CA, CS, CMA : The reform shifts routine compliance to para-professionals, creating fee pressure and client shifts. Professionals must move towar...
CA, CS, CMA : Following anti-corruption protests, Ms. Karki becomes Nepal's first female interim prime minister. Her new cabinet includes Financ...
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...
Corporate Law : ICMAI introduced strict advertisement guidelines prohibiting exaggerated claims and misleading content. The framework ensures ethi...
CA, CS, CMA : CAS-25 standardizes principles for inventory valuation, including cost components and NRV rules. It applies from 12 February 2026 ...
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....
One of the unkindest cuts is that the auditor of a company, necessarily a CA, shall not render such services as accounting and book-keeping, internal audit, design and implementation of any financial information system, actuarial, investment advisory, investment banking, rendering of outsourced financial services, and management services.
IN Hyderabad Zone during the year 2009, investigations in 66 cases have been completed and in the cases where sufficient evidence has been collected, charge-sheets have been laid in the corresponding jurisdictional courts. These include the Satyam Scam Case, Cases pertaining to the public servants belonging to South Central Railways, Income Tax department, Department of Posts, Railway Protection Force, South Western Railways for demanding & accepting illegal Gratification,
Issue of Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) is a pioneering initiative by the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India. The first CAS (CAS-1) was issued by the institute in the year 2002. The Preface to CostAccounting Standards issued by the institute has set out the following objectives to be achieved through CAS: to provide better guidelines on standard cost accounting practices; to assist cost accountants in preparation of uniform cost statements; to provide guidelines to bring standard approach towards maintenance of cost accounting records under various statutes; to assist the management to follow the standard cost accounting practices in the matter of compliance with statutory obligations; and to help Indian industry and the government towards better cost management.
services provided by Chartered Accountants, Cost Accountants and Company Secretaries as well as by engineering and management consultants are presently charged to Service Tax. Although there is a school of thought that legal consultants do not provide any service to their client, I hold my distinguished predecessor in high esteem and disagree! As such, I propose to extend Service Tax on advice, consultancy or technical assistance provided in the field of law. This tax would not be applicable in case the service provider or the service receiver is an individual.
The issues of opening up of accountancy services in India and recognition to Indian accountancy professionals in the UK are likely to get a push at the forthcoming India-UK talks on Corporate Governance. The key issue will be the reciprocal recognition to the members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and its British counterpart.
Officials at Icwai have been lobbying the government to include cost accountants under the definition accountant as defined in the subsection 2 of Section 288 of the Income-tax Act. The finance ministry has ignored calls by cost accountants that they be treated at par with chartered accountants and be allowed to sign off on the financial statements of companies.
Institute of Cost and Works Accounts of India (ICWAI), an apex body to regulate the profession of cost and management accountancy in India, in association with the other Cost and Management Accounting (CMA) bodies of the SAARC region, organized an international seminar on Role of Cost and Management Accountants in Regional Economic Development here. Mr. Salman Khurshid, Union Minister for Corporate Affairs (MCA), inaugurated the seminar.
The government on Thursday said cost accounting body ICWAI can change its name to Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of India . “We have in-principle allowed ICWAI to change its name to Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of India (ICMAI). Some statutory changes will be required. We are working on it. Hopefully in the near future it will be done,” Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said.
For non filing or late filing of the Audit Report, penalty at the rate of 0.1% of the turnover of sales is also leviable. As explained from beginning, under VAT Act the assessments will be sparing, based on selection criteria. Therefore, to have authentic checking of the returns/tax liability of the dealer, the VAT Audit provision has been introduced. The VAT Audit report in Form 704 is accordingly notified in the MVAT Rules right from 01.04.2005. However, the said Form is now replaced by Notification dated 26.08.2009 under Rule 17A(2) of MVAT Rules,2005 applicable from 01.04.2008. The newly introduced Form will accordingly be applicable from financial year 2008-2009. Some of the important aspects of this Form can be noted as under:
The Central Information Commission has slapped the maximum fine of Rs 25,000 provided under the RTI Act on the CEO of a cost accounting body for failure to give timely information in a case. The CIC slapped the fine on the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India’s (ICWAI) CEO, Sudhir Mukund Galande, while dismissing […]
