A REPORT ON THE GUEST LECTURE, SUBJECT ADVANCED ACCOUNTING, TOPIC INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS FOR B.Com V SEMESTER

Date: 02-02-2022.

A guest lecture was organized by Department of Commerce, Sivananda Sarma Memorial RV

College on the topic “Investment Accounts ” for the students of V semester B.Com (Subject Advanced Accounting). The speaker was Dr. K M Mahesh , Principal, Sri Bhagavan Mahaveer Jain Evening College, Bangalore. As per scheduled it started exactly at 1.30pm on 02.02.2022 with a welcome address by Prof. Bharathi  Dept. of Commerce. She welcomed our beloved Principal Dr. S Anil kumar, resource person Dr. Mahesh, Head department of Commerce Dr. NagaraJ M S, final year co-ordinator Dr. Shalini N, event co-ordinator Dr Sri Hari and all the department heads, colleagues and the students. Event   co-ordinator introduced the resource person and left the platform to start the session.

This virtual guest lecture was conducted in Google Meet platform link: https://meet.google.com/uxy-paqe-isa for students on 2nd February 2022 from 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM. Students of final year B.com actively participated throughout the session.

Dr. Mahesh started his session by explaining the meaning of Investments, types or Classification of Investment, Accounting treatment for Reclassification of Investment, Disposal of Investments and income from investments.  Under classification he explained about current investments, long term investments, variable earning securities and fixed earning securities.  He also discussed about real world examples of Investments. He solved the practical problems through excel on Cum Interest and Ex Interest baring securities.  The session helped the students to understand the concept. He ended the session with question and answers. He answered all the questions and clarified the doubts of the students.

Prof. Saravana delivered vote of thanks and the session was ended at 3.30pm as per schedule.