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1,000 newly conferred Chartered Accountants will help meet demand from employers across the island

Oct 28, 2021

New members join 30,000 Chartered Accountants on island of Ireland and around the world 

1 in 2 accountants on the island of Ireland is now Chartered 

27 October 2021 - Almost 1,000 new Chartered Accountants from across the island of Ireland have been conferred in virtual ceremonies by Chartered Accountants Ireland this week. The Institute, the largest professional accountancy body on the island of Ireland, now has approximately 5,000 members in Northern Ireland, and 20,000 in the Republic, with the balance of its 30,000 members located around the world. Its market share on the island of Ireland stands at 50.7 per cent according to statistics published earlier this year.

The newly admitted members are among the first students to have sat their Final Admitting Exams (FAEs) entirely online, and this week’s conferring ceremonies mark the culmination of over three years of postgraduate education and training. They bring to over 1,500 the number of new members admitted to the Institute from all 32 counties in 2021.

Commenting, Chief Executive of Chartered Accountants Ireland, Barry Dempsey said: 

“I am delighted to congratulate our new members as they celebrate this milestone and I wish them well as they embark on their careers. Chartered accountants play a key role as frontline advisors supporting businesses and the economy throughout the island, never more so than in the last 18 months. 

“Just last month the CCAB-I noted that Ireland needs greater ‘bench-strength’ to meet demand from employers for accountants, so that the profession can continue to fulfil this role. To see the strength in numbers joining the profession is an encouraging step towards future-proofing economic growth on both parts of the island of Ireland.   

“One in every two new accounting students on the island of Ireland is choosing the Chartered qualification, and we are particularly pleased to see such strong uptake in the flexible route, which enables students to stay in their current job, study in a way that suits them and generate the relevant work experience now or further down the line. We introduced the flexible route in 2009 and today it accounts for 16 per cent of students coming through.”   

New members are based in the following counties: 

County Number 
 Antrim  93
 Armagh  7
 Carlow  3
 Cavan  8
 Clare  8
 Cork  99
 Derry  13
 Donegal  11
 Down  28
 Dublin  366
 Fermanagh  7
 Galway  44
 Kerry  14
 Kildare  11
 Kilkenny  17
 Laois  4
 Limerick  34
 Longford  2
 Louth  5
 Mayo  6
 Meath  19
 Monaghan  7
 Offaly  6
 Roscommon  7
 Sligo  7
 Tipperary  16
 Tyrone  9
 Waterford  21
 Wexford  11
 Wicklow  14
 Outside of island of Ireland  13

ENDS

 

 

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