Prospective member firms must meet a number of criteria in order to be considered for membership. The criteria for membership include:
- the prospective firm’s reputation for quality and its adherence to high standards
- adoption of our global policies, procedures and methodologies, including our methods and quality control systems for providing services to clients, our engagement protocols and our ethics and independence policies
- maintenance of a system of quality control that meets or exceeds International Standards on Quality Control (ISQC)1
- agreement to the periodic evaluation of their system of quality control by our global quality monitoring teams.
Admission as a member firm is dependent on the outcome of a due diligence process performed to determine whether the prospective firm meets the criteria for membership.
All member firms are subject to obligations set out in the Grant Thornton Member Firm and Name Use Agreements and are required to abide by our global policies.