Research facilitates learning, and learning enables innovation which will empower the profession to create value for all stakeholders. ICAI’s awards will be a great forum to celebrate creativity, thought leadership and collaboration across the profession, leading to advancements in our knowledge to ensure we continue to enhance our value in society.

Building our collective research capacity on all things accounting is an important step in establishing our profession's legacy for future accountants .This Award is an excellent platform to find and recognize such researches.

The European accountancy profession derives great value from academic research across the globe. Research helps develop our profession, economies and societies and it critically informs decision-making. Scholars’ contributions are indispensable and I am happy this gets recognised by ICAI’s initiative.

Research is the cornerstone for improvement. Its importance in our profession cannot be undermined. Our Profession must adapt and evolve according to advances in technology, financial practices and globalization to protect public interest. The awards are a laudable initiative and will encourage research in relevant areas.

Research prepares us for future, by sharpening our knowledge, embrace future technologies for succeeding in emerging environment. It enriches our knowledge to convert future challenges into opportunities. The awards will bring in global community together to research on key emerging areas.

With advent of technology and globalization its important to promote research to strengthen the global standards setting and policies, to mitigate risks arising from globalization and technology. The awards shall be a great initiative to promote research and innovation.