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WHAT TYPE OF WORK DO U DO AT UR OFFICE??

Debojit (Student CA Final) (308 Points)

04 March 2010

Hi Friends,

As u all know, Articleship consumes a huge amount of time in the CA Course & as such, there is also no prescribed syllabus for it. I would like to know from u all as to what do u do at office??? What are u learning in articleship training?? Have u really learnt anything??? Are u enjoying it???

Feel free to Share ur Office Experiences Here.....

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Brajesh Singh (Chartered Accountant) (45 Points)
Replied 05 March 2010

Hi Debojit

This is Brajesh from Kolkata

It seems u r not enjyoyong ur Articleship,

As far as i concerened i have learnt a lot during my 1 year articleship career regarding A/cs, Taxation etc. and most importantly i have been able to recognise the people as per their capacity. thats not all my communication skill and lifestyle has changed totally. today i am a proud Article in every respect and i will try to pass my remaining Articleship period giving my best effort to my firm and to my career.

well, you r also correct about time consuming of articleship but remember 1 thing development is a procedure and certainly not an event.

I am not giving you any lecture or something these are my experience

Best of luck !!

Regards,

Brajesh.

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CA Anurag Garg (Chartered Accountant) (339 Points)
Replied 07 March 2010

i agree with brajesh but to become CA we have to study. So preference will always be given to Study. articleship if sincerely done in cooperation with CA (Firm) gives fruitful results generally but different situations exist with diffrent students some students think that CA will teach him but its not in realitiy. CA expects far more than what an article deserve while at articleship. CA does not have any interest in the article's future or development rather he just know that his work must have been carried out with expert knowledge from article at minimum cost (stipend) to survive in this competitive world (as CA learned this for at least 4 years in study materials of the ICAI) and he never fails to use its acedemic knowledge on articles. I hav always take my articleship as a challenge from the end of first month of my articleship. Even i hav also taken several transfer each time to prepare for exams n to experience different type of CA services since different CA's have different specialization of work. Articleship has really been advantageous for me atleast so far. It has put into me the confidence of meeting Prime Minister which i could not able bfore articleship. But in the end it will be worthwhile to say that oppurtunity cost of articleship is very high in terms of study. In an extreme situation articleship can be ignored but study cant be ignored. transfer BAN rule is also a curse on articleship.

CA.kaya (Chartered accountant) (3990 Points)
Replied 07 March 2010

following is the areas prescribed by ICAI

I Accounting
(a) Maintaining books of account
(b) Preparing Final accounts
(c) Compliances with Accounting Standards and other pronouncements
(d) Analysis and interpretation
(e) Preparing and Reviewing budgets, fund-flow and cash flow statements
(f) Others (to be specified)
II Audit – Statutory/Internal/Concurrent
(a) Routine audit work
(b) Review of General Ledger
(c) Scrutiny of provisional entries
(d) Verification and Valuation of Stocks
(e) Preparation of Audit sampling
(f) Evaluation of Internal Control System
(g) Maintenance of Audit Working Papers
(h) Preparation of Audit Program
(i) Others (to be specified)
III Taxation
(a) Computation of Income
(b) Filing of returns of income
(c) Filing of TDS and other returns under Income Tax
(d) Computation of liability under the Indirect Tax laws
(e) Filing of returns under Indirect tax laws
(f) Preparation of appeal documents
(g) Filing appeal (Mention Appellate Authority)
(h) Attending and Assisting in the conduct of hearing of appeal
(i) Others (to be specified)
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IV Information Technology
(a) Computer applications such as use of accounting packages
(b) Developing and maintaining data-base
(c) Data Extraction and Analysis
(d) Information Systems Audits
(e) Others (to be specified)
V Company Law
(a) Filing of documents and returns under Companies Act, 1956
(b) Minute Book writing
(c) Maintenance of Other Statutory Registers
(d) Others (to be specified)
VI Others (to be specified)
(a) Assisting in devising Management Information System
(b) Specific Management Audit
(c) Others (to be specified)