National CA Students' Conference to delve on "Dream... Focus... Excel..."

The 26th CA Students' National Conference organized by the Practicing Accountants Chartered Students' Society (PACSS), the student body of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka), will be held today at the Hotel Galadari - Grand Ballroom. This year's conference will focus on the theme "Dream... Focus... Excel..." which will explore the opportunities and challenges facing the budding chartered accountants in the present business landscape.

Softlogic Holdings PLC has joined as the Platinum Sponsor of the conference. The National Development Bank PLC and Peoples' Leasing Company PLC have joined as Gold and Silver Sponsors, respectively. The Bronze Sponsors are the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and MAS Intimates.

Channa De Silva- Group Managing Director of LR Global Lanka Asset Management Company Ltd. will be the keynote speaker, where Suren Rajakarier - Partner of KPMG Ford, Rhodes, Thornton and Co. ; Mahendra Jayasekara - Managing Director, Lanka Tiles PLC, Suresh Shah - Director, Carson Cumberbatch PLC, D.P Kumarage - Chief Executive Officer, Peoples Leasing PLC, Nilanthi Sivapragasam - Chief Financial Officer, Aitken Spence Group and Justin West - Head of New Business Opportunities, (ICAEW) will also shed light to the panel discussion regarding the employer's perspective of Chartered Accountants.

Dananjaya Hettiarachchi- Corporate Trainer and HRD Consultant and Govinda Tidball, CEO, Splendor Media (Pvt) Ltd. will also share insights on power of communication and dress sense, respectively. Additionally, the conference will feature a students' panel discussion which will be a platform to exchange students' views on the professional demands made on them.

The final round of the annual CA Students' Quiz Competition is another highlight of the conference agenda.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka has a mammoth student base of nearly 37,000 which consists students from every conceivable part of the country, including the North and the East.

The conference, which is one of the most looked forward to events in CA students' calendar and gathers over 800 participants every year.

The conference is also expected to attract over 40 foreign student delegates from Nepal, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh under the South Asian Federation of Accountant's (SAFA) student exchange programme.