Topic - Careers in Accounting

Speaker - Mr. Sripal Jain, CA, CPA (USA), Cofounder &ndash Simandhar Education

Accountants and auditors are often stereotyped as little more than math geeks, sitting in dark cubicles tabulating endless, mind-numbing streams of numbers. There's a lot more to accounting.

To make the students aware of diverse career options in the accounting world, School of Finance and Commerce invited Mr. Sripal Jain, to talk about various globally accepted professional certification programs.

Mr. Sripal Jain is Co-founder of Simandhar Education LLP. He is awarded with best Entrepreneur of Telangana state. He is a Chartered Accountant and CPA (USA). He is visiting faculty at GITAM, C TARA, IIM AND ICAI. He has industry experience of over 7 years in Audit, Corporate finance, IFRS, GAAP, ICFR, FINANCE. He is a national instructor at Simandhar Education training the candidate for CPA and CMA.

The webinar commenced with the welcoming of guests and dignitaries, and presenting the profile of the speaker to the audience. Mr. Jain started the talk with introduction of certifications like CPA, CMA and ACCA. He talked in detail about eligibility, duration, course content and costs involved in such certifications. He also discussed about diploma in IFRS and Certificate in Internal Audit. Toward the end, session became very lively with a lot of questions from the students as well as faculty members.

The Dean SFC, Advisor to SFC, Deans of other schools, large number of faculty members of SFC and various other schools, students from all 5 programs of the school, and many external faculty members participated in the webinar. The session was throughout interactive. At the end a vote of thanks was proposed by Dr. Arvind Sinha on behalf of SFC to the speaker, dignitaries, students and faculty members for cooperation extended in making it a successful event. The event would not have been successful without the sincere effort put in by the Co-curricular team volunteers in organizing the event.