The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, January 19, 2006

New partnerships
CLEARLY, THERE HAS been a careful calibration of the process of cementing a relationship in the latest announcement of what the Italian car major Fiat and Tata Motors jointly plan to do. When the announcement was first made some months ago, there ... More

AIRLINES

Importance of break-even
THE concept of `break-even' is one of the first things taught in management schools, highlighting the significance of fixed costs in running of organisation. It is one of the simpler, easier concepts to understand and apply readily in a given ... More

ACCOUNTANCY

Relevance of risk rating
IN DEVELOPED economies every finance-related activity has a different cost and price, depending on the quality of the user of the service. Our country too has moved towards a globalised level of operations. In the 1990s, the practice of credit ... More

Tax secrets may well hide in the reporting gaps and crevices
CAPTAINS of industry have been lobbying with the Finance Minister for one sop or the other. There are no great hopes that all their wishes will fructify in the forthcoming Budget, yet a general impression, as in many other countries, is that ... More

Remedy worse than the disease
K. Srinivasan analyses the Concept Paper on limited liability partnership. More

TERRORISM

Economic implications of terrorism
To counter terrorism, governments and businesses have to incur additional expenditure on arrangements for safety and security, insurance payments, surveillance and intelligence gathering and training and equipping anti-terror squads. As all this addi tional expenditure impacts consumption and savings, as well as investment, the government has to go all out to curb terror groups by using various models, says Asuri Vasudevan, describing how the deterrence system works. More

BANKING

Operational risk management — How banks can manage the unknown
WHAT if suddenly ATMs stopped vending crisp notes, bank branches closed for few days, the data centre of major banks shut down, busy operations in dealing rooms of major banks come to a halt and banking personnel don't reach their offices. ... More

BOOKS

Create the time for dash work in a dot-defined world
Are you getting gradually pulled into tasks that don't match your particular expertise or coincide with your goals? If yes, here are `the nine competencies' for making your work life work': Julie Morgenstern's Never Check E-Mail in the ... More

LETTERS

Falling interest rates

Retaining FBT

Shackling the IIMs

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