Speaker

Bonhi Mukhopadhyaya

About The Speaker

13+ Years Mentoring Finance Professionals | 1,000+ Students Coached Co-Founder, The Fund Accountant

Bonhi Mukhopadhyaya helps professionals master Fund Accounting with 14+ years of experience in fund accounting, regulatory reporting, and mentoring finance talent. She is the Co-Founder of The Fund Accountant and has coached 1,000+ students, simplifying complex concepts into practical, job-ready skills.

Over the years, she has built extensive experience in end-to-end fund accounting, new fund onboarding, and expense calculations across diverse fund structures, including:

  • Stand-alone funds & multi-manager FOF
  • Fund of funds & multi-manager funds
  • Pension funds with diversified portfolios
  • Private equity funds
 

With exposure across the United States, United Kingdom, the Middle East, and Australia, Bonhi has developed:

  • Strong expertise in mentoring and leading diverse teams
  • Effective communication between senior management and junior staff
  • Deep experience monitoring fund activities, NAV calculations, and distribution factors
 

Areas of Expertise:

  • End-to-End Fund Preparation & Review
  • Income & Expense Analysis
  • Net Asset Value (NAV) Calculation
  • Fund Administration & Client Service
  • Conflict Resolution & Team Leadership
  • Training, Mentoring & Women’s Empowerment in Finance
Upcoming Event

Mastering Fund Accounting

Course Details

Course Overview

Mastering Fund Accounting is a practical, end-to-end course designed to help you understand the complete Fund Accounting process for Mutual Funds from the basics to realworld daily production activities.

You’ll start by building a strong foundation in core fund accounting terminologies,understanding types of funds, and how the overall operating model works. As you progress, you’ll learn the key day-to-day functions performed by fund accounting teams, including reconciliation, trade booking, income and expense processing, corporate actions, pricing/ NAV impact, and capital activity processing.

We’ll also discuss different investment vehicles and how they behave in fund accounting— such as bonds, derivatives, and other commonly used instruments, so you understand how accounting treatment and operational workflows differ across asset classes.

This course also covers the end-to-end NAV calculation process. Learners will be able to understand how NAV is computed from start to finish, including a case study that will help learners calculate NAV manually, step-by-step, which makes the concept much easier to grasp in practice.

By the end of this course, you will be able to clearly understand how a fund accounting professional works, what checks and controls are performed, and which steps are followed in daily production activities in a mutual fund environment, giving you the confidence to interpret processes and workflows like an industry practitioner.

Course Objectives

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Explain the end-to-end Mutual Fund accounting process and the purpose of each daily production step.
  • Understand and use key fund accounting terminologies confidently in real work scenarios.
  • Identify major types of funds.
  • Perform and interpret core reconciliations and understand common break types and resolutions
  • Understand how trades are booked and reflected in fund records
  • Explain how fund expenses and income are captured, accrued, and validated
  • Describe how corporate actions are processed and their impact on holdings, income, and NAV
  • Understand fund pricing concepts and explain how prices flow into valuation and NAV calculations
  • Explain capital activity events (subscriptions/redemptions) and their accounting impact
  • Summarise how a fund accounting professional works day-to-day, including key controls, checks, and timelines

Profile of participants

Freshers, New Joiners, Mid-Career Professionals (Finance/Fund Accounting/Related Financial Roles)

Course Details

1.Basic Terminologies of Fund Accounting

  • Terminologies – Fund, Custody, IM, NAV

2. Type of Funds

  • Stand alone Fund
  • Fund of Fund

3. Fund Accounting Life Cycle

  • Fund Accounting life cycle

4. Reconciliation

  • Cash reconciliation
  • Stock reconciliation
  • Income reconciliation

5. Trade

  • Basics of Trades
  • Manual Trade booking
  • Realised & Unrealised gain loss

6. Income

  • Income overview
  • Dividend Important dates

7. Bond

  • Bond – Terminologies. Characteristics
  • Accrual methods for bond, clean price, dirty price
  • Amortisation & Accretion

8. Derivatives

  • Option Contract
  • Forward Contract
  • Future Contract
  • Mark to Market (MTM), Initial Margin, Maintenance Margin

9. Expenses

  • Types of Expense
  • Variable fee calculation
  • Accrual vs Payment

10. Performance Fee

  • Performance fee: GAV, NAV
  • Hurdle Rate & High Water Mark

11. Pricing

  • Pricing & Non Pricing components

12. Capital Activity

  • Capital Activity & NAV Impact

13. Corporate Action

  • Introduction
  • Rights
  • Spin off

14. Journal Entries

  • Journal Entries Examples