The Institute of Chartered Accountant of India (ICAI) will launch a certificate course on international taxation for its member in Mumbai by the end of this month. The decision to launch the course has been taken by the council of the institute. The course has already been commenced in New Delhi from November 13, 2008. […]
To bring in a more transparent and credible auditing system in the country, the government proposes to give explicit legal status to the audit standards prepared by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), minister of corporate affairs Prem Chand Gupta said here on Saturday. The minister said that the Companies Bill, 2008, now […]
JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs are among the banks shortlisted to advise the new board of Satyam Computer Services as it tries to save the fraud-stricken Indian outsourcing firm, three banking sources said on Wednesday. The new six-member board appointed by the government to contain the fallout of country’s largest corporate scandal will consider appointing an […]
HYDERABAD: Dodgy Ramalinga Raju is proving to be a hard nut to crack even for the seasoned interrogators of the Crime Investigation Department (CID) questioning him, his brother Rama Raju and former CFO Vadlamani Srinivas in the multi-crore scam. On the second day of police custody, Raju proved to be a tough cookie either bluntly […]
NEW DELHI: Troubled software exporter Satyam on Tuesday said it has been approached for takeover by domestic and foreign companies, the IT company’s board member Tarun Das said on Tuesday.
Concerned over the increasing instances of financial wrongdoings by corporate, the government on Sunday said those who are guilty would not be let off just by payment of some fine. “We are making stiff provisions under the new Companies Bill, 2008. The number of crimes for which provisions of compounding are available under the present […]
The RoC’s findings which it said will be made final after all documents are made available suggest that in approving the acquisition of 100 per cent in Maytas Properties and 51 per cent in Maytas Infrastructure, Satyam’s board had violated Section 372A of the Companies Act. Sub-section 1 of Section 372A stipulates that no company […]
The Reserve Bank of India, or RBI, has prohibited the statutory auditors of a bank from carrying out any consultancy work for the bank to avoid a possible conflict of interest.
The Satyam scam has made auditors realise the need to have a ‘fraud-finding’ approach, rather than the conventional fault-finding mode while examining the books of companies. Looking at the need and appetite for such accounting practices, the apex body of chartered accountants, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), has introduced new study modules for […]
Plans are afoot to make International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) mandatory for large-scale companies by April 2011, said K Raju, central council member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).
