CA Sri Lanka honours four founding members for outstanding leadership to accounting profession

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) recently paid tribute to four founding members of the institute, who during their lifetime gave leadership towards developing the accounting profession, almost six decades ago. 

At a ceremony held recently, the institute’s founding President L.A. Weerasinghe, the institute’s first elected President K. Satchithananda and founding council members R.S. Wijeyesekera and M.T.L. Fernando were posthumously inducted into the CA Sri Lanka Hall of Fame. 

The four founding members were inducted into the Hall of Fame in recognition of their outstanding contribution and for giving leadership in developing the profession and the institute during the first decade since the institute was founded in 1959. 

Speaking at the event, incumbent CA Sri Lanka President Lasantha Wickremasinghe said the institute boasted of a proud history dating back nearly six decades and the institute stands tall today because of the vision, direction and hard work of the founding fathers of the institute.  “This year, the CA Sri Lanka Council decided to pay tribute to our founding fathers, posthumously, by inducting them into the CA Sri Lanka Hall of Fame in recognition of the significant role they played during their lifetime in developing the accounting profession in Sri Lanka,” he said.