The various expert speakers who deliberated on the theme during the Inaugural Sessions were Mr. Dipankar Chatterji, Chairman, CII National Committee on Financial Reporting; Mr. Jitendra Agarwal, Partner, Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP; Mr. Amarjit Chopra, Chairman, National Advisory Committee on Accounting Standards; Mr. Amardeep Singh Bhatia, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India. Later there were three panel discussions. The First Panel Discussion was on ‘Indian Accounting Standards-Implementation Issues and the Way Forward’. The moderator for the panel was Dr. Sanjeev Singhal, Member, NACAS and Partner, S.R. Batliboi & Co. LLP and the panelists were Mr. Vijay Kumar, Vice Chairman, Accounting Standards Board, ICAI and Chief Financial Officer, SIFY Technologies Ltd.; Mr. Vijay, Head Controllership and Reporting & Chief Risk Officer, Mindtree Limited and Mr. Sriram Ranganathan, Controller-Technical Accounting, Financial Reporting and Revenue, Wipro Limited.

The Second Panel discussion was on ‘Accounting and Reporting Challenges under the Companies Act, 2013’ which was moderated by Mr. Sunder V. Iyer, Partner-Audit & Assurance, Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP and the panelists were Mr. Amit Jain, Managing Director, GTI Capital Group; Mr. Sriram G, Chief Financial Officer, Mahindra Comviva and Mr. Deepak Doegar, Regional General Manager, GE Power Generation Services-South Asia. The Third and the last Panel Discussion was on ‘Computation of MAT for IndAS Adopted Companies & Implementation Issue in Income Computation and Disclosure Standards (ICDS)’. The session was moderated by Mr. Rohinton Sidhwa, Partner-Tax, Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP; Mr. Pallav Gupta, Head Taxation, ITC Limited and Mr. Rohit Gupta, Chief Financial Officer, NIIT Limited. There was special address by Mr. Rajesh Kumar Bhoot, Joint Secretary TPL-II, Central Board of Direct Taxes, Ministry of Finance, Government of India.

The faculty found the Seminar highly informative and useful.

Around 50 Profs/Deans/ Directors/ VCs were present in the panel discussion in Delhi. The main attraction of the discussion was presence of international guests from 8 countries on the project and on the discussion for interaction. The session also provided opportunity to discuss collaborations with foreign bodies.

Revisiting HR Practices in the Current Scenario of Optimism The Department of Management organized a two days seminar titled Revisiting HR Practices in the Current Scenario of Optimism on 31st October and 1st November 2010 at I.T.S premises. Mr.Sanjay Diwan, Director –Strategy, AGC Networks was the Chief guest and Mr. Abhay Saxena, AVP-TQM and Training and Development , Hero Corporation was the key note speaker in the inaugural session. There were two technical sessions, followed by a panel discussion on the first day of the seminar. Mr. Sandeep Tyagi, Director – HR, Haier appliances,Dr. H.S, Sharma, DG, Lord Krishna Group, Dr. A. R.Dubey, Professor, Skyline University, Dubai, were the key speakers in the first technical session on Business Leadership while Mr.AviragJain, VP – HR, R. Systems, Ms. Indrani Nath, Reliance Communication and Mr. Himanshu Saxena, CEO and Founder, Maverik Consulting were the distinguished speakers for the second technical session on Empowering HR through ICT. The facilitator for panel discussion was Mr. Murlidhar Shyam, Director – HR, ATC while Dr.P. U.B. Rao, Senior Professor, Mr.Sunit Saxena, AGM-HR, Idea Cellular and Mr. H.S.Yadav, AVP-HR, DS Group were the other members of panel discussion. There was a paper presentation contest for faculty and students on second day. Compendium was also released during the seminar. Papers were presented and were examined by the senior academicians. More than 40 papers from various Business Schools and Universities were entertained which came from Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Tamilnadu and Delhi. The best papers were awarded with cash prize of Rs.10000, Rs.6000, Rs.4000/- to faculty members and cash prize of Rs.5000, Rs. 3000 and Rs. 2000/- to students.