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Articleship Under a New(ly-passed) CA

Rahul (Student) (41 Points)

25 April 2011

Hi,

I am a CA-Final student who had passed the IPCE exam in May 2010 and I live in Surat. In August I registered for articleship under a C.A. firm. While the C.A. is very good, the firm didn't offer much for me to learn. Work is mostly done by the C.A.-employees.

So I want to leave the firm and get registered under a younger C.A who hasn't yet completed 3 years of practice.

I want to know whether he can register me an Articled assistant considering the following facts:

1. He works at a rented office but, for the matter of convinience, has given his home address as the place of practice.

2. The firm he works in is a partnership but they haven't yet registered the firm.

3. The C.A knows me by family relations. And is, therefore, a trust-worthy person.

Can he register me as an article?

Please, expert advice would be appreciated.

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Siddharth (Get Digital Signature Certificates (DSC) in 30 minutes! Click on send PM!) (672 Points)
Replied 25 April 2011

If he has an active COP and is not barred to train articles, he sure can have you registered under him unless otherwise he already has one trainee registered, as 1 is his limit.

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Rahul (Student) (41 Points)
Replied 25 April 2011

Thank you Sidd for taking time to reply.

He has a COP but isn't registered in a Firm. Nor he has a place of work.

I would like to know if someone in the ICAI has a problem, at what level would the person objecting be?

I mean (1.) whether the Decentralized Branch Office would reject the form outright

(2.)it would go to Mumbai and then from there it woud get rejected and sent back.

The reason i asked this is that in case (1), If the form gets accepted by the DBO, I can reasonably be sure that the rest of the process would be trouble free as i've heard the articleship transfer is a long process and in second case i would have to keep worrying untill i get a positive confirmation letter from ICAI which, I've heard, would take months.

Siddharth (Get Digital Signature Certificates (DSC) in 30 minutes! Click on send PM!) (672 Points)
Replied 26 April 2011

For a fool-proof answer ask at e-sahayata:

https://www.icai.org/help/

You are registered under a member, not a firm, still.... better than getting speculative answers, get a confirmed answer from above ^^^^. They'll answer in maximum 3-4 days.