As reported by leading daily TOI – Falling prey to an online lottery scam, chartered accountant Pankaj Kumar (name changed), 25, transferred nearly Rs 85 lakh to account numbers provided by the cyber criminals, who duped him by showing frivolous dreams having won lottery money of 10 lakh pounds. Now, all his efforts to contact [...]

The vision to achieve his childhood goal helped 23-year-old J. Rajashekar Reddy qualify the final hurdle of becoming a chartered accountant. He is the first completely blind candidate in India to manage the feat. “My success is not mine alone but of all those volunteers, teachers, friends and mentors who supported me throughout,” said the [...]

Surmounting all odds, Prema Jayakumar, daughter of a Mumbai-based autorickshaw driver, has topped the all India Chartered Accountancy (CA) examination.  Residing in a crammed one-room chawl in suburban Malad with her parents and brother, the 24-year-old told on Tuesday she was ecstatic to have secured the first rank in the examination conducted in November 2012 [...]

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) announced the results  of  Common Proficiency Test (Paper Pencil Mode) held on December 16, 2012 on 21.01.2013. The top three rank holders of Common Proficiency Test (Paper-Pencil Mode) held on December 16, 2012 are from Guntur (Andhra Pradesh), Jaipur and Kakinada (Andhra Pradesh) and their details along [...]

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) announced the  results of Chartered Accountants Final Examination held in Nov, 2012 on 21.01.2013. The top three rank holders on all India basis of Chartered Accountants Final Examinations held in November, 2012 are from Mumbai, Rajamahendravaram (Andhra Pradesh) and Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) respectively and their details along [...]

ICSI Elects CS S. N. Ananthasubramanian as PRESIDENT & CS Harish K. Vaid as VICE-PRESIDENT of the Council of the Institute Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) w.e.f. 19th January, 2013.

The Council at its 321st Meeting held in January, 2013 has relaxed the eligibility criteria, in order to mitigate the hardships being faced by the students registering under Direct Entry Scheme to Chartered Accountancy Course on or after 1st October, 2012, as under, so as to be eligible to appear in the Intermediate (Integrated Professional Competence) Examination to be held in November, 2013.

The following draft of certain regulations, further to amend the Company Secretaries Regulations, 1982 which the Council of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India proposes to make, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 39 of the Company Secretaries Act, 1980 (56 of 1980), and with the prior approval of the Central Government,

As notified in the ‘Implementation Schedule’ on the Institute website, students who are pursuing Professional Competence Course (PCC) are hereby informed that the Professional Competence Examination (PCE) will be discontinued on culmination of November, 2012 examination.

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