The Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (Sebi) committee on takeovers headed by C Achuthan is seriously considering making it mandatory for boards of target companies to guide shareholders in the event of competitive bids in line with global best practice.
On 5th March,2010, SEBI announced that it would be mandatory for `Qualified Institutional Buyers’ (QIBs) to put in 100 per cent of the application money towards subscription of shares in capital issues through offers. This would come into force from 1st May, 2010. Presently, QIBs are required to pay just 10 per cent of the share value on application and Anchor investors are required to pay 25 per cent on application and balance payment is required to be paid on allotment.
The CA institute is keen on having a role in the probes undertaken by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or Serious Frauds Investigation Office (SFIO) on any financial irregularities or corporate scams. The audit profession regulator will soon write to the Government offering its assistance in this regard, Mr Amarjit Chopra, ICAI President, told here.
In order to have uniformity in the practices adopted by different companies, the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) has released 10 secretarial standards, recommending the Government to make them mandatory for all companies, a to p official said on Saturday.
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) has said that two of its secretarial standards recommendations have been incorporated in the new Companies Bill and it expects more to be considered before finalisation.
Inflation of china and the asset bubbles in every corner of china is now a matter of concern for the world economy. They are afraid that if the bubble goes for burst out then the nights of recession will be longer. Economist and every financial equity market analyst have raised many reasons to justify and bring forth the danger of Chinese economic recover. China very recently posted its inflation number which rose to 2.7% year on year in February according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Food prices rose 6.2% last month year on year, with non-food prices rising 1% from a year earlier.
When oil prices went for an upward hike the whole of India took off the extra pay with a mixed reaction. Mixed reaction since 1) Indian citizens have become very much close to the Indian economic fiscal condition and 2) The increase in tax slab for the all class of citizen made them feel that they will have some more savings in their hands and more shopping spree for the families.
Ten cost accounting standards have been formulated, six of them are mandatory, which will come into effect from April 1 and three more are likely to be added, according to Mr K. Narasimha Murthy, Director of IDBI and LIC Housing Finance.
The new Companies Bill to be adopted by Parliament would simplify the law and equate company secretary (CS) with the chief executive (CEO) and chief financial officer (CFO) of a company, said Vinayak S Khanvalkar, president, Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI), here on Saturday. At least two out of the 10 secretarial standards specified by ICSI would find place in the new legislation, he added.
For the tax-payer, “T” in the EET will never look like preferable to EEE. However, looking to the fact of EET as certainty, one will have to learn to live under it. The only alternative for the tax payer is to organize the affairs in such a way that there is no additional burden due to tax-outflow.
