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Accountancy
  • Lok Sabha passes three Bills on professional bodies (December 25, 2005)
  • The now-buried crossbreed (December 10, 2005)
  • Help varsities update syllabus, ICAI told (December 10, 2005)
  • ICAI southern regional meet in Kochi from today (December 09, 2005)
  • Bills to amend professional Acts introduced in RS (December 07, 2005)
  • On how to crack CA at first go (November 28, 2005)
  • Kamlesh Vikamsey appointed to board of IFAC (November 24, 2005)
  • CA amendment Bill: GoM relief for council members (November 23, 2005)
  • Weakness in infrastructure can frustrate supervisory oversight (November 17, 2005)
  • Tally Arabic, Chinese versions soon (November 10, 2005)
  • Tally offers free insurance cover for small businesses (November 08, 2005)
  • KPMG joint venture for sourcing Indian experts (November 04, 2005)
  • `Professionals must be ready to face global challenges' (October 21, 2005)
  • Company Secretaries' convention begins today (October 20, 2005)
  • New ICFAI Vice-Chancellor (October 08, 2005)
  • Kalam outlines 7-point action plan for auditors (September 21, 2005)
  • Govt accounting bodies' meet (September 16, 2005)
  • Centre firm on switching over to accrual accounting (September 15, 2005)
  • Cost control is firmly back in the corporate agenda (September 15, 2005)
  • An Act that is 138 years old! (September 12, 2005)
  • ICAI plans rider on accounting of adjustment of losses against reserves (September 06, 2005)
  • `Time has come for CAs to elevate themselves from component audit to system performance audit' (September 05, 2005)
  • EET cat is not out of the bag yet (September 05, 2005)
  • Kalam urges CAs to focus on farm sector (September 02, 2005)
  • Ominous blips on the accounting horizon (August 29, 2005)
  • Kalam to inaugurate global meet on accounting profession (August 28, 2005)
  • Valuation to end warring (August 25, 2005)
  • Managers have to resolve the ethical debate and take decisions (August 25, 2005)
  • For ethics, you can bet on ancient wisdom (August 04, 2005)
  • New accounting software (August 02, 2005)
  • Taxes on arms sales, affinity credit cards and a global lottery (July 28, 2005)
  • Wrinkles that need ironing out (July 21, 2005)
  • Don't be ignorant of the `stagnant laws that aren't toothless' (July 21, 2005)
  • Centre may tone down its powers in proposed CA Bill (July 20, 2005)
  • Does it pay to get a foothold in a BPO? (July 18, 2005)
  • CA employee in accounting firm cannot attest (July 13, 2005)
  • Do you know how to measure illiteracy? (July 07, 2005)
  • Circulars on valuation on incorrect costing principles (July 02, 2005)
  • Balance-sheet approach to complement traditional analysis (June 30, 2005)
  • You can't fake quality (June 20, 2005)
  • In contempt of multiple attempts (June 06, 2005)
  • New accounting system for municipal bodies (June 03, 2005)
  • ICWAI office-bearers (June 02, 2005)
  • A timely note by ICAI (May 28, 2005)
  • CA revamp on the ramp (May 27, 2005)
  • ICWAI unveils e-learning module (May 26, 2005)
  • ICAI moots new curriculum (May 24, 2005)
  • Centre to hone Rly accountants' skills (May 18, 2005)
  • Ministry may accept ICWAI's request for name change (May 17, 2005)
  • ICAI told to get Govt nod for lending name (May 03, 2005)
  • `Variations' in State laws to figure at VAT meet (April 16, 2005)
  • Standard deduction allowed to salaried taxpayer should continue: ICAI (April 16, 2005)
  • An auditor is privy to many a secret (April 11, 2005)
  • ICA to open more centres in South (April 04, 2005)
  • Imaginative legal reforms (March 03, 2005)
  • Fringe benefit tax will make compliance more complicated (March 03, 2005)
  • The unfair bracketing of the old (March 03, 2005)
  • Promise of metrics to measure implementation of outlays (March 03, 2005)
  • CA council office-bearers (February 24, 2005)
  • Remove barriers on foreign accounting firms: IFAC (February 18, 2005)
  • Company Secys exam results on February 25 (February 18, 2005)
  • Co secretaries seek tax sops in Budget for export of services (February 13, 2005)
  • Kamlesh Vikamsey new ICAI President (February 10, 2005)
  • `Chartered accountants must strive for global competitiveness' (February 05, 2005)
  • ICAI expects to complete peer review in 3 years (January 31, 2005)
  • How to do reputation audit (January 20, 2005)
  • Minister allays fears on ICAI's autonomy (January 20, 2005)
  • Lest your knowledge depreciates... (January 13, 2005)
  • With ICAI amending MCS definition — CAs can render financial insurance advisory services (January 12, 2005)
    Corporate
  • ICWAI clears plan to network member firms (December 10, 2005)
  • No missing the bus (October 31, 2005)
  • Chartered accountants' body offers services to Kerala Govt (October 24, 2005)
  • Chartered accountants' meet in Thiruvananthapuram (October 22, 2005)
  • `CAs must gear up to assist SMEs' (October 10, 2005)
  • ICAI for mutual recognition agreement (September 25, 2005)
  • Chartered accountants meet starts today (September 22, 2005)
  • `CAs must focus on BPO, management consultancy services' (September 11, 2005)
  • Brand `CA' (September 11, 2005)
  • Meet on fiscal, allied laws at Mangalore (September 05, 2005)
  • Intellectual capital assessment tool for cos launched (September 04, 2005)
  • Amendment to accountants Bill referred to GoM (July 26, 2005)
  • `Relax norms for CAs before FDI' (July 10, 2005)
  • Two-day ICSI conference in Hyderabad (June 27, 2005)
  • Two-day ICSI conference in Hyderabad (June 27, 2005)
  • Govt may raise ICAI council strength to 35 members (June 22, 2005)
  • ICAI seminar on WTO issues in Hyderabad (May 14, 2005)
  • Tax audits: ICAI to move SC against HC order (April 17, 2005)
  • ICWAI may have to wait a while for name change (April 09, 2005)
  • ICSI permits members to take up other activities (April 01, 2005)
  • Align accountancy profession with WTO regime: Minister (March 13, 2005)
  • ICAI council: Govt move to have more nominees rejected (March 02, 2005)
  • ICAI office-bearers (February 26, 2005)
  • Professional education norms for CAs deferred by a year (January 24, 2005)
    Government
  • Feasibility studies soon for introducing accrual accounting in Govt depts (September 18, 2005)
    Home Page
  • No restrictions on practice by CAs: HC (April 15, 2005)
  • Legal, accountancy firms look for nod to advertise (February 07, 2005)
    Industry & Economy
  • ICAI to train members on Sarbanes-Oxley Act (February 07, 2005)
  • `Redefine accounting services as accounting technology' (December 29, 2005)
  • Accountancy institutes await Bills to set up multi-disciplinary firms (August 16, 2005)
  • ICAI confident of retaining autonomy (June 21, 2005)
  • ICWAI releases monograph on contemporary issues (April 29, 2005)
  • ICAI Council meet to focus on `electoral reforms' proposals (April 19, 2005)
  • ICAI Council meet to focus on `electoral reforms' proposals (April 19, 2005)
  • Parliament panel favours name change for ICWAI (March 02, 2005)
    Mentor
  • Application of linear programming to blending problems (December 26, 2005)
  • Punished are the meek for they shall inherit EET? (December 26, 2005)
  • Profit reconciliation sans professional touch (December 19, 2005)
  • A probe into `degeneracy' (December 19, 2005)
  • There is no one right answer — II (December 12, 2005)
  • Too student-friendly (December 12, 2005)
  • ABC tuning for a radio company (December 05, 2005)
  • There is no one right answer (December 05, 2005)
  • Not an uplifting exercise (November 28, 2005)
  • For the MAFA-miffed (November 21, 2005)
  • The MAFA bugbear (November 21, 2005)
  • Not a nightmare as feared (November 14, 2005)
  • How to protect the portfolio using index futures (November 07, 2005)
  • Know where you can go wrong — II (October 31, 2005)
  • An application of CAPM (October 31, 2005)
  • Follow the PERFECT formula (October 31, 2005)
  • Excise question when complying with environmental law (October 24, 2005)
  • Number Crunch - 390 (October 24, 2005)
  • Advice for a software company expanding overseas (October 24, 2005)
  • Manage costs to stay in the black (October 17, 2005)
  • Know where you can go wrong (October 17, 2005)
  • Consolidation is entirely optional (October 03, 2005)
  • As a minimum, know the maximum borrowing limit (September 19, 2005)
  • Number Crunch - 385 (September 19, 2005)
  • Business-a-Verse (September 19, 2005)
  • Yeh, bonus ka maamla hai (September 19, 2005)
  • Comprehensive hourly rate for a machine shop (September 05, 2005)
  • An examination of results (August 15, 2005)
  • Some fundamental properties of `lease vs borrow' (July 25, 2005)
  • A discussion of the prescription for information (July 18, 2005)
  • On leasing, one more (June 27, 2005)
  • One question, one too many solutions (June 27, 2005)
  • On leasing, one more (June 27, 2005)
  • One question, one too many solutions (June 27, 2005)
  • Rattled by the rate (June 27, 2005)
  • Rattled by the rate (June 27, 2005)
  • DCF analysis in lease versus borrow (June 20, 2005)
  • Ten ways to beat exam nerves (June 13, 2005)
  • One may as well use robots to set papers (June 13, 2005)
  • On how not to set a question paper (June 06, 2005)
  • When CEOs get shares why shouldn't auditors too? (May 30, 2005)
  • Coping with copying (May 30, 2005)
  • Onto a CA trajectory after Class X (May 30, 2005)
  • Number Crunch (May 23, 2005)
  • Number Crunch - 369 (May 16, 2005)
  • What lies behind `true and fair' (May 16, 2005)
  • Number Crunch - 368 (May 09, 2005)
  • What do you understand by `Audit of Commercial Accounts'? (May 09, 2005)
  • Can a company half-finance its MD's home purchase? (May 02, 2005)
  • Number Crunch - 367 (May 02, 2005)
  • Board meeting on a public holiday, after business hours? (April 25, 2005)
  • Number crunch - 366 (April 25, 2005)
  • There's place for CAs in the BPO space (April 18, 2005)
  • Number Crunch - 365 (April 18, 2005)
  • Is it all right for a non-resident to apply for rights shares? (April 18, 2005)
  • In the company of politics (April 11, 2005)
  • Number crunch - 364 (April 11, 2005)
  • Can Ajay be the auditor of Big Boys? (April 04, 2005)
  • Gaps in the cash flow (April 04, 2005)
  • Number Crunch - 363 (April 04, 2005)
  • Crashing under test conditions (March 28, 2005)
  • How does an auditor vouch and verify patents (March 28, 2005)
  • Number crunch - 362 (March 28, 2005)
  • Look for signals on hazardous highways (March 28, 2005)
  • Number Crunch - 361 (March 21, 2005)
  • Arbitrage, anomalies and autos (March 14, 2005)
  • Estimates are essential for realistic financials (March 14, 2005)
  • Evaluation of an employee incentive scheme (March 14, 2005)
  • Windows of price opportunity that open for brief spells (March 07, 2005)
  • Do we give the young enough space to grow? (March 07, 2005)
  • Three things about knowledge management (March 07, 2005)
  • Number Crunch - 360 (March 07, 2005)
  • Auditor doesn't guarantee the detection of frauds (February 28, 2005)
  • Pleasure trip and break-even point (February 21, 2005)
  • Economic ordering when vendor offers quantity discounts (February 21, 2005)
  • Frauds and errors in exam preparation (February 21, 2005)
  • Number Crunch - 358 (February 21, 2005)
  • Number Crunch - 357 (February 14, 2005)
  • Chocolate of a question with liquor base (February 14, 2005)
  • Interest discussions needn't be boring (February 14, 2005)
  • The fearsome `five' (February 14, 2005)
  • ICAI's announcement (February 14, 2005)
  • Plan ahead of exams, lest you get run over (February 07, 2005)
  • A law on confusion, or confusion in law (February 07, 2005)
  • Can you give a clean report after auditing photocopied records? (February 07, 2005)
  • Number crunch - 355 (January 31, 2005)
  • Tailor a lease on stated terms (January 31, 2005)
  • The logic of air tickets at half the rate (January 31, 2005)
  • Get inspired by audit and assurance standards (January 31, 2005)
  • Point of indifference between buying and piracy (January 24, 2005)
  • Number crunch - 354 (January 24, 2005)
  • Many are the differences between money and capital markets (January 24, 2005)
  • Number Crunch - 353 (January 17, 2005)
  • Don't hold back from holding AGMs (January 17, 2005)
  • Let's put paani on one pan and heera on the other (January 17, 2005)
  • Counsel for a closed gold mine (January 10, 2005)
  • A clinical look at medical benefit (January 10, 2005)
  • Relocation of company office (January 03, 2005)
    Opinion
  • Take the knowledge cover before heading to the Great Wall (December 29, 2005)
  • Startling take on Big Four (December 29, 2005)
  • The unguarded deposit gate (December 22, 2005)
  • `Criminal conduct could be concealed in a thicket of detail' (December 22, 2005)
  • Developing an internal audit plan (December 22, 2005)
  • No `creditable' calls (December 15, 2005)
  • For a smooth dissolution of company (December 15, 2005)
  • Intellectual property in a whirl of a swimming pool! (December 15, 2005)
  • LLP is no lollypop (December 08, 2005)
  • Crimes, chew'd, swallow'd and digested, appear before us (December 08, 2005)
  • Audit routines, gas pipes, chickens and lawyers (December 08, 2005)
  • How true the forecasts (December 08, 2005)
  • Different `reserves' and deepwater economics (December 01, 2005)
  • On how balance-sheets weather global financial storms (December 01, 2005)
  • Worth going the extra mile to cut travel costs (November 24, 2005)
  • Be prepared at the threshold (November 17, 2005)
  • How to better ride out the downturns (November 17, 2005)
  • Deconstructing reconstructed accounts (November 10, 2005)
  • `Institutional innovation' of doubtful merit (November 10, 2005)
  • Managing earnings management (November 03, 2005)
  • Unsustainable economics of accounting publications (November 03, 2005)
  • Needed, a new prescription (November 03, 2005)
  • Corruption isn't a natural disaster (November 03, 2005)
  • We have too many people watching the pot! (October 20, 2005)
  • Will the company secretary stand up? (October 20, 2005)
  • Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance (October 13, 2005)
  • Laws and their extra-territorial applicability (October 13, 2005)
  • Preference in conversion (October 13, 2005)
  • On corruption and its `sister activity' — taxation (October 06, 2005)
  • Are tax lures to woo investment passé? (October 06, 2005)
  • Too important to be left to political compulsions (October 06, 2005)
  • Presentation of financial instruments (October 06, 2005)
  • Harmony in the works (September 29, 2005)
  • Will CAs be the new financial scorekeepers? (September 29, 2005)
  • An old problem with a vague solution (September 29, 2005)
  • Don't spread your spreadsheet too thin, too wide (September 29, 2005)
  • There are local variations to fraud (September 22, 2005)
  • ROI has many a shortcoming (September 22, 2005)
  • Forebodings on board (September 22, 2005)
  • The impairment pair (September 22, 2005)
  • Over-regulation can drive companies out of the public markets (September 22, 2005)
  • Promoters cannot afford to alienate accountants (September 15, 2005)
  • What you need is a prefix, a pullover and a tattoo to complete the CAricature (September 15, 2005)
  • An inquiry into independence (September 15, 2005)
  • Know more about WTO (September 01, 2005)
  • It's risky not to measure risk (September 01, 2005)
  • No punishment has ever had enough power to deter a repeat of the penalised crime (September 01, 2005)
  • Fragmented thinking (September 01, 2005)
  • Bittersweet fruits of incorporation (August 25, 2005)
  • Accounting's key role in human history is of creating institutionalised memory (August 25, 2005)
  • Divided over dividends (August 18, 2005)
  • Re-engineer your skills to cope with WTO challenges (August 18, 2005)
  • Single window for M&A (August 18, 2005)
  • Build confidence in book-building (August 18, 2005)
  • The next big risk may hit from a different angle (August 11, 2005)
  • Listing Agreement versus company law (August 11, 2005)
  • One in two GenXers work with an investment professional of some kind (August 11, 2005)
  • A hijack by the minority (August 11, 2005)
  • Policy response should be well informed about the costs and benefits of offshoring (August 04, 2005)
  • Remedies in circles (August 04, 2005)
  • Don't underestimate value and don't be free from independence (July 28, 2005)
  • Sticking-plaster attitude that gives law additional layers of complexity (July 21, 2005)
  • Information security is not a custom, more honoured in the breach than in the observance (July 14, 2005)
  • Suppressio veri, suggestio falsi (July 07, 2005)
  • Accounting for disappearing coins at unmanned public telephones (July 07, 2005)
  • Nostalgia for Note 18 (July 07, 2005)
  • There's nothing wrong with cash, it gives you time to think (June 30, 2005)
  • The boss who disappeared from his yacht (June 23, 2005)
  • Master health check-up of the Big Four (June 23, 2005)
  • The touchstone of independence (June 23, 2005)
  • `Related' revelations (June 23, 2005)
  • Fuzziness on the fringe (June 23, 2005)
  • Make `apples-to-apples' financial comparisons using XBRL tags (June 16, 2005)
  • We may lose count of committees (June 16, 2005)
  • Capture truth with its two limbs, validity and authenticity (June 16, 2005)
  • Redundant enough to be withdrawn (June 16, 2005)
  • Bean counters vs business sense (June 09, 2005)
  • Trade crosses every border and touches every wallet in every nation (June 09, 2005)
  • It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead (June 09, 2005)
  • The challenge of turning a concept into reality (June 09, 2005)
  • A committee cannot turn a camel into a horse (June 02, 2005)
  • Good guanxi is a network of relationships (June 02, 2005)
  • Accounting against the accrual grain? (June 02, 2005)
  • The battle of numbers (May 26, 2005)
  • A family tragedy in which the accountant played the villain (May 26, 2005)
  • Share of incongruity (May 26, 2005)
  • Ignorantia juris non excusat (May 19, 2005)
  • Listless lessons on corporate governance thru listing norms (May 19, 2005)
  • One-size-fits-all approach may not fit (May 19, 2005)
  • NPAs in the shopping cart (May 19, 2005)
  • Get prepared to be impaired (May 19, 2005)
  • Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done (May 12, 2005)
  • Twist in the SOX tale (May 12, 2005)
  • Can you tell if any sheep are lost without counting them? (May 12, 2005)
  • University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small (May 05, 2005)
  • Cinema shows and professional occupation cannot be treated alike (April 28, 2005)
  • Exits need to be fixed up (April 28, 2005)
  • Bones to pick with the bonus law (April 21, 2005)
  • Why augment the figment of segment? (April 21, 2005)
  • Trickery of transaction cost (April 14, 2005)
  • We have a `banned' list now (April 14, 2005)
  • Back to school — frightful, desperate, wild and furious (April 14, 2005)
  • Occasional knuckle rapping (April 07, 2005)
  • Let discretion be your tutor with this `special' vehicle (March 31, 2005)
  • A bowl at the exit gate (March 31, 2005)
  • In fits and starts (March 31, 2005)
  • Regulatory burden in the name of investor protection (March 24, 2005)
  • Auditors should check the stocks but not necessarily talk to lawyers (March 24, 2005)
  • Generally accepted but poorly understood (March 17, 2005)
  • Heat of loss caused by `cooling-off' period (March 17, 2005)
  • Coming soon: Guidance Note on Accounting of VAT (March 17, 2005)
  • Thou shalt not do what's not permitted (March 10, 2005)
  • CARRs can deliver (February 17, 2005)
  • Do Indians continue to trust and rely on their chartered accountants as much as ever? (February 17, 2005)
  • When weaknesses show in controls internal (February 10, 2005)
  • The experience factor in due diligence (February 10, 2005)
  • Money doesn't grow on trees (February 03, 2005)
  • A performing value for NPLs (February 03, 2005)
  • May we see peer reviews of our CAs on the Net? (February 03, 2005)
  • Betting growth of market by soft-pedalling follies (January 27, 2005)
  • A report card that doesn't impress (January 27, 2005)
  • Mercantile accounting is no mathematical model (January 20, 2005)
  • `We have to find ways to break up audit firms' (January 13, 2005)
  • A case of oppression to rely on (January 06, 2005)
  • Let not financing be a disaster after rapid onset of natural disasters (January 06, 2005)


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