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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...
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 terms of requirements of The Chartered Accountants Act, 1949, The Cost & Works Accountants Act, 1959 and The Company Secretaries Act, 1980, a common Secretariat for the Appellate Authority constituted by the Central Government has been established
The Bill will have substantial and significant provisions regarding corporate social responsibility, protection of minority shareholders and redefinition of promoters. The Government will incorporate certain additional provisions in the proposed Companies Bill on the basis of the report submitted by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance this week.
Whereas the draft regulations further to amend the Company Secretaries Regulations, 1982 were published as required by sub-section (3) of section 39 of the Company Secretaries Act, 1980 (56 of 1980) at pages 1 to 27 in the Gazette of India Extraordinary, Part III, Section 4 dated the 30th October, 2008 under the notification of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India
This Act may be called the Company Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 2010. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
Government on 28.04.2010 introduced in the Rajya Sabha three bills to enable CAs, Company Secretaries and Cost Accountants to form limited liability partnership firms in line with global practices.
The government has asked chartered accountants, cost accountants and company secretaries to directly report to the home ministry cases of suspicious fund movements in an out of companies, as it looks to crack down on money laundering and terror funding.
The government may empower independent directors and company secretaries to enforce corporate governance norms, having made compliance voluntary for enterprises. The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI), a statutory body set up by the government, has suggested a set of best practices that company secretaries on board of companies have to follow.
With high paced growth in industrial sector, India will need at least 50,000 company secretaries (CS) by 2020, Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) said on Sunday. According to data released by ICSI, there has been over 70% growth in students enrolment for CS programme in last few years.
The circular states that audit envisaged under Regulation 22 of the SEBI (Credit Rating Agencies) Regulations, 1999 shall include an internal audit to be conducted on a half yearly basis by Chartered Accountants, Company Secretaries or Cost and Management Accountants who are in practice and who do not have any conflict of interest with the CRA.
The internal audit to be conducted on a half-yearly basis by chartered accountants, company secretaries or cost accountants, and will cover all aspects of CRA operations and procedures, including investor grievance redressal mechanism, the regulator said in its circular. The report will have to state the methodology adopted, deficiencies observed and consideration of response of the management on the deficiencies. Besides a summary of operations and of the audit, covering the size of operations, number of transactions audited and the number of instances where violations were observed will also have to be stated.
