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...
HUDCO, a Government of India Enterprise, invites offer from eligible PCS (Practicing Company Secretary)/Company Secretary Firm for providing their services for conduct of Secretarial Audit as per Section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013 and Rules made thereunder.
The days have done when Company Secretaries (CS) was called up on to take minutes and due pure secretarial works. For layman knowledge, a CS means an individual who has qualified as a CS and enrolled as a Member of The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI).
The Council of the Institute of Company Secretaries has recently reviewed the existing limits in respect of issuance of the issue of Secretarial Audit Reports and has decided as below: 10 Secretarial Audits per partner/ PCS, and an additional limit of 5 secretarial audits per partner/PCS in case the unit is peer reviewed. These limits […]
In this video Super Prof KK Agrawal discusses the salient features of the CA, CS, CMA courses and presents the career prospects of each of these options so that students may then introspectively decide on their key strengths and choose the right career.
Our CA Profession is also not deprived of this gender discrimination. We have girls in huge numbers joining the course and also completing the course with flying colours but the number of girls or Female CA that join the main stream profession are very less in numbers.
ICSI submissions with reference to the recommendation that Company Secretaries in employment should be allowed to certify annual return is that the Annual Return must be certified independently by a Company Secretary in Practice only and not by the same person who has made the Annual Return himself.
ICSI Recommendations on Companies Law Committee Report, 2016 MCA may either relook the proposed amendment in context of ease of doing business or give the shelter as provided in section 4(7) of the Companies Act, 1956. Justification: By adding explanation, a private company subsidiary of Foreign body corporate would become subsidiary of Public Company and […]
It may be clarified by way of suitable amendment in the Companies Act that the interpretation of ‘plural’ with reference to subsidiaries relating to appointment of Key Managerial Personnel in this report, is to be construed as ‘singular’ i.e. only one subsidiary.
In view of the enormous challenges faced by corporates, particularly in areas related to corporate compliances, corporate governance, Board Processes, Stakeholder Relationship etc., services of whole time company secretary is the need of the hour, therefore individual responsibilities of different KMPs should not be merged and they should remain responsible for the specific position they are holding in their organisation.
The major decision of Company is takenby the Shareholders and Directors of the Company. Therefore, it was essential that the decision making process should be in such a manner so that it serve the right purpose. Therefore, the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, in consultation with other advisory committee has framed a process known as Secretarial Standards to make a complete solution