Shri Chandra Wadhwa, has been elected President of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India for 2007-2008. He was Vice-President of the Institute for 2006-2007.
Shri Wadhwa is a leading practicing Cost Accountant from New Delhi. An M.Com and LL.B from Delhi University, Shri Wadhwa is a Fellow Member of ICWAI and ICSI.
Before taking up practice, Shri Wadhwa served several public and private sector organizations in senior positions. He undertook various professional assignments in the areas of costing system development and management, project finance, management audit, cost benefit analysis, MIS etc. He is also Promoter-Director of Wadhwa Financial Services (P) Limited.
Shri Wadhwa served several committees of the Council. He held positions as Chairman-Cost Accounting Standard Board, Chairman-WTO and International Affairs Committee, Members of Public Sector Coordination Committee, Executive Committee and Examination Committee.
He is the Chairman of the Task Force formed by the Ministry of Company Affairs for The Institute of Valuers, Member of the Committee formed by the Ministry of Commerce on Indo-UK Accountancy Sector, Member of the Committee formed by the Ministry of Company Affairs on Opening of Accountancy Sector in GATS regime, Member of the Committee of CII on WTO.
A prolific writer, Shri Wadhwa presented several papers at various Conferences, Seminars and Training Programmes organized by Corporate Organizations, Industry Associations as well as Institutes like ICWAI, banks and financial institutes. He has also presented papers on Opportunities and Challenges for Accounting Sector under WTO at Lahore seminar of SAFA. Important among his works is a Study on Working Capital Management of Oil India Limited and a paper on Implications of WTO presented at an ICWAI Seminar addressed to Public and Private Sector Organizations.
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