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Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

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I've listed this article for peer review because this article has expanded a lot during the past one week. I propose to nominate the article for Good Article assessment. But before doing so, in order to go through the assessment process smoothly, I would like to know any weakness' that exist in the article so that it can be corrected before being nominated for Good Article assessment. Please suggest improvements to the article so that it can become a Good Article now and a Featured Article in the future.

Thanks, R.Sivanesh ✆ 11:02, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

• Comments by Smallbones The article is fairly complete and has much needed detail. There are a very few technical issues, some of which might be explained by the use of Indian English rather than American or British English - which is certainly allowed. Capitalization is an issue - make sure that "chartered" is not capitalized when not used as part of the proper noun "Chartered Accountant." A few improper nouns are also improperly capitalized. Some of the word choices seem too informal, e.g. "lots of," but in general the word choice seems a bit too formal or stiff. Images should be checked to make sure they are properly categorized at Commons (minor point) and for the fair use images, that the FUR matches the image and its use (the size in one case is off).

For non-Indian readers, it would be interesting to know the relation of Sri Aurobindo to the Institute. He comes up briefly twice, but their is no explanation of why a "guru" has any relation to the group. Indians probably know this, but to an outsider it just raises a question mark. This brings up, to me, a very important question that may be very much more difficult to deal with than the technical issues. What is the relation of the Institute to the outside non-accountant world? The article is very much pointed toward the Indian accountant and its sources are very much in-group - from accountants for accountants. I'd hope the general reader could get more out of the article - how does the Institute relate to general Indian society? to world-wide accounting groups? What kind of career (within or outside accounting) might an aspiring CA look forward to? Please try to look more at this big picture. Just as an audit might be technically correct and at the same time misleading, this article looks technically correct, but doesn't tell the outside reader much.

I would look for more general news sources and more international accounting sources and include the issues that they think are most important. I'd probably cut some of the purely Indian accounting details, and try to make the text read a bit better. Hope this helps.

• Reply from SivaneshR: First of all I would like to thank you for accepting ,my request for peer review. So in order to make the article more interesting and informative, you have suggested some additions. Let me summarize it so that It would be clear as to what the article needs:
  • Some more details about the relation with Sri Aurobindo.
  • Role of ICAI in the Indian/ International society
  • Career prospects of prospective CAs

This takes care of the information part. My question now is if someone is able to add these details, will the article become eligible to be assessed as a good article and in the prospective future a featured article? If not what else is it lagging? R.Sivanesh ✆ 15:46, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

I generally don't do the reviews on GA Candidates - somebody else will be looking at it there and it is possible that he will have different aspects that he'll look at. The best I can do is state what my concerns are, and perhaps guess what the GAC reviewer will look at. Very likely, he'll take the technical aspects quite seriously - so go over the capitalization, etc. My concerns are with the scope of the article - it was perhaps too narrow. The things listed above are more like examples of what could be included in a broader framework, than actual requirements that a GAC reviewer will want. In other words, you are being too literal. I just want you to make the article a bit broader, look around to see what non-accountants and international accountants think of the Institute. Smallbones (talk) 05:43, 25 January 2011 (UTC)