Accountancy
Pricing strategy metamorphosis
R. Srinivasan discusses, through a case study, the importance of market-related product pricing

Book Review
Stress test
HERE is an exercise to help you recognise extreme job-related stress or burnout, extracted from Not another guide to stress in general practice, edited by David Haslam. A simple agree/disagree answer is adequate and the duration of th e symptoms should be at least four weeks.

Information Technology
On the bug trail -- Some general strategies to find, and fix, the elusive software glitch
THE word bug has been used to describe an ``object of terror'' ever since the fourteenth century. Rear Admiral Dr Grace Hopper, the inventor of COBOL, is credited with observing the first computer bug -- literally, a moth caught in a relay in a n early computer system. When asked to explain why the machine was not behaving as intended, a technician reported that there was ``a bug in the system'', and dutifully taped it -- wings and all -- into the log book.

Taxation
Check out these tax teasers
NARAYAN sold uprooted teak trees for Rs 50,000. Assuming that he wants to do some cultivation after uprooting the teak trees decide the taxability.

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