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Signature Qualification CA that Empowers to Lead PAKISTAN Asad Feroze, FCA [R-4882] Professional and Academic Profile He played an important role in adding good quality books in He is a fellow member of ICAP, ACCA, PIPFA and Institute of Taxation new libraries at Gujranwala and Mirpur. Management. He is partner at Junaidy Shoaib Asad Chartered ▪ Actively involved in management of ICAP SAFA Conference Accountants; an independent member Morison KSi (2007 to date). 2016 as a management committee member. He is an IFC approved trainer on Corporate Governance. He has ▪ Involved as a management committee member in holding ICAP also served as a short term consultant to The World Bank. He is a Golf Tournament 2016 SECP Certified Director. He is a professional trainer and moderator ▪ Entered into an MOU with Zeitgeist an established men’s and of discussions at various forums. He has also been presenter at women’s clothing brand for ICAP members. International Conferences. His key interest is to promote startups. ▪ Conceptualized and held first ever members cricket tournament He has over 15 years of experience of wide range of clients in at Lahore and then at Multan. various sectors. He has got articleship training from A. F. Ferguson ▪ Held Family get together at all major stations of North for the & Co Chartered Accountants. He has done Graduation in law and first time including Peshawar, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Islamabad Graduation in Economics & Statistics. He is a gold medalist and and Lahore. silver medalist in his educational Career. He is former member ▪ Various out of box themes were introduced in CPD including of Executive Committee of Lahore Tax Bar Association and a Life “Workshop on financial modeling”, “Changes in Audit Report”, Member. He is also a permanent member of Lahore Gymkhana Club “Transforming your ability to benefit from globalization”, and executive member Imtiaz Plaza Welfare Society. He is interested “Enterprise valuation for mergers and acquisitions”, “How to in playing golf, cricket, tennis and chess. deal with emotional intelligence”, IFRS 16 Leases”, “Overcoming Achievements our biases against effective team work”” etc. ▪ Initiated Electronic CPD and Live Webinars for ICAP members. ▪ Given recommendations to Council on matters of interests All webinars involved presenters from foreign universities or to members including QCR framework and Practice training institutes regulations. ▪ Conceived and implemented NRC E-learning portal for attaining Past Service to the Institute E-CPD by members at their convenience and flexibility of ▪ NRC member (2013-17), Chairman NRC (2015-16), Secretary timings without hassle of travelling NRC (2014-15) ▪ Involvement of Foreign Speakers/ Trainers for first time in events ▪ Member Auditing Standards Committee ICAP (2008-09 to date) in North. Mr. Mike Turner (an ICAEW trainer) conducted two and involved in various sub committees days refresher course on IFRS in 2015.It was video casted live ▪ Member Technical Advisory Committee ICAP (2014-15) at all ICAP stations in North. Mr. Turner later also conducted ▪ Member Publishing Committee ICAP (2007-08 to 2014-15) one day workshop at Lahore and Islamabad on “Financial ▪ Chairman CPD Committee Lahore (2014-15) instruments”. ▪ More than 105 hours of physical CPD were made available as Planned CPD Focus CPD Chairman Lahore. Topics included improvement of soft Keeping in view the requirements of members, apart from skills of members: Workshop on Advanced Excel, Workshop on emphasis on learning sessions on IFRS, Companies Act and Power Point, Workshop on Taxation, “Creativity”, “Enhancing taxation, following avenues of CPD may be useful: Communication Skills”, “How to sell and market your expertise”, “Seminar on Time Management”, etc. Non-routine topics such CPEC and Opportunities for Professionals as “Work Life Balance” and “Career Stagnation” were led by Understanding the economic impacts of CPEC. How to deal with renowned personalities Mr. Maqsood (Max) Babri and Mr. foreign investors and manage interest of local partners? Do’s and Hammad Siddique respectively. These activities were aimed for dont’s of CPEC. Opportunities of CPEC for CA’s both in practice industry based members and young members. Involvement and industry. Role of ICAP in relation to CPEC. of members at Multan, Faisalabad and Peshawar stations was Technology and Its Impacts on Profession; ensured through video conferencing. Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics awareness campaign ▪ Organized first ICAP Student Conference of North involving for members. Forensic Audit concept and its importance for students from Peshawar, Multan, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, members. Impact of technology on Audit profession. An activity Faisalabad, Gujranwala and Lahore. focussed on Information Systems Audit. How ERP, BI and Planning ▪ Organized successfully ICAP Gold Medal and Certificate tools help the professionals in industry and practice. Distribution Ceremonies ▪ Recommended E-Library model. Sectoral Based CPD Program ▪ Instrumental in updation and addition of books in all libraries. A sequence of CPDs with a specific focus on Sector based issues 58 The Pakistan Accountant April-June 2017