Ishwar Chandra

Born on 10th February 1969, a commerce graduate from St. John s College
Agra, Ishwar Chandra is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants of India (ICAI). He is a Chartered Accountant practising since 1993
and is a Partner in M/s. IC & Associates, Agra.

He holds DISA from ICAI and CISA from Information Systems Audit &
Control Association (ISACA) USA. He holds Certificates in IFRS, Forensic
Accounting and Fraud Detection (FAFD) and Concurrent Audit of Banks from ICAI.
Mainly practising auditing, his significant work experience includes Concurrent
Audit, IS Audit, Stock Audit, Income & Expenditure Audit and External Audit
of various Commercial, Regional Rural and Co-operative Banks and Internal &
External Audit and other assignments of PSUs.

His approach and procedures articles
on auditing of banks have been immensely published in The Chartered Accountant
Journal of ICAI. He authored the Five C s of IT Policy published in Internal
Auditor of the Institute of Internal Auditors (USA). He has been one of the
Subject Matter Expert (SME) Reviewers of ISACA s CISA Review Manuals (26th and
27th Editions) and is a contributor to IS auditing to ISACA. He has
participated in the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) consultation
paper Improving Auditor Reporting .

In his 30 years of professional
career, he has delivered several lectures on auditing banks at ICAI seminars
organized by CIRC, SIRC and NIRC branches/study circles. He has been associated
with various Boards/Committees of ICAI. He has been a member of a Financial
Reporting Review Group constituted by the Financial Reporting Review Board
(FRRB) of ICAI and has acted as a lead reviewer. He is associated with FRRB as
Technical Reviewer (TR) and with the Peer Review Board of ICAI as a Peer
Reviewer. He is associated with the Committee on Capital Markets and Investors
Protection (CCMIP) of ICAI as a Resource Person. His academic associations
include the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) and the Institute
of Cost Accountants of India. He is a founder trustee of Shri Rajendra Prasad
Munni Devi Agrawal Memorial Trust, a registered public charitable trust.