I am not a CA, but what we call here in South Africa CPA (certified public accountant). CPA's don't audit companies, but can draw up financials for close corporations (simlified private company) and sign them off. We do financials for the companies but can't sign them off so we send them to the auditors just to check, etc. I am member of our proffessional body (www.cpa-sa.co.za). I have a diploma in Financial accountancy (3 years fulltime) and have completed my 3 years articles and have written the CPA final exam in NOv'05. In SA I am a qualified accountant, but not a CA. I have a logbook with CPA that had to be signed off by my Supervisor (my boss who is accountant), which lists all the areas that I needed to cover.
I have seen that our CPA & NIA have some kind of relationship or buttociate agreement of some sort, don't know if this is still the case.
The 9-12 knowledge areas that they have, do these need to be subjects that you covered? I am looking at the Standards & Theory one, we didn't have a spesific subject or module covering this, when I studied this was done as part of our accounting module when we did financials etc. I am not sure what Business Finance means as well? I have Internal Auditing 1 & 2, will this suffice for their auditing requirement?
Any help or info would be greatly appreciated. I don't want to fork out $350 for an buttessment before I know for sure that I would get it, otherwise I'd rather let hubby do his TRA as motor mechanic if mine doesn't work out.
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