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Dear All,
I do not know whether ICAI is proud of itself on releasing a meagre 3
plus percentage result in the Final exam but in my opinion, it should
be ashamed of itself.
The institute knows pretty well that this country which has a billion
plus people has hardly 1.5 lakh CAs out of which 20% are abroad, 40%
are employed and about 10% are old & retired with just 30% or so in
'practice'. And India being in the trajectory of economic growth is in
need of more accountants and attesters of financials. Yet it decidedly
making
the output of CAs as very very low consciously enlarging the
scope of other professionals like ICWAs and MBAs to enter in to the
terrain. Having the exam standards unneccessarily tough, keeping the
valuation procedures conveniently opaque and ensuring only a token
output exams after exams, whose cause are they serving? Perhaps they
want to keep enriching the private coaching academies who charge
exorbitant fees. Or perhaps they want to only ensure the Multinational
Accounting Firms are in the professional arena after about a decade,
within which time all the present practising professionals would have
faded away (and with hardly any new CAs coming for practice).
The usual argument I get to hear from some people who always rever the
ICAI, is that the quality of the examinees is so poor that the
institute is unable to make them successful. I really don't understand
this concept of quality and am rather even amused by
it. In a country
which does produce doctors and engineers by lakhs in private
institutions owned by politicians and "education business tycoons",
with absolutely no care or concern about their quality - in
professions such as helathcare and infrastructure building - we are so
'concerned' about the 'quality' of this 'journal entry' profession!
Such doctors and engineers who would have secured their seats paying
lakhs of capitation fees would naturally be seeking to get due
returns on their 'investments' and would most probably seek to indulge
in all kinds of deeds in their profession. Thus, we can produce
doctors with dubious competency levels and wealth-accumulating motives
playing with lives of people and engineers with little or no concern
for the quality in their work, building bridges and airports where all
of us move about daily. Their actions are irreversible and can cause
incalculable damage. But,
we must produce only impeccable quality of
accountants! Accountants who can only simply reverse their actions by
simple journal entries with no consequence whatsoever! What a wry
comedy!
And what about the pattern of exams and valuation parameters? Who are
setting papers and valuing answer sheets? Again CAs of yester years
who invariably cut copy paste from earlier question papers or from
text books available in the market which themselves are shoddy copies
of established writers. These people cannot sit and write answers to
the question papers they themselves sit and if valuing their own
papers with their usual devilish mindset cannot put more than 50% of
the minimum prescribed for a pass. If the ICAI is serious in setting
quality parameters which should be uniform across the board, the
question papers will have to be only on Objective basis and papers
corrected only by computers, without any
possibility of human bias. It
is not enough to keep bragging that we have the best examination
standards and procedures. If such procedures play with thousands of
students' careers, it will be graceful to make the procedures better,
transparent and hassle-free.
I would also urge that the ICAI takes the nonsensical 'aggregate'
pattern out of the system and also to conduct viva-voce kind of oral
interviews for students failing by margins less than 10 marks in a
group and / or 5 marks in a subject for a second review.
ICAI is already almost divested of its standard setting function
(having mortgaged itself to IASB/IFRS as also having been made
subservient to NACAS) and is also the Disciplinary function to a
substantial extent. It is becoming only an examination conducting
body. That at least it should do properly.
The whole course of CA has to be changed to suit the present
educational systems and to compete
with the B School professional.
ICAI does not nurture any professional attributes to be a professional
in this world. It just makes the person a book worm. One will feel
that they are writing a 10Th or 12th exam by mugging up the sections.
We also need to know how the papers are being evaluated. This is a
long pending issue with the institute. None of the president seems to
be bothered about the student’s life. There should not be any
moderation to be made to suite the desired pass percentage. Every
student should get to see his/her paper to see where they went wrong.
The revaluation is just an eye wash. ICAI knows how to make money for
them and those related to them.
ICAI can incorporate the points systems in exams like those done in
IIT, IIM and even Anna university has this system. None of the IIT and
IIM seems to have any thing called pre fixed pass percentage to meet
the market demand and supply.
Still all of its students get good jobs
and respect in the society. I really don’t know where and how to put
forth all these things. There should be some forum where these things
are taken up and right actions are taken so that in future the
students are not accented. ICAI fail to think that it’s ruining some
of the student’s life.
It is proved that ICAI manipulates marks & result by inserting
regulation 39(2) in Chartered Accountants Regulations, 1988 which says
" The Council may, in its discretion, revise the marks
obtained by all candidates or a section of candidates in any
particular paper or papers or in the aggregate in such manner as
may be considered necessary, for maintaining the standards of
pass percentage provided in these Regulations.
Explanation — The term “section” used in this subregulation
refers to the category of the candidates whose answer
papers are valued by an examiner
and such other category of
candidates as may be specified by the Council. "
This is the reason why they are not ready to show answer papers to
students. They must have done "standard deduction" in any of the paper
to control the results.
Lets get united against this and create a revolution....... Join the Cause
--
Thanks & Regards,
Harsh Gudhka
Mobile:
+91 9833638698 /
+91 9920355565--
Thanks & Regards
Vikrant Bajaria
Price Waterhouse
Mumbai
