Cost Accounting Records Rules, 2011 do not visualize companies to change their cost accounting system if already in-place; but they are required to comply with the Generally Accepted Cost Accounting Principles and Cost Accounting Standards issued by the Institute of Cost Accountants of India, to the extent these are found to be relevant and applicable and also file compliance report with the Central Government. It was also observed that existence of structured & verified cost accounting records would enable the companies to fulfil regulatory requirements; comply with the Tax Accounting Standards; and assist is their tax assessments.

These rules may be called the Companies (Director Identification Number) Amendment Rules, 2012. (2) They shall come into force with effect from 29th May, 2012. 2. In the Companies (Director Identification Number) Rules, 2006,- (a) after FORM NO. DIN 1, in Annexure 1, for item (i) and entries relating thereto, the following shall be substituted, namely:-

General Circular No. 10/2012 The Ministry had framed certain criteria for declaring a Financial Institution as PFI under section 4A, of the Companies Act, 1956 vide General Circular No. 34/2011 dated 2.6.2011. The issue has since been revisited and it has been decided that any Financial Institution applying for declaration as PFI shall fulfill the following criteria:-

General Circular No.09/2012 On requests received from various Corporates & Professionals and difficulties experienced by the stakeholders in filing Form No.8 and Form No.10 (for modification of charges under the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFESI), it has now been decided to accept filing of the followings Forms:-

Investor Education and Protection Fund (Uploading of information regarding unpaid and unclaimed amounts lying with companies) Rules, 2012, has mandated every company to file eForm 5INV containing the information of unclaimed and unpaid amounts as referred to in sub­section (2) of section 205C of the Companies Act, 1956.

Notice for filing Form-8 & 11 for the Financial Year ended 31-03-2012 All LLPs registered upto 30-September-2011 have to mandatorily close the financial year as on 31-03-2012 and file Form-11 by 30-May-2012 and Form-8 by 30- October-2012.

MCA GENERAL CIRCULAR NO. 8/2012, DATED 10-5-2012 It has been decided by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to mandate the cost auditors and the companies to file Cost Audit Reports (Form-I) and Compliance Reports (Form-A) for the year 2011-12 onwards (including the overdue reports relating to any previous year) by using the XBRL taxonomy. These reports, required to be filed in the XBRL format, would be based on the Taxonomy on XBRL being developed for the formats (Form-I & Form-A) given in the following Rules :

Companies (Central Government’s) General Rules and Forms (Amendment) Rules, 2012 – Substitution of Forms 23C and 23D. Notification No. G.S.R. 313(E), dated 24-4-2012 – In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (l) of section 642, read with section 610B of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Companies (Central Government’s) General Rules and Forms, 1956, namely:

General Circular No. 7/2012 No.17/90/2011-CL-V Dated:25 April 2012 Sub: Name Availability Guidelines, 2011 Sir, Please refer to this Ministry’s earlier Circulars no.45/2011 dated 08.07.2011 and 48/2011 dated 22.07.2011 on the subject cited above. In this regard, I am directed to say that matter regarding availability of name by the system online without backend process by [...]

In Schedule XIV to the Companies Act, 1956, after serial number IV relating to Ships and the entries relating thereto, the following serial number and entries shall be inserted, namely:- Intangible Assets (Toll Road) created under Build, Operate and Transfer, Build, Own, Operate and Transfer or any other form of Public Private Partnership Route.