ICASL’s 27th national conference

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka is holding its 27th national conference on December 1 and 2 with Dr Sarath Amunugama, Minister of Planning and Implementation and Home Affairs as Chief Guest and Chris Atkinson, President, South East Asia, Microsoft as the guest of honour.

The speakers – Dr Howard Nicholas, once Economic Advisor to the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Sri Lanka (1986-91) will talk on “The lessons of China and other East Asian countries in Sri Lanka's quest for double digit economic growth.”

Hilmy Cader, the CEO and Senior International Consultant of MTI Consulting Author of internationally acclaimed MTI’s 8S® model of strategy planning and MTI’s RSRS model, which have been used by MTI clients in over 20 countries will talk on “Strategizing and Marketing a Country – Learnings for Sri Lanka.”

Prof. Biju Varkkey with a master’s degree in Human Resource Management from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala and Fellowship in Management from NIBM, Pune will talk on “Winning habits for Managing People.”

Dr Anush Amarasinghe, an Executive Director and the Chief Operating Officer of Millennium Information Technologies with a Doctorate in Electronics Engineering and over 20 years of experience in the fields of Engineering, Marketing, Investment Banking, Finance and Information Technology will talk on “Can Sri Lanka leverage the advances in technology for Economic Growth?”

John Petty who is Australia’s representative on the IFAC Professional Accountants in Business Committee, Principal Consultant with Pitcher Partners, Sydney and has won the NSW Small Businessman of the year Award in 1988/89 for his own small business operation will present on the topic “Visioning Tomorrow Today-Towards a World Class Finance Team.”

A discussion forum that would follow these presentations will be moderated by Reyaz Mihular, Partner KPMG in Sri Lanka and Regional Executive for the Middle East & South Asia for KPMG and have representatives like Shakta Amaratunga, President BAT Pacific Corporation and Finance Director BAT Japan Group, Ranjan De Silva, Managing Director, Sensei Lanka, Ms C. Rajaratnam, Creative Director, JWT and Suresh Shah, CEO, Lion Brewery.