The Hindu Business Line : Monday, February 20, 2006

What service can CAs do to the community?
STORY so far: There can be nothing more taxing than preparing a list of demands for the industry, I learn while compiling one such as a pre-Budget exercise. Episode 116 Nothing happens even if we present a long wish-list, or ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Re 1 from March 1
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AGRICULTURE

Taxing farm income?
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HEALTH

BUSINESS-A-VERSE

How I wonder...
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TAXATION

Is P&L account needed before operations commence?
WE ARE a construction company incorporated recently. We don't expect to get any orders for the next two years at least. Meanwhile, we have been incurring routine expenses on salary, and so on, and also earned some interest from bank. Are we ... More

EDUCATION

60 SECONDS CHIEF!

`Never allow comparisons hurt you'
N. SUNDARARAJAN is the Company Secretary and Head of Internal Audit of Ashok Leyland. Also a cost accountant and an MBA (XLRI), he has worked with Tata Steel, MRF, Nippo Batteries and Sundaram Industries (TVS Tread).. He is the president of ... More

Will software gobble up the accountant?
"TAX as a profession has no future," said Jerry participating in a corporate training programme. TP, one of India's foremost tax professionals, smiled. He had made a bundle out of tax practice, but now a ... More

STOCK MARKETS

Baskets of X
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Bull's Eye
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EVENTS

Number Crunch - 406
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Just Do IT
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BOOKS

Let your skills do the work, not your heads
TAKE your game to the next level, invites John Eliot in, Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance, from Penguin (www.penguinbooksindia.com). The book reminds that thinking is a habit and so you can change it to ... More

Horses that pull the plough of economic progress
HOW TO get better performance from knowledge workers? This is the question that Thomas H. Davenport answers in Thinking for a Living, from Harvard Business School Press (www.HBSPress.org). Knowledge workers have been around us as ... More

CARTOON

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