The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, June 15, 2006

ACCOUNT SPEAK
It pays to speak plain English
Generally, accountants dress neat. So are their products, the financial statements — neatly dressed with numbers aligned, lines drawn, columns named, references given, and totals tallied to the last decimal. Language is understandably ... More

BOOKS OF ACCOUNT
Bankable audit inputs
Nitant P. Trilokekar is a Mumbai-based chartered accountant equipped with systems audit credentials. Using his two decades of experience in the banking industry, he has written Contemporary Bank Audit, from Snow White ... More

INDIA UNINC
Stock market panics when politics dominates economics
With Dr Manmohan Singh at the helm, economics, it was thought, would dominate politics. But all signs point to the opposite and are exacerbated by the reservation issue, the speed-breakers to infrastructure development, and the Naxal threats. This ma kes the market rather jittery, says R. VAIDYANATHAN. More

EAR TO THE GROUND
Profit taking seen on Aztec
Aztec Software, which dropped by 14.5 per cent, ended the day as among the worst losers. It closed at Rs 121.65 on the NSE, a neat Rs 23 lower than its opening mark. The decline, marketmen feel, is prompted by steady sale by investors who wished ... More

Value buying props up Srei
Srei Infrastructure, which closed at Rs 36.55 on the NSE on Wednesday, bucked the declining trend with 9 per cent-plus gains. The move is being seen as a result of concerted buying by investors seeking value in a counter that has corrected deeply ... More