Esteemed Members,

“Truth is never dependant upon consensus of opinion”

Our branch has just gone through yet another exciting and fulfilling year and as always, it is gratifying to share the activities of the branch in this month with you.

Discussion Forum

On 3^rd November 2011, we had our group discussion on “Impact of TDS on payment under section 195”.The session was moderated by CA V.M Krishnakumar and CA P.J Shaji, Past Chairman who also coordinated the discussion. The discussion was well attended and members opined that discussion was very fruitful and gave them a lot of information required for our daily practice.

Workshop on MS Excel –Tool for Audit

In order to equip our members with latest Information Technology, especially using excel as an audit tool we are organizing one day workshop on every Saturday. This work shop will definitely enable our members to widen knowledge in excel. As a result they can carry out their audit function very quickly.

Study Circle Meeting 

As everyone knows filing of service tax become mandatory for all service tax assesses.Inorder to clear the difficulties encountered during the e filing we conducted a study circle meeting on the topic “Issues on Service Tax e filing” and it was lead by our beloved faculty CA M.P Tony.

Three Day Residential Seminar at Ooty

We have organized a three day Residential seminar at Ooty on 18th, 19th and 20th of November 2011.Seminar was well attended by our members. The First technical session was on the topic “How to be an effective Chartered Accountant” and the second technical session was on “The Working Capital Management for SME's and The Role of Chartered Accountants” both the sessions were handled by CA. R SIVASUBRAMANIAN an eminent faculty from Chennai.

Third technical session was taken by CA. VENKATARAMAN D from Salem on the topic “Excel Audit Tool - Special emphasis on SME Practitioners”. Fourth technical session was on “Tax Planning related to Relatives-Under Income Tax Act 1961 and DTC”. This session was taken by CA. K HARIHARAN from Coimbatore. The Fifth session was handled by CA. K BADRI NARAYANAN from Coimbatore on the topic “New Schedule VI and Exposure draft of ICAI on Guidance Note to Schedule VI”

General Management and Communication Skill Course

The 12th batch of GMCS commenced on 21^st November 2011.We thank all the members, faculties and students for their overwhelming support in making the programme course a grand success.

We strive to provide you some stimulating reading along with the updates on branch activities. Please share with us your valuable suggestions and what more would you like to see in our branch newsletter.

“The greatest crime in the world is not developing one’s potential. When you do

what you do will be the best, you are helping others and yourself.”

                                                                                                - Roger Williams

Happy reading!

With Warm Regards,

CA SONY C.L

Chairman

Esteemed Members,

It gives me a great pleasure to reach you through this message when our branch is completing through another exciting and fulfilling month.

      “When we do what we can, God will do what we can’t”.

Discussion Forum

This year we commenced a discussion forum for our members. The objective of this forum is to discuss their practical issues they confronted in their day to day practice. We are facing complex issues which will be very peculiar to our local level. This forum will enable the members to discuss these issues. The discussion will be moderated by senior members. Topics for discussion will be selected according to the contemporary importance. Our past Chairman and managing committee member CA P.J Shaji will be the coordinator of this forum. The first discussion forum was held on the topic “Issues on Sec 44 AD under Income Tax Act, 1961. The Programmes got an overwhelming support from members, nearly 25 members participated in the discussion. Discussion forum is arranged once in a fortnight on Thursdays. I earnestly solicit your support and co operation to make this a great success.

National Seminar on Taxation

We are very fortunate to hold a National Seminar on Taxation under the auspicious of Continuing Professional Education Committee. The seminar was held at Casino Hotels on 22^nd October 2011 .Before the seminar,we deliberated over the topics of contemporary issues. Hon’ble Chief Commissioner of Income Tax Mr.E.T. Luckose ,IRS inaugurated the seminar and Chairman of the CPE committee CA Sumntra Guha ji Presided over the function. Our beloved SIRC Chairman CA K Shanmuka Sundaram was the special guest on the occasion.

First technical session CA.B.Ganesh from Hydrabad handeld the topic “Accounting Standards Vis-à-Vis Taxation”. Our past central Council Member CA CA. Jose Pottokkaran Chaired the session.

Second technical session was handled by CA PANKAJ TYAGEE, Central Council Member on the topic “Capacity Building of CA Firms”.The session was chaired by CA CA. Sukumara Menon V.

Third technical session was taken by our beloved CA RAJENDRA KUMAR P., Central Council Member on the topic “Emerging Issues in Indirect Taxation”.The session was chaired by   and CA. Venugopalan V

Fourth Technical Session was on the topic “Income Tax on Share Transactions” The session was taken by CA. Mohanan Kuttickat from cochin and the session was Chaired by CA Varghese C.V.Seminar was well attended by members from various branches.I take this opportunity to thank managing committee members of the branch who took a lot of pain in making the National Seminar successful.

As always we will continue to look forward to your valuable comments, views and feedback on our programmes and so that we can achieve our objectives to meet the interests and demands of our members and society.

                                             “All is well that ends well”.

With Warm Regards,

CA SONY C.L

Chairman

Esteemed Members,

This year has certainly shown signs of economic growth and companies are confident of moving away from uncertainty that was witnessed in the 1^st quarter of the 2011.From the branch perspective we are committed to work closely with members to identify issues of importance and build relevant platforms to deliver members expectations.

We had a rich and eventful month of programmes for members and students.

Foundation Stone laying ceremony of New Branch Building

As told by our President, It is time to literally consolidate the foundations of the accountancy profession in all corners of our nation. This is not just a sign of growth of our infrastructure but that of strengthening of this unique academic tradition of integrity also. These initiatives are also to extend the best-possible facility to our students as well as our members in building and maintaining an ethically strong society.

The month of September witnessed proud moment in the history of our branch. We are very happy to inform you that foundation stone for New Building for Trichur branch is laid by our Honb’le President of ICAI CA G.Ramaswamy on 28th September 2011. He extended his whole hearted support to complete the project before 31^st December 2011. We can complete the project only if you kindly contribute generously supporting this noble cause. we the chairman and the managing committee members of the Trichur Branch of SIRC of ICAI hereby solicit your co operation and support by making generous contribution so that it will help us to complete the construction of the building. 

Discussion Forum

This year we commenced a discussion forum for our members. The objective of this forum is to discuss their practical issues they confronted in their day to day practice. We are facing complex issues which will be very peculiar to our local level. This forum will enable the members to discuss these issues. The discussion will be moderated by senior members. Topics for discussion will be selected according to the contemparorary importance. Our past Chairman and managing committee member CA P.J Shaji will be the coordinator of this forum.The first discussion forum was held on 1^st September 2011 in which “Issues on Sec 44 AD under Income Tax Act,1961 was dealt with Programmes got a overwhelming support from members, nearly 25 members participated in the discussion.Discussion forum will be arranged once in a fortnight on Thursdays. I earnestly solicit your support and co operation to make this a great success.

Business standard Daily at a Reduced Rate for our members

We are very happy to inform you that “The Business standard” a leading financial daily come forward with a scheme for our branch members. As per the scheme, members will get the newspaper for the annual payment of Rs.475/-.Details of the scheme is available with the branch.

Study Circle on Kerala finance Bill 2011

We have conducted a study circle to deliberate on the issues of Kerala Finance bill 2011 on 2^nd September 2011.Our learned speaker CA Krishnakumar C.lead the study circle meeting.

Half Day Seminar on XBRL

As you all know Ministry of Corporate Affairs made mandatory to file the Balance sheet and P&L in XBRL format for phase-I class of companies. The due date of filing return has been extended up to 31.12.2011 or within 60 days of their due date of filing, whichever is later. In order to update our members and explore the new professional opportunity, we have carried out a half day seminar on XBRL on 14^th September 2011.Eminent faculty CA K Srinivasan spoken on the occasion about the “XBRL Concept & Implementation”

Issues on Company Audit

On 17th September 2011 we conducted a half Day seminar on “Issues on Company Audit” to brush up the issues on audit for our members. The session was efficiently handled by our beloved Faculty CA N Ramesh Natarajan from Coimbatore.

As always we will continue to look forward to your valuable comments, views and feedback on our programmes and so that we can achieve our objectives to meet the interests and demands of our members.

With Warm Regards,

CA SONY C.L

Chairman

Esteemed Members,

It gives me immense pleasure to share with you the activities of our branch through this issue of News letter.

Every year we celebrate Teachers Day on 5^th September as a mark of tribute to the contributions made by the teachers to the society. 5^th September being the birthday of the great Teacher Dr.S.Radhakrishnan, the Second President of India, who was a diplomat, scholar, philosopher and above all a good teacher. Teachers have a great responsibility in society, as they are the builders of our nation, with respect to the shaping the thought processes of the students. I take this opportunity to greet and felicitate our teachers on the occasion of the teachers Day.

 One Day Workshop on Accounting Standards

A one day workshop on “Accounting Standards” was organized by the branch. The session were lead by CA Chinnsamy Ganesasan. Two topics were deliberated on the occasion “Reporting Requirements of Accounting Standards in the Financial Statements & Common pitfalls” and “Discussion on Best Presented Annual Reports”. The programme was well attended by our members.

Tax Audit

We know the due date of completion of the Tax Audit and filing of the returns are nearing very fast. Tax audit is the one of the most significant professional assignment of our members .In order to update the subject a one day  CPE seminar was organized on 25^th August 2011 on the topic “Requirements of Tax Audit – A Review”. CA P.M.Veeramani,Kochi lead the seminar. He shared his vast experience in tax audit in a super rub manner.

Independence Day

It was a memorable moment in the history of our nation when the Indian flag, our tri colour, was hosted in the Red Fort by Shri.Jawaharlal Nehru. Through out our country we celebrated the 65th Independence Day. The Independence Day was celebrated in a befitting manner by hoisting the national flag in our branch. Let us celebrate & enjoy the freedom to live independently in our country Cheerfully,
Helpfully, Hopefully, Peacefully by remembering our National Heroes who gave us Freedom after suffering pain & humiliation. I urge each one of you to “Be proud to be born as Indian, Be proud to live as Indian, Be proud to be a Indian” and  dedicate our self to build a strong India

Regional Conference

Our 43^rd Regional Conference was held at Coimbatore on 19^th and 20^th August 2011. More than 125 delegates attended the conference from Trichur. On behalf of Managing committee of Trichur Branch, I express our sincere gratitude to all the members who participated in the conference. It was really a rare opportunity to hear Eminent resource persons from across the country sharing their wisdom and expertise on topical subjects like Direct and Indirect Taxes, Information Technology, Corporate and Allied Laws, IFRS, Forensic Audit, XBRL, economy and other allied subjects. During the conference the Trichur branch was awarded with the prestigious Best Branch Award by CA G Ramaswamy Honb’le President of ICAI. I take this opportunity to congratulate the erstwhile  Managing committee headed by CA P Satheesan, Vice Chairman CA K.M. Geo, Secretary Geo Job, CA Shajan T.T SICASA Chairman and CA P.J Shaji immediate past Chairman for this historic achievement. During the occasion we also received Best SICASA branch from the President for the last three consecutive years. I also congratulate the SICASA team lead by CA T.T Shajan for this remarkable achievement. 

As always, we will continue to look forward to your continuous comments, views and feedback on our programmes and newsletter so that they may achieve their objective of being driven by members interest and demands.

With Warm Regards,

CA SONY C.L

Chairman

Thrissur

It gives me immense pleasure to share with you the activities of the branch through this issue of News letter.

On 1^st July we celebrated our 63^rd Chartered Accountants Day in a befitting manner. In the morning we commenced our celebration with flag hosting followed by our social activities. Social activities were inaugurated by City Police Commissioner Mr.P.Vijayan, IPS. During his inaugural address he spoke about the duties and responsibilities of the Chartered Accountants in the financial sector and the expectation of the society from the certificates and reports rendered by Chartered Accountants. Distributed of the kits to poor and needy schools students was also carried out during the function. On the same day a visit to the St.Anns Orphanage was also organized and we join them for the lunch. Over and above, to protect the earth from global warming, “One planet, One earth and Many species” we made a free distribution of tree saplings to our members.

In the evening the Cultural programme and family get together was organized at Casino Hotels. The function was inaugurated by Prof.M Remakantan,Director, Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA ).On the occasion we honoured our members who had completed 25 years of service in the profession. We also distributed the prizes to the students who secured highest mark in the CA examination.

Endowment Fund

This year we were able to constitute two endowment funds to recognize the students who passed the CA examination in flying colours. First one was constituted in the name of Late CA V.K.S Narayanan Naboodiripad by his son CA Sajith V for an amount of Rs.1,00,000/-.The amount of this fund will be used to give award to the student who bagged first position in the CA final examination from Trichur Branch. Mr.Arjun R who qualified in the final examination bagged this prestigious award for the current year.

Similarly another endowment fund in the name of late CA T.I Mathew is constituted by his son CA Salim T Mathews for an amount of Rs.50,000/-.This award will be given to the student who topped in the CA IPCC examination. This year prize was bagged by Ms.Devi S.

In the CPT Category CA Anju Prabhakaran bagged first and Ms Anju Ananthan secured the second position in this year.

Quiz and Elocution 2011

On 20^th July the Quiz and Elocution contest for Students was conducted and a large number of students turned out to participate. Winners represented our branch in the regional level. Let me congratulate Ms.Shabanam qualified for national level completion.

Kerala Budget

We had conducted a half day seminar on Revised Kerala Budget which was Inaugurated by Dr.A.K.Dubey IAS,Principal Secretary (Finance) of Government of Kerala. Adv S Anil Kumar from Kochi presented the topic on that occasion.

One Day Seminar on Service Tax

A seminar on Service Tax was conducted on 27^th of July. CA Madhukar Hiregenge,central council member was the Chief Guest on the occassion.CA Prasanna Krishna from Chennai was the speaker. During programme the issues on Real Estate transactions was deliberated upon. A panel discussion on the same topic was held in the last session.

I am sure you will enjoy reading our branch newsletter. Please provide us your feedback on the content and feel free to suggest the kind of articles you would like to be found in the branch newsletter.

I wish you all happiness, peace and prosperity on the occasion of Independence Day.

With Warm Regards,

CA SONY C.L

Chairman

Thrissur

10-08-2011

Institute achieved another milestone on 1^st July 2011 viz., completed 62 years in the service of the Nation. ICAI which has come a long way since its inception is now the second largest accounting body in the world with more than 1, 70,000 members across the world. It is my proud privilege to wish all of you the best in your career as Chartered Accountant. From the traditional Watch Dog, our members have now transformed in to multidimensional professionals offering complete business solutions. In the current environment, the role of Chartered Accountant is fast shifting from backroom to board room. I urge each one of you to dedicate ourselves in building a strong ICAI and strong India.

Chartered Accountant Benevolent Fund

I am happy to note that our Chartered Accountant Benevolent Fund (CABF) was successful in helping our members and their brewed family with financial assistance. I would request our members to hold an open heart to inform us about any of such families who may require such financial assistance. In ensuring our whole hearted and dedicative support to this charitable venture, it is requested to contribute generously for this noble cause. We will suitably recognize the individual contributions in the forth coming newsletter. You may please forward your cheques / DDs drawn in favour on Trichur Branch of SIRC of ICAI, payable at Trichur. We pool our contribution at the branch level and forward to President on behalf of Trichur Branch.

General Management and Communication Skill Course (GMCS)

This month we had conducted two batches of the GMCS. The 9^th  Batch of GMCS which was attended by 46 students was completed on 6^th June 2011. Er.Alex P George, Managing Director of Alco Fasteners was the Chief Guest during the Valedictory function. 10^th Batch of GMCS was completed on 21^st June 2011. CA Alex Abraham was the Chief Guest during the Valedictory function, and 42 students attended the above batch.

Intensive Coaching for Final Students  

We have commenced intensive coaching for CA final students who are appearing for the November 2011. Eminent faculties such as Mrs.Santhi Ganapathy are handling the classes. I request members and students to make use of the student training facility in our branch.

CA Awarness Programme

We had conducted a CA Awarness programme for the benefit of +2 students. Nearly 120 young aspirants of CA Course attended the programme. We addressed the gathering of students and parents and gave an overview of the opportunities and importance of the Chartered Accountancy profession.

Investor Awareness Programme

The Investor Awareness programme was organized under the aegis of Investor Education and Protection fund (IEPF) of Ministry of Corporate Affairs at Hotel Elite International on 22^nd June 2011.Registrar of Companies Mr.Joseph Jackson inaugurated the function and Prof.Dr.Vijayakumar and Er.Alex P George spoke on the occasion on the topics Indian Stock Market: Past,future and Capital Market:India Growth Story respectively.

Members programme

In order to enhance the team building skill of our members a soft skill workshop on “Team Performance” was conducted on 2^nd June. Mr.Lakshmi Narayan from Chennai led the Workshop.

In order to celebrate the CA day in a befitting manner, this year, we had organized various Sports Competition for our members. Large number of members attended the competitions. Competitions were held in a span of 6 days for track and field events. The programme was formally inaugurated by Olympian Mr.Lijo David Thottan on 11^th June 2011.We extent our sincere thanks to members for their overwhelming support and participations which made the event successful.  

I am sure you will enjoy reading our branch newsletter. Please provide us your feedback on the content and feel free to suggest the kind of articles you would like to be found in the branch newsletter.

With Warm Regards,

CA SONY C.L

Chairman

It gives me great pleasure to reach you through this message when our branch is finishing through another exciting and fulfilling month, and as always it is gratifying to share the story of success. "To embark on a journey of success one needs the tools of preparedness, foresight and strategy. These lead to the path of growth and high quality performance. It is imperative to combine these three forces in any endure, where every drop of effort and every activity acts like a pivot tilting the pan balance of life in favour of endurance to success”.

During this month our beloved SIRC Chairman CA Shanmukhasundaram K. visited our branch on 5th May and we are fortunate to give him a grand reception. During his address he assured his whole hearted support to our activities. He was happy to announce that the capital budget submitted to the SIRC was sanctioned. 

43^rd Regional Conference of SIRC of ICAI – “Jnana Sangamam” at Coimbatore

We are enhancing our key knowledge areas to ensure a consistent and positive experience for our fellow members and aspirants. I have pleasure in informing our 43rd regional conference at Coimbatore on Friday, 19th of August, 2011 and Saturday the 20^th of August. Eminent resource persons from across the country sharing their wisdom and expertise on topical subjects like Direct and Indirect Taxes, Information Technology, Corporate and Allied Laws, IFRS, Forensic Audit, XBRL, economy and other allied subjects. This would be a rare occasion to hear hands on experience from our eminent faculties from different parts of the country. We request our members to participate in the seminar in larger numbers. We are arranging facility for travel and accommodation; details will be available at branch. Let us all join together to make this 43rd Regional Conference a resounding success

CA Day Celebration

This year CA day will be celebrated on 1st of July with variety of activities. In the morning we are planning to have social activities like blood Donation, school kit distribution and orphanage visit. In the evening we will have our members get together and cultural events at Casino Hotels by 6.00pm.  Members are requested to participate with their families and take part in various cultural programmes and be party to our celebrations.

CPE Seminar

Central council member CA Rajakumar S.Adukia visited our branch and he addressed our memberson 9th May 2011. During his visit he addressed our members on the Topic Internal Audit – Professional opportunities to Chartered Accountants and FEMA and other Commercial Laws-Opportunities for Chartered Accountants. This seminar was useful for members to know more about the various professional opportunities available to us.

On 5th May 2011 we had a seminar on Transfer Pricing – Concepts and Recent Developments by CA R.Mohan, FCA Coimbatore. During the seminar discussed about the concepts, recent developments and issues on Transfer Pricing.

May I request all of you to share your thoughts and expertise in areas in which you specialize including the area of concern by writing articles in our branch news letter. Members in industry may share their experience on issues concerning that industry and also the opportunity for members in that sector.

We strive to provide you some stimulating reading on contemporary importance along with the updates on branch activities. Please feel free to update us on what more you would like to see in our branch news letter.

I look forward to all of us growing with our flourishing economy.  With these words, I thank you for the support and encouragement giving to our branch activities.

Thanking you,

With Warm Regards,

CA SONY C.L

Chairman

Thrissur

09-06-2011

Esteemed Members,

It was the most cherishing moment when our Honourable President CA G Ramaswamy along with the Vice President visited our branch on 11^th April 2011. During the visit, the President made a landmark announcement in the annals of the history of our branch. The branch obtained the sanction for the new land project with 4.63 Cr. It is a memorable event in the history of the branch. We are very much delighted to extend our sincere gratitude to our President CA G Ramaswamy.

I am extremely happy to inform you all that with the support of the central office the registration of the new property was completed on 30^th April 2011.The new property is about 88 cents extended with an old building of approximately 11000 sq.ft. with an ample space for parking and sizeable area for the future expansion. This property will serve the needs of budding business magnates and will also strengthen the ideas of the practising Chartered Accountants to widen their knowledge.

After the hectic period of bank audit season, now everyone may be turned to our routine statutory audit work. I wish all of you a successful financial year which will bring more prosperity to your career. Similarly ICAI is the main partner in the nation building and let us put our heart and soul to bring more prosperity to our nation.

This month we conducted the CPE programme which is highly relevant in the current scenario. On 11^th April 2011 we had a One day seminar. CA K.Badri Narayanan handled the topic “Effect of Changes in Schedule VI of the Companies Act,1956”.Second technical session was handled by CA Ramesh Natarajan N. on “An overview on Tax Laws relating to charitable trust” and CA S.Ramachandran handled the topic “Inequities under the Income Tax Act,1961” .The programme was well attended by our members.

Focusing our programmes for students training, we will commence the next batch of General Management and Communication Skill Course (GMCS) from 20^th July 2011. We will be commencing Intensive training course on accountancy for the IPCC. Dr.T.S Deenadayalan from Chennai will be the resource person and will lead the classes. I request our members to inform the students to make use of the coaching facilities in our branch.

In order to bring more young talent into our profession, we have commenced coaching classes for CPT students appearing for their examination during the month of June 2011. Nearly 300 students enrolled for the training and I take this opportunity, earnestly to thank all our members for their overwhelming support and help in making the awareness of our profession among the students.  

Once again I request your wholehearted support to make our programmes a grand success.

                        “Whatever good things we build end up building us”

                                                                                    - Jim Rohn

Thanking you,

With Warm Regards,

CA SONY C.L

Chairman

09-05-2011

At the outset let me greet all of you a Happy Vishu! Let this be a delightful year, filled with delightful things in each of its days. Now everyone gearing up for Bank Audit season, as far as we are concern major audit assignment is Bank audit and I wish all of you a successful financial year which will bring more prosperity to your career. Similarly ICAI is the main partner in the nation building and we shall put our heart and soul to bring more prosperity to our nation.

The Union Budget for the financial year 2011-12 was presented in the Parliament. It is a well balanced budget and the fact that no duties were raised is a brave step. The budget should be proving to be beneficial to cross sections of people including farmers and senior citizens. The implication of this budget will boost the morale of Indian Economy to inclusive growth.

In order to cope with latest changes in the field of taxation and other laws, we are keen in organizing various CPE programmes. I earnestly request you to take maximum benefit out of that.

As in the earlier year, even this year we had organized a public function immediately after the Union Budget 2011 at Hotel Casino jointly with Trichur Management Association.Adv.K Ravishankar from Bengaluru lead the Budget analysis and he spoke on macroeconomic and indirect tax aspects of the budget.CA CA. N Muralidharan, Associate Director-Tax & Regulatory Services at Ernst & Young Pvt. Ltd deliberated upon direct tax matters. 

Considering the importance of the Bank audit, this year also we have organized a One Day Seminar on ‘Bank audit’ by inviting the faculties CA. K Sreedhar and CA. R Vittal Raj, from Chennai to present the papers on “NPA Provisions & Issues and Expectations of Central Statutory Auditors on Branch LFAR & Branch Tax Audit Report” Audit of CBS Branches – How to leverage the CBS for effective audit respectively.

In order to popularize and also to give more awareness of CA course among the parents and students, we have organized a mega awareness programme at our branch and we are happy to inform you that nearly 290 students enrolled for the CPT course for the test to be conducted in June 2011.I convey my best wishes to all students who are appearing for the MAY 2011 Examination.   

Please feel free to communicate your views and suggestions to improve the quality upon the programmes being organized and send your feedback to trichur@icai.org

With Warm Regards,

CA SONY C.L

Chairman

11-04-2011

I am delighted to welcome you all and take this opportunity to thank all the members including the senior most seniors, seniors and colleagues and all the well wishers for having accepted me as the Chairman of the branch for the coming year. 

I express my sincere thanks and gratitude to all for reposing confidence in me and giving the opportunity to lead our branch into newer heights. Our branch is traditionally a vibrant and dynamic branch, which has created memorable events in the history of the ICAI. My predecessors have created good governance and an excellent track record in the branch history. I seek my predecessors to allow me to take the path of justice, transparency, and creativity in the branch administration as they practised. 

We are immensely happy to hear that CA G Ramaswamy elected as our President who has always considered our branch as his home branch and shown a deep attachment and affinity to our branch. I take this opportunity to congratulate CA G Ramaswamy for his remarkable achievement. We the members of the Trichur branch are extending whole hearted support to him to take up ICAI to more heights. 

We whole heartedly congratulate our close associate CA Shanmukha Sundaram who is elected chairman of SIRC and his team of office bearers and wish them all the best for their new endeavours.  

We are very proud and happy to inform you that our branch has been selected as the Best Branch in the Southern region. We congratulate the immediate past chairman CA P Satheesan and the entire team for this Herculean achievement. Likewise our SICASA branch has been selected as the Best branch consecutively for three years in succession. We congratulate our immediate SICASA Chairman CA T T Shajan and the team of students for this remarkable achievement. The staff and the committee members highly deserves our appreciation and admiration for their dedicated service and total commitment. 

We are very fortunate to have our gracious Commissioner of Income Tax Ms.Chitra Srinivasan as Chief Guest for this Investiture Ceremony. We all take her words in letter and spirit. We congratulate her for getting promoted as the Chief Commissioner in Hubli and wish all the best for her new assignment. 

I can assure you with the help of our efficient committee members and of course with your help, we intend to conduct monthly programs, workshops, seminars, study circle, meetings, conferences, joint programs with other institutions and other branches and also to conduct break time activities like Annual day, New year celebration and sports & games for the members. More specifically, there will be a minimum of one Residential program, one National CPE program and one Regional CPE program and if possible an International study tour during the coming year. 

For the student community of the branch concerned, I assure you there will be continuous support from the branch and we also plan for full-fledged classes for the final students. We are also structuring IPCC, Orientation classes and CPT online test. We will strive to make our branch an educational hub as an exemplary to other branches in Kerala. 

We plan to have separate desk for members and students. I request all the members to come in large number to make use of the facilities at our branch. Moreover the reading room will also be active with online facility for taxation and current matters which I am confident will benefit our members considerably and request them to visit the branch in large number and make the branch more active and vibrant.

Regarding Networking, I take this opportunity to promote networking with firms and members in the coming period. You can expect in one fine morning our regulators will open up our field to International Firms, we should not lag behind in any field so I propose that we would promote networking of firms and individuals in our area, so that the infrastructural basics in our area can be strengthened. 

With the help of Almighty, I can assure of beautiful and well equipped new premises for our branch before the end of my tenure and you can also expect me to follow the wise path paved by my predecessors. 

When I look at the great works performed by my predecessors it forces me to gear up and double up my energy to perform even better. You have given me the great responsibility of steering the ship and I know it is not the lofty sails but unseen wind that moves the ship so I welcome suggestions of any kind from any quarters. May the person say the right thing in the right way at the right time in the right place and the things will be taken care of in the right way. The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. So let us work together to get the tremendous success for our branch. 

I earnestly appeal to every one of you to lend your hands and your valuable cooperation in building up our institute literally and figuratively. Let us contribute our energy and mind to hold aloft the victory flag at our endearing Trichur to show the path as a beacon to others. 

With Warm Regards, 

CA SONY C.L

Chairman