09-08-2009, 11:12 PM
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<br />Dear Students,
There are about 30-35 Accountancy firms and compnaies approved by ICAEW for articleship in PAKISTAN and more are still in the pipeline to get approved.Telener and Pakistan Petroleum limited are also approved for the articleship as well.It's depend upon the Accountancy firm or the compnay's policy that at what stage of ACA studies they hire Trianee's and it's not true that you don't get articleship here in PAK.There are very few people in PAK who are members fo ICAEW as its just been introuduced in PAK thats why they are in great demand.
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After reading the above post i thought it fit to to inform the members of this forum about my personal experience. I am an ACCA Affiliate and i have recently claimed exemptions from ICAEW. Currently no firm or organization is providing training contracts to prospective ACA trainees, atleast in Karachi. I called A.F.Ferguson and asked them about their policy on ACA-ICAEW trainees. Their reply was that they do not entertain training applications from ICAEW students.
Since, A.F.Ferguson is the largest audit firm in pakistan, i thought that the matter would be different at Rauf Ayoob & Co, which is also an ATO by ICAEW and is a fairly small firm. I had access to the partner at Rauf Ayoob & Co and his reply was the same as given by A.F.Ferguson & Co.
My friends, who are currently working as trainees at EY and KPMG, have informed me that EY and KPMG are only providing ICAEW training contracts only to its employees(those who have already completed 3 years of training) and NOT fresh trainees.
I also contacted the HR department of Pakistan Petroleum Limited and asked them their policy. The guy at HR didn't even know what ICAEW was. When told that PPL is included in the list of ATO's by ICAEW, he said that no such contracts are currently provided by PPL. In a similar manner i have contacted almost all of the ATO's and to cut a long story short, none of them is currently providing an ICAEW training contract to fresh trainees.
A friend of mine, who is also an ACCA Affiliate and is working at Unilever Pakistan for more than one year, which is also an ATO, didnt have any luck yet in securing an ICAEW contract.
So, the only options left for me as an ACCA Affiliate is to claim exemptions from ICAP and follow the traditional route and forget about ICAEW.
In theory there maybe 35 or more ATO's in Pakistan, but in practice NONE of them is providing a training contract to fresh trainees. This theory may seem lucrative and appealing to many, but it is actually "the practice" which matters to us in reality.
If anyone has succeeded in securing an ICAEW training contract in Karachi, do let me know.
Regards
Safwan Arshad
<br />Dear Students,
There are about 30-35 Accountancy firms and compnaies approved by ICAEW for articleship in PAKISTAN and more are still in the pipeline to get approved.Telener and Pakistan Petroleum limited are also approved for the articleship as well.It's depend upon the Accountancy firm or the compnay's policy that at what stage of ACA studies they hire Trianee's and it's not true that you don't get articleship here in PAK.There are very few people in PAK who are members fo ICAEW as its just been introuduced in PAK thats why they are in great demand.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
After reading the above post i thought it fit to to inform the members of this forum about my personal experience. I am an ACCA Affiliate and i have recently claimed exemptions from ICAEW. Currently no firm or organization is providing training contracts to prospective ACA trainees, atleast in Karachi. I called A.F.Ferguson and asked them about their policy on ACA-ICAEW trainees. Their reply was that they do not entertain training applications from ICAEW students.
Since, A.F.Ferguson is the largest audit firm in pakistan, i thought that the matter would be different at Rauf Ayoob & Co, which is also an ATO by ICAEW and is a fairly small firm. I had access to the partner at Rauf Ayoob & Co and his reply was the same as given by A.F.Ferguson & Co.
My friends, who are currently working as trainees at EY and KPMG, have informed me that EY and KPMG are only providing ICAEW training contracts only to its employees(those who have already completed 3 years of training) and NOT fresh trainees.
I also contacted the HR department of Pakistan Petroleum Limited and asked them their policy. The guy at HR didn't even know what ICAEW was. When told that PPL is included in the list of ATO's by ICAEW, he said that no such contracts are currently provided by PPL. In a similar manner i have contacted almost all of the ATO's and to cut a long story short, none of them is currently providing an ICAEW training contract to fresh trainees.
A friend of mine, who is also an ACCA Affiliate and is working at Unilever Pakistan for more than one year, which is also an ATO, didnt have any luck yet in securing an ICAEW contract.
So, the only options left for me as an ACCA Affiliate is to claim exemptions from ICAP and follow the traditional route and forget about ICAEW.
In theory there maybe 35 or more ATO's in Pakistan, but in practice NONE of them is providing a training contract to fresh trainees. This theory may seem lucrative and appealing to many, but it is actually "the practice" which matters to us in reality.
If anyone has succeeded in securing an ICAEW training contract in Karachi, do let me know.
Regards
Safwan Arshad
