Widening the scope of its enquiry regarding practices adopted by foreign auditing firms to operate in India through surrogate entities, ICAI has asked 11 more domestic chartered accountancy firms to furnish details of operational arrangement with them.
The body of 26-year-old Anup Kumar Agarwal was recovered from railway tracks between Byappanahalli and Krishnarajapuram stations on December 23, a few days after the company discovered the fraud and his alleged role in it.
Believe it or not, it's really not all that tough. All you need to do is to get a bit proactive and collect some important documents, something you would need to do anyway, even if you use the services of a professional.
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"The government has always believed in stable policies. I am sure that this will continue in the coming budget," ICICI Bank's non-executive chairman, K V Kamath, told reporters on the sidelines of a function organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India in Mumbai.
Firms denied peer review certificate may be barred from auditing
It is the ICAI which has the wherewithal to understand what the professional issues involved are and it is they who should be in charge of the solution, believes Rahul Roy.
Hyderabad-based Four Soft and Chennai-headquartered Take Solutions, providers of IT products and solutions in the supply chain management (SCM) space, today announced their intent to merge. The combination will create a global, comprehensive company offering one of the largest SCM products.
Option can be exercised only for self-applications and after a year of non-payment.
"In view of the statements of the cabin crew attendants and other circumstances, at this stage, it cannot be held that there are reasonable grounds that the accused has not committed the alleged offence," Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Kumar Goel said.
"There will always be brilliant fraudsters who will find newer ways. The need is for utmost vigilance, diligence and honesty on the part of those who are entrusted with the job of regulation and auditing."
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After getting Indian Oil Corporation, the nation's largest oil firm, to drop four independent directors and Engineers India Ltd to boot out two, it is now seeking to sack former Power Secretary P Uma Shankar, chartered accountant S Ravi and former BPCL Chairman R K Singh from the board of ONGC.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has named 10 non-government organisations, including the US-based Omidyar, as accused in the case of allegedly conspiring to illegally facilitate the registration and renewal of Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act licences.
Sandeep Ohri has been waging a lone battle against Reliance and is intervener between the power utility and the power regulator.
There are three Price Waterhouse firms and four Price Waterhouse & Co firms in PriceWaterhousCoopers' network of firms in India. Each firm is a separate partnership firm, with a maximum of 20 partners each, with head offices in the cities in which they are registered. Each of these is registered with ICAI. The Pricewater House registered in Bangalore had audited Satyam.
A woman on Tuesday allegedly jumped to death from the 19th floor of a residential building along with her two children at suburban Malad in Mumbai. Nidhi Pawan Gupta, a chartered accountant, left a suicide note in which she said that nobody was responsible for the extreme step, said the police. The bodies of Gupta, 30, her son Gaurav, 6, and daughter Mahika, 3, were taken to nearby civic run Bhagwati hospital for post mortem, police said.
A Bench headed by Justice S H Kapadia has posted the matter for the hearing on December 9. PWC had challenged the Calcutta high court's judgement that held that the firm had failed to furnish its true and correct particulars of accounts while filing the returns.
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The ministry of company affairs (MCA) intends to insert a clause in the Companies Act that will make audit firms also liable to prosecution as against the existing provisions that limits penal action only to chartered accountants.
Priyanka Chopra talks about her upcoming film 7 Khoon Maaf and clarifies her stand on the Income Tax raid at her house.
Kate Forbes studied at Woodstock School for 3 years, and lived in India for 8 years. 'She has a heart for service and we are excited she has reached great heights at such a young age,' said her teacher Sanjaya Mark.
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To me, these are all characteristics of a scam. It is time that the derivative issue is christened as one. Given this scenario, it is time the RBI interfered in this matter. In the alternative a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the entire issue may well be in order.
They play a key role in managing rescue and liquidation processes envisaged under the Code
On the back of the Satyam episode, the ICAI is planning to seek more power for chartered accountants so that they are not mere qualifiers. In case they see any divergence in the numbers provided by the company, there must be a way to compel a restatement of accounts, according to the ICAI. It has asked its members to 'to be much more vigilant and rely on external information than be dependent on what the management provides.'
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26 chartered accountants associated with such shell companies have also been identified
A recent clarification by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India regarding disclosure norms for derivative contracts had specified that companies would have to disclose mark-to-market losses from such transactions, financial year 2007-08 onwards. Sources now say companies have the leeway to avoid reporting losses on derivative contracts, as there are enough mechanisms in accounting standards that lay out the guiding principles in this regard.
Mihir Tanna, Associate Director, S K Patodia & Associates, answers your tax queries.
facilities at Bangalore one understands the financial year end frenzy at these establishments and the slipshod slippages in timeframes, quality of overhaul, servicing and quality control across the board, for aircraft and equipment alike,' says Group Captain Murli Menon (retd).
Attention to details is paramount when filing income-tax return (ITR). By mid-June, employees receive Form 16 from their employers. The first step in filing ITR is to compare Form 26AS with Form 16. If there are discrepancies in the figures quoted in the two documents, they need to be rectified.
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