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CA, CS, CMA : Tragic death of a young employee highlights importance of balancing professional, personal, and social lives, urging businesses to...
CA, CS, CMA : ICAI releases CA Intermediate & Foundation exam results for Jan 2025. Check pass percentages, toppers, and result details. Visit I...
CA, CS, CMA : ICAI announces BoS Series I & II virtual sessions for CA Final May 2025 aspirants, starting March 24 & April 16. Get expert guidan...
CA, CS, CMA : ICAI announces CA Foundation Mock Test Series I & II for May & Sept 2025 exams. Tests start April 22 (Series I) & May 5 (Series II...
CA, CS, CMA : ICAI announces CA Intermediate BoS Exam Series I & II for May 2025 exams. Sessions start March 20 (Series I) & April 8 (Series II)...
CA, CS, CMA : ICAI announces CA Intermediate Mock Test Papers for May 2025 exams. Tests will be held in physical and virtual modes. Check the fu...
Goods and Services Tax : Andhra Pradesh HC stays ICAI decision to remove a Chartered Accountant accused of fake GST invoicing, providing interim relief pen...
CA, CS, CMA : Read the full NCLT judgment/order on Union of India Vs CA. Ramaiah Nataraja. Bengaluru CA barred from statutory auditor role for c...
CA, CS, CMA : Delhi High Court rules that ICAI can hold entire CA firms accountable for misconduct, even if individual guilt isn't found. Full j...
CA, CS, CMA : Patna High Court dismisses a Chartered Accountant firm's petition for non-empanelment due to non-compliance with tender conditions...
Goods and Services Tax : Learn about the Delhi High Court's ruling in Svera Agro Ltd. v. Commissioner of Central Tax, stating CA certificates are not neede...
CA, CS, CMA : ICAI corrects formatting errors in CA Firm Merger Guidelines 2024, addressing alignment issues in seniority, partnership firms, an...
CA, CS, CMA : The Board of Discipline reviewed allegations against CA. Upendra Muley, focusing on fraud claims. Findings highlight lack of evide...
CA, CS, CMA : ICAI Board of Discipline finds CA not guilty in a dispute over a No Objection Certificate for a new auditor appointment, citing co...
CA, CS, CMA : ICAI Board of Discipline finds CA Hari Sethumadhavan Nair not guilty in case related to Swan Telecom funding and UAS licenses, cit...
CA, CS, CMA : ICAI Board acquits CA Gautam Doshi, citing lack of evidence and judicial precedents from the 2G spectrum case. Detailed findings a...
The recent planning and initiative of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) are now directed to make India as a destination for accounting as well as auditing services. Apart from converging with the international financial reporting standards (IFRS) by April 1, 2011, it is now planning to convergence with the international auditing standards.
THE financial meltdown is expected to bring new opportunities for chartered accountants as companies will seek better control over their finances. So, if BSchools are a worried lot and preferences are fast changing from finance to consulting, the CAs are in demand like never before. Also, as per the ICAI top brass, while the financial sector has been in a turmoil, there is no news of any CA being sacked by any company.
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Bureau of India (SEBI) has asked stock brokers and trading members to complete internal auditing on a half yearly basis from chartered accountants, company secretaries or cost and management accountants.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes has decided to relax norms on scrutiny of tax payers whose premises have been surveyed by the officials, a step aimed at encouraging evaders to pay up. The decision is likely to provide relief to thousands of taxpayers and it would save them from harassment at the hands of taxmen apart from litigation costs, said a senior Finance Ministry official. The decision has been taken following Finance Minister P Chidambaram’ s assertion that government wanted to send a message that those who comply with the tax laws would not be harassed by the tax officials.
Appointment of branch statutory auditors of Public Sector Banks – Chartered Accountants from North Eastern Region. RBI has decided to relax the eligibility norm in respect of professional standing of individual auditors/proprietar y audit firms from the North-Eastern Region (viz. the states of Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura) by reducing the period from 3 years to 1 year from the year 2008-09 and onwards.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) said on Thursday it will launch a course of accounting technicians from April 22 for undergraduate students. “We are launching this course considering that there is a need for second tier of accountants, with so many accounting jobs coming up in the country,” ICAI president Ved Jain told reporters here.
In what could be a significant deterrent to corporate frauds, the concept of rotation of partners received a green signal from the apex body for chartered accountants, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), and mandates change of partners after seven consecutive years with a listed company. The step, cleared by ICAI, will be operational from April 2009 and is expected to significantly reduce complexity between individual partners in audit firms and their assigned companies, something that has been a cause behind many of the big corporate frauds to have hit the financial world.
The Institute has been receiving complaints from members of the Institute, proprietary concerns and firms of Chartered Accountants alleging that they have come across audit reports, balance sheets, certificates etc. of different entities submitted by the said entities/someone with Banks, Financial Institutions, Income-Tax Department, etc. wherein they find that their signatures, seal/stamp have been forged and /or such documents have been prepared on their forged letterhead etc. The members of the Institute, proprietary concerns and firms of chartered Accountants have been requesting the Institute to take necessary legal action in such matters.
Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India v. Dayal Singh The officers of the bank completed all paper formalities, perhaps at the behest of the respondent or at least on the basis of his certificate for disbursement of the loan. The activity of the respondent in issuing such a vague certificate with the intention of persuading the bank to grant his client a loan amounted to `other misconduct’ within the meaning of the Act, read with the regulations framed thereunder.
HC asks Britannia to return pension money Firm had challenged an Income Tax dept show cause notice on why it withdrew such a huge amount from the employees’ fund.Britannia Industries (BIL) has been asked by the Calcutta High Court to pay back the Rs 12 crore it allegedly withdrew from the company’s pension fund. BIL had recieved a showcause notice from the income tax department to explain the withdrawal in 2003.
