The Chartered Accountants’ Students’ Association – South (CASA) held its 6th CA Students Conference 2018 at a local hotel in Karachi with more than 500 students as participants. A team of foreign delegates from Nepal also attended the event. The Conference themed ‘Beyond Prudence’ successfully conveyed its message to the students. The day started-off with addresses by Riaz A. Rehman Chamdia, President ICAP in which he encouraged the students to keep on learning and emphasized on the importance of participating in such activities to enhance their exposure.

Arslan Khalid, Chairman CASA, South in his address focused on the need to inculcate a lifelong culture of learning in the future professionals.

Khalilullah Shaikh, Council Member ICAP conducted a brief yet effective counselling session for the students in which he advised key pointers for success & professional growth upon becoming a qualified Chartered Accountant.

During the course of the day, presentations, motivation sessions and panel discussions took place which included ‘Positioning your personal brand’ by Asma Mustafa, Motivational Speaker, ‘Good is the enemy of great’ by Waqar A. Malik, “Building Next Generation Leaders” by Junaid Shekha, CEO, ITMinds Limited, Asif Khan, Consultant, Carnelian Co., ‘Rewire Yourself’ by Anwar Gopalani, Chief Human Resource Officer, CDC Pakistan, to ‘Shifting landscape due to technology’ by Zulfikar Causer, Partner, BDO Ebrahim & Co.

Guest speakers also shared their views in various panel discussions, namely ‘Employment v/s Entrepreneurship’ and ‘How social entrepreneurship leads to economic development’ which consisted of panellists including Shakaib Arif, COO, National Foods, Amin Malik, Partner, KPMG Taseer Hadi & Co., Danish Noorani, Director, EDLABS, Arshadudin Ahmed, Business Head, Chemicals, ICI Pakistan and Ahsan Anis, Director, K-Electric to name a few.

Foreign delegates from SAFA also shared their views on ‘Personal Victory’. The event ended successfully with the closing remarks by Adnan Rizvi, Chairman Southern Regional Committee, in which he advised students develop themselves professionally and personally by continue learning. He also commented that while going on beyond prudence, holding on to the core value is necessary as it is the basis of the profession. Towards the end he thanked all those who participated and formally concluded the day.