The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) today issued for public comment a revised draft standard to improve and converge the financial reporting requirements of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and US General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for revenue (and some related costs) from contracts with customers.
The following is the Exposure Draft of the Guidance Note on Recognition of Revenue by Real Estate Developers, issued by the Accounting Standards Board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, for comments. The Board invites comments on any aspect of this Exposure Draft. Comments are most helpful if they indicate the specific paragraph or group of paragraphs to which they relate, contain a clear rationale and, where applicable, provide a suggestion for alternative wording.
Amid mounting global pressure on Swiss banks to act against clients having illicit wealth, the country’s financial market regulator has found loopholes in the banks’dealing with the foreign political figures. In one of the first-of-its-kind initiative against any hoarding of illicit wealth and money laundering through Swiss banks, the Swiss financial market supervisory authority FINMA has conducted an audit on dealings of all Switzerland-based banks with PEPs (Politically Exposed Persons).
Govind Yadav Versus The New India Insurance Company Limited (Supreme Court)- The compensation awarded by the Tribunal for pain, suffering and trauma caused due to the amputation of leg was meager. It is not in dispute that the appellant had remained in the hospital for a period of over three months. It is not possible for the Tribunals and the Courts to make a precise assessment of the pain and trauma suffered by a person whose limb is amputated as a result of accident.
We are of opinion that there is ample power under section 5A of the State Act enabling the Chief Commissioner to specify the single point at which tax may be levied in a series of sales. This can, however, be done by him only by a notification in the Official Gazette. No such notification has been placed before us which could relate to the assessment year under consideration.
The Draft Real Estate (Regulation & Development) Bill, 2011 seeks to establish a regulatory oversight mechanism to enforce disclosure, fair practice and accountability norms in the real estate sector, and to provide adjudication machinery for speedy dispute redressal. This Act is in pursuance of the powers of Parliament to make laws on matters enumerated in the Concurrent List namely, transfer of property other than agricultural land; registration of deeds and documents, and contracts including partnerships, agency, contracts of carriage, and other special forms of contracts, but not including contracts relating to agricultural land.
Kumari Selja, Minister of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation and Minister of Culture,has issued the Draft Model Property Rights to Slum Dwellers Act, 2011′ and Central Legislation for Street Vendors for public discussion in New Delhi. The main features of the drafts are as follows: Draft Model Property Rights to Slum Dwellers Act, 2011 The Ministry of HUPA proposed the strengthening […]
The Income Tax Department, Chennai would like to prepare two separate panels of Junior Standing Counsels and Senior Standing Counsels for representing its cases before the Hon’ble Madras High Court. Practising advocates as well as the retired officers of the Income Tax Department with Law degree are eligible for empanelment. The qualification, schedule of fees and allowances and the proforma application in which the application has to be made, have been prescribed by the Central Board of Direct Taxes, New Delhi vide its Instruction No.8/2007 dated 30.08.2007, a
The Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee said that India today is among the fastest growing economies and widely believed to be steadily on the course to occupy a place among the top three economies of the world by the year 2050. However, the Finance Minister Shri Mukherjee cautioned that the recent developments in Euro-zone have heightened uncertainty in financial markets through-out the world. As a result, India’s short-term growth prospects have also been impacted, the Minister added. The Finance Minister Shri Mukherjee said that the post-global financial crisis, the world has seen most major economies facing an uphill task in engineering their recovery.
We wish to inform you that the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI ) has recently signed an agreement with M/s Sify Software Limited. As per the revised arrangement the online test for compulsory computer training of the students, which is being presently conducted by M/s Aptech Ltd. will be henceforth conducted by M/s Sify Software Ltd.
