What is the difference between a charted accountant and an accountant?

Any person having knowledge of accounting can be termed as Accountant but a Chartered Accountants is a person who has passed the exams and training conducted by the recognised Institute of the Country and who is said to be professionally qualified for subjects like Accounts, Finance, Audits etc.

• Comment added by fatiha targhi , التنقيب الهاتف -8 minutes ago Accountant is a practitioner in the field of accounting, which is responsible for measurement, disclosure or provision of guarantees about financial information that helps managers and investors and tax authorities and other decision-makers to make resource allocation decisions.
• Comment added by fatiha targhi , التنقيب الهاتف -1 minute ago As an accountant painted is the science includes a set of accounting principles and the foundations for assessment and data collection costs, analyzed and classified for the purpose of determining the cost of generating unit, whether good or service and control and assist management in production and marketing policy, and choose from among the alternatives available to solve administrative problems (Help administration in carrying out its functions of planning, coordination and control and make decisions).