PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

Academic ability, numeracy, business sense. The prolonged training period demands determination, motivation and endurance.

TRAINING

The CA course is conducted by the ICAI, which has its headquarters at New Delhi. It has five regional offices at Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Kanpur and New Delhi with eighty-one branches to these regional centers.

Eligibility

A person who desires to become a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India must: 

(1) Clear the intermediate and final examination of the institute. 
(2) Register as an articled or audit clerk with a practicing CA.
(3) Register with the board of studies of the institute. 

However, in order to be eligible to appear in the intermediate and final exams of the institute, the aspirant must have successfully completed and passed the foundation course. Registration to the foundation course of one-year duration is open to those who have completed 10+2. The foundation course can also be taken up simultaneously with graduate or post-graduate studies. 

However commerce graduates with 50 per cent marks, non-commerce graduates without math's with 55 percent marks and non-commerce graduates with math's and an aggregate of 60 percent marks are exempted from the foundation exam and are permitted to register as articled clerks for practical training.