Accounting is the language of business. The discipline of measuring, interpreting and communicating financial activity.
Chartered Accountants are accountants who have successfully completed the Institute’s Chartered Accountants Program (comprised of the Graduate Diploma of Chartered Accounting and three years of mentored professional work experience). They hold the highest professional qualification available to accountants in Australia.

What do they do?

Chartered Accountants work in commerce (40 per cent), public practice (40 per cent), government and academia. They include the chief financial officers of Australia's Top 500 companies, and the Chartered Accountants auditing all of the top 100 ASX companies.

Institute membership

All Chartered Accountants have to meet the high academic, professional, and ethical standards required for membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia - the most-respected national professional accountancy body.

These standards are the reason Chartered Accountants are highly regarded by business, regulators, and members of the general public. Their analytical thinking is prized in an environment where organisations compete for an edge. It’s one of the reasons Chartered Accountants are among the best-paid professionals in the country.

Chartered Accountants enjoy benefits such as:

• Fantastic professional development and travel opportunities
• An internationally recognised professional designation
• Membership of the GAA
• Being part of an elite professional network
• Career support from the Institute
• The status membership of the Institute provides.

For more information: