37th Cost Conference - 2016

The Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICAI) – Eastern India Regional Council organized the 37th Cost Conference in association with Business Standard at Science City, Kolkata, on 11th and 12th June, 2016.

The Conference was inaugurated by Shri Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, Hon’ble Minister of Power & Non-Conventional Energy Sources, Government of West Bengal. Rear Admiral A K Verma, CMD, Garden Reach Ship Builders & Engineers Ltd. was the Guest of Honour. Amit Sinha, Executive Vice President, NSDL, and Swami Suparnananda ji Maharaj, Secretary, The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, were special guests. 

The theme of the 2-day Conference was “Managing cost and taking successful business decisions - Competency of CMAs". The Conference included deliberations by eminent sector experts, on Manufacturing, Mining, Service, MSME and Power sectors a CFO Meet and a panel discussion on GST.

CMA Shiba Prasad Padhi, Chairman, ICAI-EIRC, delivered the welcome address. CMA Manas Kumar Thakur, Vice President, ICAI, also addressed the participants in the inaugural session. 

The speakers at the Conference included B K Dash, AGM (Finance), NALCO Ltd., S B Mahapatra, Consultant and Sr. Faculty, IICM, Ranchi, Arun Kedia, CFO, EMC Ltd., Saumyajit Guha, COO, Calcutta Angels Network, Kalyan Kar, Founder & MD, Inthink Knowledge Ventures, Ushoshi Sengupta, Founder & CEO, TES, Kolkata, Sabyasachi Mitra, Director (Finance), Howden Solyvent (India) Pvt. Ltd, Sudip Datta, COO, IL&FS IDC Ltd., Khalid Anwar, Joint Commissioner, Directorate of Commercial Taxes, Govt. of W.B., T B Chatterjee, Sr. Vice President & Company Secretary, DIC India Ltd., Debasis Ghosh, Director, Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP, among others.