The 38th All India Accounting Conference and International Seminar on Accounting Education and Research started at Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh on Saturday.
The two day International Seminar is being jointly hosted by the University Business School and the Indian Accounting Association. As many as 900 delegates are attending the mega event, being held for the first time in Chandigarh.
Advisor to the Chandigarh Administrator, Vijay Kumar Dev inaugurated the programme by emphasising the role of accounting and editing as significant tools to safeguard the welfare of the society and judicial use of public resources with economy, efficiency and effectiveness. He promised to support the causeof education and research proposals of Punjab University in the field of accounting, commerce and management.
PU Vice Chancellor Arun Kumar Grover declared his plan to launch an Institute for Economics, Commerce, Business Administration and Public Administration in 2016. The objective of this institute would be to groom the students to be thoughtful leaders in their domain through broad based and deep education for long years in the University.
Director of learning, ACCA, Sheffield Business School, UK Prof Mary Bishop was the guest of honour and she elaborated about the new challenges of big data, cyber security, integrity, ethics and corporatisation in present day accounting systems.