{"id":1332,"date":"2025-07-21T21:46:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fnu.ac.fj\/business-hospitality-tourism-studies\/?page_id=1332"},"modified":"2025-07-24T02:53:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T02:53:44","slug":"maheshwari-gounder-chand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fnu.ac.fj\/business-hospitality-tourism-studies\/about-college\/profile\/accounting-banking-finance\/maheshwari-gounder-chand\/","title":{"rendered":"Ms. Maheshwari Gounder Chand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/business-hospitality-tourism-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Maheshwari-Gounder-Chand.jpg\" alt=\"Ms Maheshwari Gounder Chand\" width=\"224\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Position:<\/strong> Lecturer &#8211; School of Accounting, Banking and Finance<\/p>\n<p><strong>Industry Association:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: none; padding-left: 0;\">\n<li>\u2022 Member, AIB<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Associate Member, IFA\/IPA (Australia) <\/li>\n<li>\u2022 CA &#8211; FICA (Fiji) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Qualifications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: none; padding-left: 0;\">\n<li>\u2022 Master of Business Studies (MBA)<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Accounting (PGDAcc)<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Postgraduate Diploma in Business Studies (PGDBS)<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Bachelor of Arts (Accounting\/Business Management) (BA)<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Diploma in Business Accounting (DBS)<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 PhD (in progress)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Area of Expertise:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: none; padding-left: 0;\">\n<li>\u2022 Business Studies<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Financial Accounting<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Accounting Standards &#038; Business Accounting<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Small Business Management<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Sustainability and Disclosures in Financial Reporting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Brief Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maheshwari Chand is a Lecturer at Fiji National University with over 19 years of dedicated academia experience in accounting education. She joined FNU in 2010, after nearly a decade of service at the FIJI Institute of Technology. Throughout her career, she has coordinated and taught a range of accounting units at diploma and degree level programs, in both the College of Business, Hospitality and Tourisms Studies (CBHTS) and college of Humanities and Education (CHE). <\/p>\n<p>She has actively mentored students in industry attachment, career planning, and professional networking with key partners in the Fijian accounting profession. Maheshwari has participated in international research workshops, presented at local university conferences, and reviewed chapters for Auditing and Assurance Services in Australia (7th edition, textbook). She holds professional memberships with the AIB, IFA, IPA and is a Chartered Accountant with FICA-Fiji. 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