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...
CA, CS, CMA : The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) has announced the first bi-annual Western Region Convocation for FY 2026–27...
CA, CS, CMA : ICSI announced two Northern Region Convocation sessions on 9 June 2026 in Amritsar, mandating advance registration, identity proof...
Company Law : The issue concerns eligibility and participation rules for the convocation. ICSI has clarified that members who do not attend will...
Company Law : ICSI has proposed revising the CS syllabus to align with the National Education Policy and global practices. Stakeholder input wil...
Company Law : The Institute has proposed syllabus changes to align with modern industry, regulatory, and technological needs. Stakeholders are i...
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 Registrar of Companies found that the company remained without a whole-time Company Secretary from 2014 to 2020 in violation o...
Company Law : The adjudicating authority held that the company remained in continuous default for several years after becoming legally required ...
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). ...
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
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) approved the Secretarial Standards issued by ICSI on Board and General meetings vide circular dated 10th April, 2015, which has been notified in the official gazette on 23rd April, 2015 and are applicable w.e.f. 1st July, 2015.
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs conferred its approval to Secretarial Standard-1 (relating to Board Meeting) and Secretarial Standard-2 (relating to General Meeting) issued by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). No other country of the world except India has yet adopted the Secretarial Standards (SS). The Board of Directors play an imperative role in the functioning, governing, progression of an organization.
The fundamental principles with respect to Board Meetings are laid down in the Act. SS-1 facilitates compliance with these principles by endeavouring to provide further clarity where there is ambiguity and establishing benchmark standards to harmonise prevalent diverse practices. For the benefit of companies, SS-1 provides necessary flexibility in many cases viz. with respect to […]
