Students may lose six months as BCom, CA exams clash

Updated on: Thursday, September 29, 2011

Tens of thousands of city students who will be taking their final year commerce examination may lose six months as they may have to skip the second year chartered accountancy exam which is on the same day.

Students who specialise in the self-financing courses like accounting and finance, banking and insurance, financial markets, three popular streams of commerce, will be affected the most as several papers are clashing with the Integrated Professional Competence Course (second year, CA course) exam.

On November 4, the university has slated the cost accounting paper and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India will conduct the business laws, ethics and communication examination. Again, five days later, on November 9, final year students have to sit for paper 3 in tax; the CA aspirants have to also take the taxation exam that day.

“Many will have to make a choice between the final year and CA exams. We have sent representations to the university, but there has been no response from officials,” a student said.

The university has faced this conundrum earlier too. But the last few years it has been planning its commerce time-table so that it does not clash with competitive professional courses.

Controller of examinations Vilas Shinde said each time the university ensures students are not hit. “Students must, through principals, inform the varsity about dates of other all-India exams so we can plan ours. But students inform us after we announce our time-table,” he said.

Students may lose six months as BCom, CA exams clash

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