeping and payroll qualifications and apprenticeships.
As a key partner in the ‘Get Mentoring’ scheme – led by the Small Firms Enterprise Development Initiative – thousands of mentors were trained to help new businesses grow.
Small businesses can easily find a bookkeeper through the service provided on the site with listings of qualified bookkeepers across the UK.
To keep pace with the latest IAB initiatives, read our News page.
Friends of the IAB
Enterprise Rockers
It doesn’t stop there. Small business owners benefit from long-term support and advice. That’s why the IAB backs a fantastic community of micro businesses – Enterprise Rockers.
Launched in January 2012 by Tina Boden and Tony Robinson OBE, Enterprise Rockers is all about supporting micro business owners who are already trading – even if they have only been trading 24 hours. Founders, Head Roadies, Band Leaders and members of Enterprise Rockers are focused on life beyond the start up stage and want to ensure micro business owners have the support they need to keep going.
This independent ‘free-to-join’ network is where a band of business owners pool ideas, support and promote each other, and simply make life better for small enterprises across the world. Join the band here.
For more information please visit: www.enterpriserockers.co.uk/
Interlinguae
Interlinguae provide services and support to IAB Members, accredited centres and businesses in which members are employed at a discounted rate. Further information about Interlinguae can be found below.
Our company provides translation, interpreting and language training services in compliance with our Certified Quality System – ISO 9001, ISO 17100 (translation services) and UNI 10574 (interpreting services), ISO 9001 EA: 35-37 (Design and provision of language courses) ensuring a higher level of excellence.
Since 1982, our clients have been entrusting us with their multilingual documents, materials and other media for the global market. We are chosen for our efficiency and competence, not to mention our reliability and flexibility.
Our translations, made by highly-qualified native-speaker translators, are certified, guaranteed by an insurance coverage and carefully revised: technical translations, instruction manuals, medical and scientific translations, legal translations, financial translations, marketing translations, websites and e-commerce translations, specialised translations, translations for the publishing industry.
Our interpreters are carefully selected, tested and qualified on the basis of their skills and expertise in specific techniques of interpreting so as to supply you with the right services for your business meeting, conferences, conventions, etc.
Whether held at our offices, at your premises or online, our language courses are designed with the aim of developing your general and business language skills in order to promote communication in your workplace and in your international relations.