Union Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has stated that monetary policy measures announced by Reserve Bank of India today will lead to easing of inflation, which is already going down, and it should also keep us fully on track in terms of growth.
India and Japan have signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on IFRS. It was signed in Japan between the Core Group on IFRS constituted by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and the IFRS Council, Japan in the presence of Shri R. Bandhyopadhyay, Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs. Shri Amarjit Chopra, President, ICAI, and Shri Noriaki Shimazaki, Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the IFRS Council of Japan signed this MOU. An India-Japan Forum 2010 has also been formally inaugurated.
The government is likely to ask all departmental enterprises and agencies, such as the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), to dispense with the system of tender-based appointment of internal auditors. Instead, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) will jointly finalise a panel of eligible audit firms for different categories of projects and entities, based on the project size, number of locations and turnover.
Diamond merchant Manoj Punamia, one of the key accused in the scam involving former Jharkhand CM Madhu Koda, was arrested on Saturday night upon his arrival at the Mumbai airport from abroad. Punamia, who was barred from travelling abroad, had left the country last week giving a slip to immigration officials despite a lookout notice issued against him. Investigators believe he may have gone to Dubai to eliminate the transaction trails the sleuths were probing.
Hyderabad: The special court dealing with the multi-crore Satyam scam case on Monday adjourned examination and hearing of charges against the accused to July 29. Examination and hearing of charges against 10 Satyam personnel accused of fudging books of account of the company, including disgraced former chairman B Ramalinga Raju, will commence on July 29.
Effective use of technology for in-house audit processes could help prevent accounting fraud in a company, as it will be easier to monitor the flow of data online, says global consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers. A new PwC report, `2010 Internal Audit State of the Productivity of the Profession Survey’, said that about 48 per cent of Indian companies lack skill and knowledge of data tools used in internal audit softwares, while 18 per cent have no access to these tools.
India has become a member of elite global body Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a standard setting body to combat money laundering and terror financing. Membership of FATF has been granted to India in its Plenary held in Amsterdam, Netherlands from 23rd to 25th June, 2010.
Here we go again! India’s Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal has “launched” a $35 computer, evidently a “dream project” of his. The touch-screen, Linux-based device looks iPad-inspired, but we know little about how it works.
While the government is lobbying hard with Opposition parties to implement Goods and Services Tax (GST) from April next year, a study carried out to assess the current tax base in states and the compliance level could upset its gameplan. The study revealed rampant evasion to the extent of 50% in half of the 23 states where tax audits were carried out.
As part of efforts to attract more retail investors to the stock market, Sebi is considering a proposal wherein the institutional investors would be first asked to submit their bids, possibly in the first two days, and then the remaining two days would be open only for retail investors, provided the IPO is open for four days.
