‘Knowledge updation via webinars can give edge to CAs’
| Date :28-May-2020 |
Business Bureau ;
Nagpur Branch of WIRC of ICAI successfully hosted webinar on ‘Excel Essentials.’ The lockdown phase, has put the things that were favourably moving in professional lives of chartered accountants (CAs), temporarily on pause mode. Hopefully, when the lockdown phase gets over at the earliest possible time, CAs will be facing challenges to revive the work flow as it was before, to ensure effective compliance of the provisions. CA Kirit N Kalyani, Chairman of Nagpur Branch said that in these testing times because of unfortunate advent of COVID- 19, webinars have become very effective media to lend effective edge to CAs. Important tool in the form of Excel is the heart of data processing for a professional like chartered accountant, he said. CAs because of hectic office hours, always struggle to find time to learn and enhance the knowledge with respect to certain softwares.
As a result, they were compelled to be kept on side track during the hectic office hours, since years. Kalyani said, “Nagpur Branch is the first one in the entire country to plan webinars, keeping in view specific need of members having attained seniority, lady members, young ones planning to find opportunities abroad, etc.” CA Abhijit Kelkar, Regional Council Member from Nagpur shed light on the practical issues beign faced by seniors in the profession.
He congratulated Nagpur Branch for conducting innovative webinar series for senior chartered accountants above age of 55, to address their specific concerns through the same. CA Dhananjay Gokhale, Nagpur guided the members about essentials to know about Excel. He guided the members very effectively and said that the Excel tools are very handy for data processing and it has enhanced the productivity and quality of consultation and audits done by chartered accountants. Various utilities of the software were explained by him in very lucid and simple language. Practical cases discussed by him made the session very fruitful for the members attending through internet.
The speaker resolved the practical queries raised by the participants effectively. For the webinar, CA Shadab Chini, Deputy Convenor of Chandrapur CPE Chapter, CA Girish Bakhtiyar, Convenor of Yavatmal CPE Chapter and CA Sushil Agrawal, Convenor of Gondia CPE Chapter also played vital role. CA Akshay V Gulhane, Chairman WICASA, co-ordinated the proceedings and proposed the vote of thanks. Promiently present on the occasion were CA Saket Bagdia, Vice-Chairman, Nagpur, CA Shrinivas Venkatchalam, CA Harshwardhan Singhvi, CA Joginder Singh Uberoi, CA N Varadrajan, CA Upendra Baitule, CA Vijay Gulhane and more than 111 chartered accountants.