Chartered Accountant (CA(SA))

Provides advanced accounting, financial reporting, audit, tax and business advice to organisations or clients. Explore current demand, important skills and estimated junior, mid-level and senior salaries, plus 13 linked programmes across 6 universities. Enter your subjects and marks to discover which linked programmes you may qualify for.

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Career overview

What does a Chartered Accountant (CA(SA)) do?

Provides advanced accounting, financial reporting, audit, tax and business advice to organisations or clients.

Demand level: Very High

Earning potential

Estimated annual salaries

JuniorR480 000 p.a.Mid-levelR840 000 p.a.SeniorR1 500 000 p.a.

Salary figures are estimates and may vary by employer, experience, qualifications, location and economic conditions.

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Skills linked to this career

Accounting · EssentialFinancial reporting · EssentialProfessional ethics · EssentialAuditing · ImportantEthics · ImportantTax · ImportantTaxation · Important
Study routes

Programmes linked to this career

These are some of the programmes currently connected to this career in VX Course Match.

Bachelor of Commerce (BCom): Accounting — Rhodes University

Bachelor of Business Science specialising in Finance with Accounting — University of Cape Town

Bachelor of Commerce specialising in Financial Accounting (Chartered Accountant) — University of Cape Town

Bachelor of Commerce specialising in Financial Accounting (General) — University of Cape Town

ACCOUNTING — University of Johannesburg

ACCOUNTING (CA) — University of Johannesburg

Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting Sciences — University of Pretoria

BCom Accounting (3yrs) — University of the Western Cape

BCom Accounting (4yrs) — University of the Western Cape

BCom Financial Accounting — University of the Western Cape

BEd Accounting (FET), Economic and Management Sciences (SP) and Mathematics (SP) — University of the Western Cape

Bachelor of Accounting Science (BAccSci) — University of the Witwatersrand

Bachelor of Commerce (Bcom) in the field of Accounting — University of the Witwatersrand

These are only some of the programmes linked to this career.

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What does a Chartered Accountant (CA(SA)) do?

Provides advanced accounting, financial reporting, audit, tax and business advice to organisations or clients.

What skills are important for this career?

Important skills include Accounting, Financial reporting, Professional ethics, Auditing, Ethics.

What salary can I expect?

VX provides junior, mid-level and senior annual salary estimates. Actual earnings vary by employer, experience, qualifications, location and economic conditions.

Which programmes can lead to this career?

13 linked programmes are currently available in the VX database. Use Course Match to see which ones fit your subjects and marks.