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Administration and Human Resource Development
  In view of the rapidly changing global scenario and changing expectation pattern of the members and students of the ICAI regarding services offered, it was felt necessary to re-align the human resource of the ICAI to cater to these requirements. Accordingly, programmes were organised focussion on following areas:
 
Programme on Confidence Building between Office and Members / Students - "help us to serve you better" were organised at all Regional Offices as an interactive program involving Concil Members, students and officers / staff to identify the areas of concerns and finding the solution to address the concerns.
Management Development Programmes / Employee Development Programmes / Employee Development Programmes were organised for officers and staff dealing with various aspects of behavioural science such as team work, inter-personal effectiveness, communication skills management, serving with a smile etc, to equip the employees to deal with the changing expectation levels.
Focussed HRD programmes on computers, cutting across the levels of employees.
Intensive Workshop on members and students; services involving those who deal with the matters in relation to members and students at each level in the Head Office and Regional Offices. The culmination of the same will be the revision of the existing editions of the members and the students Manuals.
Intensive orientation programme on matters relating to accounts and finance
The ICAI considers that human resource is the prime mover for achieving the goals of the organisation. Therefore, it also launched various welfare schemes for its more than 500 employees such as financial assitance to the wards of the employees for pursuing higher studies, enhancement in minimum persion etc.
  Special drive is already on for identification of suitable additional human resources, having regard to the current requirements and the additional activities, which are to be carried out in the near future.
Use of Information Technology in Member's and Students' Services
  The present computer system installed in 1998 is now over four years old and the processing is largely based on regional databases. The architecture has the drawback that the members and students sometimes address their letters to one office which does not have their physical files and that their current details are available with other respective regional offices.
  In order to take care of such eventualities and to make use of the advancement in Information Technology in carrying out the responsibilities of the office IT infrastructure is being revamped to include and integrate various sections / regional offices working and bring them under one umbrealla project. The proposed system will ensure that the current information is available at all the locations and that certain updates / queries can be handled over the internet from any place in the world in a secured way.
All India Conference of Chartered Accountants
  To provide a platform for intellectual sharing of professional excellence and achievements in all endeavours from across the diversified membership of the profession among all the segments, the All India Conference of Chartered Accountants is held at periodic intervals.
  The next i.e. 15th All India Conference of Chartered Accountants is scheduled to be held in New Delhi on 6th, 7th and 8th December, 2002 and the same is expected to be attended, as in past, by a large number of members of the profession besides delegates from professional bodies in India and abroad.
Centres of Excellence
  In order to provide the much needed opportunity to youger members, to acquire post qualification training in the area of their choice, state-of-the-art centres of excellence, at least one in each region, was decided to be set up and to this end, a centre is likely to come up soon in Hyderabad on a plot of three acres. Efforts are on to set up such Centres soon in other Regions.
Audit Committee
  The Audit Committee overviews the Institute's reporting process to ensure the true and fair exhibition of the results of the activities undertaken by the ICAI. The Committee seeks to ensure that:
 
the finacial statements have been compiled in compliance with the accounting standards, significant acounting policies and other legal requirements;
the internal control system are adequate and are in operation;
the revenue leakages and wasteful expenditure, if any are detected and plugged
In addition, the Committee reviews the Institute's financial and risk management policies and the functioning of the internal and statutory audits.
Committee on Insurance
  The Committee on Insurance has been in a perenial endeavour to:
 
locate profitable professional avenues for the members of the ICAI in the insurance sector;
equiping the members with Industry specific knowledge and skills to tap the emerging opportunities;
co-ordinace with the Insurance companies, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority and the government on the matters pertaining to the growth and development of the insurance sector;
compile and publish research papers, monographs, guidance notes, etc, on insurance section; and
hold seminars and workshops on topics of interest in the Insurance sector.
  The Committee has chalked out is Action Plan for the year and has committed itself to the furtherance of its objectives. The Action Plan inlcudes launching a post qualification course on Insurance and Risk Management for its members. Also, the announcement of a Modular Training Course for Surveyors and Loss Assessors is on principle approval by the IRDA. The Committee is in the process of developing the detailed course contents and training scheme for the courses.

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