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Accountancy
  • Tripura ICFAI gets UGC tag (December 29, 2006)
  • `Due diligence is the business of common sense' (December 28, 2006)
  • We thrive on finding loopholes (December 28, 2006)
  • The ICSI does not rank companies for corporate governance (December 21, 2006)
  • Roots of CSR (December 21, 2006)
  • ICFAI welcomes foreign varsities (December 19, 2006)
  • ICAI proposes to introduce biometric smart cards (December 18, 2006)
  • Gas-related gyan for accountants (December 14, 2006)
  • What's the best IT offshoring strategy? (December 07, 2006)
  • Seminar on SMEs (December 05, 2006)
  • ICA to offer 100 pc scholarship (November 15, 2006)
  • `Accounting excites me' (November 09, 2006)
  • On the tainted money trail (October 26, 2006)
  • Export of CA's services (October 16, 2006)
  • Clearing charges (October 09, 2006)
  • Costs, costs everywhere (September 18, 2006)
  • The opportunity cost (September 18, 2006)
  • Centre can nominate RBI official to ICAI (September 15, 2006)
  • ICAI sub-group to tackle tax audit ceiling issue (September 12, 2006)
  • Taxability of a CA's service (September 11, 2006)
  • ICAI to hold meet in Mangalore (September 06, 2006)
  • ICAI to help Bengal connect university syllabi with IT (September 02, 2006)
  • CIMA ties up with British Council (August 27, 2006)
  • Outsource Partners adds new facility (August 19, 2006)
  • Imperative to have independent auditors (July 27, 2006)
  • ICAI seminar at Ernakulam (July 22, 2006)
  • Goodbye grads, hello CPT students! (July 17, 2006)
  • CAs, Co Secys exempted from service tax for some services (July 14, 2006)
  • ICAI proposes to come up with newer accounting standards (July 12, 2006)
  • ICAI to start new curriculum for CAs (July 04, 2006)
  • ICAI for bar on bonus issues from revaluation reserves (July 02, 2006)
  • ISO 9000 certification for Ministry unit (July 01, 2006)
  • ICAI suggests changes in fringe benefit tax (June 27, 2006)
  • Ace Academy Web site (June 24, 2006)
  • ICAI to issue standard in Jan (June 23, 2006)
  • Big worries about Big Four (May 29, 2006)
  • What after standard X? (May 29, 2006)
  • Service tax on CAs' services (May 29, 2006)
  • New Tally software (May 15, 2006)
  • Ramaswamy, SAFA Vice-Chairman (April 20, 2006)
  • ICAI plans draft on standards for financial tools, derivatives (April 02, 2006)
  • Tally in tie-up with Osmania varsity (March 14, 2006)
  • ICSI up in arms against move to tax services (March 07, 2006)
  • Tally global certification course (March 04, 2006)
  • Risk neglected is risk retained (February 27, 2006)
  • `Updating of professional knowledge is essential' (February 23, 2006)
  • Tally India to foray into China with languages software (February 22, 2006)
  • Will software gobble up the accountant? (February 20, 2006)
  • Tally launches new software (February 18, 2006)
  • Tally launches version with 10 Indian language interfaces (February 15, 2006)
  • ICAI to help Govt in accounting reforms (February 13, 2006)
  • New ICAI President (February 06, 2006)
  • Networking of CA firms (February 03, 2006)
  • ICAI plans e-learning facility for members (January 28, 2006)
  • CAs make `misconduct' charge against Lodha (January 27, 2006)
  • 2-day ICAI seminar in Mangalore from Jan 27 (January 24, 2006)
  • Shantilal Daga to represent ICAI in developing nations committee (January 03, 2006)
    Corporate
  • ICWAI objects to draft guidelines proposals (November 15, 2006)
  • Should we unlearn what little accounting we know? (November 14, 2006)
  • Stress on measuring `intangibles' in company's growth (October 06, 2006)
  • `ICAI is not averse to opening up of the accounting sector' (September 14, 2006)
  • ICAI to draft CA curriculum for UAE (September 08, 2006)
  • ICSI seminar on Aug 5 (August 02, 2006)
  • Oil bonds: A sticky problem for accountants (June 29, 2006)
  • ICAI plans major brand-building exercise (June 03, 2006)
  • ICWAI office-bearers (May 31, 2006)
  • ICAI accounting standards soon for local bodies (May 27, 2006)
  • ICAI accounting standards soon for local bodies (May 27, 2006)
  • On Indian CAs looking for jobs in Kabul (May 15, 2006)
  • ICAI training programme (April 24, 2006)
  • Seminar on digital signatures (April 05, 2006)
  • Now, it's merry time for aspiring CAs (April 02, 2006)
  • Meet on MCA 21 (March 24, 2006)
  • Kerala: Audit by CAs in co-op banks, societies urged (February 25, 2006)
  • ICAI southern region secy (February 24, 2006)
  • NID to design logo for chartered accountants (February 19, 2006)
  • New curriculum for CA exams proposed (February 08, 2006)
  • Economic Value Added: Much ado about nothing (January 31, 2006)
  • Now, chartered accountants can prefix `CA' to their name (January 28, 2006)
  • H.M. Choraria is new ICSI President (January 21, 2006)
    Home Page
  • Tally sees 10-fold rise in user base (December 23, 2006)
  • ICWAI wants services under cost audit (July 26, 2006)
  • CAs can now take up audit work in US (February 06, 2006)
    Industry & Economy
  • ICAI regional conference starts today (August 11, 2006)
    Mentor
  • Partition theory of numbers and project crashing (November 27, 2006)
  • Right blend of questions (November 20, 2006)
  • Test your costing skills (October 30, 2006)
  • Overview of Common Proficiency Test (October 09, 2006)
  • Production loss on account of labour turnover (August 14, 2006)
  • Road to Common Proficiency Test (July 03, 2006)
  • Activity-based costing of a banking service (June 26, 2006)
  • Fund versus corporate accounting (June 19, 2006)
  • Fund versus corporate accounting (June 19, 2006)
  • Journalisation of an examination paper (June 12, 2006)
  • No posers to account for allotted marks (May 15, 2006)
  • Crossing the final hurdle (April 24, 2006)
  • How to go about CA Examinations (April 17, 2006)
  • Laws relating to losses (February 13, 2006)
  • Estimating the cost of processing claims (February 13, 2006)
  • Interim dividend interrupted by tsunami (January 23, 2006)
  • Finding the cost of Job 321 (January 16, 2006)
  • Double-entry for debenture deals (January 02, 2006)
    Opinion
  • Cost uncertainties of nuclear plants (December 28, 2006)
  • Undue enrichment of IPO scam victims (December 21, 2006)
  • How complexity enters law (December 21, 2006)
  • A plea for a better deal for investors (December 14, 2006)
  • Confusion over issuance of accounting standards (December 14, 2006)
  • Salaried fast catching up with fee-earners (December 07, 2006)
  • Standardising insurance norms (December 07, 2006)
  • Sanitation inspectors, auditors, foremen... (December 07, 2006)
  • Putting Railways' finances on track (November 30, 2006)
  • Accounting is a human system (November 30, 2006)
  • Minimising dominance of big firms (November 30, 2006)
  • Book building is a two-way street (November 30, 2006)
  • 7 principles of highly ethical corporates (November 23, 2006)
  • Transfer pricing goes beyond putting percentile value (November 23, 2006)
  • Annual value vs guideline value (November 23, 2006)
  • The `brave new world' of bean-counters (November 16, 2006)
  • Audit firm and independence (November 16, 2006)
  • What ERM means for India Inc. (November 09, 2006)
  • For those in a milestone period of their lives (November 09, 2006)
  • Proactive legal risk management (October 26, 2006)
  • Who benefits from greenshoe option? (October 26, 2006)
  • Winds of financial grace (October 26, 2006)
  • Hail the NRIs (October 19, 2006)
  • Quo vadis arbitration in India? (October 19, 2006)
  • Accounting for hedging transactions (October 19, 2006)
  • Why public sector oil companies fight shy of actively hedging price risks (October 19, 2006)
  • Reservations about quotas for women on boards (October 12, 2006)
  • The India business story (October 12, 2006)
  • Should we bid adieu to cost audit? (October 12, 2006)
  • The five most dangerous words are: `Everybody else is doing it' (October 12, 2006)
  • Will a cap on auditors' liability encourage complacency? (October 05, 2006)
  • E-governance is but a milestone towards good governance (October 05, 2006)
  • Service innovations (October 05, 2006)
  • E-governance is but a milestone towards good governance (October 05, 2006)
  • Will a cap on auditors' liability encourage complacency? (October 05, 2006)
  • Service innovations (October 05, 2006)
  • A `storm' that rages on in auditing (September 28, 2006)
  • Raising the standard (September 28, 2006)
  • The sealed fate of company seal (September 28, 2006)
  • Directors in tricky spots (September 21, 2006)
  • Accounting problems can grow unnoticed like mozo bamboo plant (September 21, 2006)
  • Independent unattached directors
    Rolling stones that will gather moss?
    (September 21, 2006)
  • Mergers of convenience (September 21, 2006)
  • Write to win (September 07, 2006)
  • A job half done (September 07, 2006)
  • `There's a premium that foreign companies need to pay for their India footprint' (September 07, 2006)
  • Healthcare: The price of well-being (September 07, 2006)
  • Guarantee on capital, not returns (August 31, 2006)
  • On a mole's trail (August 31, 2006)
  • Ensuring `faithful representation' in financial reports (August 31, 2006)
  • When does private turn public? (August 31, 2006)
  • If only `torn books' repaired themselves `as they landed upon their shelves' (August 31, 2006)
  • Education for directors (August 17, 2006)
  • Storm brewing in ICWAI's tea-cup (August 17, 2006)
  • Professionals as directors vs professional directors (August 17, 2006)
  • Occupation under fire (August 17, 2006)
  • Some vesting issues in share-based payments (August 10, 2006)
  • Valuation thriller (August 10, 2006)
  • Can a general meeting be cancelled? (August 10, 2006)
  • When a mega merger runs into rough weather (August 10, 2006)
  • When shareholders' agreement is enforceable (August 03, 2006)
  • Guarding the turf from predatory professionals (August 03, 2006)
  • Remembering India's first woman CA (July 27, 2006)
  • Interest rates never cease to hold interest (July 27, 2006)
  • High levels of derivative exposure (July 20, 2006)
  • Smoke 'n mirrors (July 20, 2006)
  • Fear of prosecution (July 20, 2006)
  • Move on CFO (July 20, 2006)
  • Chocolate teacakes or `unjust enrichment' (July 20, 2006)
  • Whining and whimper in the CA camp (July 17, 2006)
  • On separate paths of standard evolution (July 13, 2006)
  • Baby steps in conflict zones (July 13, 2006)
  • Disclosures about exposures (July 13, 2006)
  • A fair definition of fair value (July 13, 2006)
  • Opening the gates to property (July 13, 2006)
  • Weaving a magic (July 06, 2006)
  • Time to solve, not merely measure, operation risks (July 06, 2006)
  • From uniform accounting standards to standards on uniforms for accountants (July 06, 2006)
  • Towards effective control of the capital market (July 06, 2006)
  • Winners' curse and accountants' nightmare (June 29, 2006)
  • Needed, seamless cross-border M&A (June 29, 2006)
  • Financial terrors in dark databases (June 29, 2006)
  • Add strength to tenders (June 29, 2006)
  • The Company, a tragedy (June 22, 2006)
  • M&A with a foreign company (June 22, 2006)
  • Because derivatives are merely contracts, just about anything can be an underlying asset (June 22, 2006)
  • Secondees, on second thoughts (June 22, 2006)
  • A call on the stewards (June 15, 2006)
  • How is audit work distributed? (June 15, 2006)
  • Dense fog in the accounting jungle (June 15, 2006)
  • It pays to speak plain English (June 15, 2006)
  • Bankable audit inputs (June 15, 2006)
  • On the presumption of dishonesty (June 08, 2006)
  • Issues in cash-flow statement (June 08, 2006)
  • Transcending borders (June 08, 2006)
  • A quick way to turn good husbands into bad accountants (June 08, 2006)
  • De-constructing good intentions (June 01, 2006)
  • What can be more fearsome than the accounting link to Genghis Khan? (June 01, 2006)
  • No more `chalta hai' (June 01, 2006)
  • A draft that drew ire (May 25, 2006)
  • Anomalies of interest (May 25, 2006)
  • Normal accidents (May 25, 2006)
  • Set-off set to rest (May 25, 2006)
  • Insurance for auditors (May 25, 2006)
  • Pulling the trigger to infuse reporting habit in accountants (May 25, 2006)
  • QIP and the theory of trickle-down (May 18, 2006)
  • Good policy plus service delivery (May 18, 2006)
  • Shackling to make independent (May 18, 2006)
  • A quarter billion records in a mammoth accounting reconciliation (May 18, 2006)
  • Insurance route to eliminate the perverse incentives of gatekeepers (May 11, 2006)
  • Pursuit of prudence (May 11, 2006)
  • This SOX hurts (May 11, 2006)
  • Reining in the primary market (May 04, 2006)
  • A matrix for the economy (May 04, 2006)
  • Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated (May 04, 2006)
  • Accounting for taxes on income (May 04, 2006)
  • Towards accrual (April 27, 2006)
  • How opaque Kumar got kicked, got wild, and got a lifer (April 27, 2006)
  • Pension, a ticking time-bomb? (April 27, 2006)
  • Cart before horse (April 27, 2006)
  • Take a call on telecom (April 20, 2006)
  • The wisdom of IPO rating (April 20, 2006)
  • Defining pension benefits (April 20, 2006)
  • MAT credit disclosure (April 20, 2006)
  • Minding those who meddle with money (April 20, 2006)
  • From a `friendly chat', KYC is now `a modern day intelligence art form' (April 13, 2006)
  • Transfers that cross borders (April 13, 2006)
  • Caught in a time warp (April 13, 2006)
  • Pillars of strength? (April 13, 2006)
  • Massive intentions (April 06, 2006)
  • A defunct post (April 06, 2006)
  • Accounting for heritage assets (April 06, 2006)
  • A place for competition (April 06, 2006)
  • A liberal serving (March 30, 2006)
  • Why are school days frightful, desperate, wild and furious? (March 30, 2006)
  • At a loss on `office of profit' (March 30, 2006)
  • A brew of loan and subsidy (March 30, 2006)
  • Ignorance of risks is high-risk (March 23, 2006)
  • It's naïve to think tainted money becomes clean when donated (March 23, 2006)
  • There goes the anon (March 23, 2006)
  • The knowledge edge (March 23, 2006)
  • `A grave injustice and inequity caused to the profession' (March 16, 2006)
  • Doesn't `paid-up' capital deserve sanctity? (March 16, 2006)
  • Time for a standard on share-based payments? (March 16, 2006)
  • Stirrings of a despised behemoth (March 16, 2006)
  • The unexplained retreats and status quo (March 09, 2006)
  • Numbers spill the beans (March 09, 2006)
  • Strict guidelines for asset securitisation (March 09, 2006)
  • Why central bankers should play `war games' (March 09, 2006)
  • The Big Three on the Budget (March 02, 2006)
  • ICAI's views given due weightage (March 02, 2006)
  • Some good, some bad, some need a re-look (March 02, 2006)
  • A quick tour of the Budget for the hassled (March 02, 2006)
  • Shifts for good? (February 23, 2006)
  • Virtues of consolidation (February 23, 2006)
  • Enough of being the twelfth man (February 23, 2006)
  • Expert's advice on retail (February 23, 2006)
  • Home dreams and accounting holes thereafter (February 23, 2006)
  • The indispensable audit (February 16, 2006)
  • We all need a firm sense of identity (February 16, 2006)
  • SAFETY of corporate governance (February 16, 2006)
  • From Monica Lewinsky to Sarbanes-Oxley (February 09, 2006)
  • Rhetoric of anti-dumping (February 09, 2006)
  • Déjà vu at Gujarat Ambuja (February 09, 2006)
  • Flaws in the clause (February 09, 2006)
  • Cash versus mercantile (February 02, 2006)
  • Ring a ring o' CAs, a network full of forces (February 02, 2006)
  • Networking of CA firms (January 27, 2006)
  • Decoding a demerger (January 26, 2006)
  • Officers told the court what they thought it should know, and not the truth (January 26, 2006)
  • Cross-border comparability (January 26, 2006)
  • Remedy worse than the disease (January 19, 2006)
  • Tax secrets may well hide in the reporting gaps and crevices (January 19, 2006)
  • Relevance of risk rating (January 19, 2006)
  • On the trail of a failed bank and the trial that followed (January 12, 2006)
  • Far from fair value (January 12, 2006)
  • Creative accounting can turn source documents into works of abstract art (January 12, 2006)
  • You can't be too busy to think of BCM (January 05, 2006)
  • `Standard' lag in accounting for financial instruments (January 05, 2006)
    Web Extras
  • Casual Vacancy of auditor — Nothing casual about it (December 25, 2006)
  • ICAI plans to offer package degrees (December 14, 2006)
  • Arbitration can be better value for money (November 23, 2006)
  • Ratios to relate to (October 23, 2006)
  • Pre-certification: Co Secys peeved over Ministry move (August 02, 2006)


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