Can chartered accountants (ICAI) become CEOs of companies?

Hi, Thanks for A2A. Yes CAs are most eligible to become CEOs. There are many in public and private sectors like Mr Rameswar Thakur, Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla, Mr. Shekhar Kapoor and many more CAs are CEOs. The training and experience gained through CA route are very helpful when stepping up to CEO position.But being CEO is not an easy job. It requires extra qualities like people management, managerial skills e.t.c. As pointed out in the earlier answer a CEO must be a clear visionary, an excellent communicator and most importantly a good strategist. Doing CA does give you the opportunity and the qualification to take up the job. Let me give you few examples : Kumar Mangalam Birla : CA Kumar mangalam birla is the Chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, one of the largest conglomerate corporations in India. Naina Lal Kidwai : She is currently the Group General Manager and Country Head of HSBC India. She is the Former President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). Government of India honoured her with PADMA SRI.

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There is no such thing that only Chartered Accountant can be or A Chartered Accountant can't be a CEO. For the position of CEO, most important thing is the manegerial skills, as the CEO has to manage the whole organisation, now to attain those manegerial skills people usually opt MBA. If a CA has those manegerial skills, education, experience, critical thinking skills, diligence, attitude along with technical knowledge then he/she can become a CEO. Actually the only thing that matters is how you present yourself, it might be possible that there are many more competent, educated, experienced out there who are not CEO, just because they weren't able to present themselves as to why they are more competent for that position.

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Ability to get integrated with every aspects of business is what can make a CA become CEO. Most of the Chartered Accountant I have seen in my work experience are very conservative in nature and keep themselves confined to finance vertical only and don't get out of their comfort zone. I personally believe that they are in the best position to get 2 feet deeper and 10 feet wider idea about all the aspects of business, from marketing to tech. Each of these verticals need to deal with finance with little or higher gravity, if CA is outgoing person and start taking interest in all these verticals they get an idea about everything which is happening in the company and hence most knowledgeable. Hence I feel they are best placed and equipped to take over the CEO position. There are many CAs who are CEO / MD of large cos in India. Vimal Kejriwal is CEO with KEC which is billion dollar listed company, as I write Rajesh Laddha has taken over as CEO of Shriram Cap. Go out, gain knowledge and get business perspective, you are best equipped to be CEO

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