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Work with the money side of an organisation

Accounts, audit, tax, costing, financial decisions. Every organisation that takes or spends money needs this done, which is why the work is not concentrated in one industry or one city.

What the work actually is

  • Reading and preparing accounts, and being able to say what they mean rather than only what they contain
  • Audit and tax work that is deadline-driven and unforgiving about detail
  • Years of examinations taken while already working, which is the part most students are not warned about

Subjects that keep this open

  • Accountancy
  • Economics
  • Mathematics

Guidance, not a rule. Each route publishes its own subject requirements, and those are what count.

3 recorded routes

Every way in that we have mapped

Ordered alphabetically. None of these is presented as better than another; which one fits depends on things this page does not know about you.

  1. After Class 12Open entry, or admission on Class 10 or 12 marks

    A B.Com first, then enter Chartered Accountancy at the second stage

    1. Step 1. Take a B.Com, admitted on Class 12 marks or through CUET depending on the university.
    2. Step 2. A graduate meeting ICAI’s marks requirement may skip the Foundation stage and register directly at Intermediate.
    3. Step 3. Complete the practical training and the Final examination from there.

    Slower to the qualification and it keeps a degree in hand, which matters if you change your mind. The exemption from Foundation is the part most students do not know exists.

    Where to check this

  2. After Class 12Selective, with more places than the best-known routes

    Chartered Accountancy, entered straight after Class 12

    1. Step 1. Register with ICAI and sit the CA Foundation examination after Class 12.
    2. Step 2. Pass the Intermediate stage, then do a period of supervised practical training in a firm.
    3. Step 3. Sit the Final examination. Many people take a degree alongside it, and it is not required.

    Entry is open to any stream, not only Commerce, and there is no cut-off to clear — you either pass the paper or sit it again. What it asks for instead is several years of examinations taken while working, which is a different kind of difficulty from a single entrance test.

    Where to check this

  3. After Class 12Selective, with more places than the best-known routes

    Cost and Management Accountancy

    1. Step 1. Register with ICMAI and sit the CMA Foundation examination after Class 12.
    2. Step 2. Pass Intermediate and Final, with practical training alongside.

    A genuinely different job from Chartered Accountancy rather than an easier version of it: costing and management accounting sit inside manufacturing and operations, where the question is what something costs to make rather than what was earned.

    Where to check this

Before you plan around any of these

Every route above links to the body that runs it. Eligibility, age limits, medical standards, subject requirements and dates are set by those bodies and change between cycles — we record what the route is and where to check it, and we do not track its dates. Read the official page before you decide anything.

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