Institute of Cost Accountants of India

The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of India (ICMAI), which was also known as The Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India (ICWAI) is a professional accountancy body in India. It is under the ownership of Ministry of Corporate Affairs of the Government of India. It has been given a prime responsibility by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to contribute to the cost and management accounting profession at the global level.

The ICMAI is a Founder Member of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants (CAPA) and South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA). ICMAI is a member of the National Foundation of Corporate Governance (NFCG).

History

The Institute of Cost Accountants of India was first formed as a registered limited company on 14 June 1944 as per the provisions of the then Companies Act, 1913. Post Independence, the institute got statutory recognition when the Parliament of India enacted "The Cost and Works Accountants Act" (Act No.23rd of 1959), a special act, on 28 May 1959 to accord statutory recognition to ICMAI (previously ICWAI) as an autonomous professional Institute.

The CWA Amendment bill, 2011 was passed by both the Houses of Indian Parliament viz. Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha on 12 December 2011 and assented by the president of India on 12 January 2012. The changes were published in the Official Gazette of India on 13 January 2012. As of now, there are a total of 85000 active members of ICMAI.

Qualification and syllabus

This is the primary qualification of the ICMAI following completion of up to three levels (Foundation, Intermediate, and Final) examinations and three years of practical training in areas like Management Accounting, Cost Accounting, Financial Accounting, Taxation, Cost audits, GST audits, Internal audit, Corporate laws, etc. and enables an individual to become a CMA (Cost & management Accountant).

* The Institute has introduced new Syllabus 2022 Which Fulfils the requirements of new education policy 2020 and has increased level of skill development and improved Course learning objectives
* The Old syllabus was introduced in August 2016 following the International Education Guidelines (IEG) of IFAC to get the advantages in the process of Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) among different member countries of the world under GATS in WTO.
* Subjects for examinations includeCorporate Financial Reporting, Management Accounting, Financial Accounting, Strategic Management, Taxation, Corporate Law, financial management, business valuation and Cost & Management Audit, Business Valuation, Operations Managementetc.
* Students who have passed the degree examination of any recognized university or equivalent are eligible for admission directly to the Intermediate level.
* Paper-wise exemptions on the basis of reciprocal arrangement are available to students who have passed Institute of Company Secretaries of India Final Examinations.
* Examinations are held twice a year in June and December in various examination centers in India and overseas centers. The results are declared in August and February for the June term and December term exams respectively.

Notable alumni

* Rajneesh Jain, CFO, Reliance Jio
* Mrityunjay Athreya, Padma Bhushan, management advisor
* Subhash Chandra Garg, finance secretary, government of India
*B. Rajendran, Executive Director,Securities and Exchange Board of India
* Subhash Kumar,CFO, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
* Chanda Kochhar, former CEO, ICICI Bank
*Shyam Sunder Bhartia,Founder and Chairman,Jubilant Bhartia Group Jubilant FoodWorks
*J Ramachandran, professor, IIMB
*P. K. Mukherjee, executive director of Sesa Sterlite Limited
*Samir Bhatia, entrepreneur
*Kailasam Raghavendra Rao, entrepreneur
*B. B. Chakrabarti, professor
*G. J. R. Krishnan, musician
* Sanjay Subrahmanyam
*T. V. Somanathan, finance secretary, government of India
* Sadanand Date, IPS, Government of India
*Sanjay Jaju,Joint Secretary Ministry of Defence,GoI
*Yogesh Sirohi,CFO and Business Services Leader,PwC India
*Suresh Manglani,CEO,Adani Gas
* M Nagaraj,Director(Corporate Planning),HUDCO
* Anil Sardana,MD and CEO,Adani Transmission Ltd Adani Thermal Powerhttps://www.adanipower.com/about-us/board-of-directors/anil_sardana
* Asim Kumar Mukopadhyay,Vice. President & Head-Business Finance, Tata Motors Ltd.
*R S Sharma,Ex-Chairman,ONGC
*Krupa Venkatesh,Senior Director,Deloitte India
* Rajeev Mehrotra,Chairman and Managing Director, RITES Ltd
*Anil Kumar Tulsiani,Director (Finance),SAIL
*Rakesh Kumar Jain,Director (Finance),GAIL
*Sanjeev Churiwala,CFO,Tata Power
*Shyam Murari Choudhary,CFO, Western Coalfields Limited
*R. Nagarajan,CFO,Sri City Private Ltd
*Manas Datta ,CFO, Wockhardt Pharma
*Mohan Parthasarathy,Director (Finance),CMA CGM India
*K Biswal, Director (Finance), NTPC Limited
*Anil Kumar Chaudhary,CEO,Essar Group
*Ajay Agrawal,ICoAS,Director (Finance), Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India
*Sunil Bhatia,Director (Finance), Engineers India Limited
*Harjeet Kaur Joshi,Director (Finance), Shipping Corporation of India
* Pomila Jaspal,Director (Finance), Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited
*G Ravishankar,Director (Finance), PowerGrid Corporation of India
* Parmindar Chopra,Director (Finance), Power Finance Corporation
* Krishnan Sankarasubhramaniam,MD and CEO, Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Limited
*Lokesh Kumar Aggarwal,Director (Finance), India Tourism Development Corporation

References

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Member bodies of the International Federation of Accountants
Accounting in India
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Professional associations based in India
Organisations based in Kolkata
Educational boards based in Kolkata
1959 establishments in West Bengal
Organizations established in 1959