Quality Assurance Scheme fees and criteria

Band Fee Criteria
Band 0 £12000
  • Turnover (of whole Organisation, or Group if relevant*, even if only part is applying for accreditation) of over £1.0bn per annum; and
  • Employs over 50 Members.**
Band 1 £6000
  • Turnover (of whole Organisation, or Group if relevant*, even if only part is applying for accreditation) of over £100m and up to £1bln per annum; and
  • Employs over 20 Members.**
Band 2 £3600
  • Turnover (of whole Organisation, or Group if relevant*, even if only part is applying for accreditation) of over £6.5m and up to £100m per annum; and
  • Employs over 20 Members.**
Band 3 £1200
  • Turnover (of whole Organisation, or Group if relevant*, even if only part is applying for accreditation) of less than £6.5m per annum
  • 0 to one office site***; and
  • Employs at least 1 Member.**

* Where an Organisation is part of a wider group, the turnover of that group will be taken into account in assessing the appropriate Band. This is subject to the discretion around Bands explained below.

** Members include IFoA Members (of any category) as well as members of other International Actuarial Association (IAA) Full Member Associations.

*** In terms of the ‘number of offices’ requirements, the IFoA will retain discretion to avoid any unfair categorisation, for example as a result of working arrangements such as home working or organisations having a very large single office site or multiple very small sites.


 

The IFoA retains discretion to determine that an applicant should be within a particular band even though the criteria indicate a different band. This reflects that the bands also correspond to the number of days of assessment required and will apply in circumstances where it is decided that an applicant needs more or less assessment due to the nature and size of the organisation, accredited part and/or the actuarial team.

If you are unclear as to the band that your organisation would be then please raise this with your QAS contact or submit a query to QAS@actuaries.org.uk

 

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Quality Assurance Scheme

QAS Team, Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, Level 2 Exchange Crescent, 7 Conference Square, Edinburgh, EH3 8RA

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