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Income Tax : Explore reasons to include Cost Accountants in the Income Tax Bill 2025. Understand their role, expertise, and the legislative int...
Income Tax : Explore why Cost Accountants (CMAs) should be included in the definition of "Accountant" under the Income Tax Bill 2025 for a comp...
CA, CS, CMA : Direct taxation in India is plagued by mishandling, ignorance, and reliance on settlement schemes, risking the financial stability...
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CA, CS, CMA : ICMAI has proposed structured rules governing merger and demerger of CMA firms, including mandatory agreements, name freezing, and...
CA, CS, CMA : ICMAI requires prior approval of network names and submission of formal agreements through prescribed forms. Detailed provisions g...
CA, CS, CMA : Proposed guidelines permit PCMA firms to change names with Council approval while retaining registration number and tenure, provid...
CA, CS, CMA : Kolkata High Court judgment on re-evaluation of answer scripts in Cost Accountancy exams. Analysis of regulations and court decisi...
CA, CS, CMA : Delhi High Court restrained Institute Of Cost Accountants Of India from using ICAI acronym, a trademark which stands registered in...
Corporate Law : Sanjay Ghiya Vs Union Of India (Rajasthan High Court) Rajasthan High Court held that CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS Or COMPANY SECRETARIES ...
CA, CS, CMA : CA V. Venkata Sivakumar Vs. The Secretary, Institute Of Cost Accountants Of India Use of acronym ICAI by Institute of Cost Account...
CA, CS, CMA : Institute of Chartered Accountants of India Vs The Institute of Cost Accountants of India (Delhi High Court) Institute of Chartere...
Corporate Law : The amended guidelines mandate minimum CPE hours for all practicing members. Non-compliance will lead to discontinuation of the Ce...
CA, CS, CMA : The Institute of Cost Accountants of India grants a final extension until March 31, 2026, for CoP holders to clear the mandatory C...
CA, CS, CMA : The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has updated member appointments for the Chartered Accountants, Cost Accountants, and Compa...
Corporate Law : ICAI amends 1959 regulations, replacing “Calcutta” with “Delhi” as the official head office location, effective April 25, ...
Corporate Law : Ministry of Corporate Affairs updates tribunal members for ICAI and ICMAI election dispute cases, effective from April 17, 2025....
Financial Accountants who discussed standard costing during the Interwar decades rarely considered how managers could use variances between actual and standard costs to control manufacturing. Instead their main concern was how to properly classify variances and in particular how to dispose of them in published financial reports. –Robert Kaplan My Dear Professional Colleagues, Cost Management […]
Proposed new annual tax return by the Government – The Ministry of Finance, Government of India, plans to introduce a new annual tax return that will include information from income tax audit report including pS and Income Tax Returns and cost audit report, as it looks to draw information from multiple sources to clamp down on evasion of central excise and service tax.
Raising of number of partners in CA Firm with reference to the provisions of Companies Act, 2013. – (02-09-2014) The Council of the Institute has clarified that the earlier restriction of maximum of 20 partners permitted for firms under section 11 of the Companies act, 1956 is no more applicable to the firms as Section […]
the writ petition, which has been admitted by an order passed the Division Bench on 6 August 2014, there is a challenge to the validity of Rule 73 of the U.P. Value Added Tax Rules, 2008 on the ground that they are ultra vires the provisions of the U.P. Value Added Tax Act, 2008 and the Advocates Act, 1961 insofar as it permits persons who are not Advocates ‘to appear and represent’ before the authorities established under the Act of 2008.
I am honored to be elected as the President of the Institute for the year 2014-15 to serve this great profession with the support of all of you. I am grateful to my council colleagues for showing confidence and faith in me. I thank all of you for your trust, and shall strive to live up to your expectations.
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 […]
The Indian government under the UPA II has abolished the Cost Audit and Costing methods for various industries under ( Cost Record and Audit ) Rules -2014 . In my research I went in deep into the different countries, developed as well as emerging economies over the span of last 10 years I find the development/growth & […]
On a short notice myself and Vice President had a meeting with Additional Secretary and other officials of Ministry of Corporate Affairs and Cost Audit Branch, wherein s preliminary discussion on different issues, as pointed out in annexure I&II of the letter dated 2nd July 2014 addressed to Secretary, MCA, was held.
The undersigned is directed to say that representations have been received from members of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India after notification of the Companies (Cost Records and Audit) Rules 2014, expressing grievances about the scope of the rules and their implications for the profession of Cost Accountancy.
Well India has presented its Budget and billions of analysis has been already executed. Well I find that this budget would be finding a hard place to land due to the recent COST AUDIT & COSTING METHODS abolishment. Now my readers my say that extrapolating and trying to mix cost audit in everything I write. […]
