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“CA Sri Lanka qualified Chartered Accountants are known for their honesty and integrity the world over,” FCA Member Mrs. Shantha Fonseka.

Chartered Accountants are well known as a brand of unique and versatile professionals, who are sought after both locally and globally. However Sri Lankan Chartered Accountants, who have been produced by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka), are known and respected as well as have been in demand for their honesty, integrity and high work output among other notable skills.

CA Sri Lanka Member, Mrs. Shantha Fonseka, FCA, who is now retired and domiciled in Sydney, Australia, attributes the demand for Sri Lankan qualified chartered accountants primarily to the rigorous training they had to undergo at audit firms for four years, and the technical knowledge imparted by their study facilitators.

"We had to submit mandatory tutorials that were sourced from ‘Foulks Lynch’ a company in London. We had the advantage of past question papers known as ‘chartered telephones’ also from London which helped us prepare. Later, the tutorials were locally prepared by our Director of Studies, Mr. A T Benedict. His directorship was followed by Miss. Piyaseeli Jayaratne who continued the dedicated service for our benefit,” she said.

According to her, training was a value addition which helped them progress as well as go overseas. “We got jobs in Fiji, and that’s how we left Sri Lanka in the early 70s. We were among the first set of accountants (seven of us) who went to Fiji,” she said.

Mrs. Fonseka, a former Finance Manager at a pharmaceutical company in Australia, said that in the early 70s, Sri Lan