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Dear Entrepreneurs this title may sound very odd to you. And why not so when most of the Business gurus, Business Owners, Management consultants consider Marketing / Finance / Production / Service to customer etc. as the core areas of any business. But being a Practicing Chartered Accountant I can tell you that most important […]
As we are progressing towards a world full of process automation, the use of new technology to make the accounting and return filing process integrated, accurate and less time consuming is becoming a reality much faster. This does not mean that it will do away the need of humans in processing, but will surely automate […]
Chart of Accounts are key to the health of books of accounts. Never ignore or underestimate its power. In this Article, I am going to cover what should be the right structure of Chart of Accounts. The structuring of Chart of Accounts depends on following factors: – Nature & Size of Business Type of ERP/ […]
In continuation to our earlier article on ‘Risk Management Strategy vs. Risk Management objectives’, let’s understand what is allowed to be hedged as per the Accounting Standard. WHY do we hedge? Simple answer is to mitigate all expected losses or adverse effect on fair values of any balance sheet items (e.g. Investments etc) or an […]
Urban Improvement Trusts and Development Authorities are responsible for the improvement and expansion of urban areas. In India, these Authorities are playing an important role by planning, coordinating and supervising the proper, orderly and rapid development of urban areas in their jurisdictions. Audit of these entities involve many issues and unique peculiarities.
With everyday grooming world and innovative environment, traditional way of working is changing now. There were a time when people were not familiar with computer and typical accountant were there to maintain the books, but with the passage of time we even cannot think to do the accounting without technology, whether its computer hardware or software available to us.
Now, it is very imperative to ascertain the treatment of transitional provisions as well the treatment of future purchases of such spare parts under Income Tax Act. The Income Tax Act does not provide for any particular definition of capital asset or fixed asset
The IPSASB seeks feedback on Exposure Draft 63, ‘Social Benefits’ to guide it in developing a final International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSASs) that establishes requirements for accounting for social benefits.
At present the Manufacturing Companies and Trading Companies are following Financial Accountancy and Cost Accounting to maintain their Books of Accounts
There are numerous reasons to analyze BRS prepared by an entity. One major reason why should an auditor has to be vigilant while performing BRS audit is discussed below. BRS is a statement prepared to reconcile or tally the balance shown in cash book of an entity with that of bank statement.
