CA Intermediate · exam guide
CA Intermediate Career Scope
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Passing Intermediate opens the two-year articleship, which is practical training under a practising chartered accountant, and is a step towards CA Final.
Typical roles
- Articled assistant in a chartered accountancy firm during practical training
- Industrial trainee in the last part of practical training
- Business Accounting Associate (BAA): ICAI issues this certificate to students who have passed both Intermediate groups, completed practical training and AICITSS, and qualified the applicable Self-Paced Online Modules
Where you can work
- Chartered accountancy and audit firms
- Industry, during industrial training
- Accounting, finance and taxation departments, which ICAI lists among avenues for chartered accountants
What it leads to: After passing both groups, complete ICITSS, start articleship and register for CA Final.