The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, August 25, 2005

Accounting's key role in human history is of creating institutionalised memory
IN CHAPTER XX, titled `Of the tradesman's keeping his books, and casting up his shop', of The Complete English Tradesman, Daniel Defoe writes about a tradesman who could not write, but could still manage `with so many ingenious knacks of ... More

IMPRESSIONS

Surviving change
IF THERE is one thing there can be no doubt about, it is that in recent times the world has been subject to constant and considerable change. Organisations that operate successfully today may fail tomorrow. The history of an organisation has no ... More

REFLECTIONS

Home away from home
"I used to search the roads for a Malayali face when I first came to Dombivili from Alleppey. I desperately wanted to speak to a Malayali in Malayalam." More

SAY CHEEK

Why not 100% reservation for women!
WOMEN'S Bill seems to be doomed once again, with almost every party neta having his view on the matter, as if the women who are supposed to benefit in the bargain never matter, after all. "On one issue at least, men and women agree: they ... More

BOOKS OF ACCOUNT

Managers have to resolve the ethical debate and take decisions
TAPPING into the `the world's second largest collection of decision-oriented, field-based business cases' of Ivey Business School, here's David J. Sharp's Cases in Business Ethics, from Sage (www.sagepublications.com). "A ... More

EAR TO THE GROUND

Flextronics up on higher offer price hopes
FLEXTRONICS Software Systems has been rising constantly. In the last one month, the stock rose 10 per cent. On Wednesday, the stock closed at Rs 669.80, up 1.79 per cent on the BSE, with volumes of 40,605 shares; on the NSE, it closed at Rs ... More

SENSOR

Concern over crude dampens sentiment
A NEGATIVE sentiment continued to prevail in the market, consequent to the new highs registered on several stocks and FIIs expressing that the Indian markets do not continue to be as attractive as they were prior to the sharp bull run witnessed ... More

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