Ishwar Chandra is a Fellow Member of The Institute ofChartered Accountants of India (ICAI). He is an Agra basedChartered Accountant practicing since 1993 and is Partnerin M/s. I C & Associates.He holds DISA (ICAI) and Certificates in IFRS and inConcurrent Audit of Banks from ICAI. He holds CISA fromInformation Systems Audit & Control Association (ISACA)USA since 2004. Mainly practicing auditing, his major workexperience includes Concurrent Audit, IS Audit, StockAudit, Income & Expenditure Audit and External Audit ofvarious Commercial and Regional Rural Banks and Internal Audit and other assignments of PSUs.He is an empanelled faculty with Internal Audit Standards Board of ICAI forpost-qualification ‘Certificate Course in Concurrent Audit of Banks’. His severalapproach and procedures articles on auditing of banks have been published in‘The Chartered Accountant’ Journal of ICAI. Such as, KYC & AML Measures(September 2006), Auditing in Core-Banking: Some Special Considerations(March 2007), Planning the Statutory Branch Audit of a Bank (March 2008),Improving Risk Management and Compliance at Banks (May 2008), StrengthenYour Audit Plan (March 2012), Essentials of Report Writing (June 2013) andWhat Every Statutory Branch Auditor of a Bank should Do (March 2016).He is author of Five C’s of IT Policy published in ‘Internal Auditor’ magazine ofThe Institute of Internal Auditors, (USA). He has been one of the ExpertReviewers of ISACA’s CISA Review Manual (26th Edn.) and is a contributor onauditing to ISACA. He has participated in International Federation ofAccountants (IFAC) consultation paper ‘Improving Auditor Reporting’.He has delivered lectures on auditing of banks at ICAI seminars organized byCIRC, SIRC and NIRCbranches/study circle, and for GMCS course at Agra.In his 23 years of professional career, he has been associated with variousboards/committees of ICAI. He has been a member of one of the FinancialReporting Review Group constituted by ICAI and has acted as lead reviewer.He is associated as Technical Reviewer with Financial Reporting Review Board,as Peer Reviewer with Peer Review Board and as Resource Person with CFMIPof ICAI. His academic associations include the Institute of Company Secretariesof India (ICSI) and the Institute of Cost Accountants of India.He is a founder trustee of Shri Rajendra Prasad Munni Devi Agrawal Memorial
