Greentick Green Dialogues: ‘Sustainability and Sustainability Reporting –What Auditors Need to Know?’

Dolphy D'Souza is a Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant, Company Secretary from Indian Institutes and a Management Accountant from the London Institute and a ranker. He comes from a humble background and has worked hard to achieve success in his chosen field of accounting practice.

Dolphy has more than three decades of accounting and auditing experience with detail exposure to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) and Indian GAAP. His experience includes IFRS and Ind AS implementation and audit of large Indian and multi-national clients including SEC registrants, with complex organization structures and businesses. The experience has been predominantly with three of the big accounting firms in India and abroad as a professional practice leader (Ind AS & IFRS) and senior partner. Dolphy is actively involved in professional development activities, having been a speaker at several seminars on Accounting Standards for CFOs, independent directors, accountants, standard-setters, students and regulators across India and at International conferences. In this book, he has brought to good use his practical experience to deal with the complex problems and accounting challenges faced by the Industry on a day-to-day basis. He is an avid and regular contributor to various
technical journals and newspapers', on matters relating to accounting standards, accounting practices and financial reporting. He has written several books on accounting standards and financial reporting. His interest in writing started much earlier when as a student, he got the best article of the year in 'The Chartered Accountant' journal from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). Dolphy is fully committed to Indian GAAP, Ind AS and IFRS standard setting process including with the ICAI and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). His body of work on accounting standard has raised the level of debate in the country on some of the contentious accounting issues. He is a member of several standard-setting and regulatory committees on IFRS, Ind AS and Indian GAAP.