The Hindu Business Line : Monday, November 07, 2005

Home, sweet home
"MOM, you are going to enjoy living in this old age community," Shekar said. His mother listened listlessly as she was being driven to her new home. Shekar's friend, Ram decided to break the tension. ... More

ACCOUNTANCY

How to protect the portfolio using index futures
ON SEPTEMBER 9, the BSE Sensex touched 8060. You wish to fully cover your portfolio worth Rs 36,49,000 using index futures, the size of the contract being 100 indices. If the beta of the portfolio is 0.7, what is the number of contracts to be ... More

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Management information and control systems
A model paper on MICS for CA (Final) More

TAXATION

Tips to tackle the tax hurdle
THE direct taxes paper for CA (Final) and the income-tax and Central sales tax (CST) paper for PE II pose quite a few problems for students. Though covered at the PE II level, candidates often falter in the direct taxes exam in the Final. In ... More

GENDER

Sticklish Issues
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STOCK MARKETS

Bull's Eye
E-mail your responses by Tuesday to BullsEye@thehindu.co.in

Baskets of X
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EVENTS

Number Crunch - 392
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Just Do It
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INCOME TAX

Why can't a CA advertise?
The age-old injunction, which is witnessing a thaw in quite a few countries, is apparently to ensure that a client goes to a professional and not the other way round. Canvassing by a professional has been looked down upon. The rationale is a ... More

ECONOMIC OFFENCES

Volcker Committee findings
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BOOKS

Don't let being good stand in the way of being great!
JUST as there are certain laws that govern nature, there are laws that govern performance and achievement, writes T. J. Hoisington in If You Think You Can! from Anthem (www.manjulindia.com). The book speaks of 13 laws that ... More

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