The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, March 05, 2009

OPINION

EDITORIAL: PSUs as traders
State-controlled public sector companies such as The State Trading Corporation of India, MMTC and PEC Ltd. as also State-supported cooperatives such as NAFED play an important role in commodity business, often as large importers of pulses ...

TERRORISM: Pakistan under jihadi threat
Pakistan’s politicians appear to learn nothing from their past history, when political uncertainty and lack of respect for democratic and constitutional norms and institutions inevitably led to military takeovers. Whether it was the ...

INTERVIEW: Add DA edge to financial metrics
Does DA or ‘decision analytics’ have the potential to play a key role in deal-making? Yes, avers Mr Phani Nagarjuna, Chairman and CEO of Nuevora ( ...

ACCOUNTANCY: Directive on foreign indirect investment
Press Note 2 dated February 13, 2009, of the Department of Industries has stirred a hornet’s nest by giving the impression that the Government has decided to brook indirect foreign investments even though they could have the effect ...

ACCOUNTANCY: Balancing conformance and performance
Significant efforts to improve corporate governance worldwide gained momentum with a series of corporate scandals. The IFAC (International Federation of Accountants) report on Rebuilding Public Confidence in Financial Reporting does an ...

BOOKS: Poor governance is readily recognisable
Good governance must go along with sound economic policies, reminds a recent publication of Sage, citing the World Bank’s ‘first report written expressly on the topic of governance, Governance and ...

AUDITING: Protecting auditors
One of the lighter definitions of auditors is one who arrives after the battle and bayonets the wounded. The Satyam saga has put the profession in the public glare and everyone appears to be in damage-control mode. The action has now shifted to ...

LETTERS: Restructuring banks
The article “When is a bank a bank? (Business Line, March 4) was thought-provoking and timely in the wake of the financial meltdown of global markets that is affecting the real sector too. The author underlines the ...

LETTERS: Poor show
This refers to the editorial “Sombre tale” (Business Line, March 2).The poor show by the farm sector is a crucial factor to reckon with now, as this could really aggravate the present deterioration in the ...

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

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