Who is a Chartered Accountant?

On successful completion of these courses one can apply for membership to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. The Accountant becomes chartered only after acquiring its membership. A Chartered Accountant is a privileged one over the ordinary ones. CA as Career option There is no dearth of jobs for Chartered Accountants. After acquiring the membership one can either choose to do public practice or join any organization at the public sector or private sector.Career option for a chartered accountant is therefore varied. • General Practice: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India predicts that audit and standard taxation services would soon be replaced by growing opportunities on relationship based services. The Chartered Accountants are required to assess the risks of the companies designing control system to counter those risks. • New Assurance and performance measurement services • Change management: This includes making changes at the ownership, structural and ...  more