The Institute of Cost Accountants of India is planning to set up 1,000 support centres for students.

“Our target is to open these cost and management support centres in one year though we might complete it within six months,’’ Mr M. Gopalakrishnan, President, ICAI, told newspersons here on Monday.

The Kolkata-based apex institute for cost accountants would roll out at least three hundred support centres in different parts of the country within a week. The demand for cost accounts was increasing from across the industry, he said.

The ICAI had also launched a new post-qualification advanced studies course for its members at its Centre of Excellence here.

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