Subject: AN EARNEST APPEAL FROM A FELLOW CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT ON HEALTH CARE
HEALTH IS THE KEYWe, Chartered Accountants, have a major role to play in shaping the nation by rendering proper advice to the clients and co-ordinating with the Income-tax department, other government departments and government agencies. Our profession is second to army in maintaining discipline. Of late we have been hitting the headlines for wrong reasons. Of course I am confident that we are capable of overcoming such shortcomings and shortfalls in our professional work and what we really need is to focus on the work assigned to us without any distraction. This is quite possible only if we keep ourselves fit and this fitness can be achieved only when we take care of ourselves. 44AB audits, WW audits and scrutiny assessments are the order of the day and they will come and go. If anything were to happen to us even our most respected and influential clients will be compelled to shift their loyalty to a new Chartered Accountant but our family would suffer as there would be no replacement for us.I would like to share with you the observations made succinctly by Sri.P.S.Prabhakar, Chartered Accountant in his edit pad in Auditor magazine/journal-December, 2014. This is what he said-"10th December, 2014 – It was a sad day for most of us. Our professional colleague and a long-time activist as a committee member of SOA, Sri C. R. Sundarrajan of R.K.Kumar & Co passed away suddenly and what made his demise so shocking was that he was barely 56 years old and was showing no signs of any kind of ill-health even a few days before when most of us met him at a wedding of a son of another colleague. This gives us another warning bell to all of us, professionals, who not only take most of the pressures of our clientele on to our heads (and hearts), knowingly or unknowingly but also resolutely not taking any preventive healthcare measures. We are known for our sedentary life styles and realise little that we could be nurturing a ticking time bomb, without any outwardly sign. We have similarly lost CA V.J.Ramachandran and CA. Krishnan in the past couple of years and now CA Sundarrajan has also left us. I would implore every one of you to take proper care on health fronts and learn to lead a stress-free life, as I tender this advice to myself too. We owe it our families, friends and to ourselves."I would also like to share what one of my advocate friends said some 20 years back when I was in mid-forties "Take only your clients' cases and/but not their worries" But is it possible in our professional life?. Our clients, even when they receive hearing notice for scrutiny cases, will handover to us casually saying that my auditor will take care of this. Do we have any magic wand to take care of all issues so that they can be decided in our favour? Our mind may get surcharged and this may tell upon our health. In fact when I met my Chartered Accountant friend recently in a wedding he was not his usual self and when I asked the reason he said "I have scrutiny hearing tomorrow". We are all like that taking things seriously. So my humble submission is take care of your health by periodical-at least once a year- check up and the moment you feel discomfort in your body-of course for mind there are other avenues- kindly consult a doctor without waiting and do not allow the discomfort to prolong further. A stitch in time always (and definitely) saves lot of issues including health issues. After all the family as well as society should not lose intelligent people at a wrong age/time.Let us take this-adhering to our health check up at the proper time- as the pledge for the year 2015 and the years to come. You may benefit occasionally by postponing income tax hearing for some time to get a better order but delay in taking remedial measures in your health matters will not certainly benefit you.RegardsS. KRISHNANCHARTERED ACCOUNTANTNO.2, C.V. RAMAN ROADALWARPETCHENNAI – 600 018TEL. Nos. (OFFICE) 044- 24671175 TELEFAX 24671437TEL. No. (RESIDENCE) 044-24988029MOBILE: 098407- 01449
Posted by: Ramachandran Mahadevan <ramachandran.mahadevan@gmail.com>
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