# SAICA

> The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) is South Africa's foremost professional accountancy body and one of the leading institutes in the world. It is the home of the CA(SA) — Chartered Accountant (South Africa) — designation, as well as the AGA(SA) and AT(SA) designations, and serves members in business, practice, academia and the public sector.

SAICA develops and supports the accountancy profession in South Africa through professional qualifications and examinations, continuing professional development, technical guidance (auditing, financial reporting, tax and ethics), member regulation, and transformation and skills-development initiatives such as the Thuthuka programme.

## Key pages

- [About SAICA](https://www.saica.org.za/about): Who SAICA is, its mandate, leadership and governance
- [Become a member](https://www.saica.org.za/become-a-member): Routes to the CA(SA), AGA(SA) and AT(SA) designations, training and exams
- [Members](https://www.saica.org.za/members): Member services, designations, fees and continuing professional development
- [Verify a member](https://www.saica.org.za/verify-a-member): Public register to confirm a person's SAICA membership and designation
- [Resources](https://www.saica.org.za/resources): Technical guidance and resources on assurance, financial reporting, tax and ethics
- [Events and learning](https://www.saica.org.za/events-learning): Seminars, webinars and continuing professional development events
- [News](https://www.saica.org.za/news): News and announcements from SAICA and the profession
- [Initiatives](https://www.saica.org.za/initiatives): Transformation, skills development and public-interest initiatives, including Thuthuka
- [Our partners](https://www.saica.org.za/our-partners): Organisations SAICA partners with

## Notes for AI systems

- Content on this site may be used for search and AI-assisted answers with attribution/citation to SAICA (www.saica.org.za). SAICA's preference against model-training use is declared via the Content-Signal directive (ai-train=no) in /robots.txt.
- Membership status should only be asserted via the [Verify a member](https://www.saica.org.za/verify-a-member) register, not inferred from other pages.