CA as Career option

Taranjit Singh (Chartered Accountant) (6108 Points)

30 March 2009  

 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 operational levels.
  • Stakeholder value creation
  • Strategic management
  • Finance: The expertise of Chartered Accountants are in high demand in financial administration, Capital markets and international
  • financial regulation
  • Financial Reporting
  • Tax compliance
  • Tax Advice and Planning
  • Corporate Finance
  • Insolvency and corporate Recovery
  • Management consultancy.