Our Team
Our Mission and continued endeavour has been to provide such service and value-added solutions that empower our client to make better and effective decisions, inspire our team to perform their best, and serve the industry by providing our best services as well as trained and efficient Cost Accountants.
For us,the most Important assets are our "people", even though their names cannot be found on our balance sheet. Thus, our professional services team is our intellectual capital ,The essence of their experience is mentioned here under:
OUR PARTNERS
The firm has 4 (Four) partners as follows, who are qualified Cost Accountants with Certificate Of Practice:
Smt. Parvathy Venkatesh, FCMA, Cost Accountant
A professional experience of over last 25 years in the diverse areas of Cost Audits, Consulting,
Internal Audits and system implementation, in many large companies. Such experience has been
in the various industries which include FMCG, Textiles, Sugar, Cement, Automobile, Auto
Ancillaries, Paper, Consumer Electronics etc.
Role in Ramanath Iyer & Co (RNI & Co.)(Cost Accountants):
Overall coordination of all assignments handled by RNI & CO including Cost Audits & Cost Consultancy. Having a rich experience into diverse areas of costing, she has the distinction of improvising and at times redefining the way cost audits are done.
A professional leader, who sets up an excellence standard for the firm and is actively involved into industry specific cost solutions.
An active participant into the various audit committee meetings at the corporate level. Has been a constant advocate of best cost management practices in corporates.
Has also been involved in her professional capacity, as member of different committees in the various chambers of commerce and industry.
Smt. Parvathy Venkatesh has also been involved in her professional capacity as the member of:
- The Awards committee instituted by the Institute of Cost Accountants Of India for excellence in cost management till March 2017.
- Working group of the expert committee constituted by Ministry of Corporate Affairs in 2010 for reviewing the Cost Audit Report Rules &Cost Accounting Record Rules.
- Nominee of PHDCCI on the Cost Auditing Standards Board of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India till September 2018
- Board member IMA (USA) Research Foundation since 1st April 2021
- Member of National committee of CII Total Cost Management Division since 2019
- Member Technical cell, Institute of Cost Accountants of India since January 2023
- Member Women Leadership Committee of the South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA)
Independent director, on the board of M/S Calcom Vision Ltd.
She has also participated in various seminars and conferences on Costing and Cost Management in India & SriLanka.
Dr. D. Jagannathan, FCMA, Cost Accountant
Over 35 years of experience as an academician of high repute and a costing professional highly accomplished, he has in addition to being a senior faculty in numerous business schools, also
conducted various professional MDP’s and provided customized solutions to industries on various costing issues. His Role in Ramanath Iyer & Co is as advisory in management accounting related assignments. He is also well verse with application of data analytics tools. He has also conducted cost audits.
Shri Manoj Kumar, FCMA, Cost Accountant
Manoj is a Fellow member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India and graduate in commerce from Delhi University. He has rich experience in the field of Cost Audit and Cost Record preparation, Installation of Costing System, SAP accounting & Anti-dumping. His experience spans across various industries (viz. Machinery, Textile, Automobiles, Service, Chemical, FMCG, Power, Steel, Metals, etc.). He advises clients on Cost Audit Matters specially on the cost accounting framework as mandated under the Companies Act 2013 as well as the Cost Accounting Standards and Generally Accepted Cost Accounting Principles prescribed by the Institute of Cost Accountants of India.
Shri Gurdeep Singh, FCMA
A practitioner having an experience of more than 32 years in field of cost management & Cost
Audit across various Industries in SAP environment. He has vast experience in the field of
costing & tariff in the Power sector.
Shri D Chandru, FCMA
He was the former Director Continuous Education Program with the Institute of Cost
Accountants of India for more than 23 years. He has a rich experience of over 38 years in
Designing and Organising various Manage Development Programmes (MDPs approximately
1500) for executives and officers in Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), Private sector,
Government Departments like Indian Navy, Indian AirForce, Indian Railways etc., Banks,
Insurance companies & Multinational Companies (both in India as we as abroad). The topics
for these MDPs include Cost Management, Finance, Accounting, Taxation, IFRS, Indian
Accounting Standards (Ind AS), Project management, Contract management, Behavioural
Science, Finance for non-Finance Executives etc.
ASSOCIATES
Sangeetha Karunakaram
FCA, Delhi
Qualified Chartered Accountant having over
20 years of experience in various fields including
teaching Accountancy, Income tax, Management
Accounting & Company Law, conducting Internal Audit
as well as cost Audit, handling assignments on Internal
Financial Control. A certified valuer with certification
from ICAI.
Manpreet Kaur,
ACMA
A finalist in Costing having over 6 years of experience in conducting cost audits of different manufacturing entities as well as service industries
OUR EXPERT ASSOCIATES
Shri A.N. Raman
Chennai
Specializing in Costing Systems including ABC
& Balance Score card. Past President
of SAFA. (Detailed resume available on request)
S.V.Kumar
b. S.V.Kumar A Chartered & Cost Accountant with 20 years
of post qualification experience in Risk Consulting, Performance Management, Internal Audit and Assurance Services, Control Designing (based on COSO/COBIT framework), Business Process Mapping and engineering, SOX, Fraud & Forensic Advisory, Capital Raising & Business Structuring, Business & Financial Planning & Analysis.
Atul Vij
b. S.V.Kumar A Chartered & Cost Accountant with 20 years
of post qualification experience in Risk Consulting, Performance Management, Internal Audit and Assurance Services, Control Designing (based on COSO/COBIT framework), Business Process Mapping and engineering, SOX, Fraud & Forensic Advisory, Capital Raising & Business Structuring, Business & Financial Planning & Analysis.
SUPPORT TEAM
Led by Shri Amresh Kumar - finalist in Costing having over 25 years of experience in conducting cost audits of different manufacturing entities. All client based assignments are dealt with by a group of Executives (about 15) who are in the various stages of Costing studies including Graduate Cost Accountants.
The day-to-day administrative work is carried on by a small group of 5 persons. We also have tie-ups with experts for rendering specialized services based on client requirements (refer section on Services Rendered).