Chartered Accountant, Lasantha Wickremasinghe was inducted as the 23rd President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) on Tuesday, 26th January 2016 in the presence of a distinguished audience including senior government officials, corporate leaders and international accounting personalities.
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Mr. Wickremasinghe, a prominent Chartered Accountant was ceremoniously inducted by outgoing President Mr. Arjuna Herath in the presence of Hon. Karu Jayasuriya, Speaker of Parliament, Hon. Ravi Karunanayake, Minister of Finance and Dr. Giancarlo Attolini, Chairman of the International Federation of Accountants’ SMP Committee.
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Wickremasinghe, a fellow member of CA Sri Lanka counts for 20 years of experience and is a Partner at B.R. De Silva & Co. Chartered Accountants. He has served in the CA Sri Lanka Council since 2006, and prior to his induction as President, he was Vice President from 2014 to 2015.
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Mr. Wickremasinghe serves as a Board Member of the Confederation of Asian Pacific Accountants (CAPA), the regional organisation representing national accountancy organisations in the Asia-Pacific region, and is a Technical Advisor to the Board of the South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA), which is an apex body of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC).
He chairs SAFA’s Improvement in Tr