CA, CS, CMA : The reform shifts routine compliance to para-professionals, creating fee pressure and client shifts. Professionals must move towar...
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CA, CS, CMA : Explore how the role of a company secretary has transformed from a traditional administrative position to a strategic governance p...
CA, CS, CMA : A summary of how AI is reshaping the role of Company Secretaries in India, from automating compliance tasks to new responsibilitie...
Company Law : ICSI highlights delays in marking defective forms by RoCs under CCFS 2026. It urges MCA to mandate time-bound processing or allow ...
Company Law : The representation points out that e-form design is imposing requirements beyond the law. It seeks alignment of system validations...
Company Law : The issue is ambiguity in filing authority during liquidation. ICSI has requested clarity to enable liquidators to maintain statut...
CA, CS, CMA : ICSI has opened empanelment for General Observers with detailed eligibility conditions to maintain fairness. It emphasizes indepen...
CA, CS, CMA : ICSI broadened eligibility criteria to allow final-year students and various professional streams to register. The decision enhanc...
Income Tax : Supreme Court held that as per regulation 114(4) of the Company Secretaries Regulations, 1982 election can be challenged by the ca...
Corporate Law : Sanjay Ghiya Vs Union Of India (Rajasthan High Court) Rajasthan High Court held that CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS Or COMPANY SECRETARIES ...
CA, CS, CMA : Avenue for seeking certified copies as well as inspection is provided both in the Right to Information Act and in Company Secretar...
CA, CS, CMA : Working experience as an Assistant Company Secretary or a Management Trainee cannot be treated as equal to a Company Secretary so ...
Company Law, Corporate Law : Practicing professionals are prohibited from acting as full time directors. They can only act as non-executive directors not perfo...
Company Law : The case involved non-compliance with mandatory appointment of a whole-time company secretary. The authority held that delayed rec...
Company Law : The authority penalized prolonged non-compliance with mandatory appointment requirements under Section 203. Despite later rectific...
Company Law : Holds that failure to appoint a whole-time Company Secretary within the statutory timeline attracts penalty under section 203(5). ...
Company Law : The ROC held that non-appointment of a mandatory Company Secretary within the prescribed timeline constitutes a serious compliance...
Company Law : The issue involved non-compliance with mandatory appointment of a Company Secretary. The authority imposed penalties for violation...
I would like to share with you all my personal experience after clearing out my CS examinations in the Year 2020 with All India Rank in all the three Stages. Yes, you read it right. I was an All India Ranker in Foundation, I secured 9th AIR in Executive and 13th AIR in Professional.
WITH ANALYSIS Every Company, while pursuing its business activities, has to comply with so many rules and regulations relating to the Companies Act, Securities laws, FEMA, Industry Specific laws and General laws like Labour laws and so on… Therefore company have chances to face non- compliance risk like fine imprisonments penalties, loss of goodwill etc […]
Looking back to last 15 months -specifically 2020 . It was the year when Professionals worked double than Usual year. JAN-2020 31st January 2020 was the last date for GSTR 9 AND 9C FOR FY 17-18 . This was after extending 4-5 times . Professionals still understanding 36(4) which was implemented back in Oct-2019 FEB […]
University Grants Commission Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi-110002 off: 011-23238865 E-mail: ssingh.ugc@nic.in Dr. Surender Singh Joint Secretary D.O.No.9-35/2016 (CPP-II) 15 March, 2021 Sub: To consider CA/CS/ICWA qualification equivalent to PG Degree for appearing in UGC-Net Sir/ Madam, UGC had received requests from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, the Institute of Company Secretaries […]
In Executive Programme (Old Syllabus) examination 15.21 percent of candidates passed in Module – I and 21.28 percent in Module – II, while in Executive Programme (New Syllabus) examination 8.27 percent of candidates passed in Module – I and 15.49 percent in Module – II.
Budget 2021 has brought cheers to many in the business & professional world. Sensex started rising even before budget from 29th Jan 2021 & gained 4,446 points and achieved it’s peak to 50,731 as on 05th Feb 2021. In fact IMF already projected 11.5 % growth for India before Budget as on 26th Jan 2021. […]
Introduction of New Training structure from 3rd February, 2021 based on the Company Secretaries (Amendment) Regulations, 2020 issued vide Gazette Notification No. 710/1(M)/1 dated 3rd February, 2020
Earlier, the word Audit was connected only with the finance. It revolves around checking company’s books of accounts, financial figures and reports but now the scope of word Audit has been widened after an enactment of Companies Act, 2013 which introduced the concept of ‘Secretarial Audit’. Secretarial Audit is a process to check compliance with […]
The pandemic while having disrupted the economic activities has impacted the economic growth of nations globally. But as the famous axiom goes, it has been a hard struggle but I can see a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India 17th November, 2020 Dear Sir/Madam, Subject: Extension of last date to submit comments on exposure draft of Guidance Note on Auditing Standards on Secretarial Audit (CSAS-4) The Institute of Company Secretaries of India had issued first four Auditing Standards namely CSAS-1: Auditing Standard on Audit Engagement; CSAS-2: Auditing […]