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Accountancy
  • Bade miyan vs chote miyan (December 27, 2004)
  • ICAI willing to share expertise with Chinese body (December 20, 2004)
  • CCFA Alumni meet in Hyderabad (December 10, 2004)
  • Save the auditors from becoming box-tickers (December 09, 2004)
  • The law on brotherhood (December 02, 2004)
  • How to retain facts (November 29, 2004)
  • An endangered species? (November 27, 2004)
  • In science, fraud is fabrication and falsification (November 18, 2004)
  • Sunil Goyal on IFAC board (November 18, 2004)
  • `Inadequate' profits for managerial remuneration (November 15, 2004)
  • Nasscom President moots opening up accountancy sector (November 05, 2004)
  • Tax audit returns: ICAI wants date extended (October 21, 2004)
  • Three Cs of cost-cutting on the path to profits (October 21, 2004)
  • Oppressed by irrational dichotomy (October 21, 2004)
  • Professional institutes Bills this session (October 15, 2004)
  • Bill to revamp professional institutes gets Cabinet nod (October 14, 2004)
  • You may have clients who are really unqualified to do business with you (September 30, 2004)
  • You may have clients who are really unqualified to do business with you (September 30, 2004)
  • You may have clients who are really unqualified to do business with you (September 30, 2004)
  • Jet Airways to use Mercator's revenue accounting system (September 23, 2004)
  • Wincing that our bean counters are going to Beijing (September 23, 2004)
  • `WTO regime will favour chartered accountants' (September 04, 2004)
  • AICPA ethics panel moots outsourcing disclosure rules (August 29, 2004)
  • Need to improve corporate, political governance stressed (August 28, 2004)
  • Goalposts are moving but it is riskier to do nothing (August 19, 2004)
  • ICWAI plans new cost accounting standards (August 14, 2004)
  • Punishment for abetting tax evasion — Withdraw Finance Bill provision: ICAI (August 04, 2004)
  • Standard soon on `employee share-based payments': ICAI (August 01, 2004)
  • ICWAI mulls set of new accounting standards (July 25, 2004)
  • Helpful suggestions (July 22, 2004)
  • C.Comm vocational course (July 20, 2004)
  • Get deft with ABC (July 15, 2004)
  • For investor-friendly annual reports — Govt may ease disclosure norms for subsidiary cos (July 15, 2004)
  • One more attempt to slim company law (July 08, 2004)
  • Give diligence its due (June 10, 2004)
  • A spark from Kalam to develop on (June 10, 2004)
  • Sunil Goyal elected to CAPA board (May 29, 2004)
  • Professional development (May 21, 2004)
  • ICAI recruiting accountants for GE India (May 21, 2004)
  • ICSI may make professional development programmes must (May 19, 2004)
  • Chartering a foreign course (May 15, 2004)
  • Standards on Mint Street (May 13, 2004)
  • Add `pollution' to your knowledge (May 13, 2004)
  • `NCLT will benefit company secretaries' (May 09, 2004)
  • Qualification in question (May 06, 2004)
  • Find your way through standards maze (May 06, 2004)
  • Money comes to those who can speak its language (April 29, 2004)
  • Make place for Master Balak on the board (April 26, 2004)
  • K.B.S Chopra is new CGA (April 17, 2004)
  • To do CA is to take sanyas to study (April 12, 2004)
  • Local standards are very foreign to CAs (April 08, 2004)
  • ICSI seeks review of DCA amendment (March 29, 2004)
  • 2 more nominees' names forwarded to ICAI council (March 27, 2004)
  • `India must avoid protectionism in accountancy' (March 16, 2004)
  • Accounting norms panel to specify SMEs' exclusion (March 13, 2004)
  • Aren't our ethics more benign? (February 26, 2004)
  • ICAI to form advisory panel — Sunil Goyal takes over as President (February 06, 2004)
  • ICAI told to allow free maraket regime (February 05, 2004)
  • ROE = ROS x ATO x FL (February 01, 2004)
  • A job for Mr CA (January 26, 2004)
  • Athavale elected ICSI President (January 21, 2004)
  • Are you neck-deep in numbers? (January 01, 2004)
    Corporate
  • India, Oman sign pact on co-operation in audit activities (December 31, 2004)
  • Accounting firms should offer value-added services: ICAI (December 25, 2004)
  • ICAI urges States to go for external auditing (December 25, 2004)
  • 'Company secys must gear up for competition' (December 25, 2004)
  • Campus interview for CAs in March (December 25, 2004)
  • `CAs ready to tackle global competition' (November 06, 2004)
  • Formation of multi-disciplinary accountancy firms — Institutes to approach Govt (October 15, 2004)
  • Stress on cost control systems (October 04, 2004)
  • CAs' meet in Thiruvananthapuram (September 22, 2004)
  • Govt plans to simplify cost accounting record rules (September 22, 2004)
  • ICSI brand goes global (August 27, 2004)
  • New head for ICWA (July 30, 2004)
  • ICAI seeks amendment of CA Act (July 17, 2004)
  • Company secretaries to form global body (July 06, 2004)
  • `CAs must not look for protection from global competition' (July 03, 2004)
  • Autonomy of ICAI must: Bhardwaj (July 02, 2004)
  • ICWAI seeks more focus on cost accounting practices (June 24, 2004)
  • ICAI eyes global enrolment — Seeks nod for articleship under foreign accountants (May 10, 2004)
  • Core group to hasten CA, CS, ICWA institutes' synergy (May 10, 2004)
  • Accountants are no magicians (April 25, 2004)
  • ICAI okays plan to allow CAs to fix fees per assignment (April 19, 2004)
  • To strike partnerships with other professionals — ICSI Council gives nod for members (March 31, 2004)
  • ICAI southern region chief (February 17, 2004)
  • ICAI to clear DCA's doubts over institute's functioning (February 14, 2004)
  • Left MP updated on ICWAI viability (February 11, 2004)
  • ICWAI bid to stall Govt move to increase its hold (February 11, 2004)
  • ICSI office-bearers (January 29, 2004)
    Home Page
  • ICAI okays plan to allow CAs to fix fees per assignment (April 19, 2004)
  • ICAI to ban part-time practice for members — Revised AS-15 to deal with VRS expenditure (March 24, 2004)
    Industry & Economy
  • Chartered accountants' meet in Coimbatore (December 24, 2004)
  • Study outlines merger norms for CA firms (December 24, 2004)
  • ICAI panel okays framework for `networking' CA firms (December 21, 2004)
  • ICAI finalises revision to CPE statement (December 06, 2004)
  • ICWAI enthused by Pak bank move (December 02, 2004)
  • ICWAI sore over move to increase Govt nominees (February 07, 2004)
  • ICAI in talks with Govt for practising abroad (January 22, 2004)
    Mentor
  • Number Crunch - 351 (December 27, 2004)
  • Defrauded creditors keen to pierce the veil (December 27, 2004)
  • Difference in depreciation (December 20, 2004)
  • Appointment of directors' relatives for top posts (December 20, 2004)
  • Number Crunch - 350 (December 20, 2004)
  • Equity - a twist in the tale (December 20, 2004)
  • Arguments of accountants that taxmen nod to (December 13, 2004)
  • You can't pay a lawyer not to fight a rival's case (December 13, 2004)
  • Number Crunch - 349 (December 13, 2004)
  • Calm thinking about public issue (December 06, 2004)
  • Number Crunch - 348 (December 06, 2004)
  • Putting the foot down on competition (November 29, 2004)
  • Plug the variables in the right place (November 29, 2004)
  • Previously, there was only the original (November 22, 2004)
  • Just do it (November 22, 2004)
  • No partnership this time, so what? (November 22, 2004)
  • Three in favour, two against, and three abstained (November 22, 2004)
  • Number Crunch - 347 (November 22, 2004)
  • Just do IT (November 15, 2004)
  • Costing in the company of alien financial management (November 15, 2004)
  • Work on your CV to make it work for you (November 15, 2004)
  • Want return? Take risk (November 15, 2004)
  • Number Crunch - 346 (November 15, 2004)
  • Number Crunch - 345 (November 08, 2004)
  • Number Crunch - 344 (November 01, 2004)
  • Niceties of pricing services (November 01, 2004)
  • Computation of assessable value for goods imported (November 01, 2004)
  • Add, subtract, multiply and divide, but no ads (October 25, 2004)
  • Do accounting and tax laws move on different orbits? (October 25, 2004)
  • Number Crunch-343 (October 25, 2004)
  • Number Crunch - 342 (October 18, 2004)
  • Can an accountant and a taxman see eye to eye? (October 18, 2004)
  • Costing pedagogy from cricket pavilion (October 18, 2004)
  • An unattended tender generation may go wayward (October 11, 2004)
  • Number Crunch - 341 (October 11, 2004)
  • Did you say, `I'm moral'? (October 11, 2004)
  • Computation of assessable value (October 11, 2004)
  • An accountant in a school bus (October 04, 2004)
  • Just do it (October 04, 2004)
  • Matchmaking talk with cola on table (October 04, 2004)
  • Just do it (September 27, 2004)
  • Number Crunch-340 (September 27, 2004)
  • Chalk, talk and trapeze walk (September 27, 2004)
  • Switching off from work (September 27, 2004)
  • Loan against cars is `secured' though not registered (September 20, 2004)
  • How to free your creativity (September 20, 2004)
  • Just do IT (September 13, 2004)
  • Number Crunch - 338 (September 13, 2004)
  • Off to a movie with an extra (September 13, 2004)
  • Worry after a credit card party (September 06, 2004)
  • An appreciation of depreciation (September 06, 2004)
  • Get set for an activity in cost allocation (August 30, 2004)
  • A foundry computes EOQ for its castings (August 23, 2004)
  • Think on your feet and be cool under pressure (August 16, 2004)
  • Right incentive for workers (August 16, 2004)
  • Concept Paper (August 09, 2004)
  • The ghost of single-digit pass percentage returneth (August 09, 2004)
  • Get to know the Bill (August 02, 2004)
  • Fifty thousand do the `Final' march each year (August 02, 2004)
  • A course that makes students age as they wait (July 19, 2004)
  • Dividend stripping deals go tripping (July 19, 2004)
  • TDS on tedious track (July 12, 2004)
  • A guided tour of the Budget from direct tax angle (July 12, 2004)
  • Troublesome men for the top slots (July 05, 2004)
  • Being small and succeeding (July 05, 2004)
  • Nine out of ten did not move up the CA chain (June 28, 2004)
  • Not all company contracts require government approval (June 28, 2004)
  • A compact study of a hundred CA exams (June 21, 2004)
  • Dollars in demand for different purposes (June 14, 2004)
  • A sitting fee that doesn't stand in law (June 07, 2004)
  • CAs are ready to train, but there are few takers (June 07, 2004)
  • Beta as a measure of risk (May 31, 2004)
  • Vertical split at the top (May 31, 2004)
  • Story of a `foundation' that got dismantled (May 24, 2004)
  • You can't wish away risk (May 24, 2004)
  • Forget CA after five failures midway (May 17, 2004)
  • Project-ranking for decision-making (May 10, 2004)
  • What the future holds for Gemini (May 03, 2004)
  • Apply standards to problem situations (April 26, 2004)
  • At a loss to understand how a loss can be an asset (April 26, 2004)
  • Help me compute HRA exemption (April 19, 2004)
  • The dilemma of variances (April 19, 2004)
  • 18 is about relationships (April 19, 2004)
  • Cartoon Corner (April 12, 2004)
  • Oil majors on a roll, but there's no `rollover' (April 05, 2004)
  • Can a director be guided to the secretary's chair? (April 05, 2004)
  • Story of a stock exchange suffering from infighting (March 29, 2004)
  • Profit hopes behind ad-spend (March 22, 2004)
  • LP model in a paint company (March 15, 2004)
  • I've a load of shares to sell (March 15, 2004)
  • Pick the right issue (March 08, 2004)
  • An ordinary mail that didn't reach a director (March 08, 2004)
  • Costing through three processes (March 01, 2004)
  • Facts of a fax case (February 23, 2004)
  • Bills in bank and bonus to broker (February 16, 2004)
  • How to bring order to your purchase orders (February 09, 2004)
  • How to apply AS-25 (February 02, 2004)
  • Miles to go before your profits can leap (January 26, 2004)
  • Cheques and crossings (January 19, 2004)
  • How to get at the apples on the trees of knowledge (January 19, 2004)
  • Mercantile law and the art of motorcycle maintenance (January 12, 2004)
  • To get a sick company going, everybody chips in (January 05, 2004)
  • What is there in BPO for me? (January 05, 2004)
    Opinion
  • The three legs of corporatedom (December 30, 2004)
  • How to write annual reports (December 30, 2004)
  • Wiggle room in accounting to stage fiscal gimmicks (December 30, 2004)
  • IS security is no overhead (December 23, 2004)
  • There's a shared stake in arresting managerial diversion (December 23, 2004)
  • A caution about headroom (December 16, 2004)
  • The holes in deep pockets (December 16, 2004)
  • SEBI seized with takeover action (December 16, 2004)
  • Flashback of a flare-up (December 09, 2004)
  • New image of the old cheque (December 09, 2004)
  • Will number-cruncher networks display better bandwidth? (December 09, 2004)
  • Get the right price (December 02, 2004)
  • Ethical dilemmas in decision-making (December 02, 2004)
  • Tick to tickle the accountant whom everybody else ticks off (December 02, 2004)
  • Wanted watchtowers, not ivory towers (December 02, 2004)
  • Five things to fix before giving fair value a fair chance (November 25, 2004)
  • Derailment on trivial grounds (November 25, 2004)
  • We need takers for the bad loans too (November 25, 2004)
  • Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, plus a fox pulling a fast one (November 18, 2004)
  • Why it does not help to shirk in the name of sickness (November 18, 2004)
  • Pension needs more attention (November 18, 2004)
  • The SEBI missile that failed SAT test (November 11, 2004)
  • Only crumbs from the husband's table after all creditors have left (November 11, 2004)
  • Scores low on the market front (November 04, 2004)
  • More appropriate to rewrite (November 04, 2004)
  • Is reporting becoming too routine and circular? (November 04, 2004)
  • Easier to tell a donkey from an elephant than capital from revenue (November 04, 2004)
  • Big brother watching the Big 4 (October 28, 2004)
  • Into the easy-hearted man and hugged into snares (October 28, 2004)
  • A number to count on (October 28, 2004)
  • Auditors can soon get neck-deep in legal lagoons (October 21, 2004)
  • The millstone of bad loans weigheth (October 14, 2004)
  • Information security in the matrix of Mahabharata (October 14, 2004)
  • Out of mind to be out of `site' (October 07, 2004)
  • No concept, only paper (October 07, 2004)
  • When boardrooms bode doom... (October 07, 2004)
  • First law of business is to know the law right (October 07, 2004)
  • One can smell accountants many a cyber-mile off (September 30, 2004)
  • One can smell accountants many a cyber-mile off (September 30, 2004)
  • One can smell accountants many a cyber-mile off (September 30, 2004)
  • Sticklish issues (September 23, 2004)
  • Shock of SOX for accountants but IT simply loves it! (September 16, 2004)
  • Why change horses midstream (September 16, 2004)
  • Cost management can be more professional (September 09, 2004)
  • Concept Paper in a penalty corner (September 09, 2004)
  • Giving wrong opinion with dishonest intention is the worst form of corruption (September 09, 2004)
  • A tame finish to a game of same names (September 09, 2004)
  • `Sour grapes' in a post-qualification court battle (September 02, 2004)
  • A slimming exercise or simply weight shifting? (August 26, 2004)
  • Don't confuse capabilities with activities, nor intangibles with unmeasurables (August 26, 2004)
  • To write a good opinion, you need the right mental attitude (August 26, 2004)
  • There is a trigger behind the mercies (August 26, 2004)
  • The bull in the numbers (August 26, 2004)
  • Consent is bone of contention (August 19, 2004)
  • Jarring notes in the sweat equity regime (August 19, 2004)
  • Oil barrels that went missing and a director tired of lying (August 19, 2004)
  • What price truth if it does not hiss? (August 12, 2004)
  • What a leaner law means (August 12, 2004)
  • Facts and forecasts are like news and views (August 05, 2004)
  • Joint budgeting by ICAEW and CIMA (August 05, 2004)
  • Finality eludes forex accounting (August 05, 2004)
  • A few urgent items for the accountants' agenda (July 29, 2004)
  • CPAs join lawyers and doctors as defaulters (July 22, 2004)
  • Democratise the boardrooms (July 22, 2004)
  • Enrichment for excellence (July 22, 2004)
  • Accounting becomes accountability (July 15, 2004)
  • Breakdown in internal control leads to improper payments (July 15, 2004)
  • Sickening definition of sickness (July 15, 2004)
  • Dither not at wilful default (July 08, 2004)
  • Warped governance gift-wrapped (July 08, 2004)
  • Call an auditor to blow the whistle (July 08, 2004)
  • A cost that merits correction (July 01, 2004)
  • Job status can make a good feed (July 01, 2004)
  • Big Four have room for improvement (July 01, 2004)
  • Paper-mad accountants (June 24, 2004)
  • Healthy lack of risk appetite (June 24, 2004)
  • Switches in the statutes (June 24, 2004)
  • Cons in the fine-print of credit advertising (June 24, 2004)
  • Idiosyncrasies in IDR (June 17, 2004)
  • Reward salesmen for deal-by-deal pricing (June 17, 2004)
  • Loss of elite company (June 17, 2004)
  • On candour tests and `engaged' boards (June 17, 2004)
  • Burden of redundancy (June 10, 2004)
  • Secretaries in corporate-dom (June 03, 2004)
  • Percentage to pique at (June 03, 2004)
  • How lawyers are different from accountants (June 03, 2004)
  • Oppression by regulation (June 03, 2004)
  • The impair preparation in short (May 27, 2004)
  • Cracks in the roof over shelters (May 27, 2004)
  • Irrelevance of CA for 7 out of 10 Indians (May 27, 2004)
  • There are secretaries in the waiting room (May 27, 2004)
  • New norms for new names (May 27, 2004)
  • CFO may give evasive answers to CEO's tough questions (May 20, 2004)
  • There's competition in fearing competition (May 20, 2004)
  • There are poachers everywhere (May 20, 2004)
  • Law in totidem verbis (May 20, 2004)
  • No cause for celebration (May 13, 2004)
  • An exercise in rubberstamping? (May 13, 2004)
  • Loyalty is a depreciable asset, at 100 per cent (May 13, 2004)
  • Visions or high refraction? (May 13, 2004)
  • Who will have the last laugh? (May 06, 2004)
  • B-school betrayal by the numbers (May 06, 2004)
  • When super cops join, there's nowhere to escape (May 06, 2004)
  • When networking is not working, try `citology' (April 29, 2004)
  • Exorcising borrower belligerence (April 22, 2004)
  • A feel-good free for all (April 22, 2004)
  • Stiff punishment from the SEC (April 22, 2004)
  • Lessons in book-cooking mixed with blood-spilling (April 22, 2004)
  • At the forefront of the world accounting scenario (April 22, 2004)
  • Inbreeding doesn't help internal audit (April 15, 2004)
  • Biggies get the better deal (April 15, 2004)
  • When two people count there could be three numbers (April 15, 2004)
  • Ramaiya is a sweet sixteen (April 15, 2004)
  • Lawyers don't want to marry auditors (April 15, 2004)
  • When a handful shows more stones than rice (April 08, 2004)
  • Sixteen going on accoun-teen! (April 08, 2004)
  • Short credits in long sentences (April 08, 2004)
  • Accounting is too serious a job for part-timers (April 08, 2004)
  • Credits and debits of credit rating (April 01, 2004)
  • More to mop up and more to sweep (April 01, 2004)
  • Information obfuscation in notifications (April 01, 2004)
  • Just too many bones to number and fix (April 01, 2004)
  • CARO with due care (March 25, 2004)
  • Give the taxman a load of accounting matrix (March 25, 2004)
  • A psychopathic animal is out of the cage (March 25, 2004)
  • Guests are seated and the goat is only half-cooked (March 25, 2004)
  • Recipe for success from a speculator (March 18, 2004)
  • Will accountants enter the GAAR den? (March 18, 2004)
  • A deviation to `register' (March 18, 2004)
  • Flogging a dead horse (March 18, 2004)
  • Grim truths delivered sans sugarcoating (March 18, 2004)
  • Invoice-activated software (March 18, 2004)
  • Sun shines and wind blows but where's the auditor? (March 11, 2004)
  • An advisable alternative (March 11, 2004)
  • Debit ignorance and credit knowledge (March 11, 2004)
  • Get IT in SOX (March 04, 2004)
  • New helmsmen on India cruise (March 04, 2004)
  • Now is the time to call it quits (March 04, 2004)
  • Margin of error could grow thinner (March 04, 2004)
  • Big bells for the fat cats (March 04, 2004)
  • Poor can pay more for credit than rich (March 04, 2004)
  • Cost rewards with security risk (February 26, 2004)
  • Trial by delay for tribunals (February 26, 2004)
  • You can only lead a horse to water (February 26, 2004)
  • Thus entered the `exit' scheme (February 26, 2004)
  • Time for a decent burial (February 19, 2004)
  • The transposition bypass (February 19, 2004)
  • A sudden spurt of action (February 19, 2004)
  • Will the bully give back toffees or just wrappers? (February 19, 2004)
  • A Bill of no return (February 12, 2004)
  • We need to put them in a fishbowl (February 12, 2004)
  • An unacceptable `offer' argument (February 12, 2004)
  • Why import a new cadre? (February 12, 2004)
  • Case for secretarial independence (February 05, 2004)
  • Too tongue-tied to speak the language of value (February 05, 2004)
  • The baggage of opaqueness (February 05, 2004)
  • Now is the time for farewells and receptions (February 05, 2004)
  • New walls to wail at (February 05, 2004)
  • Pandora's box in IP Marg (January 29, 2004)
  • This SAT can't stand (January 29, 2004)
  • Playroom in a CPA office (January 29, 2004)
  • Let's agree to disagree (January 15, 2004)
  • In the company of ambiguity (January 15, 2004)
  • More sweat and less light (January 15, 2004)
  • AICPA's tech top 10 (January 08, 2004)
  • Washing dirty money (January 08, 2004)
  • Bill of wrongs in the right place? (January 08, 2004)
  • The facade of social reporting (January 08, 2004)
  • Too good to be an exception (January 08, 2004)
  • Blocks in the building task (January 08, 2004)
  • Standardspeak on point of sale (January 01, 2004)
  • Setting bloodhounds on the watchdogs' trail (January 01, 2004)
  • NPA chase with millstones tied (January 01, 2004)


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