Would you trust someone without a medical qualification to give you a thorough health check?
So why would you entrust the health of your business to an unqualified accountant?
Legally, there’s nothing to stop anyone calling themselves an ‘accountant’, but only a CA is:
- a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland
- professionally qualified by training for a minimum of three years and passing rigorous examinations
- required to undertake mandatory continuous professional development
- bound by our code of ethics and required to adhere to the highest professional standards
- subject to a three-yearly review of their professional practices where they offer services to the public
- required to have professional indemnity insurance in place if offering services to the public
- required to have a complaints procedure in place
- subject to our disciplinary procedures
How to make sure your accountant is a CA
A firm of Chartered Accountants may have the ICAS member brand mark on their stationery and the individual Chartered Accountants in the firm will have the letters CA after his/her name.
Check if they are on our list of members or Directory of Firms CLICK HERE.
A CA’s training and experience ensures they have developed the commercial acumen and professional judgment needed to become your trusted advisor.
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