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ACCOUNTING STANDARDS: Implications of forex exposure
After a much debate, the method of accounting of forex exposure and derivative contracts has taken a final shape. The apparent inconsistency between Schedule VI of the Companies Act and the accounting standard requirements has also been ...

EDITORIAL: Commodities downswing
Global commodity markets have plunged to multi-year lows on the back of slowing world economic growth, demand compression, large-scale unwinding of leveraged positions and government intervention. The precipitous fall in prices after a ...

BOOKS: Pepper riches

“What investment banking is to the ambitious and the acquisitive today, the pepper trade was to the Romans — the most direct route to great riches,” writes William J. Bernstein in A Splendid ...

ACCOUNTANCY: Accounting is like gymnastics
Can the present disclosure practices take credit for bringing to surface runaway credit crisis we currently witness? Or, were there gaps in reporting that allowed the problems to fester far too long? Would we therefore need better ...

ACCOUNTANCY: The mystique of dollar
In the humdrum of life, it is not uncommon to find people joining the villain’s camp after unsuccessfully resisting him. Well, this is exactly not pusillanimity. Instead it is survival. In this world it is not only the fittest ...

LETTERS: Aviation formula
In the article on “Aviation formula gone sour” (Business Line, October 29) by Capt. A. Ranganathan has appropriately brought out the immature management strategies of the aviation sector. It came as a shock ...

LETTERS: Time for reform
The article “Falling oil prices: Grab the opportunity for reform” (Business Line, October 29) presents the Government with an opportunity to push through painless reform and free the products from ...

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