Timing: 10.30am to 5pm
Masterclass Agenda: 17th March 2015
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10.00 - 10.30: Registration Signoff
10:30 - 11.30: Indian Accounting Standards - Ind AS 2015: Important Guidelines Speaker - Dinesh Jangid, Director Accounting Advisory Services, KPMG Q&A 11.30 - 12.00: Tea Break 12.00 - 13.00: Budget 2015 - Impact on Real Estate Sector Speaker - Nitesh Mehta, Executive Director, Walker Chandiok & Co 13.00 - 14.00: Networking Lunch 14.00 - 15.00: Taxation of Real Estate Transactions and Proposed Amendments to Taxation of RIETs and Invits Speaker - Indruj Rai, Principal Associate, DSK Legal Q&A 15.00 - 15.30: Real Estate Future Outlook & Market Dynamics Speaker - Pankaj Kapoor, CEO & Founder, Liases Foras 15.30 - 16.00: Tea Break 16.00 - 17.00: Service Tax & VAT - Post Budget Speaker - Amit Sarkar, Partner Indirect Tax, Grant Thornton India LLP Q&A 17:00 - 17.45: Audit Environment under the Companies Act 2013 Speaker: Surendra Choudhary, Head – Accounting Advisory Services, Themis |
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Faculty Profiles
Amit Sarkar
Partner Indirect Tax, Grant Thornton India LLP Amit qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2000 and has over 10 years of post-qualification experience in the field of taxation. He provides assistance in the entire gamut of advisory and compliance assistance services in the field of indirect taxes. Amit’s area of expertise includes tax-efficient supply chain management (TESCM), litigation management, core advisory services and evaluating impact of emerging laws on businesses (primarily GST). In-charge of serving clients across India on all Indirect tax matters, including advisory, compliances, litigation assistance and other value added services. |
Dinesh Jangid
Director Accounting Advisory Services, KPMG Dinesh has over 12 years of experience in accounting and financial reporting matters. He has been with the Accounting Advisory team of KPMG for over 5 years. He specializes in providing IFRS convergence and technical accounting advice under IFRS and US GAAP. He regularly advises his clients on complex accounting and financial reporting areas such as business combination, financial instruments, hedge accounting, stock compensations etc. He has also worked on IPO preparedness for one of the largest steel companies in India for their proposed listing of securities in India |
Indruj Rai
Principal Associate, DSK Legal Indruj qualified as an advocate in 2006 from Symbiosis, Pune and also obtained a degree in Masters of laws in law (LLM) from King’s College London specialising in Tax laws. Indruj extensively advises on corporate as well as personal taxation. Indruj has advised on taxation of transactions in various industries including real estate and infrastructure, media, shipping etc. Indruj regularly advises on corporate structuring for in-bound and out-bound investments and mergers and acquisitions. Indruj has also argued several tax cases before the High Court of Bombay and Authority for Advance Rulings. |
Nitesh Mehta
Executive Director, Walker Chandiok & Co Nitesh is a chartered accountant and has over 14 years of post qualification experience. He specialises in advising clients on corporate restructuring including merger and acquisition, cross border structuring and regulatory aspects. His experience also covers setting up tax efficient structures, handling domestic & cross-border tax & regulatory issues and tax due diligence. His experience span across various sectors such Information Technology, Media, Pharma, Real Estate, Infrastructure, Media, etc. Nitesh has penned articles and spoken on tax and regulatory issues in various seminars |
Pankaj Kapoor
Founder and CEO, Liases Foras Pankaj Kapoor started Liases Foras as a completely non brokerage real estate research outfit in the year 1998. Since then he has remained a focused researcher in the real estate sector. His works include “Magnet Theory” of future forecasting model of locality development and price behaviours. He has also introduced India’s First Real Estate Sensitivity Index – “Ressex”. Mr. Kapoor, today is recognised in the real estate industry for bringing in scientific approach and for developing an organised data base in the Industry. His company offers research and advisory services to Housing Finance Companies, Government Agencies, Banking, Developers and Funds. |
Surendra Choudhary
Head – Accounting Advisory Services, Themis Surendra heads the Accounting & Finance Advisory division at Themis. He is a qualified accountant with more than 15 years of International and Indian experience in accounting, auditing, assurance, and compliance, transaction advisory & financial reporting services across sectors. He has previously worked in India and abroad with firms like Grant Thornton and Hari Bhakti, under IFRS, US and Indian GAAPs. Surendra is an Associate Chartered Accountant (New Zealand), Masters of Applied Finance (New Zealand) and Master of Commerce (India). |
