The Hindu Business Line : Monday, March 12, 2007

ECONOMY
Merge business interests with social causes
Story so far: India is a bunch of three economies, says a speaker at an IT company's offsite session I happen to attend. While the `business class' economy, constituting about 2 per cent of the country's population has all the ... More

Is globalisation influencing inflation in US
Responses to Sticklish Issues dated March 5. More

TAXATION
Contractor or manufacturer?
We have been manufacturing fly ash bricks in Jamshedpur. Recently, we bagged a contract with a big company in Ranchi for manufacturing bricks for them at their construction site. We are an SSI and our turnover is under Rs 1 crore. No excise ... More

MANAGEMENT
Control self-assessment: For a healthy organisation
A health-check of your organisation, the weighing scale is the CSA tool; a monthly self-check is disciplined application of the tool; the tipping scale, the red flag communication mechanism, and the weight-loss programme the ameliorative action. More

ECONOMICS
Problems with inflation indices
Inflation indices are only as good as how well they are constructed and the different weights that are assigned to the items in the basket. More

HUMAN RESOURCES
CAREER CROSSROADS
Woes of a BPO executive
I am a chemical engineer working in a BPO outfit for the past one year as customer-support executive, dealing mainly with overseas customers. I find the job monotonous and stressful. I am desperate to get into frontline software ... More

EVENTS
Number Crunch
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Just Do IT
A.Manohar - Student - Vizianagaram - leelamanohar at rediffmail.com, Abdul Khan - khanam123 at rediffmail.com, Adi - adi_519 at yahoo.com, Aditya Jain - Malwa Industries Limited - Ludhiana - adityajain at malwagroup.com, Anil Kumar Singh - New ... More

INCOME TAX
Settlement doors not open forever
I am a CA student. What are the major changes made in the law relating to the Settlement Commission? Preeti Raghavan, Chennai There are four major changes proposed. First, the doors of Settlement Commission would not be open forever. ... More

ECONOMIC OFFENCES
Frauds and errors auditors encounter
Frauds and errors result in misstatements in financial statement. Frauds result in a loss to the entity and an error vitiates the true and fair view. In either case, the financial statements cannot be said to be showing a true and fair view ... More

PEOPLE
You are only as good as your team
Mr Devendra Saharia is co-founder and president of Ajuba International, a premier global provider of healthcare revenue cycle outsourcing services. Prior to Ajuba, Mr Saharia worked as investment banker in Robertson Stephens, UBS and Merrill ... More

BOOKS
BUSINESS-A-VERSE
Mannequins in the dark
"Driven by drought the poor do their rounds past the archway of precious stones... Their kettles and drums make empty sounds... " A few lines, these are, from `Global warning,' a poem in Portraits of ... More

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