ICAI finds move confusing, wants plan to be dropped
Posted Date : 29-Oct-2011 , 09:53:39 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The apex accounting standards-setting body, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), will ask the finance ministry to drop plans for separate accounting standards for tax computation purposes.
The move comes in the backdrop of a recommendation made by an expert committee consti...
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Now, ICAI to turn transparency spotlight on itself
Posted Date : 19-Oct-2011 , 08:27:07 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Like charity, scrutiny too, it seems, begins at home. After pitching for more disclosure norms for corporates, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) now wants to usher in more transparency in its own functioning.
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Firms get govt breather on forex earnings
Posted Date : 17-Oct-2011 , 08:12:05 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The ministry of corporate affairs, or MCA, has given Indian firms another year to spread their liabilities on account of foreign exchange borrowings accruing from fluctuations in foreign exchange, or forex, rates.
While getting more time to amortize such liabilities will come as a breather fo...
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ICAI wants standard norms for internal auditing by companies
Posted Date : 12-Oct-2011 , 08:18:20 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Accounting regulator Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has asked the government to standardise the internal auditing procedures adopted by domestic companies to prevent a repeat of Satyam-like frauds. These benchmark norms would reduce corporate risk manifold and ensure a standard and ...
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ICFAI founder CA.N.J. Yasaswy dead
Posted Date : 10-Oct-2011 , 09:01:01 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
CA. N.J. Yasaswy, founder of the ICFAI Group of educational institutions and a pioneer to promote higher education in the private sector, died on Saturday.
A chartered accountant, the 62-year-old Yasaswy built a network of 11 universities and six ICFAI Business-schools, with presence acro...
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Court upholds ICAI decision to bar auditor from practising
Posted Date : 07-Oct-2011 , 08:16:43 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Delhi High Court has upheld the decision of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to bar an auditor for Global Trust Bank (GTB) from practising accountancy for five years, according to the national professional accounting body.
It was last year that the capital-...
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Govts, PSUs favour CA firms with MNC link: ICAI
Posted Date : 03-Oct-2011 , 08:26:10 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Accounting regulator ICAI has accused state and central governments, and PSUs, of deliberately favouring chartered accountant companies having affiliations with multinational audit firms.
"In certain cases, public sector undertakings, the government departments, central and state governme...
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Turmoil in ICAI Pune; Council Member under scan
Posted Date : 30-Sep-2011 , 07:59:35 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Pune chapter of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has suspended a training contract outsourced to a popular chartered accountancy training academy, Zaware's Professional Academy Pvt Ltd, following allegations related to conflict of interest.
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Multinational audit cos flouting rules: ICAI
Posted Date : 29-Sep-2011 , 08:25:05 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has accused multinational audit firms operating in India of violating the Chartered Accountants Act, and has asked the Reserve Bank and the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to investigate their accounts.
A 168-page report prepared by the...
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Multinational audit firms on ICAI's clean-up radar
Posted Date : 28-Sep-2011 , 08:34:36 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in India (ICAI) has come down heavily on multinational audit firms in India. ICAI says audit firms are violating the law by using foreign brand names and the accounting regulator has asked for an MCA and RBI inquiry into their accounts, reports CNBC-TV18's Pa...
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CAs to get new rules for auditing books of political parties
Posted Date : 24-Sep-2011 , 10:08:35 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Call it corporatisation of political parties. Taking a step ahead towards introducing financial accountability among the political parties in India, the auditing regulator Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is set to issue guidelines on standard accounting norms to its member Chart...
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ICAI Invites Suggestions for Pre-Budget Memorandum-2012
Posted Date : 22-Sep-2011 , 07:43:17 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Central Direct & Indirect Taxes Committees are in the process of identifying issues that need to be taken up in the Pre-Budget Memoranda on Direct & Indirect Taxes – 2012 to be submitted to the Ministry of Finance. Suggestions are invited on laws relating to Direct Tax...
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ICAI to probe Everonn auditors
Posted Date : 14-Sep-2011 , 07:36:45 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Chartered accountants' regulatory body, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), has asked Everonn Education for its books, after the company got embroiled in a tax evasion and bribery case. The CBI arrested Everonn's founder and managing director P Kishore fo...
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ICAI will train companies on new software
Posted Date : 12-Sep-2011 , 07:49:34 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Move over HTML, welcome XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language). This is the mantra that The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is pushing for, given that the last date for filing of company's balance sheet and annual return for current fiscal is falling due during October an...
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Independent auditing of cooperatives, NGOs needed: ICAI
Posted Date : 02-Sep-2011 , 07:21:49 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has stressed the need for independent auditing of cooperative societies, various educational trusts and NGOs, saying it would bring down discrepancies in financial statements. ICAI President G Ramaswamy said revenue of NGOs, cooperatives and e...
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ICAI to offer course in forensic accounting
Posted Date : 01-Sep-2011 , 07:32:19 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
In a month's time, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) will launch a 100-hour certified course in ‘Forensic Accounting and Fraud Detection' using IT and Computer Aided Audit Tools, said its president G. Ramaswamy on Tuesday.
Talking to reporters, he said that the importan...
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Auditors should be paid from a pool of funds
Posted Date : 30-Aug-2011 , 07:46:40 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India's ( ICAI) move to write a new code of ethics is welcome, but it can be effective only if it compels auditors to raise their standard of ethics and values. No large corporate fraud has been exposed by eagle-eyed accountants, but by insiders o...
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Chartered accountants can become whistleblowers? ICAI council is divided over code of ethics
Posted Date : 29-Aug-2011 , 08:05:00 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Chartered accountants, who are often blamed for helping clients sidestep the law and masking the truth behind numbers, will have a new code of ethics. After a marathon council meeting last week, the statutory body that makes the rules for the profession decided to overhaul the present code. Amid ...
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Clarification regarding non-inclusion of audits conducted under sections 44AD, 44AE and 44AF in the “specified number of tax audit assignments”
Posted Date : 23-Aug-2011 , 05:13:07 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
In order to clarify the doubt raised by majority of members in respect of inclusion of audits conducted under sections 44AD, 44AE and 44AF of the Income-tax Act, 1961 in the specified number of tax audit assignments, the extracts of Para 6 of Chapter VI “Tax Audit assignments under section 44A...
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India Inc can soon tap CAs for arbitration services
Posted Date : 19-Aug-2011 , 04:44:23 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
For corporates faced with commercial disputes, a cost effective mechanism that would also ensure their speedy disposal is on the anvil.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is piloting a new initiative by empanelling its members as arbitrators.
This move could help bring down t...
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ICAI – Office in-charge can only be Partner or paid assistant in whole time employment who attends such office for a period of not less than 182 days
Posted Date : 17-Aug-2011 , 08:02:48 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Status of In-charge of Head office or branch of Chartered Accountant Firm
ICAI has considered the issue regarding status of In-charge of a Head Office of a firm of chartered accountants or its Branch Office and clarified that- “A member designated In-charge of an office of a chartered accou...
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ICAI to submit report in Sept on black money
Posted Date : 13-Aug-2011 , 07:39:40 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) will submit a report to the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) next month with its recommendations on tackling issues related to black money.
"A nine-member committee is looking into India's Double Taxation Avoidance Treaty Agreemen...
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CAs should audit social welfare schemes: ICAI
Posted Date : 09-Aug-2011 , 08:21:30 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Centre and the state governments must allow certified Chartered Accountants to audit the financial expenses of social welfare schemes and cooperative societies, said G Ramaswamy, president, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).
"We have sent the proposal to respe...
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Announcement of KYC Norms by ICAI
Posted Date : 04-Aug-2011 , 11:16:04 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
All the members of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), who are in practice, are hereby informed that the Council has formulated the following Know Your Client Norms (KYC norms) at its 307th Meeting held on 13th July, 2011, which shall be recommendatory in nature, and appl...
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SC asks ICAI to proceed against Satyam auditor after October 3
Posted Date : 01-Aug-2011 , 09:55:45 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Supreme Court today directed accounting regulator ICAI to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Talluri Srinivas, auditor embroiled in the multi-crore Satyam accounting fraud, only after October 3. A bench of Justices D K Jain and A K Ganguly asked the Institute of Chartered Accountants of I...
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ICAI asks govt. to amend Income Tax Act
Posted Date : 30-Jul-2011 , 07:26:40 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Institute of Charted Accountants of India, ICAI appeal ed the government to amend the Income Tax Act in order to empower Accountants to examine foreign bank accounts closely in black money cases. Briefing reporters in New Delhi on Friday G Ramaswamy, President of ICAI said that an empowered group ha...
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EXPOSURE DRAFT OF TAXONOMY FOR NON-BANKING FINANCIAL COMPANIES (NBFCs)
Posted Date : 29-Jul-2011 , 08:30:49 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is a novel way of electronic communication of business and financial data that is of immense utility to the capital markets and the investing community. Those who stand to benefit include all who collect business data, including governments, regulators, ...
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ICAI recommends action against auditor
Posted Date : 28-Jul-2011 , 07:20:09 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), which has been set up by an Act of Parliament, has decided to recommend to the High Court that a member CA R Laxminarayan of C C Chokshi & CO be removed from the Register of Members for one year for professional misconduct.
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ICAI - Handbook on "The Process of E-filing of Income Tax Returns"
Posted Date : 26-Jul-2011 , 07:13:08 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
A Handbook on "The Process of E-filing of Income Tax Returns"
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ICAI allows audit firms with limited liability
Posted Date : 19-Jul-2011 , 07:10:37 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has allowed audit firms to convert into limited liability partnership (LLP) firms in a move that could set a trend for consolidation in the space dotted with several small entities.
At the same time, the regulator for chartered accountants has...
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