Profession ethics on website and visiting cards
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17 October 2012
Hello,
What are the norms that a CA in practice has to adhere to while getting his website made and his visiting cards printed as per Professional Ethics? Apart from the logo, what are the other compliances in this regard? Is he free to use any font style and colour?
What are the norms that a CA in practice has to adhere to while getting his website made and his visiting cards printed as per Professional Ethics? Apart from the logo, what are the other compliances in this regard? Is he free to use any font style and colour?
Ajay Mishra
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17 October 2012
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Got o the following link, it may help you:
https://www.icai.org/post.html?post_id=1958
Got o the following link, it may help you:
https://www.icai.org/post.html?post_id=1958
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Ajay Mishra
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18 October 2012
A Chartered Accountant in practice CANNOT:
Use any designation other than Chartered Accountant on professional documents, visiting cards, letterheads or signboard. The Council has decided that a member of the institute shall not be permitted to use initials "CPA" (standing for Certified Public Accountant) on his visiting card.
A Chartered Accountant in practice CAN
1. Share profits of business or other similar arrangements with certain categories of non-members, to be prescribed, from time to time, in the Regulations.
2. Enter in to multi–disciplinary partnership, in or outside India, with certain categories of non-members, to be prescribed, from time to time, in the Regulations.
3. The members can use the Logo (released by the Institute on 1st July, 2007) which consists of the letters ‘CA’ and a tick mark upside down inside a rounded rectangle with white background. (members can use this Logo as per Institute’s guideline available on its website/Refer The CA Journal July, 2007).
4. Advertise through a write up setting out their particulars of their firms and services provided by them subject to the Guidelines No.1–CA(7)/council guidelines/01/2008, Dated 14th May, 2008 issued by the Council pursuant to Clause (7) of Part I of the First Schedule to the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949. (Refer The CA Journal July, 2008 for the detailed guidelines).
5. Give his name and his firms name under specified groups in telephone directory viz., Yellow Pages brought by telephone authorities.
6. Use the designation ‘C.A.’ as well as the name of the firm in greeting cards and invitation cards.
7. Be a director simpliciter in a company without permission of the Council.
8. Be a promoter director in a company without prior permission of the Council.
9. Render Management Consultancy and Other Services in Corporate form, subject to the guidelines issued by the Institute in this regard. (Decision in the 261st Council meeting. Published on page 629 of October 2006 issue of C.A. Journal).
10. Create his own website subject to overall guidelines laid down by the Council and should ensure that their websites are run on a "pull" and not "push" method.
11. The members of ICAI who are also members of AICPA and are eligible to sign the financial statements as CPAs (i.e., as members of the AICPA), may do so. So far as ethical standards are concerned, the ICAI ethical standards will apply. When the ICAI members sign the financial documents as CPAs, they should indicate in an appropriate manner, that their firm is an Indian accounting firm registered with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India under the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 (Decision in the 257th Council meeting. Published on page 145 of July 2006 issue of C.A. Journal).
A Chartered Accountant in practice CANNOT:
Use any designation other than Chartered Accountant on professional documents, visiting cards, letterheads or signboard. The Council has decided that a member of the institute shall not be permitted to use initials "CPA" (standing for Certified Public Accountant) on his visiting card.
A Chartered Accountant in practice CAN
1. Share profits of business or other similar arrangements with certain categories of non-members, to be prescribed, from time to time, in the Regulations.
2. Enter in to multi–disciplinary partnership, in or outside India, with certain categories of non-members, to be prescribed, from time to time, in the Regulations.
3. The members can use the Logo (released by the Institute on 1st July, 2007) which consists of the letters ‘CA’ and a tick mark upside down inside a rounded rectangle with white background. (members can use this Logo as per Institute’s guideline available on its website/Refer The CA Journal July, 2007).
4. Advertise through a write up setting out their particulars of their firms and services provided by them subject to the Guidelines No.1–CA(7)/council guidelines/01/2008, Dated 14th May, 2008 issued by the Council pursuant to Clause (7) of Part I of the First Schedule to the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949. (Refer The CA Journal July, 2008 for the detailed guidelines).
5. Give his name and his firms name under specified groups in telephone directory viz., Yellow Pages brought by telephone authorities.
6. Use the designation ‘C.A.’ as well as the name of the firm in greeting cards and invitation cards.
7. Be a director simpliciter in a company without permission of the Council.
8. Be a promoter director in a company without prior permission of the Council.
9. Render Management Consultancy and Other Services in Corporate form, subject to the guidelines issued by the Institute in this regard. (Decision in the 261st Council meeting. Published on page 629 of October 2006 issue of C.A. Journal).
10. Create his own website subject to overall guidelines laid down by the Council and should ensure that their websites are run on a "pull" and not "push" method.
11. The members of ICAI who are also members of AICPA and are eligible to sign the financial statements as CPAs (i.e., as members of the AICPA), may do so. So far as ethical standards are concerned, the ICAI ethical standards will apply. When the ICAI members sign the financial documents as CPAs, they should indicate in an appropriate manner, that their firm is an Indian accounting firm registered with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India under the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 (Decision in the 257th Council meeting. Published on page 145 of July 2006 issue of C.A. Journal).
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