Taxmann Practical Workbook for Bank Statutory Branch Auditors By Ishwar Chandra Edition March 2020

About the Author

Ishwar Chandra is a Fellow Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). He is an Agra based Chartered Accountant practicing since 1993 and is Partner in M/s. I C & Associates. He holds DISA (ICAI) and Certificates in IFRS and in Concurrent Audit of Banks from ICAI. He holds CISA from Information Systems Audit & Control Association (ISACA) USA since 2004. Mainly practicing auditing, his major work

experience includes Concurrent Audit, IS Audit, Stock Audit, Income & Expenditure Audit and External Audit of

various Commercial and Regional Rural Banks and Internal Audit and other assignments of PSUs. He is an empanelled faculty with Internal Audit Standards Board of ICAI for post-qualification ?Certificate Course in Concurrent Audit of Banks?. His several approach and procedures articles on auditing of banks have been published in ?The Chartered Accountant? Journal of ICAI. Such as, KYC & AML Measures (September 2006), Auditing in Core-Banking: Some Special Considerations (March 2007), Planning the Statutory Branch Audit of a Bank (March 2008), Improving Risk Management and Compliance at Banks (May 2008), Strengthen

Your Audit Plan (March 2012), Essentials of Report Writing (June 2013) and What Every Statutory Branch Auditor of a Bank should Do (March 2016). He is author of Five C?s of IT Policy published in ?Internal Auditor? magazine of The Institute of Internal Auditors, (USA). He has been one of the Expert Reviewers of ISACA?s CISA Review Manual (26th Edn.) and is a contributor on auditing to ISACA. He has participated in International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) consultation paper ?Improving Auditor Reporting?. He has delivered lectures on auditing of banks at ICAI seminars organized by CIRC, SIRC and NIRC branches/study circle, and for GMCS course at Agra. In his 23 years of professional career, he has been associated with various boards/committees of ICAI. He has been a member of one of the Financial Reporting Review Group constituted by ICAI and has acted as lead reviewer. He is associated as Technical Reviewer with Financial Reporting Review Board, as Peer Reviewer with Peer Review Board and as Resource Person with CFMIP of ICAI. His academic associations include the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) and the Institute of Cost Accountants of India. He is a founder trustee of Shri Rajendra Prasad Munni Devi Agrawal Memorial