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Preface

Professional Development Committee (PDC) a non-standing committee set up by ICAI is
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exclusively dedicated to the cause of exploring, developing and facilitating opportunities for
the Indian Chartered Accountants in various sectors of Business, Trade, Commerce, Services,
Infrastructure & Governance etc. Its aim is to ensure that such opportunities remain available
equitably to all Chartered Accountants depending on their professional abilities and attributes.

Recently it has been witnessed various trending areas where Professional Opportunities are
emerging which include RERA, Ind AS, Companies Act, 2013, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain,
Cyber Security and Data Analytics (ABCD of Technology), Robotics Process Automation,

GST, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code 2016, Registered Valuers, Forensic Audit, International
Taxation, World Bank Projects and many more and on the other hand the total no of Practising
Chartered Accountant are only 1,25,000 out of the Strong Membership of ICAI of approx. 3,00,000
Members. Moreover Indian Economy is bound to grow to the level of 5 Trillion Dollars in next 5-7
Years from presently 2.6 Trillion Dollar.
It was also felt that there are many emerging avenues and empanelment opportunities available
for Chartered Accountants but many of them are not aware. With an aim to provide heightened
focus on number of such available avenues and important contact links, the Professional
Development Committee has brought “Quick Insights on Professional Opportunities for Chartered
Accountants” which will be very helpful to all Practising Members to know the emerging areas of
practice at one place for their ready reference.

We are thankful to all the members of PDC Group constituted at Kolkata for their valuable
contribution (CA. Krishanu Bhattacharya, CA. P. D. Rungta, CA. Joy Debnath, CA. Neha
Agarwal, CA. H. K. Verma, CA. Pankaj Verma, CA. Kamal Bagrodia, CA. Partha Ray, CA.
Rajkumar Kothari, CA. Sanjit Kumar Burman, CA. Sanjeeb Kumar Agarwal & CA. Rishi
Khator) for bringing out such a crisp Publication. We also place on record our special thanks to
CA. Rakesh Singhi and CA. Sarang Juthani for their contribution in research and compilation
of the Publication.
We also express our sincere thanks to CA. Naveen N. D. Gupta, President, ICAI and CA.
Prafulla P. Chhajed, Vice-President, ICAI under whose vision and guidance we have been
privileged to contribute in the activities of the Committee. Further we also thank all the members
of PD Committee for their untiring support.

We would also like to place on record the hard work done by PDC Secretariat led by
Ms. Seema Gerotra, Secretary, PDC and her team in bringing out this Publication.
We hope that this publication would be useful for our Members.

CA. Nihar Niranjan Jambusaria CA. Ranjeet Kumar Agarwal
Vice-Chairman, PDC Chairman, PDC
February 1, 2019
New Delhi

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