The Quintessential Chartered Accountant – in Audit

A visit to a book store would invariably find comparable to Lord ’s act of isolating ( you gazing at a myriad titles representing after eliminating) from the battle. works set in mythological contexts. Starting The story goes that Barbarika, the son of with the The Great Indian Novel by Sashi has three arrows, one that could Tharoor to the more recent Ramayana series identify all the targets that its master would by Ashok Banker and the trilogy by wanted to destroy, the second that would Amish Tripathi, these books seem to have protect all the elements that the master caught the imagination of quite a few causing wanted to protect and the third that would them to be runaway successes. So why not destroy the first group. Lord Krishna skillfully examine Mahabharatha in the context of eliminated this warrior from the battle and modern day Audit. I have attempted to take a places his head on a mountain to witness the leaf (4 leaves to be precise) to illustrate how battle the epic with its embedded narratives is played out daily, if not every moment, in our Obsessive determination profession as well. I am not going to deny that The elections are around the corner, the I have also been influenced by Devadutt determination of the contestants can only be Patnaik of the Fortune group as well compared to ’s relentless focus in the A Play of Words archery contest to aim and achieve the fruit. The key difference here is that we have about The CARO phrase that a client is generally 40-50 Arjuna equivalents targeting us through regular in depositing PF and ESI dues is missives, messages and mailers. phenomenal word play and would easily compare to the half-truth illustration of The Proverbial Krishna Ashwathama’s demise conveyed to his father If one man were to be nominated as the which changed the course of the entire person of this century in the Indian context, it war. Am sure most of us would be able to would have to be Vinod Rai, the CAG of India. recollect many more such subtle references in Like Lord Krishna, he chose to combat financial statements that we prepare or attest injustice by a cleverly and not entirely fair ! weapon of exaggeration (the numbers Selfless Giving discussed, we are told, may not be entirely accurate) to highlight attention to issues of As auditors, we mentor, ideate with, support National Importance and financial and encourage startups. These little acorns impropriety oak up to being funded by Venture Capitalists, Private Equity or even an IPO level only for To him must go the credit of transforming the auditor to be told that they need a larger insipid audit reports into fire brand firm to perform attest services. While some publications. and the phenomenal result of emphatic entrepreneurs do hold out, most having elevated the audit profession to others minute our whole hearted contribution unimaginable heights. His work will be and support and move on. The modern day seminal in re-asserting the audit function as a ’s in action!. Ours must truly qualify to strong Preventive Control Mechanism. May be a noble profession more of us try to be like this proverbial Lord Krishna ! This elevation act of ours from Statutory auditors to Consulting roles is also