IICA provides an opportunity to those people who have engaged in various activities in any manner related to profession of accountancy across the world to join together as a community and contribute for advancement and development of profession of accountancy. Being together, this community can do many things which are benevolent and beneficent not only for the profession of accountancy but also to people who are forming part of it. Membership of this forum is granted selectively and limited those who have successfully complete I-CAAT (IICA-Certified Accountants Analytical Test) designed and conducted by IICA in order to ensure entry of qualified and experienced accountants in the forum who deliver quality articles and assistance to fellow members. These qualified accountants will be titled as " CERTIFIED ACCOUNTANT ".
Being the main goal of forming an accountants forum to raise a collective voice to be heard and apart from this other major objectives include :
- Facilitate a place of common meetings for accountants across the world to join together and have serious discussions of current issues related to profession of accountancy and other problems faced by accountants across the world.
- Put suggestions of new methods to replace out dated accounting practices currently followed.
- Sharing each other ongoing opportunities in the job market instantly.
- Inventing new techniques to enable accounting reports to be more clear and transparent depicting true and fair representation of state of affairs.
- Protect and protest jointly for the common interests of the community of accountants as a whole.
- Stage collective efforts to make government bodies and authorities be noticed of about patches and weakness in reporting systems of public accounting and thereby protecting the public properties in national interest.
- Spreading awareness among aspirants of accounting professions and forum members by sharing relevant informations that is helpful to boost their career.
- Sharing informations about new accounting softwares to enable keeping of accounting records instantly and systematically without deviating from the principles of accountancy.
- Discuss various options , limitations and suggest improvements in accounting softwares commonly used by accountants.
- Suggest various measures for making accountancy oriented courses of education more practical oriented rather than theoretical.
- Bring about a common standard among accountants , so that job providers have an objective choice among accountants for the level of efficiency they are going to be hired such that :
Assistant Accountant
Accountant
Assistant Accounts Manager
Accounts Manager
Assistant Finance Manager
Finance Manager
Finance Director
To Conclude , Millions of people are engaged in all fields of operations , say , Engineering , Medicine , Literature , Political , Administration etc and all are dependent on healthy stature of world economy. If world economy collapses , aftermath lies on all persons engaged in such operations , as they have to face a big turmoil to continue their profession and daily living. Here, we cannot ignore the fact that , World economy is stabilized by collective efforts of a large number of accountants across the world correctly applying accounting principles and present financial facts to the public thereby leading to accurate and timely decisions in various fields of operations. So we cannot undermine the profession of accountancy and the role of accountants in the present scenario of steady and healthy global development. Here is what the significance of forming an accountants forum lies and IICA took a timely step to facilitate it.