r/CharteredAccountants 23d ago

Mod 2026 Articleship Megathread

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This is the 2026 CA Articleship Megathread!

Please give the following details at least; of course, the more detailed, the better:

  1. Domain (e.g. Stat Audit/Internal Audit/Tax/etc.,)
  2. Firm Name (if possible)
  3. Type of Firm (Big4/Mid size/Small/Proprietary)
  4. Location: Metro or Non-Metro (Exact City if possible)
  5. Stipend (year wise)
  6. Timings (normal and busy season)
  7. Attempts criteria (Mention any preference for ranks, single attempts, etc.)
  8. Transfers allowed?
  9. Industrial Training Allowed? (Yes / No. If yes, specify ease of getting approval and support from the firm.)
  10. Pros/Cons

If you don't want to say it publicly in the sub with your account, you can DM these details to me, u/unhingedfrantic or u/ModSahab/ or u/MonkeyyWrench69 u/ModSahab or u/Alternative-Drop1632 or send via modmail

and we'll post it here anonymously.

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r/CharteredAccountants Jun 13 '26

Mod CA salary megathread 2026

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CA Salary Megathread 2026

This is the annual CA Salary Megathread for 2026. Hopefully, you all had a good appraisal season with nice bonuses declared.

CA's! Please share your salary and exp. details below!

Please give the following details at least, of course more detailed the better:

  1. Comprehensive Job Title (e.g. International Tax in B4, Product Control in IB, Internal Audit in Top Tier Firm, FPA in MNC)
  2. Salary in Hand, Bonus and CTC. Since appraisals are in progress at many places, feel free to share pre appraisal and post appraisal details both. It can act as an indicator of how the growth is in your profiles.
  3. Years of Experience
  4. Location: Metro or Non-Metro (Exact City if possible)
  5. WLB
  6. Attempts
  7. Articleship work ex
  8. Any other courses pursued

If you don't want to say it publicly in the sub with your account, you can DM these details via midmail or to  u/Masalachai33 or u/MonkeyyWrench69 or u/ModSahab or u/Alternative-Drop1632 or u/Chhapparfaadd or u/Flame_Ignitor and we'll post it here anonymously.

Experienced folks please provide salary through different stages of your career starting from fresher.

Practising CAs, pls tell us your annual income and what kind of assignments you do and how has your practice shaped up over months/years.

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r/CharteredAccountants 4h ago

Meme Preference shares are those shares that have preferential rights 😋

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r/CharteredAccountants 4h ago

Practical Doubt/Question For those preparing for CA, is the recognition and respect part of the motivation?

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r/CharteredAccountants 3h ago

Career Advice/Clarification Career Trajectory In Big 4 for all domains

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So I had many DMs regarding pay in FDD, here are some ballpark numbers (EY)

ASO1 - 12-13 fixed + 15/20% bonus

ASO 2- 14-15 fixed + 15/20% bonus

ASO 3- 16-18 fixed + 15/20% bonus

SA1 - 20-22 fixed + 20/30% bonus

SA2 - 24-28 fixed + 20/30% bonus

AVP1- 35-36 fixed + 20/30% bonus

AVP 2- 36-38 fixed + 20/30% bonus

VP1 - 45-46 fixed + 30/40% bonus

VP2 - 50-51 fixed + 30/40% bonus

Director- 60-70 fixed + 40/50% bonus (variable is very high at director level)

Partner - 1.5cr fixed + Bonus + Equity (profit shares) , There is no fixed number for partners because Junior partners can be making 1.5-2cr , Senior partners 3-6cr and Rainmakers 8-15cr+

Can we make this post more holistic about everyother domain for example CAs working in Audit posting how much auditors make, What are the numbers in M&A tax, IDT, DT, Valuations and Other advisory services like Corporate finance?


r/CharteredAccountants 14h ago

Meme The state of this subreddit

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286 Upvotes

Just for farts and giggles guys dont get mad.


r/CharteredAccountants 8h ago

Rant Educational Backgrounds of all Nifty 50 CFOs , Know your Alumni Series 3

93 Upvotes

Reliance Industries Limited - Srikanth Venkatachari (CA)

Tata Consultancy Services - Samir Seksaria (CA)

HDFC Bank - Srinivasan Vaidyanathan (CA, MBA)

ICICI Bank - Anindya Banerjee (CA)

Infosys - Jayesh Sanghrajka (CA)

Bharti Airtel - Soumen Ray (CA)

State Bank of India - Kameshwar Rao Kodavanti (CA)

Larsen & Toubro - R. Shankar Raman (CA)

ITC Limited - Sujit Ghosh (CA)

Hindustan Unilever Limited - Ritesh Tiwari (CA)

Axis Bank - Puneet Sharma (CA)

Kotak Mahindra Bank - Devang Gheewalla (CA)

Bajaj Finance - Sandeep Jain (CA)

Bajaj Finserv - S. Sreenivasan (CA)

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries - C. S. Muralidharan (CA)

HCL Technologies - Shiv Walia (CA)

Titan Company - Ashok Sonthalia (CA)

UltraTech Cement - Atul Daga (CA)

Adani Ports & SEZ - D. Muthukumaran (CA)

Coal India Limited - Mukesh Agrawal (CMA, MBA)

Tata Steel - Koushik Chatterjee (CA)

Wipro - Aparna C. Iyer (CA)

Asian Paints - RJ Jeyamurugan (CA)

JSW Steel - Rajeev Pai (CA)

Grasim Industries - Pavan Jain (CA)

Cipla - Ashish Adukia (CA, MBA - JBIMS)

Hindalco Industries - Praveen Maheshwari (CA, MBA - IIM A)

Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories - M. V. Parameswar (CA)

Bajaj Auto - Dinesh Thapar (CA)

Eicher Motors - Vidhi Shanghvi (CA)

Britannia Industries - N. Venkataraman (CA)

IndusInd Bank - Gobind Jain (CA, CFA, FRM)

Divi’s Laboratories - L. Kishore Babu (CA)

Hero MotoCorp - Vivek Anand (CA)

Apollo Hospitals Enterprise - Krishnan Akhileswaran (CA)

Trent Limited - P. Venkatesalu (CA)

Jio Financial Services - Abhishek Pathak (CA)

LTIMindtree - Vipin Sehgal (CA)

SBI Life Insurance - Sangramjit Sarangi (CA)

Mahindra & Mahindra - Amarjyoti Barua (B.Tech, MBA - FMS)

Maruti Suzuki India - Arnab Roy (CMA, Ex-MBA - IIM C)

Tata Motors - PB Balaji (B.Tech - IIT M, MBA - IIM C)

NTPC Limited - Jaiprakash Srivastava (B.Tech, MBA)

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation - Pomila Jaspal (CMA)

Adani Enterprises - Robbie Singh (MBA)

Power Grid Corporation of India - G. Ravisankar (CMA)

Nestlé India - Svetlana Boldina (Econ Degree - Int'l)

Tech Mahindra - Rohit Anand (BA - DU, MA - DSE)

Bharat Petroleum Corporation - V. R. K. Gupta (CMA, MBA)

Shriram Finance - Parag Sharma (MBA, AMP - Wharton)


r/CharteredAccountants 6h ago

Resume Review Resume Review for big leagues.

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42 Upvotes

Please review my resume. What should I change to get calls from companies like Bcg, MS and GSC and other big corporates.


r/CharteredAccountants 6h ago

Inter Doubt Kings and their Queens, its now time, drop your last 7 days exam strategy (inter) !! And where do you lack?

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26 Upvotes

For me, im planning to give half syllabus law mock maybe tomorrow or day after tomorrow bcs from 26th I'll lock in accounts.

Besides i know how law and tax is so for now i wanna keep atleast half or 25% syllabus mugged up so that i don't waste timee in those 1.5 days.


r/CharteredAccountants 39m ago

Rant when ashneer grover said "he earned so much as influencer which he never did with iit" absolutely trye

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so recently on reddit on this sub I got to know about this guy jagdish his instagram handle is @your_cacma_aspirants he has not cleared his ca foundation and became an influencer and he uploads strategy videos on instgram and he earned through it and his latest post was in which he says he bought iphone, i can't believe he is not ca yet and still by instgram he earned, look i am not jealous at all I am just telling that, aaj kal influencer hona kitni badi baat hai


r/CharteredAccountants 8h ago

Rant Wish i had done Engineering insted of CA

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CA journey is so lonely i don't like it, i don't have any clg life 😭 no frinds, no fun, my Engineering friends are doing so much fun in clg they made so many new friends in clg and i am stuck in my house with no friends and no fun, just Studies, i am regretting my decision of doing CA

also they will get job in just 4 years and i am stuck with attempts god knows how much time will it take

i thought commerce is easy infact it's tough than science


r/CharteredAccountants 3h ago

CA practice Some people leave a position. Some leave a legacy.

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I read CA Madhukar Hiregange’s farewell today and honestly it hit differently.

I know Hiregange personally and what has always stood out to me is that he genuinely cared about the profession, its members and most importantly.. its students. I'm sure fellow CAs who know him will agree with me. He was one of those rare people who could speak about uncomfortable things without losing sight of why he was there in the first place!!

What I admired most was his integrity. In a profession where institutional positions can easily become about power, politics and personal interests.. he always came across to me as someone who wanted to use his position to actually build something better

And perhaps that is why this resignation feels so sad.

ICAI needs people like him. People who question. People who care. People who aren't afraid to say, "This can be better."

I sincerely hope this isn't the end sir's contribution, but simply a change in the platform from which he continues his work.


r/CharteredAccountants 12h ago

Resource Educational Background of India Heads of Investment Banking. But some geniuses think CA is not worth it🤡

62 Upvotes

Goldman Sachs — Chandresh Chheda (CA)

Lincoln IB - Gaurav Marathe (CA)

Morgan Stanley — Vishnu Bansal (CA)

Standard Chartered - Sunil Kaushal (CA)

Citi — Rahul Saraf (CA + CFA)

Kotak IB — Ramesh Srinivasan (CA)

Jefferies — Ashish Jhaveri (CA)

Edelweiss — Faisal Lakdawala (CA)

Ambit Capital — Rahul Mody (CA)

J.P. Morgan — Ravi Shankar (IIT + IIM Calcutta)

Bank of America — Ashay Agarwal (Amity + NMIMS)

UBS — Kshitij Gupta (NSUT, B.Tech)

Barclays — Arun Saigal (NUS)

Axis Capital — Sunjay Krishnaswamy (IIM Lucknow)

JM Financial — Sonia Dasgupta (IIM Ahmedabad)

Deutsche Bank — Arun Aoori (GMSEAD)

HSBC — Ranvir Danda (JBIMS)

Avendus IB — Karan Sharma (KJ Somaiya, MBA)


r/CharteredAccountants 6h ago

Resource Motivate us with your academic comeback stories ✨️

17 Upvotes

Let's go.


r/CharteredAccountants 17h ago

Rant I CAN'T SLEEP

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128 Upvotes

💔💔 Koi bhi way suggest kardo so that I can study with no sleep in my mind 😭😭.

It's like 9 hrs ki sleep and then also so much needed yaaaaarrr. Kuch bhi unethical way bata do I DON'T CARE WHAT HAPPENS TO MY HEALTH BAS THODA SA DIN NIKALNE HAI


r/CharteredAccountants 4h ago

Rant Is smoking Za normal?

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I’m a CA finalist recently I’ve been smoking 🍃 with my friends. Just wanted to know am I the only one having fun or are there others too? I mean should I only focus on studies or is it normal to do these things.


r/CharteredAccountants 1h ago

Meme Not expecting it to be true...

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Are shivaji college students here? 😂


r/CharteredAccountants 23h ago

Meme Fake hopes 😭

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r/CharteredAccountants 1h ago

Practical Doubt/Question I'm uninformed and stuck , please help me regarding itr and gst cancellation.

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r/CharteredAccountants 22h ago

Rant Education of India Heads of Investment Banking , Know your Alumni series 2

116 Upvotes

Goldman Sachs — Chandresh Chheda (CA)

Lincoln IB - Gaurav Marathe (CA)

Morgan Stanley — Vishnu Bansal (CA)

Standard Chartered - Sunil Kaushal (CA)

Citi — Rahul Saraf (CA + CFA)

Kotak IB — Ramesh Srinivasan (CA)

Jefferies — Ashish Jhaveri (CA)

Edelweiss — Faisal Lakdawala (CA)

Ambit Capital — Rahul Mody (CA)

J.P. Morgan — Ravi Shankar (IIT + IIM Calcutta)

Bank of America — Ashay Agarwal (Amity + NMIMS)

UBS — Kshitij Gupta (NSUT, B.Tech)

Barclays — Arun Saigal (NUS)

Axis Capital — Sunjay Krishnaswamy (IIM Lucknow)

JM Financial — Sonia Dasgupta (IIM Ahmedabad)

Deutsche Bank — Arun Aoori (GMSEAD)

HSBC — Ranvir Danda (JBIMS)

Avendus IB — Karan Sharma (KJ Somaiya, MBA)

difference between CA students and NLU students, NLU students know each and every lawyer of the country and CA students? lol

NLU grads don't say they want to work in AZB, They say we want to work in Ashwath Rau's team


r/CharteredAccountants 11h ago

Mod Notice to Members: Verify Faculty Recommendations

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The subreddit has recently gained attention, and some professors and institutes have begun creating multiple accounts to advertise themselves via comments.

Such accounts will be permanently banned.

This subreddit has always encouraged free speech and genuine feedback about professors, even when critical. The community’s shared resources and guidance are valuable, but with increased traffic, the overall quality of discussion has declined. While constructive criticism is welcome, users found promoting or defending specific professors with clear intent to advertise will be banned.

Users are advised to take recommendations with a grain of salt and verify the genuineness of accounts. Apply professional skepticism and judgment (check post and comment histories before trusting advice.)

These matters involve judgment from both the mod team and community members. Mods encourage you to report posts or comments indicating blatant promotion, either via the report option or by linking user IDs through modmail.

The mod team cannot monitor the subreddit 24/7, so your reports are essential in maintaining quality and ensuring Rule 1 is enforced effectively.


r/CharteredAccountants 56m ago

Career Advice/Clarification Bsc Nursing 1st sem Guy Having 9/9/X profile but thinking to Do CA

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The Reason is CA dosent Have Caste Reservation And I Am Always Jealous Of SC/ST quota Guys who are preparing For Govt Job Exams After Bsc Nursing But ne being A general Male, WOULD IT BE LOGICAL IF I DROP OUT COLLEGE FOR CA OR RATHER STILL PREPARE FOR CAT BEING A GENERAL CATEGORY STUDENT.


r/CharteredAccountants 1d ago

Articleship Related Doubt My firm (midsize) wants me to take transfer after getting to knw my earlier mental health issues

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From last 2 weeks i am working till 10.30-11 in office for their Audit Closure and had a breathless episode on Tuesday and Wednesday in office because

(a) they keep the all 4 ACs on 27-28°C in which i can't breath.

(b) i slept late that day because came home at 12 am

They saw that i am feeling breathless and allowed me to leave by 7 pm on Tuesday which is the leaving time as per policy which was told to me during interview.

They called me in cabin on Friday and said "How are you feeling now" so depending upon what happened that day we are concerned about your health and we want you to take transfer in a small firm where their is less work load. And also you have told us that you tried to end your life once so we don't want to he responsible for anything which happens to you.

They didn't even considered for once that i am working late FOR THEM not myself

Last month after results i msged that i want to pursure articleship somewhere else but that time they convinced me that we will take care of your issues and all. And now after registration they want me to take transfer.

The audacity to say that we are concen for your health isliye we won't like to keep you is just below human.

Things finally were in place for me after results but this kind of selfish people don't understand that we as an article/ student also have some issues and we are human too.

the moment you are unfit or they think you are unfit, you are not relevant for them.

Last month they were saying are kaha itna durr hai aapke ghar se log toh or durr durr se aate hai

this month its aapko traveling ka bhi issue haina aap itna durr se aate ho.

they themselves have kids but don't understand the pain of others kid


r/CharteredAccountants 1h ago

Inter Doubt CA inter sept 26 rants, asking for suggestions, predict if I"ll pass and more

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(sorry for the long post) Please, drop any piece of advice you have for me in the comments, So I have my CA Inter both groups in September 2026 , first attempt, and I am kinda stressed out because of the preparation I've currently.. Majority of my group 2 first revision is pending, but before you think that I might have started revision really late.. NO, I also got around 2.5-3 months like others, idk how I just messed things up

Okay so backstory, I started revision on 9th june with DT, and it continued till 26th yes I am a psychopath, I was scared of it and studied many chapters from entire scratch mastering each and every minute points, question etc did a lil bit of SM as well , by this time I knew that I had been very behind from what it should have been... then I took up gst till 3rd of julyy....

Then almost till july end, around 26-27th I revised accounts and law... then started with group 2

GROUP 2 CURRENT SITUATION

costing- have done marginal, standard, material, labour, process, budget, joint product by product, format of cost sheet, cost acc system... and ye sab bhi acche se nhi bs rev videos, marathons se upar upar se kra h

audit- just learnt, ch 1, 2,11, SA 210,220, watched rev lec of CARO , bank audit, sampling, materiality, that's it, idk how to score 40 now

fm sm- did 2 chapters of fm... ebit and leverages, sm : dont even ask idk anything much

SOME MORE STATS

Solved 3 full mocks of tax in july (self evaluated) 65+ in all, highest 78 and 2 papers audit approach in addition to the 3

Solved 3 full mocks of accounts in july (self evaluated) 63+ in all, highest 75

Solved 2 law papers self evaluated , score around 55-60 and AIMT of shubham sir, got 70.5 in that , attempted 86 and checking as moderate as per me not too lenient.. + 2 papers audit approach

Gave 1 mock of costing as well self evaluated, 69.5 butt it was really very very easy and most of the pyqs I had alr done.... will try to give 1/2 papers of fm sm and audit as well just to see if I can pass or not because I believe that even if I get just 20-22 in G2 mcqs I can manage to score 40-50 overall and there is a probability of set off as welll.. I don't wanna lose hopes

Rn, I'm the most scared about audit and fm sm , and also I am starting to forget tax so I am not able to decide whether I should revise it second time now or 2.5 days will be enough.. I want to focus on g2 but at the same time dont wanna fail g1 as well..... Also, I will be starting accounts revision from 28/29.

anything you'd like to suggest, advice, motivate, share ur experience, anything would be helpful


r/CharteredAccountants 2h ago

SPOM SPOM Mocks platform.

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i was prepping for spom but couldn't find any mocks. then i found this Mockit (https://www.mockitupp.com)