The ICB conducts professional examinations for those persons who intend following a career in bookkeeping and accounting. Qualifications that are offered through accredited training providers include Accounting Clerk, Bookkeeper, Accounting Technicians and Small Business Financial Management. Various assessments in skills programmes and short courses are also conducted, namely Payroll Administration and Computerised
Bookkeeping.

Completion of any of these qualifications or skills programmes and short courses leads to professional membership of the ICB with designations awarded depending on what course of study has been followed.

Bookkeeping provides a system to manage the accounts of a business. Accounting activities administered by bookkeepers are many and various and include; purchase accounting, sales accounting & credit control,
accounting for stock, cash & banking, nominal ledger, accounting for VAT, payroll accounting and presenting reports using the accounting database.

The ICB is recognised by Fasset as a Quality Assurance Partner (QAP) for the qualifications under the ICB's scope, as well as the Chief Executive being appointed as Chair of a Standards Generating Body (SGB) an member of a second SGB and formally a vice-chair of a National Standards Body. Involvement with bodies such as these helps to ensure that all the qualifications offered by the ICB, and held by its members, are relevant to their continued employment.

Whilst the ICB is based in South Africa, assessments/examinations are conducted throughout southern Africa.

Please contact the ICB's head office in Cape Town for additional information either via, telephone, facsimile, email or post.

Finally it should be noted that the ICB is associated with two complementary organisations, namely the Institute of Financial Accountants (IFA) and the IAB, both based in the United Kingdom.