SAI, Vijay
Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
The author, a Chartered Accountant (India) and an IT professional with over 17 years combined experience in the two fields manages the project referred in the paper. His experience spans various organizational functions including accounting and audit, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems implementation, and the development, maintenance and support of Financial Reporting Systems amongst others. He presently represents the Information Technology and Financial & Business Services Management departments executing strategic IT planning and implementation responsibilities for financial management related aspects of the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University with whom he has been working for the last three years, the firt two as a consultant.