Accountancy
Business environment and IT -- II
CIMA provides answers to its May 2000 (Stage 1) paper on ``business environment and information technology''
Book Review
Changing Value Chain
THIS book makes an attempt to touch upon various aspects of traditional agrarian economy, its backwardness under semi-feudalism, evolution of land relations in the Eastern India under British rule, class relations and other facet
s of traditional agriculture, the related commerce and agrarian growth. Set amidst the Eastern Indian villages, the book focuses on capitalism, social democracy and dangers and opportunities of globalisation for developing countries.
The business of charity
IN the long tortuous course of civilisation, at some point of time, there emerged altruistic feeling in the heart of man, who was until that stage governed wholly by selfish impulses. Since then, both a concern for other beings and a positive inter
est in the welfare of others became the mark of human progress.
Talking About Organization Science
DESIGNED to stimulate conversation across different disciplines, perspectives, and orientations, these articles represent the most current critical thinking in the field. Contributors include Stewart Clegg, Steven Kerr, John Van Maanen, J
ames March, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert Sutton, and many other leading figures. Themes cover a wide range of issues such as: The role of economics in strategic management research, the direction of organisational science studies, including a clas
sic dialogue between Jeff Pfeffer and John Van Maanen and a re-appraisal of Gibson Burrell and Gareth Morgan's sociological paradigms of organisational analysis.
FM made easy
FINANCIAL Management for Non-specialists, by Peter Atrill, adopts an open learning approach to introduce the main principles of financial management. The book presents a broad range of key topics, but avoids overburdening the reader with
unnecessary mathematical analysis. It focuses instead on practical applications.
Excise and customs law
The new set of Cenvat rules -- II
UNDER Rule 57AF(1), if a manufacturer of the final products shifts his factory to another site or the factory is transferred on account of change in ownership or sale, merger, amalgamation, lease or transfer of the factory to a joint venture with the spe
cific provision for transfer of liabilities of such factory, then the manufacturer shall be allowed to transfer the Cenvat credit lying unutilised in his accounts to such transferred, sold, merged, leased or amalgamated factory. (Similar to Rules 57F(20)
and (21).)
Stocks
Set to expand
Mr. Anand Rathi, 53, a chartered accountant, spent much of his career with the Aditya Birla group. Today he occupies a very powerful office on the 26th floor of Jeejeebhoy Towers. Mr. Rathi, brings with him a rare combination of hands-on experience
in managing business in various sectors, financial engineering skills and an insightful understanding of Indian and global economies in general and financial markets in particular. On the occasion of Bombay Stock Exchange's (BSE) 125th
anniversary, Mr. Rathi spoke to Business Line on how the BSE is growing more dynamic and dreaming big at 125.
Eves at BSE
A few women have done well for themselves on the floor of BSE. Dina Mehta the only woman member to have to sit on the Governing Board of BSE speaks on her experience.
