The Committee on Information Technology of ICAI has been offering the highly popular Post Qualification Course (PQC) on Information Systems Audit (ISA) leading to the designation D.I.S.A. (ICAI) with an enrollment of over 28000 members. The Committee is in the process of enhancing the ISA Faculty Bank on a ll India basis to organize sessions […]
Orientation Course for DIRM Candidates declared successful at the Technical Examination are required to undergo an Orientation Course to be conducted by the Institute. The Certificate of passing the IRM Course will be issued after completing the Orientation Course. It is proposed to hold two batches of Orientation Courses at Chennai and New Delhi as […]
Most Important Announcement The candidates who fulfil the following criteria are eligible to appear in the Campus Placement Programme to be held in March-April 2009: (i) who have qualified in CA final examination held in November 2008, subject to completion of their Articleship and GMCS Course latest by 31st March, 2009 and also undertaking to […]
In a path-breaking investigation, with all-India ramifications, sleuths from the Income Tax department (Bangalore circle) have found that a private airline had not remitted to the government a part of the tax it has been deducting at source for over the past eight years. The TDS default and the interest on it amounts to around […]
It’s not just cricketers who made a fortune at last week’s Indian Premier League (IPL) auction. The income tax (I-T) department is set to get richer too, with franchisees owners who splurged record sums of money on cricketers last weekend, having to fork out at least 10% (TDS) to the IT department. The cash-rich cricketers […]
PwC’s unqualified opinions of Satyam’s financial statements were materially false and misleading… as an accounting expert which consented to the use of its unqualified audit opinions, PwC is liable for the material misrepresentations or omissions… Excerpt from a Class Action Complaint against Satyam, Ramalinga Raju, Rama Raju, Srinivas Vadlamani and PricewaterhouseCoop ers filed in a […]
A meeting with Ms. Parveen Tripathi, Dy. C&AG was held on 9th February, 2009. The meeting was attended by the President CA. Uttam P. Agarwal, Vice-President CA. Amarjit Chopra and CA. Anuj Goel, Chairman, PDC. In this meeting, Shri K. P. Sasidharan, Principal Director (Commercial) and nominee of the C&AG of the Central Council was […]
A delegation of the Public Finance Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (Icai) led by chairman, Mr Subodh Kumar Agrawal called on state finance minister Mr Prafulla Chandra Ghadei and offered free consultancy service to the state government. The consultancy service, free of cost, given to the Union government, state government and […]
Railway Minister Lalu Prasad presented the interim Railway Budget for 2009-10 in Parliament on Friday, saying the Railways have scaled new heights. Highlights of Lalu’s speech in Parliament: Reduction in passenger fares of ordinary passenger trains by Re 1 for fares costing up to Rs fifty per passenger for journey above ten kms. Fares of […]
The guidelines on transfer of ownership or control of Indian companies in sectors with caps from resident Indian citizens to non-resident entities would ensure that, in sectors with caps, Government approval/FIPB approval would be required in all cases where an Indian company is being established with foreign investment and is owned or controlled by a non-resident entity; or the ownership or control of an existing Indian company,
