Hello, I am —
Building small, sharp things in finance.
B.Com graduate. CA Inter — Group I & II. Freelancing in finance, investing my own book, writing plainly about money. Looking for articleship and selective briefs.
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I'm Harendra. A B.Com graduate, currently inside CA Inter Group I & II. Building a practice at the intersection of finance, writing, and disciplined personal craft.
Day to day: studying, freelancing in finance, running a small personal investing book, and writing plainly about money for friends who'd rather not read a 47-page tax explainer.
The default in this profession is permanent invisibility — the answer is right because nobody noticed it being given. I want the answer to be right and for the person reading it to understand why. Plain English, honest trade-offs, numbers in service of decisions.
Finance & Accounting Freelancer
Selective briefs for individuals and small businesses: bookkeeping, basic tax filings, clean-up of messy books, cash-flow models.
Self-managed equity & index portfolio
A small, disciplined long-only portfolio across Indian equities and broad-market index funds. Written theses, monthly reviews.
Informal finance mentor
First call when something money-shaped lands on a friend's desk: a job offer, a freelance invoice, a tax notice, a SIP question.
CA Inter articleship placement
Preparing for CA Inter Group I & II; shortlisting firms. Open to audit, tax, or boutique advisory exposure.
A one-tab spreadsheet that turns 'I think I'm fine' into a real monthly answer — for freelancers who hate spreadsheets.
A handwritten public commitment device — two ARs a week, distilled to one page each.
A growing Notion handbook for friends — tax, investing, salary, freelancing, in plain English.
A personal Anki deck distilling Direct Tax, GST, and Audit into atomic prompts.
An exercise in saying who I am out loud — typography, motion, restraint.
A free template pack — invoice, engagement letter, payment-tracker — for first-time freelancers.
Accounting, economics, business law. Top quartile in financial accounting and corporate law.
Validated the instinct. Moved on to the next level immediately.
Direct Tax, GST, Audit, Cost & Management Accounting, Corporate Law. Mocks weekly, post-mortems Saturdays.
Currently hereOpen to Big-four exposure or boutique depth. Articleship conversations welcome.
After which the actual practice begins.
Short essays. Written mostly to find out what I think.
Subscribe? No. →Optimising for the shortest credential is a bad trade if the work that follows requires depth you skipped buying.
Most personal-finance writing is condescending or panicked. Almost never plain. Five rules for plain.
Forty reports in. The honest scoreboard — including the unflattering bits.
Articleship leads, freelance briefs, a coffee, a contrarian opinion on Section 87A — all welcome. I read everything and reply to most things within a week.