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In the first part, I discussed the broad para-meters such as — the importance of Code of Ethics (COE), important statistics about the disciplinary cases, reasons for delays in disposal, procedure adopted by the Council prior to the CA Amendment Act, 2006, criteria adopted by the Council, perception of various agencies towards the COE, types of punishments, and so on. I also narrated a few real-life instances of complaints. It is my experience that whenever our fellow members hear me on this topic, they confess that it is an eye-opener. Indeed, it makes one lose one’s sleep at least for a few nights. It calls for lot of awakening since people have realised the nuisance value of the complaint. The most unfortunate part is that our own members out of petty self-interests, rivalry, mean-mindedness etc., bring the other members into serious trouble. At the same time, all of us need to do lot of introspection.
We are currently in the diamond jubilee year of our Republic as well as of our Institute. The motto of our nation is Satyameva Jayate (Truth alone triumphs). We can only dream of poetic justice of truth winning over untruth. In this Kaliyug, real life events often shatter this fond belief. The recent episode of ‘Satyam Computers’ has evoked a storm in our profession as well. The motto of our Institute of Chartered Accountants of India is ‘Ya esha Supteshu Jagarti’ (He who is awake when others are asleep.) This was actually spoken about the ‘Soul’ — the ‘Atman’ in the Upanishadas. It implies that our conscience should always be awake. Unfortunately, the overall scenario is such that not only others but our own professionals have started losing faith in the profession. The situation calls for a good degree of introspection and self-criticism.
As employers, we all want people who have the right attitude and appropriate and adequate skill sets to work for us. We would like to have a work environment in which our people enjoy working. We want our people to be committed to the Firm. And of course, we are concerned about salary cost since it is the biggest item on our profit and loss account.
The role of modern day accounting professionals has come a long way, from a core accounting function to that of being viewed as a corporate gatekeeper. Today’s professionals are not just auditors, certifying routine book of accounts, but also on the boards of companies as directors. This multi disciplinary role puts emphasis on “always taking the correct decisions and doing everything right”. While accountants look to successfully achieve the set standards, they are increasingly exposed to being targets for easy lawsuits, bought against them by third parties. A series of lawsuits filed against some of the reputed accounting firms and professionals is a beginning of the trend.
Officials at Icwai have been lobbying the government to include cost accountants under the definition accountant as defined in the subsection 2 of Section 288 of the Income-tax Act. The finance ministry has ignored calls by cost accountants that they be treated at par with chartered accountants and be allowed to sign off on the financial statements of companies.
The head count in the fraud hit Satyam Computers, which engaged the attention of investigating agencies considerably, is now become the curse for the company’s former directors.A charge common to most of the accused in the complaints filed in a court here by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) is that they approved the company’s balance sheets and the director’s reports about particulars of employees that were never filed with the competent authority.
The complete postal addresses pertaining to the Polling Booths set up for the forthcoming elections to be held in December, 2009 across the country have been hosted on the website of the Institute for the information of all voters and candidates pertaining to the respective Regional Constituencies.
1) The elections to the Central/Regional Councils of our Institute are to be held on 5th December, 2009, in all cities. However, in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Pune, New Delhi, Delhi, Kolkatta, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad the elections will be held on 4th and 5th December, 2009. The polling booths at all places will remain open from 8.00 A.M. to 8.00 P.M. on the dates of polling. The Institute has communicated the details about all candidates, addresses of polling booths and other relevant details to each voter. The number of candidates to be elected to Central as well as Regional councils have been increased in the last Election and I was fortunate to head the first Council of 40 members – 32 Elected and 8 Government nominees (other than C.A.).
(General Management, Personality Development and Communication Skills) A three months’ residential programme on Professional Skills Development has been initiated for the benefit of CA students and newly qualified Chartered Accountants. The programme is being organised for twelve weeks commencing from January 25, 2010. The programme is helping the CA students and newly qualified CAs in imbibing the professional skills required for effective functioning in business organisations and profession. The Programme environment would focus on development of communication skills, personal qualities, interpersonal and teamwork skills, working in a complex and turbulent, problem solving skills and leadership skills. Course Content The programme is divided in six modules covering:
email that was widely circulated in the name of the ICAI employees, maligning the Institute, the Council & the President in office. The email had grabbed a lot of attention as the communiqué was floated in the name of the employees and since then the members have been questioning the functioning of the Institute.
