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COMMODITY COMMENTARY:
Supply pressure will force palm oil prices lower
Crude palm oil may trade in 1,700-2,200/t ringgit range in Q2. Mumbai, March 11 The global vegetable oil industry and trade is focussed on the palm oil price outlook deliberations going on in Kuala Lumpur. What are the price prospects for palm ...
ACCOUNT SPEAK:
Will watchdogs turn bloodhounds?
Uppermost in the agenda of the new chief of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), Mr Uttam Prakash Agarwal, is the Satyam problem. “Members should not lose heart but must act proactively to safeguard the interests of ...
BOOKS OF ACCOUNT:
Decay begins when boards become clubs
The public’s growing intolerance of ‘directoral ignorance and incompetence’ calls for a rapid implementation of professionalisation in governance, argues Bob Garratt in The Fish Rots from the Head ...
CONTRA ENTRY:
Perennial education
Mark Twain once remarked, “I never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Accounting professionals the world over have had an avalanche of accounting standards, standards on auditing, acts such as Sarbanes Oxley and ...
T.C.A. SRINIVASA-RAGHAVAN:
An idea whose time will come
Almost exactly 40 years ago, when Bill Lawry’s Aussies were touring India, I had my first introduction to non-linear systems. Economics, said one of our teachers, was essentially a non-linear system, inasmuch as the outcome could not ...
BL CLUB:
Mr Satyan Bhatt, Managing Director, Prism Public Relations; KMM Management Institute, Tirupati
Chennai, March 11 PR works extremely well in difficult situations. Currently, the whole world is in turmoil and India Inc is experiencing the effects. The growth rate has slumped and many industries and companies have started retrenching ...
BL CLUB:
Mr Prabhakar Rao Kotapati, Director, Capital IQ Information Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd; Pragathi Mahavidyalaya Degree & PG College
A mutual fund is a suitable investment for the common man because it offers an opportunity to invest in a diversified, professionally managed basket of securities at a relatively ...
Columnists:
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C Gopinath
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Harish Bijoor
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G Chandrashekhar
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S Murlidharan
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Sharad Joshi
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Mohan Murti
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S Balakrishnan
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Bharat Savur
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B S Raghavan
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Ganesh Challa
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Bhanoji Rao
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Swati
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T Banusekar
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Ramanujam Sridhar
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Ranabir Ray Choudhury
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Rasheeda Bhagat
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P.V. Indiresan
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P Devarajan
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S Muralidhar
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R K Raghavan
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B Venkatesh
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