CA Final · exam guide
CA Final Career Scope
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Passing CA Final, with practical training, AICITSS and the Self-Paced Online Modules complete, makes a student eligible to apply for membership of ICAI as a chartered accountant.
Typical roles
- Chartered accountant in independent practice: audit and assurance, financial reporting, forensic accounting, taxation including GST and international taxation, insolvency, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions
- Accounting, finance and taxation roles in industry, rising to CFO, CEO, COO or managing director positions as ICAI describes
- Financial services roles in capital and money markets, investment banking, portfolio management, mutual funds, credit rating and venture capital
- Management consultant in financial planning, budgeting, inventory and working capital management, and strategy
Where you can work
- Independent professional practice and audit firms
- Industry, business and trade organisations
- Banking, capital markets and financial services
- Management consulting
- Multinational companies and knowledge process outsourcing firms abroad, which ICAI says value Indian CAs for IFRS, international taxation and international trade law expertise
What it leads to: Apply for membership of ICAI after passing the Final exam and completing practical training, AICITSS and the Self-Paced Online Modules.