How to be a Chartered Accountant CA(Z)



Chartered accountant designation is worldwide, and it refers to professional accountants who are qualified to take on a number of specific activities within the spectrum of accountancy. Such tasks include auditing financial statements, filing of corporate tax returns, and financial advising

How to become a CA(Z)

Register as an articled clerk with an accredited training office (ATO) in Zimbabwe, the list of these ATO’s can be found at the ICAZ reception. Through the ATO, register as an ICAZ student accountant. https://www.icaz.org.zw/imisdocs/TIPP_TOPP_Updated.pdf

The entry requirements to becoming a chartered accountant are as follows:

1. You should have an accounting degree not more than three years

2. If your degree is more than 3 years you will have  to do a one year bridging course before proceeding to ZCTA

3. Be attached to an accredited training office. You can do the CTA and ITC program without the training but you will not be allowed to sit for the final APC exams without these )

4. After passing the ZCTA, one will proceed to writing the Initial Test of Competence (ITC) exam which is written two times a year either in January or June. To qualify for entry to the ITC, you must have passed the ZCTA and must not be more than three years old. This generally means that candidates enter for the ITC during their first year of their training contracts or before they start training.

5. The final exam in becoming a Chartered Accountant is the Assessment of Professional Competency (APC) exam. To qualify the exam  Candidates must have passed the ITC and have completed at least 20 months of a contract by the beginning of the month in which the examination is written (The exam is written once a year in November).

After completing the whole three years and all exams, one can then apply to be admitted as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Zimbabwe upon approval begin to use the designation CA (Z).

There are three service providers for the CTA program CAA, NUST and UNISA, these service providers only enroll students who have accounting degrees which are not more than 3 years.

For the UNISA program, the ZCTA program is offered by UNISA in conjunction with ICAZ where 4 modules are offered by UNISA and one module the Zim Tax module is offered by ICAZ. This program has no exemptions, all five modules are written in one sitting and all have to be passed at once. It’s very unfortunate that ICAZ is no longer facilitating registrations on behalf of students as such you are required to log onto the UNISA website at www.unisa.ac.za and submit your online application. Applications are expected to open during August/ September please log onto the UNISA website during this period and apply.


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