About the ICIA

Objects of the Institute
The objects of the Institute as stated in the Constitution are as follows:-

• To provide an organization for accountants and to support and advance the status and interest and protect the character of the accountancy profession and to exercise professional supervision over the members of the ICIA and to frame and establish rules for observance in matters pertaining to professional conduct.
• To provide means by examinations or otherwise for assessing the knowledge, experience and character of candidates for admission to membership of the ICIA.
• To hold conferences and meetings for the reading of papers and the delivery of lectures, and for the acquisition and dissemination by other means of information connected with the profession of accountancy.
• To establish a resource center for the use of members and registered students and to collect, collate and publish information of service and/or interest to members of the profession.
• To promote and to join any other body of accountants in promoting any Ordinance, Enactment or Royal Charter with a view to the attainment of the above objects or any of them.
• To amalgamate or merge with any legally constituted companies, institutes, societies or associations having objects similar to those of the Institute
• To take any gift of property, whether subject to any special trust or not, for any one or more of the objects of the Institute.
• To take such steps by personal or written appeals, public meetings, or otherwise, as may from time to time be deemed expedient for the purpose of procuring contributions to the funds of the Institute, in the shape of donation, annual subscriptions or otherwise, with the prior approval of the Registrar of Societies.
• To print and publish any newspapers, periodicals, books or leaflets that the Institute may think desirable for the promotion of its objects with the prior approval of relevant authorities, where applicable.
• To purchase, lease, rent or otherwise acquire or take any interest in land and/or buildings for investment or use by members or for the benefit of members or to fulfill any of the objects of the Institute.
• To sell, assign, lease, rent or otherwise dispose off any of its lands and/or building for purposes of generating funds for the use or benefit of the members and as allowed by the objects of the Institute.
• To borrow, charge or otherwise create any encumbrance on the assets of the Institute and to generate funds for use or for the benefit of members and as allowed by the objects of the Institute.