Discontinuance of the membership has excluded you from the privileges/benefits that a Chartered Accountant enjoys and also deprives you, from the participation in the Institute's activities and programmes designed for dissemination of knowledge, professional development and continuing professional education Equally important, this has deprived the profession and the members of the benefits of your knowledge and experience, in the field of your specialization, which would have resulted had you participated as a member Through the membership of the Institute you are also entitled for monthly journal of the Institute 'The Chartered Accountant' and the monthly newsletters of Regional Councils and of Branches of the Institute, free of cost, participation in the conferences, seminars and other programmes organized by the Institute, Regional Councils and/or Branches at concessional rates; regular update of programmes being organized and initiatives taken from time to time for