Bica Membership Upgrade
Congratulations! for qualifying as a Chartered Accountant and attaining full membership with your parent Chartered Professional Accountancy body, now you are eligible to upgrade your current BICA membership class to either Associate/Fellow.
BICA has a provision for membership upgrades to allow its members to upgrade to other categories and they are as follows;

Accounting Technician to Associate level
For one to upgrade membership from Accounting Technician Category to Associate level must do the following;
- Complete the membership upgrade form.
- Attach certified copy of full membership of the parent Professional Chartered Accountancy body.
- Letter of good standing from your parent body.
- Surrender the BICA original Accounting Technician certificate.
- Prescribe application fee.
Associate To Fellow
For one to upgrade membership from the Associate Category to Fellow level must do the following;
- Complete the membership upgrade form.
- Attach certified copy of Fellow membership of the parent Professional Chartered Accountancy body.
- Letter of good standing from your parent body.
- Surrender the BICA original Accounting Technician certificate.
- Prescribe application fee.


BICA Automatic Membership Upgrade
Any member who has been in the Associate category of the Institute for a continuous period of 5 years in good standing shall be illegible for Automatic upgrade to Fellow level provided he/she meets all the CPD requirements. The automatic upgrade to Fellow will effect from the 1st January of the year.
Broad Range of Services
Botswana Institute of Chartered Accountants counts among its membership resident members of the chartered and public bodies of accountants recognized under statute by the various countries including the UK, South Africa, India, Zambia, Kenya, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. The institute strives to ensure that its members provide a high quality of services comparable to international standards. The Institute members provide the following services; Accountancy, Taxation, Management Consultancy, Computer Consultancy, Company Secretarial, Audit, Investigations, Recruitment, Liquidation.
Any person intending to practice as a Certified Public Accountant will have to be an associate or fellow member of the Institute and must have obtained a practicing certificate from the Council.
To obtain a Certified Auditing Certificate, the member
- Must have an office or place of business in Botswana.
- Must have been a member of the Institute (Associate/Fellow) continuously for a period of not less than 2 years.
- Before or after or partly before and partly after admission to membership of the Institute must have completed a period of not less than thirty months of approved accountancy experience under the supervision of a principal in an approved training office of a firm of public accountants. (provide the time sheets signed by registered Certified Auditor)
- The practical audit experience must be obtained within five years preceding his application for a practicing certificate, a further period, being not less than twelve months, of post qualification experience under the supervision of a principal in an approved training office of a firm of public accountants.
- Recommendation letter by a Certified Auditor that the applicant is fully qualified to register as a Certified Auditor.
- Must have passed such examinations as may from time to time be prescribed by the Council (Botswana Tax and Law).
- Provide solemn declaration of being in Botswana for the last 12 months.
- Must have professional indemnity insurance.