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spoke on ‘Natural Health for Women’. A career counselling
programme was conducted at Sree Saraswathi Thyagaraja

CMA Lavanya explained with adequate illustrations the
various pricing strategies and in the cost-competitive era,
how firms like Walmart, KLM Airlines, the TATAs, Apple etc
College, Pollachi on March 8, 2017 by chairperson CMA still retained their cost competitiveness. CMA Zitendra Rao
Meena Ramji. The Chapter organised an industrial oriented elaborated about the costing process, its impact on products
and competition and how cost management may be used to
stay ahead in the competitive world.
The chapter conducted workshops on GST
• Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) at Avionics
Division, HAL Township, Balanagar
• National Mineral Development Corporation
• Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) , Kanchanbagh
On March 8, 2017 the chapter celebrated International
Women’s Day on ‘Global Corporate Trends - Women
Leadership’ in association with ICSI-Hyderabad Chapter,
training for final students from March 4, 2017 onwards. Institute of Directors and Institute of Public Enterprise at
IPE, Osmania University. The program witnessed CMA Manas
Kumar Thakur, President, as chief guest and CS Sheela, CS
The Institute of Cost Accountants of India-Hyderabad Chapter
Rasheeda, CMA Manjula and Smt. Vinulata as the speakers.
The speakers highlighted as to why there is dearth of women
On March 3, 2017, the Chapter organized a programme on in leadership roles despite more number of women joining
‘Value Addition by CMA’ and CMA M. Gopalakrishnan, Past the middle management roles. Various Investor Awareness
President of the Institute was the speaker of the programme.
CMA M. Gopalakrishnan elaborately discussed about the
importance of performance appraisal report and how it
carries the essence of a cost audit report. On March 4, 2017
a training programme was held on ‘Strategic Dimensions of

Programmes were conducted on different dates of March
2017 at different districts of Andhra Pradesh. On March 8,
2017 a Press Meet had been conducted and attended by CMA
Manas Kumar Thakur, president of the Institute. The President
detailed the need of CMAs to the society and how students
Cost Accounting’ at Pendekanti Institute of Management, will be benefitted by pursuing the course. On March 9, 2017,
Ibrahimbagh, Gandipet, Hyderabad. CMA KVN Lavanya, Vice a programme on ‘Women as Entrepreneurs and Directors’ was
Chairperson, CMA D. Zitendra Rao, Member, SIRC and Smt. held at Hotel Katriya, Raj Bhavan Road, Hyderabad and the
Sudha Murthy, Faculty were the speakers of the programme. Deputy Commissioner of Police, North Zone, Smt B. Sumathi,

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