ACS Assessor Guide - Security Industry Authority

ACS Assessor GuideSection 4 – Criterion Specific Guidelines: Criteria 4Criteria 4 – Financial ManagementAn SIA approved contractor is financially viable with sufficientresources to meet its current and future obligations.Note:1. There are elements within this criterion which cover the financialprocesses of a business and the legislative requirements of running apayroll system. Assessors are not expected to be familiar with all ofthese aspects to enable an in-depth examination. It is theresponsibility of the applicant organisation to provide a truthfulassessment of their performance and the assessor’s role is one ofverification. As such the assessor should plan to ask targetedquestions to elicit information about the applicant’s approaches.2. The assessor should familiarise themselves with the key points ofsome of the legislative requirements. The Department for Business,Innovation and Skills and Business Link (www.bis.gov.uk andwww.businesslink.gov.uk) provide a summary of the key pointson all of the legislative requirements within the ACS Standard.3. Examples of the types of evidence the assessor may considersufficient to meet the ACS Standard are given wherever possible81The contents of this publication are copyright ©2013 Security Industry Authority, all rights reserved. No part of the contents may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, by any means without prior written permission of the copyright owner.