From a small shared space to a 250+ member firm specializing in Indirect Taxation: the story of CA Madhukar N Hiregange

• Hi, I am Madhukar N Hiregange a Chartered Accountant and Entrepreneur from India.
• I decided early in life that I wanted to become a CA and after several challenges, I qualified in 1988 and soon started my own firm specializing in “Central Excise”.
• Fast forward, to 2002 after coming out of a failed partnership, I built my firm ‘Hiregange & Associates’ from scratch. Today we have grown to 250+ team members with 12 offices across India.
• Here is my story about how I built my firm by specializing in Indirect Taxation while remaining honest in every dealing.

Growing up in a small city and deciding to be a CA

My father was an engineer – an upright honest officer, dead against corruption, and hence got transferred to places where nobody wished to go. So, I grew up in multiple cities.

In early school, I was not into reading or playing however when we moved to Patna (back then it was a smaller city) with the guidance of Fr. Starr & Fr. Murphy, I excelled in my academics.

I realized early in life, that I wanted to become a CA and so in 9th grade (1974), I moved to a metro city, Bangalore (India).