Audit

Regulations regarding maintenance of cost accounting records and cost audit are likely to change. If the recommendations of the expert committee appointed by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs are accepted, all manufacturing companies with a paid-up capital of Rs 50 crores (500 million) or more will be required to get their cost accounting records audited by a statutory cost auditor. Full Article

Whether the Company has been listed on the stock exchanges? If yes, the names of the stock exchanges may please be indicated? If so, whether the provisions of listing agreement of SEBI are being followed by the Company? (2) Whether the Company has 50% independent directors on their Board as required under SEBI guidelines? Full Article

Country’s regulator for chartered accountants (CAs), the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India or ICAI, which witnessed enormous mudslinging in the year 2009 has started 2010 also with infighting. The centre of the controversy again is Uttam Prakash Agarwal, the outgoing president. Full Article

The ministry of company affairs said that it was yet to receive a detailed report from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India on the audit and accounting major PricewaterhouseCoopers, which was involved in an accounting goof-up in the Rs 10,000-crore (Rs 100-billion) Satyam scandal. Full Article

and contributed by the assessee to a firm towards capital contribution should be treated as stock in trade even during the course of making the transaction of transferring or contributing the land to the partnership firm as capital contribution, the surplus arising to the assessee from the said transaction of contributing stock in trade to a firm shall then assessable under the head "business" in the view of the colourable device or ruse adopted by the assessee to conver.. Full Article

The Delhi High Court (HC) [2010-TIOL­42-HC-DEL-IT] in the case of CIT v. Industrial Finance Corporation of India (Taxpayer) which held that the difference between forward rate and exchange rate prevailing on the date of entering into forward contracts is fully allowable as deduction even if the difference is amortized in the books of account over the life of the forward contracts. Full Article

Changes in regulations like the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Goods and Services Tax (GST), Direct Taxes Code and the new Companies Act are likely to spur business for consulting and audit firms. Full Article

The income from investment activity was offered as capital gains while the income from dealing activity was offered as business income. This position was accepted by the AO in the earlier years. In AY 2005-06, the AO took a different view and held that even the shares held on investment account had to be assessed as business income. The Tribunal allowed the assessee’s appeal (see 122 TTJ (Mum) 87). On appeal by the Revenue, HELD dismissing the appeal: Full Article