AREA OF EXPERTISE: Finance, Accounting & Capital Markets
Education:
- Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA), Institute of Chartered Accountants of India — 1984
BIO:
Raghu Iyer is a practising Chartered Accountant, Registered Valuer, derivatives specialist, and experienced finance educator with over 40 years of professional experience. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1984, securing 4th rank in the All-India CA Final examination and 3rd rank in the All-India CA Intermediate examination. He runs his own Chartered Accountancy practice, Raghu Iyer Associates, providing audit, valuation, consulting, due diligence, accounting, tax planning, and financial advisory services to businesses across India, the US, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
He has extensive expertise in Finance, Accounting, Direct Taxes, Derivatives, Financial Valuation, Hedging, IFRS, Ind AS, and Financial Markets. His professional practice includes derivative valuation, hedge designations, hedge effectiveness testing, accounting advisory, deal structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and technical opinions on IFRS and Ind AS.
Raghu has also built a significant academic and executive education portfolio. He has been associated as Adjunct Professor with S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research and Great Lakes Institute of Management, and has conducted programmes for business schools, financial institutions, corporates, investors, regulators, and financial-market intermediaries. He has trained more than 250,000 participants across various forums over more than three decades.
AREA OF EXPERTISE:
Finance, Accounting & Capital Markets
SUBJECT TAUGHT / STUDENT PROJECT MENTOR:
Financial Statement Analysis | Equity Valuation – Fundamental Approach | Investments in Equity & Mutual Funds | Sector-Specific Equity Analysis | IFRS | Ind AS | Derivatives | Accounting for Derivatives & Financial Instruments | Hedge Accounting | Financial Acumen for Entrepreneurs | Financial Management | Behavioural Finance | Capital Market Investing Strategies | Tax Planning
EXPERIENCE:
- Owner / Practising Chartered Accountant, Raghu Iyer Associates | January 1985 – Present
- Derivatives Specialist, Raghu Iyer Associates | January 1998 – Present
- Training Specialist | August 2020 – Present
- Co-Founder & Lead Trainer, Accounting & Finance for Corporate Lawyers (AFCL) | January 2009 – Present
- Co-Founder, FCL Search | January 2009 – Present
- Adjunct Professor, S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research | 1995 – Present
- Adjunct Professor, Great Lakes Institute of Management | 2006 – Present
KEY PROFESSIONAL & TRAINING ENGAGEMENTS:
- Trained more than 250,000 investors, bankers, tax officials, brokers, financial-market intermediaries, and corporate professionals across various forums over 33 years.
- Conducted executive training programmes on financial management for senior management of leading Indian corporates.
- Conducted training programmes for entrepreneurs covering financial risks and rewards, cash-flow management, accounting returns, funding from banks, and leverage.
- Conducted programmes for SP Jain campuses in Dubai and Singapore, as well as regular programmes at Great Lakes Institute of Management and the Bombay Stock Exchange.
- Conducted specialised training for High-Net-Worth Individuals in the Gulf on capital-market investing strategies and behavioural finance.
- Co-founded Accounting & Finance for Corporate Lawyers (AFCL), a specialised financial training platform for transaction lawyers and in-house counsels; more than 1,000 lawyers have participated in its programmes.
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE:
Raghu Iyer’s professional practice covers derivative valuations, hedging advisory, hedge effectiveness testing, Ind AS and IFRS technical opinions, accounting advisory, deal structuring, mergers and acquisitions, valuation, audits, due diligence, tax planning, and management advisory services.
His client and advisory experience includes organisations such as HDFC, ICICI, Franklin Templeton, IDFC, Standard Chartered, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Lehman Brothers, Citibank, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Tata Capital, Tata Motors, Tata Mutual Fund, Deloitte, PwC, Godrej Group, TCS, UBS, and Motilal Oswal, among others.