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ACCOUNT SPEAK
Paper-mad accountants
THE headline "`Paperholic' accountants prefer rubber stamps to e-billing" in AccountingWeb seems far respectable than what one may find in Powergen's site, More
ON MINT STREET
Cap public deposits in RNBCs
The RBI group has favoured a limit on public deposits garnered by RNBCs linked to net-owned funds to provide some comfort to the public depositors.
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BOOKS OF ACCOUNT
A certification to add to your CA degree, as a new project
THIS is about an exam you might not have heard of: PMP, short for Project Management Professional. The study guide PMP, by Joseph Phillips, and published by Tata McGraw-Hill (www.tatamcgrawhill.com) ...
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GLOBE TROT
Cons in the fine-print of credit advertising
THE Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in the UK is probing the operation of credit advertising, according to a report in Accountancy. There have been many complaints about how personal finance products are advertised, ...
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COMING TO TERMS
Billion could be confusing
Since our unit of measure is now billion and more of the same, we better come to terms with the same before shaking hands with those in the billionaire club.
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EAR TO THE GROUND
Falls on offloading by FIIs
INDEX heavy weight Reliance Industries was among the major losers in the Sensex and Nifty on Wednesday. The stock was down by 5.06 per cent at Rs 409.80 on the BSE with a volume of 49.27 lakh shares and on the NSE it closed at Rs 411.25, down ...
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SENSOR
Heavyweights drag down indices
AFTER languishing in a narrow range, the key market indices made a sharp downtrend on Wednesday. The BSE Sensex recorded a 91.86-point drop to close at 4644.9, while the S&P CNX Nifty dropped by 28.6 points to settle at 1446.1. The drop in value
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