Toronto Chapter is organizing an in-person event on September 10, 2022 from 11 am – 1 pm. 

Speakers and topics for the event are:

1. ESG – Its Growing Importance and Future – CA Atul Kumar Gupta, Past President of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

2. Success Mantra – How to Navigate your success – Mr. Kuldeep Sharma, President and CEO, Crown Group of Hotels Inc., Canada

Event will be followed by lunch and is entitled for 2 CPE credits.  Registration is limited.   All registered attendees will be eligible for a $10 Tim Hortons gift card.  

Venue for the event: KPMG, 100 New Park Place #1400, Vaughan, ON, L4K 0J3.

Please refer the attached flyer for additional details.  Looking forward to seeing you at the event.

About the speakers:

CA Atul Kumar Gupta: 

CA. Atul Kumar Gupta, a staunch leader has risen to the highest echelon of accounting profession to acquire position of President of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India for the year 2020-21, the second largest accounting body in the world after being its Vice-president in the year 2019-20. He has served the Accountancy Profession for more than two decades and is widely respected for his strong organisational skills and deep insight in the affairs of profession. A commerce and a law graduate by education, he served as Chairman of Digital Accounting and Assurance Board, Board of Studies, IT Committee and Indirect Taxes Committee of the ICAI. Under his stewardship at Board of Studies, the New Scheme of Education and Training of ICAI was benchmarked with the revised International Education Standards and was launched in 2017.

With deep interest in the research, he is credited for the project of preparation of accrual-based financial statements of the Indian Railways (third largest Railway of world) under the ambit of Accounting Research Foundation. He has also been Chairman of ICAI Accounting Research Foundation and Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) India. He has also been Director of the Governing Board of Indian Institute of Insolvency Professionals and Registered Valuers Organisation.

With his diverse and deep knowledge, he has served in various governmental bodies in past. He has been first Chairman of the Accounting and Finance Services Sectional Committee constituted by the Bureau of Indian Standards. He has also been member of Government Accounting Standards Advisory Board (GASAB), Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority (IRDA), SEBI’s Primary Market Advisory Committee.

On International front, he is on the Board of International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), XBRL International.. He, earlier, has been the Chairman of Committee on Education, Training & CPD of SAFA, Board Member of SAFA, IIRC, PFC committee of CAPA.

Being thoroughly conversant with the professional concerns and demands of his times, CA. Gupta has authored many relevant books and has published numerous articles in leading newspapers, magazines and professional newsletters, and delivered lectures in about 1600 seminars and conferences.