CMA Students’ Conference to be held on May 4

The CMA Students’ Guild will host its Annual Conference on the theme ‘Transition from an Accountant to a Finance Business Partner’ on May 04th  at Sasakawa Auditorium Colombo 03.
The main objective of this full day programme is to inspire aspiring Accountants to become more involved in the business to assume Finance Business Partnering roles in the future. Taking part in the presentations will be prominent speakers from Human Resource Development, industry, academia, financial sector, communication specialists, industry leaders who will explore the prevailing challenges in career development in industry, commerce, finance and banking for future accountants. 
The keynote address at the conference ‘Personality Development for a Professional Accountant’ will be delivered by Dhammika Kalapuge, one of the most inspiring speakers in the country. Kalapuge is the Director/ Principal Consultant – SIPCOM-1.
Prominent speakers will deliver presentations on each technical session to the participants followed by a Q&A session at the CMA Students’ Conference 2017. The guest speakers at the conference consist of industry specialists and senior university lecturers. They include Dr.W. Hilary E. Silva,Director General Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technological Education, Mahendra Jayasekera,Managing Director Lanka Tiles PLC, Mangala Boyagoda, Chairman Wealth Lanka Management Pvt Ltd and Dr. A. Roshan Ajward, Senior Lecturer Sri Jayewardenepura University. 
On Career Guidance, Niranjan De Silva (Former President of Colombo Toast Masters Club/Former CEO Metropolitan Computers Pvt Ltd) will share useful tactics on ‘How to fast track your career goals’.