‘Thinking on your feet – Is that the New Normal?’ webinar tomorrow
With plenty of uncertainty with volatility remaining high, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Sri Lanka together with professional accounting bodies in Sri Lanka – AAT, CASL, CMA, CIMA, will hold a webinar on ‘Thinking on your feet – Is that the New Normal’.
The webinar is scheduled for July 22, 2020, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. This is an initiative of CA Sri Lanka and it is the third seminar in the series.
With the world we live in today being very different to what we knew before and many companies being challenged to consider the impact and disruption to their businesses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, measures and best practices to be put in place to achieve goals and long-term strategies in the ‘new normal’ have become an essential factor.
The keynote speaker for the webinar will be ACCA Sri Lanka Member Network Panel Vice Chairman and Commercial Bank of Ceylon Chief Financial Officer Nandika Buddhipala.
In his presentation, Buddiplala will touch on multiple scenarios on the drawing board and mapping the way forward with astute and judicious decision-making to maximise on prospects. An organisation’s flexibility and agility adding to a formula that uses innovative tool kits in its ecosystem of diversity and inclusiveness that will ensure short-term survival and pave the way for long-term sustainability will also be discussed.
The keynote address will be followed by a panel discussion that will have panellists who are key decision makers and opinion leaders from the finance and accounting industry, representing professional accounting bodies in Sri Lanka.
They will comprise of AAT Sri Lanka Vice President and SINO Lanka Group Financial Controller Sunil Wanigabadu, David Peiris Group Group Chief Financial Officer and CA Sri Lanka Council Member Heshana Kuruppu, GAC Group of Companies Group CEO Ravi Edirisinghe, representing CIMA and DIMO (Pvt.) Ltd COO Pradeep Kahawalage, representing CMA Sri Lanka.
The panellists will be sent through their paces by moderator Savithri Rodrigo on a range of salient topics that will include businesses being equipped to think on their feet, key lessons that businesses have learned during these times, what aspects would be vital to ensure business continuity, what would be the changed fundamentals to be put in place to ensure short-term continuity of business, how keyed in are accountancy professionals into the concept of innovation being the backbone of business sustainability in changing times, how can the accountancy professionals align themselves to ensure optimisation of the organisation’s competencies, skills and worth, the vital role and inclusion of technology into business and organisation operations, prompting structural changes in operations in order to move ahead and what building blocks need to be established in an organisation now in order to meet short-term goals.