Dear Member,

Warm Greetings to you and your family.

The Committee on Information Technology has been established by the Institute to identify Information
Technology challenges facing the profession and convert them into gainful professional opportunities for
members by conducting Conferences, Seminars, and Practical Workshops, Training programmes, courses
apart from Practice Guides, Training Aids, Softwares and Publications on Information Technology for the
benefit of members.

The Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, recognizing the need for Forensic
Accounting and Fraud Detection, in the emerging economic scenario, has decided to launch this Certificate
Course on Forensic Accounting and Fraud Detection. Forensic Accounting and Fraud Detection
specialization is in increasing demand considering increasing incidents of cyber crimes and frauds detection.
It is the practice of utilizing accounting, auditing, CAATs/ Data Mining Tools, and investigative skills to
detect fraud/ mistakes.

We are happy to inform you that the IT Committee is organizing next batch of Certificate Course on
Forensic Accounting and Fraud Detection at Kolkata from 30th May - 05th June 2014 (. The Venue
address for the same is as under:






                ICAI Bhawan, ITT Centre
                7, Anandilal Poddar Sarani (Russell Street), Kolkata ­ 700071
                Contact No.: EPABX Kolkata Office­ 39893989, 3021 1140,3021 1141

You can register for the course Online by paying the course fee of Rs 25,000 through the ICAI Online
Payment Gateway at the following link: (As the seats are limited, please enroll at the earliest by paying the
requisite fees to ensure participation, in case of non-receipt of minimum number of registrations batch may
be cancelled/ postponed).

http://www.icai.org/ccm.html?progid=10&makepay=1

For online/ offline registration: http://cit.icai.org/forensic_accounting.aspx

Or you may like to send Demand Draft of Rs 25,000/- in favor of "Secretary ICAI" payable at Delhi to be
sent at the following address:


The Secretary
Committee on Information Technology
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
5th Floor, Hostel Block, ICAI Bhawan, A-29,
Sector-62, Noida - 201309, India
Tel (Direct): +91 120 3045961/ 963/ 992
E-mail: cit@icai.in, cc.fafd@icai.in
Website: http://cit.icai.org & www.icai.org


Please note that if you are bringing laptop, office 2010 is prerequisite/ mandatory requirement for
attending the course , detailed requirements/ Prerequisites are given at the end of the mail and 20 CPE
will be given after successful completion of the course.


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We would be extremely happy to receive your feedbacks and suggestions to enable us to transform the IT
landscape of ICAI.







In case of any assistance, further queries please get in touch with us.


With warm regards,


CA. S. Santhana krishnan, Chairman
Committee on Information Technology
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
5th Floor, Hostel Block, ICAI Bhawan, A-29,
Sector-62, Noida - 201309, India
Tel (Direct): +91 120 3045961/ 963/ 992




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                                                                        Prerequisites
All the participants are required to bring in their personal laptop with following specifications:

Windows 7 64 bit preferred or 32 bit

ACL Desktop system requirements:
You must ensure that each computer meets all the following requirements before proceeding with the
installation of ACL:
Supported operating systems:

 Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)

 Note
ACL 9.2 is a 32-bit application that can run on either the 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows 7.
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition (SP1)
Microsoft Windows XP (SP3)
1.8 GHz or higher processor
1 GB of RAM
150 MB of hard disk space for application components
Significant additional disk space (100 GB or more recommended) if a computer will be used to store data
extracts, flat files, and results
TCP/IP connectivity during installation

Software prerequisites
The following software must be installed before installing ACL:
Windows Installer 2.0 or higher
Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8 ­ SP1 or higher
Microsoft Jet (MSJet) 4.0 ­ SP3 or higher
Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) 4.0 ­ SP1 or higher




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