Institute of Chartered Accountants

The Institute represents accounting and business professionals in Australia (New Zealand) and around the globe. Members strive to uphold financial integrity through a commitment to ethics and acting in the public interest. We focus on educating candidates through the Chartered Accountants Program and engage in advocacy and thought leadership underpinned by our members’ knowledge and experience. We influence a range of policy areas impacting the Australian (New Zealand) economy and domestic and international capital markets. A watershed member vote in 2013 set the course for the Institute to amalgamate with the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants (Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia) (subject to obtaining formal government approvals and effecting amendments to constituent documents), with the vision of becoming the trusted leaders in business and finance. The proposed new institute – Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand – is expected to have more than 90,000 members in total with 17,000-plus candidates, giving us greater scale and influence on the world stage. We are on the Board of the International Federation of Accountants, and are connected globally through the 800,000-strong GAA and Chartered Accountants Worldwide which brings together leading Institutes in Australia, England and Wales, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and South Africa to support and promote over 320,000 Chartered Accountants in more than 180 countries.