INFO ABOUT ICAN

About ICAN


Welcome to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria created by an Act of Parliament No. 15 of September 1, 1965.



Mission Statement



To Produce World-Class Chartered Accountants, Regulate and Continuously Enhance Their Ethical Standards and Technical Competence in the Public Interest.





Objects and Duties



The objects and duties of the Institute as laid down in section 1 (1) of the Act, are:



(a) “determining what standards of knowledge and skill are to be attained by persons seeking to become members of the accountancy profession and raising those standards from time to time as circumstances may permit;



(b) securing in accordance with the provisions of the Act, the establishment and maintenance of registers of Fellows, Associates and Registered Accountants entitled to practise as accountants and auditors and publishing from time to time lists of those persons; and



(c) performing through the Council under this Act the functions conferred on it by the Act.”