WEBINAR ON
‘CLOUD SOLUTION’
The Technology Committee of the BCAS
organised a webinar on ‘Cloud Solution by Google and Microsoft’ on Saturday, 25th
July, 2020.
Mr. Juned
Kasmani, a Google Sales
‘Certified Professional’ having an experience of more than ten years in the
cloud industry and in Google Cloud, gave an overview of G-Suite and compared it
with MS Office 365 relevant to the professionals. He also gave a glimpse of the
management interface and administrative control of G-Suite.
Mr. Kasmani also
shared a demo on the productivity apps for creating and collaborating documents
on the Cloud and showcased the various corporate communication tools available
to practitioners.
He was joined by Mr. Punit Thakkar,
CEO of Shivaami Solutions, who answered all the questions posed by the
participants and also ran a live demo of the G-Suite and MS Office
applications.
The session was interactive and the speakers
concentrated on:
1. Introduction and comparison of G-Suite and
Office 365,
2. Business email and shared calendaring
services,
3. Corporate communication tools,
4. Productivity apps for creating and
collaborating,
5. Google Drive vs. One Drive based on online
storage, with shared space for collaboration along with security features,
6. Comparisons based on offering and price
points,
7. Solutions by third party service providers.
The participants gained insights into
G-Suite and MS Office 365 applications and learned new ways of working more effectively
in an evolving and changing professional services and regulatory environment.
SOFTWARE
FOR GST
The Suburban Study Circle along with the
Technology Initiatives Committee conducted an online meeting styled ‘Excel –
GST ki Jugalbandi’ on 5th September. The meeting was led by Sandeep
Modi.
The speaker demonstrated many Excel Tips and
Tricks for effective preparation and compilation of data for filing GST
returns. The following issues were discussed:
(i) Look Up Magic,
(ii) How to handle frequent
updating of client data in
Excel,
(iii) Date format issues,
(iv) Tricks / Automating GSTR1,
(v) GSTR2 & Purchase Reconciliation,
(vi) Shortcuts in filing GSTR3B,
(vii) GST Liability Calculation Sheet.
Sandeep Modi
also shared Excel templates with the participants for future reference and use.
The personal working experiences in Excel for filing GST returns, issues faced
and their solutions will be of immense help to the participants.
There were more than 140 participants on
Zoom and 300 on YouTube who attended and imbibed the knowledge that was shared.
The speaker answered all the questions raised by the participants in the
session.
Let us learn to appreciate there
will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we
may pick the fruit
—
Anton Chekhov
