CA, CS, CMA : The reform shifts routine compliance to para-professionals, creating fee pressure and client shifts. Professionals must move towar...
Company Law : This explains how Company Secretaries ensure legal, governance, and compliance preparedness before listing. The key takeaway is th...
CA, CS, CMA : Effective study strategies for CS students, including overcoming challenges like lack of focus and poor presentation. Learn tips f...
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...
Corporate Etiquettes You never get a second chance to make the first impression!!! INTRODUCTION Etiquette has to do with good manners. It’s not so much our own good manners, but making other people feel comfortable by the way we behave. “The conduct or procedure required by good breeding or authority to be observed in social […]
Avenue for seeking certified copies as well as inspection is provided both in the Right to Information Act and in Company Secretaries Act, 1980. We are cognizant of the fact that guidelines of the appellant, framed by its statutory council, are to govern the modalities of its day-today concerns and to effectuate smooth functioning of its responsibilities under the Company Secretaries Act, 1980.
Quirk of becoming efficacious Company Secretary (CS) Place: Mood Refresher point – pappu’s tea stole Rahul: Aye Swami, jara batana yar, what are the qualities one should possess to become good CS As you know I want to be best CS. Swami: Dekh bhai, me itna bada to hu nai ke me tuje kuch “gyaan” […]
SEBI comes out with format for annual secretarial audit of listed entities and their material subsidiaries Sebi on February 8, 2019, came out with the format for listed entities for preparing their annual secretarial audit and compliance reports to implement the recommendations put forth by the Kotak Committee with regard to Secretarial Audit. Every listed […]
Every Listed Company and every material unlisted subsidiary (incorporated in India) of listed company has to submit Secretarial Audit Report in Form MR-3 in its Annual Report. Every Listed Company has to submit an Annual Compliance Report to the Stock Exchanges within 60 days of the end of the Financial Year.
SEBI vide its circular CIR/CFD/CMD1/27/2019 dated February 08, 2019 has specified Format for annual secretarial audit report and annual secretarial compliance report for equity listed entities and their material subsidiaries.
Working experience as an Assistant Company Secretary or a Management Trainee cannot be treated as equal to a Company Secretary so as to become eligible for the post of Company Secretary.
Practicing professionals are prohibited from acting as full time directors. They can only act as non-executive directors not performing administrative duties. Such persons cannot be prosecuted for offenses committed by the company. it will be a travesty of justice to prosecute all Directors if the offense is committed without their knowledge.
EFFECTIVE DATE – Secretarial Standard 4 on Report of Board Of Directors shall come into effect from 1st October, 2018. This Standard is issued by the Council of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and may be called the Secretarial Standard-4 (SS-4) on ‘Report of the Board of Directors’. The Secretarial Standards integrate, harmonise and […]
e-TENDER FOR REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FOR SELECTION OF Practicing Company Secretaries/Firm of Practicing Company Secretaries for conducting Secretarial Audit of the Company for the year 2018-2019 of New India Assurance Company Limited.
