GENERAL MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Course on GMCS - General Management and Communication Skills
The 15 Days full time Course on General
Management and Communication Skills was introduced in the year 2002 to equip
the entrants to the profession with interpersonal and management skills and
provide exposure to the contemporary issues in the ever changing socio-economic
scenario. This course is a prerequisite for membership enrolment of the
Institute under Regulation 51A/72A
Objectives
To equip the entrants of the profession
with some essential skills, such as:
- General Management and Business Communication
Skills
- Presentation Skills
- Group Discussion skills & Inter-personal
skills
- Legal document preparation skills
- To enable the participants to become more
confident and capable of using the knowledge gained while doing the
Chartered Accountancy Course
- To increase level of awareness of management
theory and practice with the ultimate aim of self-development
- To provide opportunities for personal
interaction with fellow students and senior members of the profession.
Eligibility
- A student who has passed Intermediate /
Professional Education (Examination – II) / Professional Competence Course
and is serving his last 12 months of articles is eligible to complete the
course. The requirement of compulsory attendance in this course applies to
all the Articled/ Audit Assistants: A student after being declared
successful in the Final Examination under old or new scheme can be
admitted as an associate member only after completion of the course on
General Management and Communication Skills
- A student who completes Three Months’
Residential Programme in General Management, Personality Development and
Communication Skills organized by the Board of Studies will not be
required to undergo GMCS Course.
Course Structure
The Course is organized by the Regional
Monitoring Committee at the Regional Head-Quarters and by the Chairman at
Branch level. The Dubai Overseas Office of ICAL also conducts the Course.
Faculty
Faculty is drawn from experienced and
well-known members of the profession, management consultants/ trainers, members
of the academic community from Universities/ Management Institutions, etc. To
enable intensive training, batch size does not normally exceed 50 students.
Duration
- The duration of the course is 15 days full
time. Classes are held 6 hours each day. The suggested timing are-
9.30 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. (with half and hour break)
2.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. (with half an hour break)
- The broad allocation of time to cover the
course contents are as follows:
Part A- General Management – 30 hours
Part B – Communication Skills – 30 hours
Part C – Practical – 30 hours
Teaching Methodology
Training is imparted systematically
through a Training Calendar. Multiple instructional methods including lectures,
case studies, presentations, group discussions, management games, projects,
mock interviews, etc. are used.
Fees
Generally the fees will not exceed
Rs.4000 per student in India, on non-residential basis, inclusive of Course and
study materials.
Exemption from payment of fees to
Disabled Students for undergoing General Management and Communication Skills
Course
Disabled Students are exempted from
payment of fees for undergoing the Course on General Management and
Communication Skills. Such students can either opt to (i) attend all the
classes or (ii) appear in two test papers of 3 hours each after a period of 15
days from the date of registration after thoroughly studying the Background
Material.
Definition of disabled students a. Blindness –
"Blindness” refers to a condition where a person suffers from any of the
following conditions, namely - total absence of sight;
- visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (snellen) in the better eye with
correcting lenses; or
- limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of 20 degree or
worse.
b. Low vision – "Low vision” means a person with impairment
of visual functioning even after treatment or standard refractive correction
but who uses or is potentially capable of using vision for the planning or
execution of a task with appropriate assistive device.
c. Leprosy cured –
"Leprosy cured” means any person who has been cured of leprosy but is
suffering from
- loss of sensation in hands or feet as well as loss of sensation
and paresis in the eye and eye-lid but with no manifest deformity;
- manifest deformity and paresis but having sufficient mobility in
their hands and feet to enable them to engage in normal economic activity;
- extreme physical deformity as well as advanced age which
prevents him from undertaking any gainful occupation, and the expression
"leprosy cured” shall be constructed accordingly.
d. Hearing impairment – "Hearing impairment” means loss of sixty
decibels or more in the better ear in the conversational range of frequencies.
e. Locomotors disability – "Locomotors disability” means disability of the
bones, joints or muscles leading to substantial restriction of the movement of
the limbs or any form of cerebral palsy.
f. Permanent and total loss of voice – a
disabled student has to submit a certificate of suffering from disability,
certified by a physician / surgeon / oculist working in a Government hospital,
as the case may be.
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