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Thursday, February 12, 2009
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Business Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Thursday, February 12, 2009 ePaper | Mobile/PDA Version | Audio | Blogs |
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OPINION INTERVIEW: Tasks ahead for audit committees Foremost in the list of ‘ten to-dos for audit committees in 2009’ that Mr Sammy Medora, Chairman of KPMG’s Audit Committee Institute, draws up is this imperative: “Closely monitor the impact of the ... ACCOUNTANCY: Multiple element contracts Revenue contracts may involve delivery of multiple elements for which a lump-sum price is agreed. If the various elements are delivered to the customer at different points in time, the allocation of the lump-sum price to the various elements ... ACCOUNTING STANDARDS: Recession accounting? There is a comment doing the rounds that the credit crisis has assisted in the good health of a number of people, as they are on their feet with their cars having been repossessed. The situation appears to be getting grimmer every day with ... AUDITING: Internal auditor from within and without In an earlier article, the author had championed the cause of dual statutory audit — two sets of auditors simultaneously bestowing their attention and energy on the annual accounts of a company to be placed before the annual general ... BOOKS: Gather invisible information Even when accurate, statistics can never substitute for looking someone in the eye when you get the answer to your question, cautions Gerald A. Michaelson in Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers ... CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: Can Satyam make good law? The hard case for directors' liability The latest development in the sordid Satyam saga is that the Government has decided to make all of the top executives and board members of Satyam Computer Services, including the independent directors, answerable for the gigantic fraud ... EDITORIAL: Spend, but wisely At any other time, the news that the Government is going to tap the market for funds would have been viewed with some suspicion that it was elbowing out the private sector. Yet, over the last six months, as governments around the world have ... LETTERS: Relevance of economics The article “Crisis in macroeconomics” (Business line, February 4) was well-timed. The author has exposed the futility of bringing a behavioural science to mere numbers and the extent to which it has ...
LETTERS:
Levying user fee
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Levying user fee Columnists: • C Gopinath • Harish Bijoor • G Chandrashekhar • S Murlidharan • Sharad Joshi • Mohan Murti • S Balakrishnan • Bharat Savur • B S Raghavan • Ganesh Challa • Bhanoji Rao • Swati • T Banusekar • Ramanujam Sridhar • Ranabir Ray Choudhury • Rasheeda Bhagat • P.V. Indiresan • P Devarajan • S Muralidhar • R K Raghavan • B Venkatesh • S Venkitaramanan Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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