V. Rajaraman (born September 1929) is an Indian
Chartered Accountant who was the President of
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India from 1980 to 1981. Currently, he is a senior Partner in Thakur, Vaidyanath Aiyar & Co., New Delhi
Biography
V. Rajaraman was born on 16 September 1929 in
Kerala
Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...
,
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
. He was elected as second president of the XIth Council (1979–82) of
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India in 1980 and inaugurated the Trichur Branch (Thrissur City) of the
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India on 10 June 1981.
In 2006, he became a member of the task force constituted to consider challenges involved and to prepare a road map for the possibilities of converging / adoption of the
International Financial Reporting Standards
International Financial Reporting Standards, commonly called IFRS, are accounting standards issued by the IFRS Foundation and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). They constitute a standardised way of describing the company's f ...
(IFRS) in the Indian context. Later, he became a member of the Special Group for formulating Institutes' response to the various recommendations as contained in the Report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance on Companies Bill 2009. He also headed the Bureaucracy Today Assessment Committee constituted in February 2014, for compiling the list of top 100 CA firms.
He has audited multiple Indian
companies
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including some
Public sector undertakings like
IFCI Ltd
IFCI, previously Industrial Finance Corporation of India, is a development finance institution under the ownership of Ministry of Finance, Government of India. Established in 1948 as a statutory corporation, IFCI is currently a company listed o ...
,
Air India
Air India is the flag carrier airline of India, headquartered at New Delhi. It is owned by Talace Private Limited, a Special-Purpose Vehicle (SPV) of Tata Sons, after Air India Limited's former owner, the Government of India, completed the ...
.
His article titled ''Where There are Opportunities for Profession, Growth Will Follow'' was published in ICAI e-Journal.
Amarjit Chopra
CA. Amarjit Chopra is an Indian Chartered Accountant. He was the president of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is India's largest professional accounting body under th ...
referred to him as his role model in his presidential address in 2010.
See also
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Rameshwar Thakur
Rameshwar Thakur (28 July 1925 – 15 January 2015) was a senior Indian National Congress politician and former union minister of India, he was the Governor of Madhya Pradesh from 2009 to 2011 and Governor of Odisha from 2004 to 2006, Andhra Pra ...
References
Living people
1929 births
Indian accountants
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