The Cost Accounting Standards Board Secretariat has prepared a revised Guidance Note on Cost Accounting Standard -4 (CAS-4). This note has been exposed for the public comments. The proposed Exposure Draft shall be modified in light of comments received before being issued in the final form. I request all of you to please submit your views / comments / suggestions on the same latest by October 10, 2011 to the CASB Secretariat. I also request the members to send their views on the Generally Accepted Cost Accounting Principles, which has been already exposed for public comments.
New Delhi: The Union cabinet on Monday cleared the politically sensitive and critical proposed land acquisition Bill, a little over a month after it was unveiled to the public by the ministry of rural development on 29 July, after relaxing key provisions relating to compensation and allowing conditional acquisition of multi-crop land.
The Government has not made it compulsory for every company to have a policy for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). However, the Department of Public Enterprises has issued comprehensive CSR guidelines for Central Public Sector Enterprises in April, 2010 wherein these enterprises, except those making a loss, have to create mandatorily, through a board resolution, a CSR budget as a specified percentage of net profit of the previous year.
Since 2006, the Ministry has implemented MCA-21, an e- Governance project, bringing greater transparency as the data available in the public domain can be viewed by any person. The Ministry has also evolved System to help in detecting likely fraud at an early state. In the process of development of Early Warning System (EWS), the Ministry has identified certain Risk Parameters which can be run on the data available with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, on financial statements furnished by the companies in e-forms developed by the Ministry.
The conditions for export were prior registration of contracts with DGFT on a first-come-first-served basis subject to: (i) Export shall be made from privately held stocks. (ii) Applications for allotment must be accompanied with irrevocable and confirmed letter of credit , (iii) An applicant must submit a performance bank guarantee(BG), along with the application for a value equivalent to a value of 10% of applied quantity. In case of non-completion of exports, within the stipulated time frame, this bank guarantee is liable to be confiscated. A flexibility of + or – 5% in performance is allowed.
One case of M/s. Speak-Asia Online Pte, a foreign company, has come to the notice of Ministry of Corporate Affairs. It is a multi-level marketing company. As per preliminary enquiry, it is found that the company is not registered under the Companies Act, 1956. Besides, the company has also not registered its place of business with the Registrar of Companies,
Unlike the United Kingdom, India cannot have a treaty with Switzerland under which the deposits of Indians in Swiss banks would be taxed by the European nation, says the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today hoped that the Direct Taxes Code (DTC), which seeks to replace the Income Tax Act of 1961, would come into force from April 1, 2012.
The IFRS Foundation, the oversight body of the International Accounting Standards Boards (IASB), today completed the first part of its project to address requests by regulators and preparers for extensions to the full International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) XBRL Taxonomy.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Act, 1934 provides adequate protection to small depositors in financial institutions. The interest of Depositors in financial establishments can be broadly divided into two segments (a) companies registered as Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) which are under the regulatory purview of RBI, (b) Un-incorporated Bodies (UIBs) accepting public deposits unauthorisedly.
