Sunday, March 26, 2006

CS, CEO and CFO are the triumvirate of governance — Mr H. M. Choraria, the new president of the ICSI


It is a wrong notion that financial audit or secretarial audit is a remedy for corporate shenanigans.

Mr H. M. Choraria, a practising company secretary from Kolkata, is the new president of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). He takes a few questions from D. Murali on matters of importance to company secretaries and students. Excerpts from the interview:

As the helmsman of the ICSI, what are your immediate priorities?

There is a continuity of agenda set by the Council and the past presidents. My job is to consolidate on the strengths built up and opportunities opened up by my predecessors. We have been trying to attract brighter and career-minded students to the company secretaryship course.

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