14th February 2014, 08:28 PM
Maybe I'm being a bit dumb - it wouldn't be the first time - but I can't quite see how the IfA (chartered or otherwise) or any other organisation can engineer a closed-shop situation in regards to competition for work. Going on comments that appear on here occasionally it would seem they are presently doing the opposite, by allowing those not deemed suitable for RO status to be so, rather than preventing those eligible from becoming ROs.