CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS

Public Provident Fund is a popular long-term savings scheme offering tax benefits and attractive interest rates. Here’s how nominees or legal heirs can claim a PPF account on the death of the subscriber.

The real pitfalls arise when bad financial products are marketed as good ones, and investors fail to recognise the deceit. If you are saving and investing, encountering such schemes is inevitable; it’s not an exception, but certainty. Thus, a more c...

China is set to impose a record fine on PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and may suspend some of its local operations due to its involvement in a major financial fraud case with China Evergrande Group. The Ministry of Finance is expected to announce the p...

The Leave Travel Concession (LTC) initiative offers government employees a discounted travel option to go to any destination in India or to their home town during a a block of four years. . Are all central government employees eligible for LTC? What...

​To pass the chartered financial analyst exams and put the “CFA” letters on your resumè, at least 900 hours of study are recommended. Hitting the books for 300 to 400 hours is advised for the certified public accountant exam, which is usually taken ...

Latest PPF interest rate: The Public Provident Fund (PPF) is one of the most popular savings instruments. Note that only one PPF account can be maintained by an Individual, except an account that is opened on behalf of a minor.

The government has raised the interest rates on certain small savings schemes and post office schemes for the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2023.

​It was among the 64 local governments and utility systems that S&P Global Ratings withdrew ratings for this month for failing to file financial information on time. In March, the company put Marion and 148 other entities on a negative credit watch.

The exposure to the Adani group once again brought limelight back on the banking sector. There were some tremors felt in the PSU banking space, however the private sector banks did not see any major impact. This does not mean that private sector ban...

This programme will help parents to fund their girl child’s higher education and/or marriage as well as ensure her financial future because it offers guaranteed interest income and tax deductions.

In the present public accounting system, which has largely remained unchanged since Independence, the funds against sanctioned budgets are sent from the central to state governments in periodic intervals, ahead of any actual expenditures being incur...

"EY acknowledges the findings determined by the SEC," said Brendan Mullin, EY media relations director, adding that the firm's response has been "thorough, extensive and effective."

Indian-American Impact, nation's leading civic Indian American and South Asian organisation, welcomed the nomination of Kotagal to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The Election Commission, while allowing parties to deploy video and digital vans for publicity in poll-bound states, issued a set of guidelines on Saturday that require all content aired on video vans to be pre-certified by the media certification a...

Under rules, the issuer company deposits 1 per cent of the issue amount of the securities offered to the public and/or to the holders of the existing securities of the company, as the case may be, with the designated stock exchange.

This would enable appropriately qualified chartered accountant members of either institutes to join the other by receiving appropriate credit for their existing accountancy qualification.

The AAR observed that the applicant is not approved by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India/Institute of Cost Accountants of India/Universities to conduct coaching/training of students as per the syllabus prescribed by them to obtain qual...

‘Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortization’ or ‘EBITDA’ and its multiple is a common benchmark in M&A and private equity transactions to determine the fair valuation of a company and therefore, to determine earn-outs and other pos...

Indian-American Ghazala Hashmi, a former community college professor, created history by becoming the first Muslim woman to be elected to the Virginia State Senate, while Suhas Subramanyam, who served as the White House technology policy adviser to ...