In the current year with the deadline of 30th November, 2011 staring at us in the face, is it possible for companies to comply with Mca norms? I mean do we have the time to convert all our companies, accurately, and file it with MCA – if we do it on our own? This is […]
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 […]
I know very intelligent people, very close to me, very successful, very humble – and many of them are Sathya Sai Baba bhakts. One thing I have learnt in life is ‘criticising is easy’ but ‘delivering is difficult’. When I have to criticise somebody I look at ‘what would have I done’ and ‘given the […]
Oh! The Joy of Giving! The great Joy of Giving week! Recently the Joy of Giving week was celebrated..and everybody dug into their cupboards, wardrobes, shelves…and one can see a flow of things going from the people who have either outgrown it or cannot use it anymore. One thing though which can never be ‘second’ […]
He who sells more gets more commission. This is always true for any sales program, unless the product is a monopoly product and the manufacturer could not care. So when a small distributor of mutual fund (or life insurance) compares himself to a big distributor, it is unfair. If a small distributor (let us say […]
These are stories about a few friends. I have 2 friends – aged about 57 years. They were classmates and are now very close to retirement. Their investing philosophies are so different that I could not believe that the accumulated amounts could be so far away from each other. One of them did his MBA […]