About

My journey

I qualified as a Chartered Accountant after a long road — eight years of exams, articleship and stubbornness. Since then I have worked across audit, group finance leadership and now manufacturing finance in Bengaluru, handling everything from GST litigation and TDS compliance to SAP-driven MIS and treasury.

Along the way I noticed something: the professionals I admired most were not the ones who knew the most sections by heart. They were the ones who could explain — who could take a dense circular, a messy trial balance or a new technology and make it legible. This site is my attempt to become one of them.

My philosophy

Writing is the tax I happily pay on my learning. If I cannot explain it simply, I have not understood it yet.

I write to learn in public. Every article here starts as a question from my own work — a notice I had to answer, a reconciliation that would not tie, an AI tool I wanted to trust before using. I research it properly, apply it, and only then write it up. Nothing here is sponsored, nothing is for sale, and I correct my mistakes openly.

Why I started writing

Finance knowledge in India lives in silos — dense bare acts, paywalled commentary, and WhatsApp forwards of uneven quality. I wanted a middle layer: rigorous enough that a fellow CA can rely on it, plain enough that a business owner can act on it. Writing also sharpens my own thinking; publishing raises the bar on my research; and over the years this becomes a searchable archive of everything I have learned.

What I'm interested in

Direct and indirect taxation, manufacturing finance, corporate laws, SAP, and — increasingly — how artificial intelligence and automation change the day-to-day craft of a finance professional. I build small automations for my own workflows and write honestly about what works and what doesn't.