Amarjit Chopra, President, ICAI discusses what it means to be a Chartered Accountant, student issues and corruption.
PricewaterhouseCoopers was Satyam's statutory auditor when the company's founder, B Ramalinga Raju, confessed to a massive accounting fraud in January 2009.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is likely to take disciplinary action against two Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) auditors who were involved in auditing the account books of erstwhile Satyam Computers.
The country's accounting sector regulator has set a target to build 50 global brands based out of India in three years.
Experts say, auditors must not allow themselves to be intimidated by the client management into conducting audits by conversation. It is important for auditors to conduct proper interviews and ask probing and searching questions.
The panel suggests the government be authorised to raise the thresholds, which trigger applicability of Corporate Social Responsibility provisions.
Any act by a chartered accountant that brings disrepute to the profession, whether or not in the professional domain, is open to disciplinary scrutiny and action.
The central bank's tough new rules spell major changes in the competitive landscape for financial services audits.
While the scam highlights the need for an overhaul of the oversight mechanism of banks and of their internal controls, questions are being raised on why multiple audits failed to raise an alarm
From FY18, Ind-AS will be mandatory for all listed entities, barring those listed on the SME platform.
Kapil Sharma, the anchor of Comedy Nights with Kapil, is the hottest property on Indian television today
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