The Government has said that it is aware that several unqualified persons are using false registration numbers and issuing fake certificates by pretending to be Chartered Accountants. Ninety four cases of fake certificates since April, 2006 have come to the notice of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. These include issue of false certificates [...]

All manufacturing companies with a paid-up capital of Rs 50 crore or more will be required to conduct a statutory cost audit, which would bring about 25,000 firms under the ambit of cost audit. At present, only 44 industries and specific products within an industry come under cost audit. The proposed change will have a major positive impact on the profession, because more firms will have to mandatorily appoint a cost auditor and have cost accounting records audited on an annual basis. At present, about 1,800 cost accounting professionals practise in India, against 46,000 qualified people.

BIODATA FORMAT-2009 Allahabad Bank invites applications in the under noted prescribed format from practising firms of Chartered Accountants of India who are willing to have their firm empanelled as Concurrent/ Revenue Auditor in the Bank. The panel of auditors maintained last year (excluding existing concurrent auditors) since expired and  will not be used for appointment [...]

Mukherjee Nagar in north Delhi is home to a large number of civil service aspirants. Katwaria Sarai is preferred by students trying to crack the engineering and medical entrance exams. And chartered accountants? Well they seem to prefer Laxmi Nagar in east Delhi. So much so that the stretch between Laxmi Nagar and Mother Dairy crossing was recently renamed Chartered [...]

Domestic companies may soon have to file financial statements in a computerised format to enable easy flow of information between regulators and facilitate comprehensive financial data analysis. In a letter to the ministry of corporate affairs, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has asked the government to mandate all companies to file their [...]

Name of the Appellant: Ms. Vikita Vishanji Soni , Name of the Public Authority: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India , Decision No.4167/IC(A)/2009 , F. No.CIC/MA/A/2009/000474 , Dated, the 13th July, 2009 , Delivered by : Central Information Commission. Facts: 1. The appellant was heard on 13/7/2009 through a representative. 2. The appellant has [...]

1. The Indian government represented by the Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said last Friday said that the government will support Mahindra Satyam in resolving class action suits which it is facing in the US.On the other hand, not only does the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), which is probing the accounting scam [...]

As everybody is already aware, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) takes panel from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India for the empanelment of Statutory Auditors of Regional Rural Banks. (RRBs). In this context, it is advised that members should refrain from sending separate empanelment application/bio data directly to the NABARD for [...]

Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today agreed that the ICAI Act needs some amendments to become a more powerful body post the Satyam scam. ”I can see that some amendments (in ICAI Act) are called for but we would like to see what their (ICAI) perspective is,” Khurshid told reporters.However, he refused to give further details, [...]

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India could likely consider recommending blacklisting of Price Waterhouse, which would bar the global audit firm from carrying out auditing in India. As the institute can only recommend, its decision can be challenged in court. The institute may state its decision by the month end, say people familiar with the development. [...]