ICWAI in 2004: Grappling with New Challenges

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Case Code : BSTA024
Case Length : 20 Pages
Period : 2004 - 2005
Organization : ( ICWAI ) Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India
Pub Date : 2005
Teaching Note :Not Available
Countries : India
Industry : Management Association

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About ICWAI

ICWAI's national headquarters were located in Kolkata, India. There were four regional offices in Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and New Delhi. Below the regional councils, there were 92 chapters located in major cities and towns all over India and some overseas centers to promote the cost accounting profession and provide various services to members...

Background Note

Early History
The concept of cost accounting as an independent field of study emerged during the early years of World War II. Defense operations were expensive. The government found it difficult to ascertain the price of defense purchases.

Thus evolved the concept of cost plus contracts. The cost accounting profession gained further momentum in the 1940s and 1950s during the post-war reconstruction and industrial boom. Price controls gave the necessary impetus to the growth of the profession...

Recent Developments

In hindsight, India's economic liberalization which began in 1991, was a turning point in ICWAI's history. As market forces gained momentum, price controls began to be dismantled in many industries. The role of the public sector also came for a critical reexamination...

Other Concerns

Even as ICWAI's enrolments fell, the institute found itself embroiled in avoidable controversies. Allegations against the office bearers of ICWAI became a routine event. The most serious of them involved malpractices in the conduct of examinations...

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