The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, September 04, 2003

Milk debate gone sour
THE UNSEEMLY ROW over the proposed import of milk powder assumes importance not because it is seen as a fight between the country's two best-known dairy cooperatives, but because it has at once focussed everyone's attention on the inherent ... More

ECONOMY

Make industrial sector the engine of growth
With the business environment for the industrial sector turning favourable, it is the right time to initiate measures to make this sector an engine of growth and to raise its share in GDP. The thrust of the growth strategy should be more public and p rivate investments in both urban and rural infrastructure, says S. D. Naik. More

ACCOUNTANCY

No scary stuff in CARO
G. Ananthakrishnan analyses the CARO requirements More

An affair, small and private
Mohan R. Lavi on the concept of small private company More

Auditing: The new untouchable
A REPORT by The Washington Post reveals that many accounting firms are reducing the number of audits performed for public companies, and, in some cases, firms are giving up providing public company audit services ... More

A facial that is farcical
THE Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2003 seeks to bring about changes, some of them profound, some cosmetic, and some downright silly in the provisions relating to directors. But in either case there are bloomers galore. A ... More

Credibility in the tinker shop
LIKE the trash in the backyard, all the mess that accounting turned disclosures into enjoyed the comfort of status quo far too long, till regulatory bodies and institutions swung into action to bring in legislative ... More

TERRORISM

Changing internal security dynamics
THE blasts in Mumbai and the busting of a terror network in New Delhi present, among other things, the issue of internal factors that can erode national security as much as any external danger. In fact, in the last ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

CEO salaries — Don't bank on peanut-monkey logic
THE RECENT advertisement by the Government for a chief executive officer for the proposed IDBI-converted bank promised "market-linked compensation'' for the CEO and this has raised a furore among public sector banks ... More

LETTERS

Unemployment in the US

CAS woes

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