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Company Law : General Circular No. 17/2019- Last date of filing of CRA-4 (cost audit report) for all eligible companies for the Financial Year 2...
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The current status of the Automobile industry is that it’s crying and no one is bothered to hear the same. Before we get into the platform of debate I just want to accentuate few question about how government would find or measure the true potentiality after cost audit is abolished for the industry.
APPOINTMENT OF COST AUDITORS – The audit under sub-section (2) of Section 148 of the Companies Act, 2013 (Act) shall be conducted by a Cost Accountant in practice who shall be appointed by the Board on such remuneration as may be determined by the members (that means Shareholders to fix remuneration) in a following manner:
Telecommunication services made available to users by means of any transmission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images and sounds or intelligence of any nature (other than broadcasting services) and regulated by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India under the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997 (24 of 1997)
From the very beginning (especially from the academic point of view) we have been studying that the cost functions approximately shows linear relationship. Is it really simple to predict the costs? In fact costs are not easy to predict, since they behave differently under different circumstances. In this article we will be observing how the […]
Rule 2(e) lays down cost records as books of account relating to utilisation of materials, labour and other items of cost as applicable to the production of goods or provision of services as provided in section 148 of the Act and these rules.
General Circular No. 42/2014 has been notified by MCA on November 12, 2014 in relation to matters relating to the Companies (Cost Records and Audit) Rules, 2014. Due to delay in availability of Form CRA-2 on MCA website, the date of filing of the said form without late penalty/fee has been extended to January 31, 2015.
Asim Saha Cost audit is basically & purely audit of resource utilization and an effort to assess value addition. Through cost audit India will be low cost HUB of manufacturing activities. This will help Indian Government to attract huge investment from outside. Every Goods and services manufactured in our country have some input output ratio […]
Before I get into the cost management details I would like to give short introduction to the company operating in Australia. Toyota Motor Corporation Australia Ltd (TMCA) is a fully-owned subsidiary of Toyota Japan. The Australian operations commenced in 1959 with the import of the LandCruiser, and in 1963 a passenger car assembly plant, which initially produced the Tiara, was opened at Port Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia.
I don’t how much my last two articles have been eye open for the Indian government and for my cost accounting friends about the practices of the Costing Methods and Cost Management across the globe. Well in continuation to my previous series https://taxguru.in/chartered-accountant/costing-methodscost-management-automobileseries-2.html today I will the story of an economy named Kenya. Well my […]
In my second series in continuation to my previous article ‘Costing Methods/Cost Management in Turkey-Series 1′ I would be discussing about one of the researches on one of the world’s most luxury automobile company where adoption of Cost Management and Costing Methods made a stupendous turn around. The story is all about shifting of accounting […]
