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The Parliamentary standing committee on Finance, headed by BJP member of parliament Ananth Kumar, has convened a meeting on Wednesday to examine the crisis sparked by the fraud in Satyam Computer Services. This could lead to changes in company law to strengthen regulation and governance. Several government officials, including the finance secretary, the chairman of [...] Full Article

The Satyam scam has made auditors realise the need to have a ‘fraud-finding’ approach, rather than the conventional fault-finding mode while examining the books of companies. Looking at the need and appetite for such accounting practices, the apex body of chartered accountants, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), has introduced new study modules for [...] Full Article

Eighteen companies, collectively planning to raise Rs 9,000 crore (Rs 90 billion) through initial public offers, will benefit from the Securities and Exchange Board of India's new norms to extend the IPO validity period from three months to a year. Full Article

In continuation with the Circular No.F.1/5/SE/ 83 dated May 31, 1984 of Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Economics Affairs, Stock Exchange Division, you are advised to direct your stock brokers/clearing members to carry out complete internal audit on a half yearly basis by independent qualified Chartered Accountants. Full Article

INCOME TAX CIRCULAR NO-2/2008, Dt: February 22, 2008 Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) vide circular No.-MRD/DoP/SE/Dep/ Cir14/2007 dated 20/12/2007, has decided to permit all classes of investors (individuals, institutional, etc.) to short sell. Further, with a view to provide a mechanism for borrowing of securities to enable settlement of securities sold short, SEBI has also decided to put in place a full-fledged Securities Lending and Borrowing (SLB) Sche.. Full Article

The Japanese, with their fierce sense of commitment and loyalty to the organisation they are associated with, were ironically blasé about insider trading as typified by the general response to the law brought in 1988 in Japan to tackle the menace — what is wrong in being smart? Equally ironical is the assiduity with which insiders are pursued in the US. A journalist was hauled over the coals there for making a fast buck out of the information she garnered during the c.. Full Article

Companies shall be required to appoint agencies to monitor the utilisation of funds raised through public and rights issues, and report any deviation in utilisation to the stock exchanges, the Securities and Exchange Board of India announced on Thursday. They will also have to make public the adverse comments of their audit committee (or of the monitoring agency they have appointed) through advertisements in the newspapers. Full Article

The finance ministry is expected to announce the abolition of tax deducted at source (TDS) on corporate bonds in Budget 2008-09, official sources told media. The move is expected to stoke the near-dormant secondary market in corporate bonds by bringing them on a par with government securities (G-Secs). TDS on G-Secs was abolished in 2000, a move that had a positive impact on secondary trading in these bonds. Full Article