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What is a Chartered Accountant?

  • November 28, 2011
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At Caprica Online we are Chartered Accountants. What does this mean?

In the UK to be called a Chartered Accountant you need to be a member of either:

  1. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (“ICAEW”); or
  2. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (“ICAS”)
No other accountancy bodies allow their members to call themselves Chartered Accountants. To be a Chartered Accountant you need to pass tough exams set by these organisations. It takes a minimum of three years and is never easy.
Whether an accountant belongs to ICAEW or ICAS is down to the allegiance of whatever firm they qualified with. I trained at Ernst & Young who tends to swap between the two periodically in an effort to throw their weight around. When I was training it was with ICAS even though I was based in Reading.
You will find other accountants calling themselves ‘Certified’ Chartered Accountants. This means they are a member of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (“ACCA”). The exams are just as tough as ICAS/ICAEW so if your accountant is a Certified Chartered Accountant then they should know there stuff.
If your accountant is not a Chartered Accountant (or Certified Chartered Accountant) they could still be good but you should definitely get a recommendation from someone else that they do know what they are doing.
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