ICAS

Quicklinks

  1. About Us

    Find out about who we are and what we do here at ICAS.

  2. Find a CA

    Search our directory of individual CAs and Member organisations by name, location and professional criteria.

  3. CA Magazine

    View the latest issues of the dedicated magazine for ICAS Chartered Accountants.

  4. Contact Us

    Get in touch with ICAS by phone, email or post, with dedicated contacts for Members, Students and firms.

Login
  • Annual renewal
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Find a CA
  • Advantage
  1. About us
    1. Governance
    2. ICAS Strategy 2030
  2. Members
    1. Become a member
    2. Newly qualified
    3. Manage my membership
    4. Benefits of membership
    5. Career support
    6. Mentoring
    7. CA Wellbeing
    8. More for Members
    9. Area networks
    10. International communities
    11. Get involved
    12. Top Young CAs
    13. Career breaks
    14. ICAS podcast
    15. Newly admitted members 2023
  3. CA Students
    1. Student information
    2. Student resources
    3. Learning requirements
    4. Learning updates
    5. Learning blog
    6. Totum Pro | Student discount card
    7. CA Student wellbeing
  4. Become a CA
    1. How to become a CA
    2. Routes to becoming a CA
    3. Find a training agreement
    4. Why become a CA
    5. The CA qualification
    6. Accredited qualifications and exemptions
  5. Employers
    1. Train a Chartered Accountant
    2. Resources for Authorised Training Offices
    3. Professional entry
    4. Apprenticeships
    5. Learning redefined
  6. Find a CA
  7. ICAS events
    1. CA Summit
    2. Digital Practice Conference 2023
  8. CA magazine
  9. Professional resources
    1. Anti-money laundering
    2. Audit and assurance
    3. Brexit
    4. Business and governance
    5. Charities
    6. Coronavirus
    7. Corporate and financial reporting
    8. Cyber security
    9. Ethics
    10. Insolvency
    11. ICAS Research
    12. Pensions
    13. Practice
    14. Public sector
    15. Sustainability
    16. Tax
    17. Vulnerable persons toolkit
    18. EDI toolkit
  10. CPD - professional development
    1. CPD - Everything you need to know
    2. CPD courses and qualifications
    3. CPD news and updates
    4. CPD support and advice
    5. Career support
  11. Regulation
    1. Complaints and sanctions
    2. Regulatory authorisations
    3. Guidance and help sheets
    4. Regulatory monitoring
    5. ICAS regulatory functions report 2022
    6. Regulation Strategy
    7. ICAS Regulation News
    8. Guidance for audit firms: ISQM(UK)1
    9. Engaging positively with a complaint
    10. What should I do if my client leaves?
    11. Changes to ICAS’ Public Practice Regulations
    12. New AML monitoring regime
  12. CA jobs
    1. CA jobs partner: Rutherford Cross
    2. Resources for your job search
    3. Advertise with CA jobs
    4. Hays | A Trusted ICAS CA Jobs Partner
    5. Azets | What's your ambition?
  13. Work at ICAS
    1. Business centres
    2. Meet our team
    3. Benefits
    4. Vacancies
    5. Imagine your career at ICAS
  14. Contact us
    1. Technical and regulation queries
    2. ICAS logo request

ICAS President, Indy Singh Hothi CA: Reflections on my time as President

  • LinkedIn (opens new window)
  • Twitter (opens new window)
By CA magazine

30 March 2023

In his final column as President, Indy Singh Hothi CA looks back on a year of engagement, inclusion and reinvention

Read April's CA magazine now

When I became ICAS President a year ago, there were several key areas I was keen to address. My final column in the post gives me a chance to reflect on what I think has been achieved over the past 12 months and the firm foundations we have laid down for the future of our organisation.

Engagement

I was the first ICAS office bearer to meet with our students through a series of induction events, welcoming the people who represent the future of our profession. I also engaged with our area networks, the lifeblood of our communities on the ground, along with our membership base, from those working in the Big Four to small practice, from entrepreneurs running their own businesses to CAs working in industry, the public or third sectors. I will long remember our conversations about the effects of the pandemic, and how these CAs navigated their businesses and supported their clients along the way.

Home and abroad

It was an honour to represent ICAS at the World Congress of Accountants in Mumbai in November. This is an important forum to discuss global issues, and ICAS has a big voice in those discussions.

Closer to home, we’ve been engaging with Holyrood and Westminster on audit reform, a subject of huge significance to many members. Given the political landscape right now, it would be easy for this to slip down the priority list. The last thing we need is to see it surge back to the top of the agenda because of a crisis that could have been avoided. ICAS has, quite rightly, pushed for this process to be seen through to its conclusion, while also placing more focus on engaging with both governments.

Governance

Another key area of serving as President is chairing ICAS Council and supporting the executive with the ICAS 2030 strategy, which entails significant changes to our syllabus, how we deliver education and how we articulate what we stand for. Our members will see that change happening very soon.

Our clients and students will see the new learning platform and syllabus introduced throughout the next 12 to 24 months. This process will have a lasting impact on our profession and membership base, and will maintain the position of ICAS as the leading educator with the gold standard qualification for our profession. That is of paramount importance to us.

Ultimately it is about recognising that we live in a dynamic, fast-changing world. To maintain that position, we have to lead from the front. And that’s exactly what we’ve done with this new strategy and our education delivery, which takes the best of in-person and digital learning and blends them together.

Furthermore, ours will be a leading-edge syllabus, especially when we think about sustainability, AI and machine learning. We are setting our future membership up for success. And we are providing the CPD and training necessary for existing members to thrive in their chosen fields. That will have a lasting impact that will go way beyond my term as President.

Inclusion

If there has been one overarching theme throughout the past 12 months it has been ensuring our events and initiatives are inclusive. I remember one occasion, while waiting for a train at Paddington, when a fellow member said how proud they were to see someone like me in this role – not just for the representation, but also for what I stand for, and how my values align with what being a CA is all about.

Such moments have been touching. If I hadn’t fully recognised the importance of becoming President a year ago, I certainly do now. I’m hugely proud of that, and of evolving the nature of the office bearer role to reflect modern life, business and leadership.

The future

Being President has been an experience I will never forget. I wish my immediate successor – and those to come in the future – all the best. I know they will continue to champion the launch of the new strategy and syllabus. I’m also excited to be working with Chartered Accountants Worldwide, as well as with ICAS and the ICAS Foundation, promoting social mobility in the profession and thinking about topics such as financial literacy, and how our institute can have a global impact.

Although I will be a Past President, I intend to be very active, and to continue championing accountancy as the force for good I know it is.

Indy Singh Hothi CA will be speaking at the ICAS sustainability summit on 26 April. Register here

Read April's CA magazine now

CA magazine: April 2023

By Sarah Speirs, ICAS Executive Director of Member Engagement and Communication

30 March 2023

ICAS events

View our diary of upcoming webinars and in-person events and watch recordings of webinars you missed.

2023-08-xero

Footer links

  • Contact us
  • Terms and conditions
  • Modern slavery statement
  • Privacy notice
  • CA magazine

Connect with ICAS

  • TikTok (opens new window) TikTok Icon
  • Twitter (opens new window) Twitter Icon
  • LinkedIn (opens new window) LinkedIn Icon
  • Instagram (opens new window) Instagram Icon
  • Youtube (opens new window)

ICAS is a member of the following bodies

  • Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (opens new window) Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies logo
  • Chartered Accountants Worldwide (opens new window) Chartered Accountants Worldwide logo
  • Global Accounting Alliance (opens new window) Global Accounting Alliance
  • International Federation of Accountants (opens new window) IFAC
  • Access Accountancy (opens new window) Access Acountancy
  • Women in Finance Charter (opens new window) Women in Finance Charter

Charities

  • ICAS Foundation (opens new window) ICAS Foundation
  • SCABA (opens new window) scaba

Accreditations

  • ISO 9001 - RGB (opens new window)
© ICAS 2022

The mark and designation “CA” is a registered trade mark of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS), and is available for use in the UK and EU only to members of ICAS. If you are not a member of ICAS, you should not use the “CA” mark and designation in the UK or EU in relation to accountancy, tax or insolvency services. The mark and designation “Chartered Accountant” is a registered trade mark of ICAS, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales and Chartered Accountants Ireland. If you are not a member of one of these organisations, you should not use the “Chartered Accountant” mark and designation in the UK or EU in relation to these services. Further restrictions on the use of these marks also apply where you are a member.

Our cookie policy

ICAS.com uses cookies which are essential for our website to work. We would also like to use analytical cookies to help us improve our website and your user experience. Any data collected is anonymised. Please have a look at the further information in our cookie policy and confirm if you are happy for us to use analytical cookies: