Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has sought broad-ranging information about the association of its member institutions with foreign auditing firms.The move assumes significance following the accountancy fraud by the promoters of Satyam Computers that brought the role of auditors under scrutiny. The auditors concerned were associate firms of international auditing entity PricewaterHouseCoopers.
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.
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Mihir Tanna, Associate Director, S K Patodia & Associates, answers your personal income tax queries.
Lamingo Systems, a Bangalore based technology start-up firm promoted by two entrepreneurs - Navin Kumar and his wife Monika Rungta - has launched eLagaan.com in this current tax filing season, a portal which promises to prepare the tax returns easy to be filed both electronically and in paper mode.
The regulator has not been maintaining panel of auditors since 2005 and instead prescribing the requirements for their appointment by insurers. In the backdrop of inflated balance sheet of Satyam Computer Services, chartered accountant body ICAI had pitched for the appointment of statutory auditors for insurance firms by IRDA.
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The corporate affairs ministry and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) are confident of meeting the April 2011 deadline to shift to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
Income Tax (I-T) Department has issued a fresh notice to realty major DLF even as it's appeal against an additional tax liability imposed on it by the I-T Department is being heard.
Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com reports on the chaos facing taxpayers with the income tax department making changes to ITR 2 and 3 forms just before tax-filing deadline.
Accountancy regulator ICAI on Wednesday agreed to withdraw disciplinary proceedings against audit firm Price Waterhouse Delhi for its alleged involvement in the multi-crore scam in Satyam Computer Services.
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The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has recommended strict penal action, including imprisonment, for auditors who are found associated with serious accounting frauds.
A resolution depends on the the kind of property held jointly and the ownership pattern
India's big four audit firms are PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, KPMG and Ernst & Young, while ICAI is the apex regulator of the profession of chartered accountants.
Mihir Tanna, Associate Director, S K Patodia & Associates, answers your tax queries.
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Mihir Tanna, Associate Director, S K Patodia & Associates, answers your income tax queries.
Nearly 800 employees started the strike on February 3 alleging gross mismanagement of funds by the top management and demanded a thorough audit of ICAI by comptroller and auditor general.
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The general elections could take a toll on the bottom lines of a host of Indian companies that have accessed overseas debt.
She has been called again on Wednesday for a fresh round of grilling.
Through gestures and decisions, the BJP high command has signalled that Raje may not be the lead actor but rather play a supporting role in a high-stakes election in its stamping ground.
The talk of governance reforms at public-sector banks seems to remain on paper, as a majority of them continue to be working with just a handful board members. Half of the board seat at these banks have been vacant. Ten of the 12 public-sector banks, even large ones like Punjab National Bank, Canara Bank and Union Bank of India - all except State Bank of India (SBI) and Bank of Baroda - don't even have a chairman. In 2014, while splitting the post of chairman & managing director (CMD), the government had decided to appoint non-executive chairmen at these banks. SBI, which has an executive chairman and four managing directors, was an exception.
Six of the seven Bills listed on the agenda of the Rajya Sabha have already been passed by the Lok Sabha.
As the economy surges ahead, these financial watchdogs will be increasingly in demand.
Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone will prepay $195 million of debt due in 2024 as the conglomerate helmed by Gautam Adani looks to boost investors' confidence post being targeted by a US short-seller. In a stock exchange filing, APSEZ said it will buy back $195 million of bonds due in 2024 using its cash reserves. Out of the $520 million principal outstanding, $325 million will be left after the buyback, it said.
Ekka, who is embroiled in the controversy for allegedly signing official documents at a private place, was removed from the post following Bharatiya Janata Party's allegation of his conniving with middlemen.
The decision to seek tie-up details from CA firms, especially those associated with the Big 4 -- PWC, Ernst & Young, KPMG and Deloitte -- follows a report by an Institute of Chartered Accountants of India committee on the multi-crore Satyam scam.
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A few months ago, the company affairs ministry had approved a single additional attempt instead of the five recommended by the ICAI.
Wipro founder-chairman Azim Premji believes the Indian IT industry revenues will grow in double digits in the current financial year. Throughout the pandemic, which saw lockdown measures to curtail the spread of the virus, the information technology industry has kept the world running and has also adapted to the changes, Premji said, speaking at an event of the Bombay Chartered Accountants' Society on Tuesday evening. As per Nasscom, the IT industry revenues stood at $194 billion in FY21. The lobby group has ceased giving estimates of the topline growth a few years ago.
On March 30, the ICAI asked all companies to disclose and/or provide for all losses on derivative contracts, except for forward contracts where a company needed to comply with accounting standard AS11. So far, Indian companies were not required to declare their gains or losses on derivatives; the ICAI's new accounting standard AS30 required them to reveal these gains or losses from April 1, 2011, a deadline it advanced by three years.
The accountants body was reacting to reports about a tax assessment order by the I-T department, which found violations by ICAI such as failure to get their accounts signed by auditors, providing loans to partners without guarantee and interest and hiding income from coaching business. However, the institute pointed out that a view taken by a particular officer in the department in a specific year is not final and said that it is sure to be eligible for exemption.
"I told my office to take permission of the court because I want director, discipline, to begin proceedings against them (S Gopalakrishnan and Srinivas Talluri).
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Wednesday said that the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation members should respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity and seek no unilateral military superiority in adjacent areas.
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Maersk is looking for financial and accounting professionals. They will be based based in the African continent and in West and Central Asia.
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