The people on your file
Under the guidelines issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, a firm may publish the name, designation, qualifications, year of qualification and area of experience of each person associated with it. This page carries those particulars the firm has confirmed.
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CA. Suraj Upadhyay
Founder & Managing Partner
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CA. Hemant Chansoriya
Senior Consultant
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Naveen Saini, Advocate
Head – Accounting Operations
A partner, a person on the file, and a reviewer.
Every engagement is assigned to a partner, and the partner stays on it. One person below him carries the file day to day — records, working papers, reconciliations, the draft return — and is named to you when the engagement starts.
Work is reviewed before it leaves the firm, by someone who did not prepare it. Where a client has an audit, GST returns and an open assessment at once, the people preparing each may differ but the partner does not.
Who signs, and what a signature carries.
A report, certificate or attestation issued by this firm is signed by a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India holding a certificate of practice, in his own name and under his membership number. The signature is personal: the signing member answers for what the document says, to the Institute and to the authority receiving it.
Two things follow. Review happens before signature, because a member cannot sign what he has not satisfied himself about. And you can establish who signed: reports carry a Unique Document Identification Number generated on the Institute's UDIN portal, verifiable there by anyone holding the document.
The same people, through the whole year.
A statutory year is not a single event. One set of facts is reported in the monthly GST returns, again in the withholding statements, again in the accounts and the audit report, again in the return of income, and once more in whatever notice arrives eighteen months later. When the same people handle all of it, a position taken in April is still known in December.
Working papers and filing acknowledgements go onto the file as the work proceeds, so the person who prepared them is usually still the person you can ask. Files do change hands, and we tell you when one does.
Why this page publishes so little.
The Institute's website guidelines set out which particulars a firm may publish about its people. They are the whole of what this page may carry.
- For partners
- Name · year of qualification · other qualifications · direct, residence and mobile numbers · email address · area of experience
- For employees
- Name · designation · area of experience
The guidelines also require that what a firm publishes is not at variance with the Institute's own records, so a particular appears here once it has been checked against that record. Where a field shows nothing, the page renders nothing at all rather than an approximation.
That rules out what such a page usually carries: no biography, no count of years, no claim of standing. Naming an area of experience is permitted; ranking ourselves within it is not.
Getting to the person handling your file.
Both offices are reachable on 011-42448005 and +91 82950 64586; email reaches the firm at casurajupadhyay@causnc.com.
If you already have an engagement, name the entity and the year in the first line. That routes the message to the person holding the file, so the reply comes from someone with the papers open. Send documents by email or bring them to either office.
We take articled assistants under the ICAI scheme.
Articles here work across the practice rather than on one process — audit, GST and income-tax compliance, assessment papers, and international tax files.