The solution will enable the bank to monitor any suspicious transfer of money, including terror financing State Bank of India (SBI) has announced that it has deployed a solution to prevent money laundering across its group companies and six associate banks. The solution has been deployed by 3i Infotech in compliance with the orders of […]
Price Waterhouse (PW), the audit arm of international professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), has named two more of its accounting professionals as answerable to the Rs 7,000 crore corporate fraud at Satyam Computer Services, to which its promoter Ramalinga Raju confessed on January 7. The audit firm has named P Shiva Prasad and C H […]
Co-Operative department Pune has released the Supplementary List of C.A. Firms/Chartered Accountants eligible for Audit ofUrban Co-Operative Banks in the state of Maharashtra. List can be downloaded by clicking on link given below:- Copy and paste the link below in Your Browser to download list Of Charterd Accountants eligible for empanelment for 2009-12 http://wirc-icai.org/docs/ca170309.xls All […]
Accounting regulator ICAI for the third time today extended the deadline given to four members of Price Waterhouse-Bangalore to respond to the show-cause notices issued in connection with the Rs 7,800-crore Satyam fraud case. The four Price Waterhouse CAs– P Shiva Prasad, C H Ravindranath, Srinivas Talluri and S Gopalakrishnan — have been given time […]
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, which frames accounting standards for the country, has opposed a proposal of the Reserve Bank of India to relax the provisioning norms for non-performing assets. According to the proposal, commercial banks need not classify a non-serviced loan under NPAs if the borrower has submitted an application for restructuring […]
Your attention is drawn to the new Procedure for appointment of Branch Statutory Auditors in Public Sector Banks for the year 2008-09 already hosted on the website. It is an open invitation to all those Chartered Accountants/ CA firms which have been conducting audits as bank branch auditors since 2004-05 onwards continuously. In case they […]
All public sector banks may need to take CBI’s clearance before allowing one-time settlement of bad loans by customers under a new direction likely to be issued by the Reserve Bank of India(RBI) soon. The circular, the proposal for which was mooted by CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) will ask all the banks to seek […]
Companies which commit criminal offence can be prosecuted and sentenced to fine, though they cannot be sent to jail as they are only juristic persons. This principle was reiterated by the Supreme Court in the case, Ballarpur Industries Ltd Vs State of Tamil Nadu.
Leading theatre chain Pyramid Saimira will move court on Monday against the Income-Tax department’s decision to attach the company’s over Rs 240 crore bank accounts for alleged non-payment of tax. “We will file a case against the Income-Tax department at the Madras High Court on Monday,” a company source told PTI. On Friday, the tax […]
The present crisis of confidence in the audit profession among users and stakeholders, arising from recent market events has to be addressed in a fair manner. The profession, regulators and all concerned have to determine – what is the right medicine? A professional issue requires a professional response. Thus, the fundamental point is that the […]
