Punjab National Bank invites applications on the undernoted prescribed format from practicing firms of Chartered Accountants of India who are willing to have their Firms empanel ed as Concurrent/Revenue/Treasury Auditor in the Bank.

The conviction recorded against the appellant for bigamy stands even today though sentence was reduced to the period already undergone. Hence, the decision taken by the first respondent to remove the name of the appellant from the register maintained by the Chartered Accountants Council, which was upheld by the learned single Judge is valid and no interference is required as the appellant has attracted disqualification by operation of law viz., Section 8 of the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949, due to his involvement in an offence involving moral turpitude.

BIG FOUR tax partners are to appear before the Public Accounts Committee as it continues its investigations into tax avoidance. Witnesses from PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and Ernst & Young will appear on 31 January and will include KPMG’s UK head of tax Jane McCormack, Deloitte’s head of tax policy Bill Dodwell, PwC’s head of tax [...]

As reported by leading daily TOI – Falling prey to an online lottery scam, chartered accountant Pankaj Kumar (name changed), 25, transferred nearly Rs 85 lakh to account numbers provided by the cyber criminals, who duped him by showing frivolous dreams having won lottery money of 10 lakh pounds. Now, all his efforts to contact [...]

A chartered accountant was today sentenced to life imprisonment by a court here for triggering a mid-air hijack scare in February 2009 by claiming aboard a Goa-Delhi Indigo airlines flight that he had infected needles and a gun.

Market regulator Sebi today imposed a penalty of Rs 6 lakh on Dilip S Mehta, owner of a chartered accountancy firm, for failing to respond to summons issued by it in relation to a probe into the affairs of erstwhile Bank of Rajasthan. The matter pertains to alleged irregularities committed by former promoters of Bank of Rajasthan (BoR).

The Government is aware that violation of accounting principles and financial irregularities are being carried out by various companies and their audit firms. During the last three years, 316 companies and 73 audit firms were found guilty of violation of accounting principles and other financial irregularities for non-compliance of disclosure norms. Prosecutions have been filed against such companies and audit firms, under section 211 and section 227 read with section 233 respectively of the Companies Act, 1956 for such violations.

Till 31.03.2011, point of taxation in case of eight specified services including Chartered Accountants (CAs) was determined on the basis of receipt of payment. However, w.e.f. 01.04.2011, this benefit has been extended to all services albeit, in a slightly modified form. Now all individuals, partnership firms (including limited liability partnership firms) having a turnover not exceeding Rs. 50 lakh in the previous year can pay service tax on receipt basis in the current financial year.

The Members may advertise through a write up setting out their particulars or of their firms and services provided by them subject to the following Guidelines and must be presented in such a manner as to maintain the profession’s good reputation, dignity and its ability to serve the public interest.

Birla, a chartered accountant and an MBA himself, is not happy over the rate of pass percentage of CAs. The pass percentage during our time was 4 per cent. Now it is 17 per cent. The pass ratio should be 10 per cent,” he said, emphasising on the need for better products.