The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) will train accounting technicians at Abu Dhabi from next year and is in a process of signing memorandum of understandings (MOUs) with several countries in the coming months in this connection. These were some of the developments shared by ICAI president CA Amarjit Chopra, who presided over the convocation ceremony of ICAI here on Monday. Chopra also hinted that in a bid to foster transparency, they may start showing answer sheets to students if the council approves.
CA FINAL OLD COURSE MAY 2010 SUGGESTED ANSWERS – ISSUED BY ICAI. CA FINAL NEW COURSE MAY 2010 SUGGESTED ANSWERS – ISSUED BY ICAI
For the sixth year in a row, over 4.7 crore subscribers of retirement fund manager EPFO are likely to get 8.5 per cent interest on their deposits in the current fiscal. “EPFO’s apex decision-making body, the Central Board of Trustees (CBT), is likely to fix 8.5 per cent interest for subscribers at its meeting scheduled for September 10,” a source said.
The ministry of corporate affairs, or MCA, has all but dismissed the findings of a panel set up by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) because it contains little that will help in regulating the profession and ensuring that frauds such as the one at Satyam Computer Services Ltd don’t happen again.
SEBI had constituted a Committee called the “Takeover Regulations Advisory Committee (TRAC)” which has recommended amendments to the procedure for corporate acquisitions. The mandate of the committee was to examine and review SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulations, 1997 and to suggest suitable amendments therein.
The concept of Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) in India is viewed as an alternative corporate business vehicle that provides the benefits of limited liability and also allows its members the flexibility of organizing their internal structure as a partnership based on a mutually arrived agreement. The revised Bill received the assent of the President of India on 7, January 2009.
Taxes are a major source of revenue for any country to fund the government expenditure and welfare of the society. In fact, they have been called the building block of civilization . In due course of time taxes started being levied on income, wealth ,sale of goods , provision of services etc. mainly to pay for increasingly more expensive defense efforts and for a modern welfare state. The emphasis is shifting progressively to voluntary compliance of tax laws.
Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma will take up the visa fee hike issue during his visit to the US next month, with India hopeful that the matter can be resolved bilaterally.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is pleased to welcome all the leading companies to the forthcoming Campus Placement Programme for newly qualified Chartered Accountants. The Committee for Members in Industry (CMII) of the ICAI has been successfully organising placement programme for newly qualified Chartered Accountants (CAs) twice a year.
On 17th August, 2010, news on acquisition of the shareholding of Cairn Energy (`CEL’) in Carin India Limited (`CIL’) (BSE and NSE listed) by Vedanta Resources Plc (`VEDANTA’) at Rs. 405/-($8.66) per share became public. Closing price of each shares of CIL on the NSE on 14th August, 2010 was Rs.355/-. Vedanta will have to incur $ 9.6 billion (Rs 44,928 Crore) for acquiring CIL. Deal between the parties was concluded in London.
