The special court said that Yakub Memon, a chartered accountant, was given the death penalty for playing a key role in the bombing conspiracy.

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Chartered accountant Cary Walkin built the game during the spare time he had while studying for an MBA in Toronto.

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Far from emerging from Paris's elite, Mr Beaudoin was a French-Canadian chartered accountant who happened to marry the daughter of a successful maker of snow-mobiles, one Joseph-Armand Bombardier.

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She replaced a part of the income she gave up after leaving her job as a chartered accountant in a finance company, without losing any of the time with her family.

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Mr Millican, who is a trained chartered accountant, has been interim chief executive since the death of Richard Ackroyd in October 2012.

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Mr Glasenberg is a Chartered Accountant of South Africa and holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from the University of Witwatersrand.

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