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De Cat, Kristel: supplier due diligence

Can you do business with this supplier, and what should you check first? One report with a light per domain, the points of attention in plain language and the evidence below, ready to print or share.

What is in the report?
  • Identity: legal form, age, seat, establishments, the legal situation in the KBO and whether the company receives e-invoices over Peppol.
  • Management: the directors in office, their other mandates and insolvencies there, and recent changes.
  • Control: the owners and parent companies with their share, from the filed annual accounts, the acts and the LEI register, and the chain of control.
  • Sanctions lists, recognitions and licences, the registered address.
  • Financial health, filing of the annual accounts and legal events.

Green: in order. Amber: check with the supplier. Red: serious, read it before you order. Grey: for information or not read.

Screening a client rather than a supplier, as a bookkeeper, accountant or lawyer? The AML client file