Archive for March, 2010

Besides the traditional fields of Statutory Audit, Internal Audit and Tax Audit there is vast scope for CAs in providing services such as Surveyors, Loss Assessors, Claim Assurors, Claim Negotiators etc., 1.2 Amidst this golden phase of transition and sky-rocketing growth graph of insurance industry, only sky is the limit for all the enterprising accountants as the king-size pool of whole new opportunities beckon them. The insurance cake is getting bigger and be.. Full Article

The terms merger and amalgamation have not been defined in the Companies Act, 1956 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) though this voluminous piece of legislation contains 69 definitions in Section 2. The concept paper recently issued by the Ministry of Company Affairs, the fate of which is still unknown, contained 100 such definitions but still stopped short of defining merger or amalgamation. The terms merger and amalgamation are synonyms and the term ‘amalgamation�.. Full Article

The main objective of the tax audit is to compute the taxable income according to the law and for maintaining transparency in the financial statements filed by the assessees with the Income-tax department. The tax audit u/s. 44AB of the Income-tax Act 1961 is significant practice area for Chartered Accountants. Since the introduction of tax audit, we have been given responsibilities to discharge the duties as tax auditors for the proper compliance of tax law by the as.. Full Article

The government has found financial irregularities in 160 companies — a whopping 30 of them owned by it — thanks to the early warning system (EWS) put in place last year. After the nearly Rs 10,000-crore Satyam fraud last year, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) in September had developed an EWS to detect corporate frauds. The software-based fraud detecting system scans companies based on 10 financial parameters set by the ministry. Full Article

A resume is a marketing document that 'can serve as a magnet to draw job opportunities to you,' said Susan Ireland, author of 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Résumé.' That's largely because more résumés are now on job boards and social media sites, and are included on company databases, she said., people place too much emphasis on the parts of past jobs that they hated — and get new jobs they end up hating, too, she said. 'Your résumé is about your fut.. Full Article