CA, CS, CMA : Learn how banks use stock and receivables audits to independently verify inventory and debtors before allowing working capital wit...
CA, CS, CMA : The article explains how inadequate insurance coverage of hypothecated stock can expose banks to major financial losses despite va...
CA, CS, CMA : Differences between audited balance sheets and stock statements can significantly impact drawing power calculations. This article ...
CA, CS, CMA : The Audit Committee ensures oversight of audits, controls, and compliance beyond financial reporting. Its effectiveness depends on...
CA, CS, CMA : This explains what materiality means in an audit and why it matters for financial decision-making. The key takeaway is that materi...
Income Tax : Join us for an insightful session with CA Bikash Bogi, a seasoned tax expert with over 15 years of practical experience, as he bre...
Company Law : Multinational companies cannot conduct surrogate audit work in India under Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 and Companies Act, 2013...
CA, CS, CMA : Get expert support on auditing aspects for statutory audits. ICAIs Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AASB) forms an expert p...
CA, CS, CMA : Discover the catalytic role of audit in enhancing efficiency and effectiveness, as emphasized by the Comptroller and Auditor Gener...
CA, CS, CMA : Explore the essential aspects of audit documentation, its nature, purposes, and compliance requirements. Learn best practices for ...
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Service Tax : Gujarat High Court granted stay on conducting audit of records of taxpayers under 5A of Service Tax Rules, 1994, by Officers of C&...
Finance : The Delhi High Court has delivered a judgement in the case of Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India Versus Uni...
Income Tax : and contributed by the assessee to a firm towards capital contribution should be treated as stock in trade even during the course ...
Income Tax : The Delhi High Court (HC) [2010-TIOL42-HC-DEL-IT] in the case of CIT v. Industrial Finance Corporation of India (Taxpayer) which...
Company Law : The ROC Ahmedabad penalized the company and its director for failing to appoint independent directors and constitute an audit comm...
Goods and Services Tax : Learn about the latest directive from the Ministry of Finance regarding joint audits by CGST and SGST officers. Understand the fra...
Company Law : NFRA issued a circular highlighting statutory auditors' obligations to report fraud in accordance with Companies Act, 2013. Circu...
CA, CS, CMA : (1) These Regulations may be called Regulations on Audit and Accounts (Amendments) 2020 (2) They shall come into force on the date...
CA, CS, CMA : Labour Department, Government of Haryana vide its Notification No. 11/38/2016-4Lab dated 10th August, 2016 formulated Third Party ...
Banking and market regulators are considering a proposal authorising auditors to directly verify financial information of their clients with banks where they hold accounts, a person familiar with the situation told. Currently, rules of the Institute of Chartered Accounts of India require auditors to physically verify the cash and bank balances of companies they audit, […]
Two PricewaterhouseCoopers auditors were aware that accounts of Satyam, the IT outsourcer at the centre of India’s biggest corporate fraud, were being misstated but signed them off in return for an “exorbitant audit fee”, Indian investigators have alleged. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which looks into India’s most serious and complex crimes, has filed […]
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) has refrained from directly appointing statutory auditors, by retaining the practice of prescribing eligibility criteria for appointment of auditors by insurers. IRDA would not have a panel of auditors and would not appoint auditors, as demanded by accounting regulator ICAI. The regulator has not been maintaining panel of auditors since 2005 and instead […]
Chartered accountants, company secretaries and cost accountants facing disciplinary action from their professional regulators can now appeal to a specialised appellate tribunal instead of a high court. The appeals will be heard by professionals who have regulatory experience and can deliver speedy decisions, an official in the ministry of corporate affairs said. The delay at […]
Holding global auditors Price Waterhouse guilty of wrongdoings in the multi-crore Satyam scam, the Serious Fraud Investigation Office has informed the government that the bookkeepers were involved in falsification of accounts of the IT firm. Detailing the role of Price Waterhouse partners in the scam involving thousands of crores of rupees, the probing arm of the Corporate Affairs Ministry has concluded after a three month long investigation that the auditors kept silent despite knowing about the failure of the IT firm’s audit system in 2007.
Transfer of Article Further to the announcement dated 27th March, 2009, the transitional difficulties being experienced by members and students in the matter of transfer of articles, effected on or prior to 27th March, 2009 was considered by the Institute and with a view to mitigate the difficulties so experienced, it has been decided, as […]
Accounting regulator ICAI on Thursday said all listed companies would be audited by only those who have been certified by the Peer Review Board of the institute.”The council had accepted the recommendation of Sebi that audit of listed companies shall be carried out by auditors who have undergone Peer Review Process and have been issued […]
Presumption as to books of accounts, other documents, etc. Section 292C of the Income-tax Act provides for a rebuttable presumption with respect to books of account, other documents, money, bullion, jewelry or other valuable article or thing found in the possession or control of any person in the course of a search under section 132. […]
Granting of power to the assessing officer to extend the time for completion of special audit under sub-section (2A) of section 142 Sub-sections (2A) to (2D) of section 142 deal with power of Assessing Officer to order a special audit. Such power is required to be exercised by the Assessing Officer having regard to the […]
Sub-sections (2A) to (2D) of section 142 deal with power of Assessing Officer to order a special audit. Such power is required to be exercised by the Assessing Officer having regard to the nature and complexity of the accounts of the Assessee and the interest of the revenue. Sub-section (2C) of the said section specifies […]
