Navi Mumbai Cost & Management Accountants’ Association
conducted a seminar on “Strategic Export Management & Exim Policy” on 24th August
2004 at Hotel Highway View, Sanpada, Navi Mumbai. There was tremendous support
from the industries around the area that sponsored their employees. It is quite
heartening to note that an organisation like Reliance Industries Ltd. thought
it appropriate to sponsor more than half a dozen of their employees for the
Seminar. Seeing the representation from many of the reputed organisations, it
is proposed to conduct at least one Seminar in each quarter of a year on a
topic of great interest to the industry.
The Seminar was inaugurated by Mr. S.S. Sandhu, I.A.S., Zonal JDGFT
& Additional Commissioner, who delineated the efforts on the part of his
department to remove all bureaucratic hastles and make the system transparent
with quick disposal systems in place. He also assured full co-operation from
his office in training the industrialists in Navi Mumbai area in the Exports
field.
The Chief Guest Mr. Dinesh Parekh, Chairman, Indian Merchants’
Chamber, Navi Mumbai and President, Thane Belapur Industries Association lauded
the efforts of the Association in making services of the professionals like
cost and management accountants readily available for the industries when in
need. He opined that many of the manufacturing organisations in Thana Belapur
area are being closed down for non- utilization of the services of cost
accountants. He advised that cost accountants should come out of their cocoons
and help the industries not only survive but effectively compete with the
organisations from different countries of the world that are opening up their
shops in India.
The First session of the Seminar was on “Strategic Export Marketing
Management by the renowned speaker Mr. Ajit Shah who dealt with the precautions
that are required to be taken and the pitfalls those are required to be avoided
in dealing with the customers abroad.
The Second session was by Mr. Dinesh Jain, Chairman of the
Association who dealt with the Exim Policy 2002-07 explaining the various
export incentives available to an exporter advising the audience as to which
incentive is appropriate in different circumstances.
The Third Session on “International Trade, Finance & Risk
Management” was taken up by Mr. N.K. Gupta who enthralled the audience by not
only explaining various aspects of subject but also gave various practical
illustrations with hilarious anecdotes.
The Fourth Session on “Export Costing & Pricing” was handled
very nicely by Mr. Pramod Sant from Siemens Ltd. Various aspects of export
costing and pricing was of much interest to the participants as he explained
practical aspects of the same.