Chartered Accountant - CA

One of the more surprising action movies of 2016 had the unfortunately boring title of The Accountant. Starring Ben Affleck as a math savant CPA for organized crime with special forces level assassin skills, Ben Affleck redeemed his awful Daredevil fight scenes with genuinely thrilling combat sequences that prepared him to subsequently portray Batman. Affleck's character, Christian Wolff, probably could have qualified for licensing as a Chartered Accountant.

In the USA, a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) is a professional that meets the licensing criteria for handling a majority of IRS-related issues on behalf of clients. The equivalent to a CPA in the rest of the English language-speaking world, i.e. U.K., Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada, and Singapore, is the Chartered Accountant.

While the requirements vary slightly between different nations, licensed Chartered Accountants are qualified in their respective domiciles to handle accounting, reporting, audits, taxation, and other functions related to filing financial matters on behalf of individual and corporate clients for compliance with the government’s financial laws. However, marksmanship, hand-to-hand combat, knife fighting, and assassination skills...are apparently still reserved for CPAs only.