Our main interview this month is with Prasenna Balachandran FCCA, chief internal auditor at one of Sri Lanka’s largest conglomerates, LAUGFS Holdings. A 20-year career in risk and control has convinced him that independent thinking and a questioning mind are key to success in the space.
We also look at the top priorities for financial professionals in India, as revealed by ACCA’s report, India Talent Trends 2023, which reveals among other things that the South Asian country, with its youthful population, is one of just three globally where respondents identified wellbeing and mental health as a top priority.
On a similar theme, across the GCC countries of the Arabian Gulf, a third of employees are reporting symptoms of burnout. With accounting professionals an ‘at-risk’ group, it’s a development that organisations ignore at their peril. Our article explores how leaders can influence the mental health of their organisation and avoid burnout.
For practitioners, we have an article on innovative ways of marketing your business in order to bring in new revenue streams and clients.
And for those in the public sector, we discuss experts’ concerns over governments shifting costs off balance sheet in the article ‘Contingent liabilities scrutinised’.
