09-29-2007, 04:24 PM
Dear Khani,
You did not mention in your above post regarding ICAEW or salaries in UK etc. At Pakistan, if you are ICAEW qualified, you are equally accepted and are given membership of ICAP without any exam or test. However, if you want to join audit practice as a partner of some CA firm in Pakistan, you will have to clear certain papers, most probably pertaining to local laws. However, there is no difference in salaries level for CA from ICAP or CA from ICAEW, when you seek job here in Pakistan. You may find better oppurtunity if you are ICAEW qualified.
As far as CA jobs of ICAEW qualified people at UK are concerned, I dont know in much detail, as I have not so far personally visited UK. I hope to do so in very near future, then I may be in some better position to comment. However, since some of my ICAP qualified friends are there at UK and I have discussed similar issues with them, I estimate that the minimum starting pay (for fresh professional) at UK for ICAEW qualified would not be less than 50,000 sterling pounds per annum. I, however, know that ICAEW qualified people are earning much more than this threshhold figure. I have seen job advertisements of 100,000 to 125,000 sterling pounds per annum for ICAEW CAs in UK.
One of my friends, who is ICAP qualified, is working at some food manufacturing company at UK. He has almost 8 to 9 years experience in total with almost 5 years experience of UK. He is currently drawing more than USD 165,000 per annum at his job. (this is one year old figure). SInce his company is some multinational, therefore, his salary is in US Dollars.
Hope the above will provide some insight.
Regards,
Kamran.
You did not mention in your above post regarding ICAEW or salaries in UK etc. At Pakistan, if you are ICAEW qualified, you are equally accepted and are given membership of ICAP without any exam or test. However, if you want to join audit practice as a partner of some CA firm in Pakistan, you will have to clear certain papers, most probably pertaining to local laws. However, there is no difference in salaries level for CA from ICAP or CA from ICAEW, when you seek job here in Pakistan. You may find better oppurtunity if you are ICAEW qualified.
As far as CA jobs of ICAEW qualified people at UK are concerned, I dont know in much detail, as I have not so far personally visited UK. I hope to do so in very near future, then I may be in some better position to comment. However, since some of my ICAP qualified friends are there at UK and I have discussed similar issues with them, I estimate that the minimum starting pay (for fresh professional) at UK for ICAEW qualified would not be less than 50,000 sterling pounds per annum. I, however, know that ICAEW qualified people are earning much more than this threshhold figure. I have seen job advertisements of 100,000 to 125,000 sterling pounds per annum for ICAEW CAs in UK.
One of my friends, who is ICAP qualified, is working at some food manufacturing company at UK. He has almost 8 to 9 years experience in total with almost 5 years experience of UK. He is currently drawing more than USD 165,000 per annum at his job. (this is one year old figure). SInce his company is some multinational, therefore, his salary is in US Dollars.
Hope the above will provide some insight.
Regards,
Kamran.