From a Big 4 to CA in Practice: How this CA launched his career in forensic accounting after changing career paths and embracing challenges

• Meet Arpit Kabra, a Chartered Accountant, Company Secretary, and practicing CA.
• He qualified as a CA in 2009 and as a Fresher joined Deloitte in their Tax team and then moved to Ernst & Young.
• Whilst working in the Big 4 was tempting, he had the desire to start something on his own in an absolutely new and unconventional area of practice.
• After 8 months of struggle and waiting patiently, he got a breakthrough, and eventually found a niche for himself in Forensic accounting and Investigation. Starting with just one assignment to tackling over 300 forensic assignments, he has come a long way.
• As a part of the CA Chronicles Series Powered by Tally, we spoke to Arpit to share his story of how he patiently earned a breakthrough and created his own luck with expertise!

The dilemma of pursuing science and moving to commerce 

I was born in Kishangarh (Ajmer) in Rajasthan however while still in school my parents moved to Mumbai, the city of dreams.

Hailing from a humble middle-class family, my father struggled a lot while transitioning to the new way of life in Mumbai despite being a CA. 

In the beginning, we lived in a chawl in Ulhasnagar and grew up in a very humble Sindhi neighborhood where everyone took great care of each other like one big family.