REPORT ON 33RD ALL INDIA ACCOUNTING CONFERENCE,TRIVANDRUM,
NOV 13-14, 2010
The XXXIII All India Accounting Conference and International Seminar on Accounting
Education and Research was held at Kerala University, Trivandrum, during Nov 13-14,
2010, under the auspices of IAA Kerala Branch and Kerala University’s Faculty of
Commerce & Management. Prof. K.Sasi Kumar, the Conference Secretary and Prof. D.
Prabhakara Rao, the General Secretary cordially invited all the members and delegates
to the Conference. Prof. D. Prabhakara Rao explained the comfortable position of
IAA in terms of Finances and Human Resources, while profoundly thanking all the
people responsible for the mileage covered so far, specially the Past Presidents,
EC Members and Office Bearers. He announced that new branches will be formed shortly
in Pandichery and Jammu & Kashmir, while referring to the phenomenal growth of IAA
from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. The Conference was inaugurated by Prof.Prabhat Patnaick,
Vice Chairman of the Kerala Government Planning Board on 13th Nov.2010. Honorable
Finance Minister Prof. Thomas Isaac greeted the delegates from all over India, while
sharing his experiences on the Goods and Services tax and fiscal administration.
Prof. Prof. GL Dave, the President of IAA addressed the members on a variety of
issues relating to Accounting Standards and Corporate Governance.
The International Seminar on Accounting Education and Research was chaired by Prof.
MB Shukla of the Kasi Vidya Peet University, Varanasi. A number of thought provoking
research papers were presented followed by deep discussion on some of the interesting
research areas in Accounting Education and Research. The three technical sessions
took place concurrently with rich deliberations under the chairmanship of Prof.
Sugan Chand Jain of Jaipur, Prof. Ranjan K Bal of Bhubaneswar and Sri KChAVSN Murthy
of Hyderabad respectively.
A good number of delegates came from Muscat under the leadership of Prof.KV Achalapathy,
who is presently in Muscat. Mr. Bharat Moyal of Kolkata got the Best Performance
Award in the IAA Talent Search 2009-10.
The Papers of
- Dr.KV Ramana Murthy & Dr.Vanishree of Hyderabad;
- Prof. Promod Kumar of Agra;
- Dr.Usha Kiran & Dr.Karuna shri and
- Dr.ST Gadade & DR.SS Yadav of New Panvel are adjudged to be best among the presented
papers in the International Seminar and three Technical Sessions.
Dr. (Ms) Tarika Sikarwar of Gwalior got the IAA Young Researcher Aware-2010.
Prof. D.Obul Reddy of Hyderabad and Prof Shirin Rathore of Delhi were conferred
with IAA Fellowship Award-2010 for their life time dedication to the Accounting
Education and Research. Prof. M. Sulochana of Hyderabad has announced to donate
a sum of Rupees One Lakh as an endowment for YRA Award. The Interest on this amount
will be used to give the YRA Award Prize every year.
Prof. Harish S Oza of Gujarat University has become the President of IAA while Prof.
Umesh Holani of Jiwaji University and Prof. K. Sasi Kumar of Kerala University have
become the Sr.Vice President and Jr. Vice President respectively. Prof. D. Prabhakara
Rao of Andhra University Prof.Pratap S Chouhan of Sourashtra University and Prof.
Nageshwar Rao of Allahabad Open University are unanimously elected as General Secretary,
Treasurer and Chief Editor for a period of three years.
Sri AS Durga Prasad of the Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India and Prof
G Soral of ML Sukhadia University are nominated as Ex-Officia members to the Executive
in their capacity as IAA Website Coordinator and IAA Talent Search Coordinator respectively.
Prof. Ramachandra Gouda of Bangalore University, Prof. J.L. Gupta of Delhi University,
Prof. Sailesh Parmar of Sourashtra University, Dr. ML Vadera of Jai Narayan Vyas
University and Prof. C. Ganesh of Kerala University are elected to the Executive
for a period of three years. Dr.Muniraj of Bangalore University was elected to the
executive for the remaining one year period of Prof.SS Mody. Dr. Lalit Gupta of
Jai Narayan Vyas University; Dr.KChAVSN Murthy of the Institute of Cost & Works
Accountants of India; Dr. Anil Kumar of Sri Ram College of Commerce, Dr. PK Bhandgar
of Mumbai, Prof. M. Sulochana of Osmania University, Dr.Sanjay Bhayani of Sourashtra
University , Prof. Arindam Gupta of Vidya Sagar University, Dr. LK Karangade of
Akola and Prof. SS Mody of the University of Rajasthan (the 34th Conference Secretary)
are coopted to the EC for a period of one year. Dr. Bhavesh A Lakhani of Gujarat
University and Dr. Apparao of Osmania University, Prof. JK Jain of Harish Gaur Central
University and Prof MR Sahu of Jiwaji University are also coopted to the EC as special
invitees.
The 34th All India Accounting Conference was decided in favour of the University
of Rajastan with Prof. S.S. Mody as the Conference Secretary while an International
Seminar is decided in favour of Bhubaneswar Branch. The topics and Chairpersons
for the 34th IAA conference to be held at Jaipur are given below:
- International Seminar on Accounting Education and Research With Prof. GL Dave of
Jodhpur as Chairman
- Technical Session - I: E-Accounting: Problems
and Prospects With Prof. B. Banerjee of Calcutta as Chairman
- Technical Session - II: Carbon Credit Accoiunting
With Prof. K. Eresi of Bangalore as Chairman
- Technical Session - III: Impact of Direct Tax
Code With Prof. Daxa Chauhan of Rajkot as Chairman
As a whole the 33rd All India Accounting Conference was highly successful and the
delegates expressed high degree of delight with the rich academic and research contributions
and excellent arrangements of the good host Prof. Sasi Kumar. Members expressed
full satisfaction at the arrangements made by the Conference Secretariat while profoundly
thanking the Conference Secretary Prof. K Sasi Kumar and his dedicated team of faculty
and administration supported by the scholars and students. Prof. Mody heartily invited
all the members to the Pink City on this pleasant occasion to celebrate the 34th
All India Accounting Conference.
The Association conferred IAA Fellowship awards on
- Prof. UL Gupta;
- Shri Sukumar Bhattacharya;
- Prof. Shanmuga Sundaram and
- Prof. B. Banerjee.
The Association conferred IAA Young Researcher Award-2008 on Dr. S. Rachappa. The
Best paper Awards were given vide the following details:
As a whole the 31st All India Accounting Conference was highly successful and the
delegates expressed high degree of delight with the rich academic contributions
and reasonable stay arrangements of the host. Members expressed full satisfaction
at the arrangements made by the Conference Secretariat while thanking the Conference
Secretary Prof. Harish Srivastava Oza, the Organizing Secretary and his team.
DR. D. PRABHAKAR RAO
PHD(GOLD MEDAL), FDP(IIM-A)
GENERAL SECRETARY-INDIAN ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATION
PROFESSOR & DEAN, FACULTY OF COMMERCE & MANAGEMENT STUDIES
ANDHRA UNIVERSITY, VISAKHAPATNAM-530003
E-MAIL: dean.dcms.au@gmail.com
MOBILE:
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