The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India ( ICAI ) has recently invited an expression of interest (EOI) from the software companies over designing new software for Chartered Accountancy firms and practitioners.
As per an announcement, the ICAI, under the Committee for Capacity Building of Members in Practice (CCBMP), has asked the companies to send in the EOI by 31 March.
The interested software companies would need to have appropriate knowledge in various aspects of Chartered Accountancy and other relented subjects.
“The CCBMP invites Expression of Interest from the various software vendors who are interested to provide the software relevant to the Practitioners & CA Firms of ICAI by May 31, 2019. The intending parties are expected to have an appropriate level of practical experience in the relevant area along with the knowledge of various aspects of the CA profession,” the ICAI said.
The software company would also have to provide a free of cost training for all users of the software. The software would be available at all Information Technology Training Centers of ICAI.
Any member registered with the ICAI would be eligible to get a copy of this software for free, claims the notice.
The selected software company would then sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ICAI to release the required software.
