Over 12,000 new entrants to CA Sri Lanka in 2013 intake

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) continues to attract an unprecedented number of new students with over 12,000 new student registrations in 2013 alone, the institution said this week.

With these new student registrations, CA Sri Lanka has secured a phenomenal growth in its active student base which has now reached over 44,000 students following the Institute’s chartered accountancy programme. CA Sri Lanka is now one of the largest tertiary education providers in the country. CA Sri Lanka’s President Arjuna Herath, who took over the reins this year, commenting on the impressive registrations said that chartered accountants today played a pivotal role across both the public and private sectors. “Therefore, chartered accountants are always in demand both here and abroad, and the qualification is attracting large number of students” he noted. Mr. Herath emphasized that consistently increasing registrations every year was testament to the recognition of the CA Sri Lanka qualification in Sri Lanka and overseas as well as the increasing demand for the profession and its professionals.

CA Sri Lanka Chief Executive Officer Aruna Alwis said the institute has established fully equipped information centres across the country covering Kandy, Matara, Anuradhapura, Kurunegala, Ratnapura, Jaffna and Kalmunai, in its efforts to encourage students from rural areas to join the institute and make a career in the accountancy field. “No longer is the globally sought after professionals tag only limited to students from urban areas, and CA Sri Lanka takes pride in taking this important profession to the most rural of areas in Sri Lanka,” Mr. Alwis added.