Forma # 1.ai - ICAB

Management Accountants, Auditors have
to be more conversant with IT, Internet
- President, ICAB
The Institute of Chartered
Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB)
organized a CPD Seminar on “IT
Enabled Systems: Opportunities
and Challenges for Assurance
Professionals” on Thursday, 31
March 2011 at ICAB Auditorium,
Chartered Accountant Bhaban,
100 Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue,
Kawran Bazar, Dhaka-1215.
Mr. Mustafa Jabbar, President,
Bangladesh Computer Samity
graced the occasion as Chief
Guest.
Mr Abbas Uddin Khan FCA, Past
President, ICAB conducted the
Seminar as Session Chairman.
Mr. Aniruddha Neogi, FCA (ICAI),
CISA, CGEIT, CRISC Director,
Monitoring Evaluation & Internal
Audit, ICDDR,B presented the
keynote paper.
Parveen Mahmud FCA, President,
ICAB in her address of welcome
said that our vision is to build a
Digital Bangladesh within 2021.
So it is essential to enrich the ICT
sector through developing
software industry and IT services.
She said management
accountants, auditors and
academicians will become more
knowledgeable and conversant in
the design, operation and control
of accounting information systems
through increased use of
Information Technology and
Internet.
Auditors should update
themselves to evaluate and
safeguard assets and maintain data
integrity through computer
systems. To properly evaluate the
potential risks, accountants and
auditors must be familiar with
current and emerging information
technologies, she added.
The ICAB President said, it is
thought-provoking whether we
are providing our students and
future accounting professionals
with a framework to understand
the need for IT security and to
address the threats.
In ICAB and in firms, necessary
computer facilities are not
available for all students and
trainees as required. So ICAB has
included theoretical programme
for students’ syllabuses for IT
knowledge and IT application that
have been written by ICAEW
following IFAC requirements and
agreed by ICAB, she added.
Mr. Mustafa Jabbar in his speech
thanked ICAB for entering the
digital era and appreciated the
creative role in the ICT sector. He
said Information Technology is
the key to development. Digital
Bangladesh should not be only for
a certain group of people or a
section of society. It should
benefit all.
As one of the founders of
Bangladesh Computer Samity
(BCS), Mr. Jabbar highlighted the
activities of BCS. He said BCS is
playing a leading role in
flourishing ICT and popularising
the use of computers in rural
areas through motivation. He said
ICAB has gone one step ahead in
the society by introducing ICT in
its exam system. This effort will
not only benefit ICAB, but also
others concerned. The seminar
ended with a vote of thanks.
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January - March 2011
The Bangladesh Accountant