Atul Gupta
India
CA. Atul Kumar Gupta, is serving on the Board of IFAC since November 2020 Nominated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, he has served the Accountancy Profession for more than two decades, widely respected for his strong organisational skills and deep insight in the affairs of profession.
He has vast experience in SMP Practice, specializing in Management Consultancy, Taxation especially GST, ITES, Audit.
During his association with the ICAI as Council Member since 2013, he served as the President of ICAI (2020-21) and as Vice President (2019-2020).
His experience at ICAI spans through education, examination, CPD, research, I&D and system development with strong focus towards IT architecture. Under his stewardship at Board of Studies, the New Scheme of Education and Training of ICAI that was benchmarked with the revised International Education Standards, was launched in 2017.Through ICAI-ARF, he is credited for the project of preparation of accrual-based financial statements of the Indian Railways (third largest Railway of world).
He remained the chairman of CPD Committee of SAFA, Member of PFM Committee of CAPA, Member of IRDAI, SEBI Primary Advisory Committee and GASAB. He served XBRL India, Accounting Research Foundation and Registered Valuers Organisation, Indian Institute of Insolvency of ICAI as Chairman.
Being thoroughly conversant with the professional concerns and demands of his times, CA. Gupta has authored many relevant books and has published numerous articles in leading newspapers, magazines and professional newsletters, and delivered lectures in about 1500 seminars and conferences.
Presently he is also on Board of XBRL International and many other reputed organisation in India.