Asian School of Business

Annual M.N.V. Nair Memorial Lecture by Vinod Rai

Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India Vinod Rai has stressed the need for a new system of public audit, where auditing would take place concurrent with public spending.
Delivering the annual M.N.V. Nair Memorial Lecture instituted by the Public Affairs Forum and the Asian School of Business here on Tuesday, he said auditing now was more of a post-mortem exercise. Concurrent auditing would help minimise leakage, facilitate correction and optimise results.

Visit by students of Cameron School

Students and Faculty of Cameron School of Business, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, USA, visited Asian School of Business recently. The delegation of motivated graduate students, currently working in a variety of industries in Houston - oil and gas, banking, insurance and information technology and from varying ethnic backgrounds were accompanied by Prof Beena George.
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ASB hires consultant for Rs 63-crore campus

Asian School of Business (ASB) has hired CPG-Consultants, the architects of Singapore Changi Airport, to set up its new Rs 63-crore campus in Thiruvananthapuram. This is planned as the first Leeds-certified green building complex and campus in Kerala.

The B-school, set up by Oman-based construction magnate George M Thomas, expects to move its two-year PG management programme to the new campus by second half of 2009.