Chartered Accountants 33rd National Confab from Oct 18 - 20

Sanjeevi JAYASURIYA

The 33rd National Conference of the Chartered Accountants organized by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, would be held from October 18 to 20, under the theme “Winning – country, corporate, citizens in solving the puzzle of success.”

“As winning becomes increasingly challenging in both global and local context and with the global economy continuing to be plagued by persistent uncertainties, the 33 National Conference would explore ways and means for Chartered Accountants to counter these challenges and forge ahead winning at all levels,” CA Sri Lanka president Sujeewa Rajapakse said.

“This year’s conference would navigate and inspire chartered accountants to take the lead in steering our country, corperates and citizens forward, amidst prevalent challenges and complexities,” he said.

Winning is imperative to bring about a positive outlook, while reducing volatility in the economic environment, foster prospects to attract more investments, improve regional and global cooperation and thereby a robust economic development of the country.

“Winning at corporate level not only energizes the economy in which it operates, but also creates new business ventures, increased opportunities for growth, which in turn, leads to more and better investments, thus helping a nation sustain its development progress despite the challenges,” Rajapakse said.

“Therefore having identified the importance of winning in today’s context this year, the Institute decided to take the lead and inspire our professionals to steer the country and the corporate towards victory,” he said. The Chartered Institute which was incorporated 53 years ago, has 4,200 members and 35,000 students with over 50,000 partly qualified at present. Over 25 percent of the qualified are employed abroad.