Historically speaking XBRL was born in USA. However converting all the documents from a non xbrl environment to the xbrl environment is happening all over the world. The UK, USA, etc. are choosing to do the outsourced work in India. A very big quantity of this work is happening in Navi Mumbai! Of course it […]
Are you ready for XBRL? Well preparedness for xbrl can mean different things at different levels of the xbrl chain. Board level: If you are a member of the board of directors of a company, you need to know that the Ministry of Corporate Affairs has mandated reporting in XBRL format. You need to know […]
The life insurance industry is in bad shape. Their past sins of over charging the customer are visiting them, and real hard. The Irda made some changes, the Income tax made some changes, they themselves made some mistakes, the customer unfortunately woke up, ….so in fine the industry is in trouble. So here is a […]
I am perhaps one of those rare people who say ‘An investor is personally responsible for Ruining his portfolio’. Of course there are people who help him on the way, but primarily he and he alone is responsible. A financial planner makes some assumptions about client behavior. Let us see some of the impossibly irrational […]
Is there any great logic to real estate prices or is it just the land, builders and the bank mafia that is responsible for keeping the prices high? Well let us look at the irrationality. Ahmedabad offers land, people and electricity (the needs for a BPO) at 50% of the prices in Malad or Goregaon. […]
remember this story was written in July 2011….in fact on 10 July…. Did anybody tell Dhirubhai Ambani that he was very lucky? Take a ‘Taleb’ian view on the success of the late Dhirubhai Ambani. He was a simple man, not very educated, perhaps very well focused, and dammit, GODDAMN LUCKY. Make no mistake there may […]
Either the financial services industry is full of people who announce business plans for time pass or I have brilliant 20/20 vision. When Big Bazaar group entered the financial services business, there was a chuckle. However they hired a top notch very (and frightfully) expensive executive….rumored to be paid a few million dollars (US!) then […]