Accelerate London 2026 — by Workiva
Attended Accelerate London 2026, hosted by Workiva — one of the leading platforms for financial reporting and compliance. The session that stayed with me most was seeing how FRS standards can be compared line by line against prepared reports.
What used to require hours of manual cross-referencing — checking whether a disclosure meets the exact wording and structure of the standard — can now be done with a level of precision and speed that genuinely changes how compliance review works. Seeing the standard and the report side by side, flagging gaps automatically, made something abstract suddenly feel very practical.
It's the kind of thing that makes you think differently about where the profession is going — and what skills are worth developing now, before they become table stakes.
Joining the ICAI UK Chapter — finding my professional community in London
In June 2026 I was added to the ICAI UK Chapter group — a community of Indian Chartered Accountants based in the UK. It's a small thing on the surface, but it felt significant. A professional home in a new country.
Being part of a community of people who went through the same qualification, understand the same challenges of transitioning to the UK market, and are building careers here — that's not something you can replicate on your own.
ICAEW Global Summit — sitting in rooms that shape the profession
The ICAEW's flagship event — finance leaders, standard setters, and practitioners from across the world. A rare opportunity to understand how the profession is evolving at the highest level, and to see the values that drive UK accounting up close.
What struck me most was the recurring theme of trust. Not compliance, not regulation — trust. The profession's value comes down to whether the people who rely on financial information can trust it. That's a surprisingly human idea for a field that deals in numbers.
Accountex London — walking into the UK accounting profession for the first time
Europe's largest accountancy and finance exhibition. Walking in as someone who had studied the UK profession from the outside, it felt like finally being in the room. The conversations happening between sessions — about cloud software, practice management, the future of audit — everything I'd read about was suddenly live.
I left understanding the profession here in a way no certification could have given me.
International Conference Jagriti — at Bharat Mandapam, Delhi
The International Conference Jagriti for CA students at Bharat Mandapam — one of India's most prestigious venues. Being in a room full of CA students and professionals who are all genuinely invested in the profession reminded me why I chose this path.
The conversations, the ideas exchanged, the sense of a community that takes its work seriously — these are the moments that shape how you think about your career long after the event ends.
Read original post on LinkedIn →Volunteering at WOFA — 6,000 accountants in one room
The World Forum of Accountants brought together over 6,000 delegates from the global accounting community in Delhi. I volunteered across multiple days — coordinating, managing, problem-solving under pressure as things inevitably shifted from the plan.
Being behind the scenes of an event that scale teaches you something about the profession's sense of community. Seeing that many people in one place, all dedicated to the same discipline, made the profession feel bigger — and more worth being part of.
Read original post on LinkedIn →Best Paper Presenter — Mega CA Students' Conference 2024
The paper was on faceless tax assessment. To write it properly, I didn't just read the legislation. I designed a questionnaire, got it filled by real people, and built the argument from actual data. Competing at the Mega CA Students' Conference in front of a national audience and winning first place — months of preparation, delivered in a single performance.
'Miss Inquisitive' — the best thing anyone has ever said about how I work
At Shyamlal College, University of Delhi, I was awarded the title 'Miss Inquisitive' — given to someone who asks a lot of questions, who doesn't accept the first answer, who wants to understand things properly rather than just appear to.
Curiosity isn't a personality quirk — it's a discipline. The question "but why?" is more valuable than most answers. I hope I never stop asking it.