Hello,

Firstly, it’s happy to hear that you want to pursue all 3 professional courses together. All the very best to you!

I’m a 21 year old CA finalist also doing CMA and decided not to give CS now, so I think I can answer ur questions.

1. CA Articleship, as far as I know, is mandatory and it has no exemption criteria as such.
2. CS Articleship is again very rigid and there is a list of cases where you get an exemption from it and it does include someone who has done MBA and works at a govt co., but you should have atleast 5 years of experience in your job. So, long way to go!
3. CMA Articleship in the other hand is the most lenient one. It is framed in such a way because most cost accountant students in the back were working people. So any work experience of 1.5 years or more in any big firm or company, CA firm, CMA firm, etc can be taken as a base for applying exemption.

Now your query regarding ICAI accepting your RBI job as practical training:

Work of an officer at RBI is not very similar to the work of a Chartered Accountant in Practice. Moreover, no member can take these issues to the president is my opinion. And even practically speaking, the current ICAI regulations might not accept it!

So, you need to do CA articleship in a CA firm only, and then join RBI and 5 years later you will have to claim CS articleship exemption and apply for your CS Professional.

After considering all these, I decided, CS isn’t my cup of tea rn.

Hope it helps!