It is not just Indian accounting standards, which would converge fully with the International Financial Reporting Standards by 2011, but cost accounting standards, would also need to be in tune with the global model. The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India, the apex body to regulate the profession of cost accountants, is working out the [...]

Section 14A of the Central Excise Act provides that:- If at any stage of enquiry, investigation or any other proceedings before him, any Central Excise Officer not below the rank of an Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise or Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise having regard to the nature and complexity of the case and the [...]

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.

Cost accountants fear their profession may become redundant as the budget has allowed chartered accountants to do excise audit, which was their exclusive domain. “Allowing chartered accountants to conduct excise audits under sections 14A and 14AA of the central excise act is unfair and an unjustified move, which discriminates against cost accountants, ” Kunal Banerjee, [...]

ICAI given the proposal of for Nomination of Chartered Accountants u/s 14A and 14AA of the Central Excise Act, 1944 for special audit. Copy of letter written by ICAI President CA. UTTAM PRAKASH AGARWAL to The Chairman, Central Board of Excise & Customs is as follows:- No.1-CA(Rep Com) /2009,  Dated: 2nd June, 2009 The Chairman, Central Board of Excise [...]

The Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008 is one of the path breaking initiative of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. The Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008 (LLP Act) received the assent of the President on the 7th January, 2009 and most of the sections of the Act have been notified on 31st March 2009. The Ministry [...]

The ministry of corporate affairs has said that out of the eight lakh companies in India, a large chunk of them would be interested in getting converted into limited liability partnership (LLP) once a suitable tax structure for LLP is brought in. “We are getting enquiries from thousands of companies every week who are interested [...]

The Council of the ICWAI at its 251st Meeting held on 12-13 February 2009 decided as below: Mandatory application of Cost Accounting Standards “RESOLVED THAT the following Cost Accounting Standards CAS 1: Classifications of Costs CAS 2: Capacity Determination CAS 3: Overheads CAS 4: Cost of Production for Captive Consumption CAS 5: Determination of Average [...]

Though the government has initiated the process of registering Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) firms, it would take a while before the chartered accountant (CA), company secretary (CS) and cost accounting firms convert to LLPs. The three regulators — Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) and Institute of [...]

The government may rectify the present system of selective cost audit that covers only a few companies while many others, mainly those in the private sector, are left out, according to a senior official in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA). For instance, in the petroleum sector, only the public sector companies are covered, leaving [...]