What: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, announces the next Common Proficiency Test (CPT) of the Institute will be held on February 3, 2008.

Centres in India:

~ Agra [Images], Ahmedabad, Ahmednagar, Ajmer, Akola, Alappuzha, Allahabad, Alwar, Ambala, Amravati, Amritsar [Images], Anand, Asansol, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Bareilly, Bathinda, Belgaum, Bellary, Bhilwara, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Bikaner, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Cuttack, Dehradun, Delhi/New Delhi, Dhanbad, Durg, Ernakulam, Erode, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Goa [Images], Guntur, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Gwalior, Hisar, Hubli, Hyderabad, Indore, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jalandhar, Jalgaon, Jammu, Jamnagar, Jamshedpur, Jodhpur, Kanpur, Karnal, Kolhapur, Kolkata, Kollam, Kota, Kottayam, Kozhikode, Kumbakonam, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Madurai, Mangalore, Mathura, Meerut, Moradabad, Mumbai, Muzaffarnagar, Mysore, Nagpur, Nashik, Noida, Palghat, Panipat, Patiala, Patna, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Pondicherry, Pune, Raipur, Rajkot, Ranchi, Rohtak, Rourkela, Saharanpur, Salem, Sangli, Shimla, Siliguri, Solapur, Sonepat, Surat, Thane, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Tiruchirapalli, Tirupur, Tuticorin, Udaipur, Udupi, Ujjain, Vadodara, Varanasi, Vellore, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam [Images] and Yamunanagar.

Overseas Centres 

~ Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Kathmandu.

How to apply:

~ Application for admission to Common Proficiency Test is required to be made on the relevant prescribed form as contained in the Information Brochure, which may be obtained from the Senior Joint Secretary (Examinations), The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, ICAI Bhawan, Indraprastha Marg, New Delhi - 110 002 on payment of Rs 400 (Rs 300 towards examination fees and Rs 100 towards cost of application form and information brochure) per application form.

~ Since the cost of information brochure containing Common Proficiency Test application form includes the examination fee, no separate fee is required to be remitted at the time of submitting the filled in application form.

~ The information brochure containing Common Proficiency Test application form is also available in the Regional and Branch Offices of the Institute and can be obtained there with cash payment on or from December 5, 2007.

~ Common Proficiency Test application forms duly filled in may be sent so as to reach the Senior Joint Secretary (Examinations) at New Delhi not later than December 26, 2007. 
 
~ Applications received after December 26, 2007 shall not be entertained under any circumstances.

~ Applications duly filled in will be received by hand delivery at the offices of Institute at New Delhi and at the Decentralised Offices of the Institute at Mumbai, Chennai,  Kolkata, Kanpur, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Jaipur and Pune upto December 26, 2007.

~ Candidates residing in these cities are advised to take advantage of this facility. It may be noted that there is no provision for acceptance of application forms after December 26, 2007 with late fee.

Eligibility

~ Common Proficiency Test (CPT) is open only to those students who are already registered with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India for the said course on or before December 1, 2007 and fulfill the requisite eligibility conditions.

~ Candidates will be allowed to opt for Hindi question paper booklets for the said CPT.

~ Further details will be available in the Information Brochure containing the application form.

Contact:

The Institute Of Chartered Accountants Of India
ICAI Bhawan, Indraprastha Marg,
Post Box. No. 7100,
New Delhi - 110 002
Tel: (011) 39893989, 30110583

Website: http://www.icai.org/

Email: icaiho@icai.org

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