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Chargeable-Hours Requirement

Students in the traditional, licensable stream are required to complete the following minimum number of chargeable hours before being admitted to membership:

Engagement Activity

Prescribed Chargeable Hours:

Minimum Number of CA-Supervised Chargeable Hours

Financial statement audit procedures in accordance with the CICA Handbook

625

Other assurance procedures which must include a minimum of 100 hours of review procedures in review and other assurance engagements*, in accordance with the CICA Handbook, and may include one or more of such areas as environmental audit, forensic audit and non-financial performance measurement, as well as additional hours in financial statement audit procedures

625

Total Assurance Procedures

1250

Taxation and tax service assignments

100

Total Prescribed Chargeable Hours

1350

Elective Chargeable Hours:

 

For greater depth in any of the areas noted above and such other related activities as organizational effectiveness, control and risk management, information technology, finance, consulting, insolvency and valuations

1150

Total CA-supervised Chargeable Hours

2500

*The minimum 100 hours of review is applicable for all students registering with the Institute from September 1, 2001.

Note: Hours spent on taxation within an audit or a review engagement may be included as both a taxation and an audit or review engagement hour in the calculation of those specific hour requirements but such hours count only once in meeting the overall chargeable hour requirement.