Become a Member or Associate

How to become a member or associate

About CA(SA)

Becoming a chartered accountant CA(SA) is your gateway to a challenging and exciting career.
What is a CA(SA)

About AGA(SA)

AGAs(SA) play key managerial roles within diverse sectors of the economy.
What is an AGA(SA)

About AT(SA)

Accounting technicians play a crucial role in the financial management of businesses of all sizes and in all sectors of the economy.
What is an AT(SA)

Where your qualification could lead you

Why become a member?

Becoming a chartered accountant (CA(SA)) is your gateway to a challenging and exciting career, global mobility, flexibility, and good earning potential in the business field of your choice.

Find a training office

Information for training officers or training office administrators who want to apply for your organisation to be accredited as a SAICA training office.

Examinations

Find out more about the Initial Test of Competence (ITC) – the standard-setting exam which is written after the completion of an accredited Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting (PGDA) programme.

Meet our members

Tshwarelo Legae, CA(SA)

Where music and numbers meet
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Mpho Makoko-Hottie

My journey as a trainee
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Zanele Maduna, CA(SA)

How Thuthuka changed my life
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Learning

Schools and learners

Discover more about the chartered accountancy profession and choose the right career for you.
Schools and learners

Universities, colleges and students

Congratulations on picking accounting as your future career. Let SAICA help you enhance your career.
Universities, colleges and students

Trainees

The SAICA training programme provides you the opportunity to develop your professional competence.
Trainees

SAICA initiatives

The Thuthuka Programme

The Thuthuka Education Upliftment Fund is SAICA’s pioneering initiative to promote transformation in the profession. Its objective is to transform the demographics of the profession to reflect those of the country in terms of race and gender, and provide educational support to African learners and students for the benefit of the profession, while simultaneously helping to uplift communities.
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The Hope Factory

The Hope Factory’s socioeconomic and skills development programmes and projects establishes business fundamentals, that aims to create local economic development impact in targeted townships and rural areas that increases economic activity at a community level.
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Learn about CA2025

CA2025 sets out the competencies an entry level CA(SA) should demonstrate at the end of the pre-qualification process (that is, after the completion of the academic programme, training programme, professional programme and the two professional assessments) it is aimed at assisting prospective CAs(SA) prepare for their roles as these evolve.
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Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, world leaders gathered at the United Nations to adopt an ambitious framework of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 associated targets to address the full range of social and economic-development issues facing people around the world.
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Latest from SAICA
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19 Jul 2021
Press release

SAICA calls for rapid, decisive action from the South African Government

Johannesburg, 15 July 2021 – Following six days of ongoing rioting and violence, which is impacting innocent citizens’ lives and livelihoods, the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) calls on the South African Government to implement its recent decision to strengthen law enforcement on the ground

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16 Jul 2021
Press release

Associate General Accountant designation now available to WITS students and alumni

Johannesburg, Thursday 15 July 2021 – Exciting new prospects for those who studied BCom Accounting at the University of Witwatersrand (WITS) after 2015. The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) has accredited this degree for admission into its mid-tier Associate General Accountants [AGAs(SA)] designation.

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8 Jul 2021
Press release

SARS Binding Private Ruling confirms concerns regarding the abuse of the Employment Tax Incentive

Johannesburg, 8 July 2021 – The Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) was introduced in 2014 to encourage the employment of younger workers – 18 to 29 years old – by offering an incentive which is set-off against the employees’ tax due each month, thereby reducing the related tax liability for the relevant month/s – for the first two years of employment, subject to specific requirements being met.

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