CIMA Lanka to host Regional Technical Symposium

CIMA Sri Lanka will host the first Regional Technical Symposium 2009 from February 13-14, at the BMICH. It will attract over 700 members of CIMA and the business community from Sri Lanka and the Asian Region.

The Symposium is designed to address technical matters of corporate and national interest spanning the Asian Region.

The Regional Technical Symposium would include CFOs and other top finance professionals from countries such as India, China, Pakistan, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, the Middle East and the UK.

The objective of the symposium is to create awareness and stimulate an interest among the participants on management accounting and related subjects, to provide participants a forum to deliberate on broad technical issues and to address the perceived gap between the theory and practice of management accounting and to spur the participants to develop their potential further which would enable them to perform better and add value to their stakeholders in business.

The conference would have an excellent diverse cross section of internationally and regionally acclaimed paper presenters who would share their own perspective through comprehensive papers and presentations. The keynote address on 'Value Creation - the Corporate Raison d'etre' will be delivered by Prof. Falconer Mitchell, an internationally renowned academic in the field of management accounting.

Prof. Falconer Mitchell is Professor of Management Accounting at the University of Edinburgh where he has worked for the last 30 years. He is currently Chairman of CIMA's Research Board. His research interests are Managerial accounting with particular reference to cost management and Japanese practice; Practice in high technology companies; Activity Based Costing; and Management accounting change processes and Management Accounting in SMEs.