When Nanda’s grandson was involved in the famous (infamous?) BMW case, Nanda was rumored to have spent upwards of Rs. 7 crores. As a person who has seen 4-5 cases go to the supreme court, I can believe this figure. Recently I heard of a Senior Lawyer charging Rs. 25 lakhs for a 2 day […]
Today’s Economic Times carries an article about SEBI wanting to create a committee to view/ review the qualifications by the auditor. Sounds good? Let us see what a sister organization MCA (Ministry of Corporate Affairs) is doing. They get the significant Indian companies to file their Annual Returns in XBRL format. In the XBRL […]
As a person gets more and more powerful he thinks he can get away with whatever he is doing. Not that he will do only correct things, but that nobody will be able to touch him or her. In the olden days editors had a relationship with famous people and thus news items against them […]
I am sure all of you remember the very old story of a farmer who had a hen that laid golden eggs. For those of you who do not remember it…There was a farmer who had a hen that laid golden eggs. He used to be very happy to get a golden egg everyday – […]
This is actually very personal! First of all the Satyam episode is shocking. NO doubt about it. However, if you have dealt with corporate India, when I say shocking, I only mean the size. NOt the modus operandi. Many, many corporates have done it in the past. Lets go back to the start of Satyam. […]
The US government is pouring out AID this week to a number of financial companies under several of its recently instituted ‘support’ programs. Citigroup, Goldman Sachs Group, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo, and GE Capital are now in various stages of selling bonds backed by the government, thus lowering the rates they would have […]