A clear path through every level of CA.

Chartered Accountancy is India’s premier professional qualification in accounting, auditing, taxation and finance, awarded by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). The course is built in three progressive levels — Foundation, Intermediate and Final — combined with hands-on practical training, so a student moves from the fundamentals to the judgement a practising CA needs.

Most students begin with CA Foundation straight after Class 12, learning the basics of accounting, law, quantitative methods and economics. Graduates and post-graduates who meet ICAI’s marks criteria can skip Foundation and join directly at CA Intermediate through the Direct Entry route.

CA Intermediate deepens every area — advanced accounting, company and other laws, income-tax and GST, costing, auditing and financial & strategic management — across six papers in two groups. After clearing Intermediate and ICAI’s IT and soft-skills training, a student registers for articleship: two years of real work under a practising CA, where classroom theory becomes audits, returns and client accounts.

Alongside articleship, students complete four self-paced online modules and then attempt CA Final — the capstone, covering advanced reporting and financial management, auditing and professional ethics, direct and indirect taxes, and a multidisciplinary case study built on real professional scenarios. Clearing both Final groups and completing the required training earns the CA designation and ICAI membership.

End to end, the journey usually takes about four to four-and-a-half years from Class 12. At Paras Institute we take students through every stage — Foundation, Intermediate and Final — in Regular and RAPID formats, in the classroom, live online or on the Paras app, with daily doubt-solving, regular tests and close mentoring at each level.