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Date: 27th July 2008 |
Compiled by Mr. M. Sathya Kumar |
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CA who started as a
Newspaper boy I am a Chartered Accountant employed in a nationalised bank as a
senior manager. I completed CA against heavy odds. My father was a small-time
newspaper vendor in Mylapore, Chennai. My elder brother passed away when he
was 22 years old (following kidney failure), just when he was entering
employment. My father, at the age of around 60, took up a job for Rs 300 a
month in a charitable institution to supplement his low income. He wanted me
to become a chartered accountant, following his interaction with those from the
profession at his job. I completed my graduation in science and I was thrilled at this
because, one, I was the first to have done so in my family and, two, I was a
below-average student. I had struggled hard, both physically and mentally.
Physically because I had to travel more than 30 km a day either by cycle or
train, and mentally because I studied in regional medium till the eleventh
standard and shifted to English medium only at the pre-university level. To fulfil my father's desire, I took up the CA course without
even knowing what debit and credit meant. This necessitated my joining
`accountancy' coaching class in an institute where I was already learning
typewriting; this was to help me get a job and supplement my family income. I
had a sister who was just married off, another who was in waiting, and a
brother who was just finishing schooling. But those at the institute told me
to take up the challenge of CA. While doing fulltime articleship in an audit firm, I used to
help my father distribute newspapers/magazines, getting up at Holidays were a welcome relief. I used to go up to the open
terrace to study in peace, but here too there used to disturbances with
children running around. Though new to subjects such as commerce, accountancy
and law, I was able to scrape through my CA Intermediate exam in the very
first attempt, which till date is considered by me as a big achievement, even
more than qualifying for the Final exam. The May 1977 accountancy exam was tough even for those who
completed B.Com with high percentage of marks. A few of my friends even
walked out of the exam hall halfway through that paper. I was able to score a
mere 40 per cent, with an aggregate of 51 per cent. And during that period,
sickness and deaths in family compounded my problems. It took a few attempts
for me to clear the CA course, the economics paper and financial problems
were the major stumbling blocks. In retrospect, I realise that the CA course helped me fine-tune
my thinking and analytical abilities. Source : Jumping the Odds appeared in the
buinsess daily |
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