The Hindu Business Line : Monday, June 18, 2007

FINANCIAL SERVICES
Factoring of receivables and payables
Working capital management is a difficult job and one has to be very careful about cash management to maximise profits. One such tool available to the businesses is factoring. Receivables and payables are factored by institutions. Factoring is ... More

ENVIRONMENT
Reining in carbon emissions
Responses to Sticklish Issues dated June 11 More

PETROLEUM
Time to switch over to alternatives?
Send in your comments to: Sticklish@thehindu.co.in

TAXATION
`Economic nexus'-based taxation
By reiterating the importance of establishing "economic nexus" for bringing income to tax in India, great significance gets attached to the concept, especially in times when states are unsure of the extent of their jurisdiction to tax cross-border se rvices. More

Is online trading a form of employment?
I am a government employee and I want to do online trading in shares. Am I barred from doing this on the ground that it would amount to another employment? Senthil Kumar, email No certainly not. Online trading by no stretch of ... More

Money changing
We undertake money changing activities in individual capacity. Will our services attract service tax? If yes, under which category? Money changing is not a banking or a specified financial service, as defined in Section 65(12) of the ... More

EDUCATION
Choosing good over smart
Duke University, one of the Ivy League colleges in the US, suspended 34 of its final business school students for allegedly cheating in an open-book, take-home final examination in one of the core classes. A number of students had copied, ... More

CAREER CROSSROADS
Part-time or Distance MBA?
I am a software engineer. I have two-and-half years experience. I am confused whether to take up part-time MBA (three years) or Distance MBA. The part-time course will require me to attend classes in the evenings. But I am not sure if that ... More

ECONOMICS
Inflation and interest rates
A CA final student, I would like to understand the relation between inflation and interest rates. Utkarsh It is typically a positive relation. In other words, both tend to move either up or down ... More

EVENTS
Just Do IT
A S Nageswar Rao - Chief Manager - Risk Management & Compliance Dept - Karur Vysya Bank - Karur - rao.rao2006 at gmail.com, A Srinivasan - Senior Manager - UCO Bank - Mumbai - asvasan7 at gmail.com (Winner), A.K.Ranjish - Law Dept - SBT Head ... More

MARKETING
Importance of competing on quality, not price
The encyclopaedic China, the knowledge-hungry Wafers and a guest were having dinner. China, playing host, asked the guest, "Will you have Coke or Pepsi?" The guest was shocked. "Pepsi, of course," he said. "What's the of-course to it?" ... More

PEOPLE
Persevere and be patient
Mr Srikanth Ramachandran, President & CEO, NTrust Infotech, holds a Master's degree in computer science from one of the top ten institutes in India and an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at University of California at Los Angeles. ... More

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