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 there are many benefits to using a qualified CA.
As Members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, our CAs are:
- 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.