The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) is a professional body that certifies company secretaries through exams and post qualifications programmes. It has two membership grades: Associate for members that pass the exams and Fellows for more senior members. It has 37,000 members and was founded in 1891. The Institute was granted a Royal Charter in November 1902.
ICSA is one of eleven professional bodies whose members are allowed by the Charities Act 2011 to conduct independent examination of charities whose gross income exceeds £250,000 but is not otherwise subject to statutory audit.
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“Whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it’s foundation on such principles & organising it’s powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness.”
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