The Hindu Business Line : Monday, December 19, 2005

Profit reconciliation sans professional touch
P. V. Ratnam suggests answers to the November 2005 CA (PE II) paper on cost accounting and financial management More

A probe into `degeneracy'
R. Sivakumar and P. R.Vittal examine the unusualness of the linear programming problem posed in the November 2005 CA (Final) exam More

STOCK MARKETS

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

Baskets of X
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WTO

Does WTO continue to be relevant?
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EVENTS

Number Crunch - 398
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Just do IT
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SOCIETY & DEVELOPMENT

Profit vs philanthropy
Responses to Sticklish Issues dated Dec 12 More

SPORTS

Organising cricket as a corporate
"BETA, your teacher says you didn't do your homework yet again." "Oh, grandpa I just didn't have time this morning. I hope you aren't going to start off on a lecture like mom." "No, but I am ... More

INCOME TAX

What's there for women in tax law?
I AM about to get into employment after having obtained an engineering degree. Tell me if there is anything special for women in the income-tax law. Rashmi Sahadev, New Delhi The Finance Act, 2005, while exempting income up to Rs ... More

BOOKS

Get up one more time and pull yourself together
WHETHER your age is 20, 40 or 70, "you have the ability at any moment to review your life and make choices and changes to achieve the quality of life that you want," assures Seymour Rifkind in, 21st Century Samurai, from Pearson ... More

Wanted clear thinkers, not rabbit-chasers
DO YOU know what Patricia `Pat' Russo, the CEO responsible for the turnaround of Lucent Technologies, looks for? People with `clarity of thought.' There are clear thinkers, muddled thinkers, and people that fall in between, explains Russo. "If ... More