The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, November 10, 2005

The new `independence' movement
M. S. Parthasarathy on whether having more independent directors on boards will help improve corporate governance More

EDITORIAL

Stitch in time
THOUGH THE CHINESE Commerce Minister, Mr Bo Xilai, described the textile trade deal between the US and China as a `win-win' situation for both sides, Beijing has got a better deal than Washington. This is mainly because Beijing has extracted ... More

AUDITING

Food for thought from the oil-for-food scam
FOR professionals recovering from festivals and generally ruing over the weather, here is something to get busy with: The 630-page report of the Independent Inquiry Committee on the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme (OFFP), a.k.a. the ... More

ECONOMY

Oil, inflation and interest rates
If because of the government not `passing-through' the full impact of crude oil price hike, inflation is unrealistically measured, it has implications for the computation of the real interest rate. A. Vasudevan looks at these issues and thinks that generating a producer price index may better reflect the inflation and help policy-makers set interest rates. More

ACCOUNTANCY

Deconstructing reconstructed accounts
Mohan R. Lavi on a recent announcement on audit in the case of incomplete or missing records More

`Institutional innovation' of doubtful merit
S. Subramanyan on PSU auditors reporting to Parliament More

BANKING

Woes of hi-tech banking
HAS the combination of high technology and competition in financial services in particular served us well as customers? Has it truly introduced a service orientation amongst those staff who manage the various points of ... More

WTO

Doha Round: Consensus not `developing'
Politicians on both sides of the "free trade" fence have deployed the correct rhetoric to argue their points of view to lower or sustain indefinitely most sensitive trade barriers. This even suggests that the four-year-old Doha Round may be at a breaking point. More

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Oil, inflation and interest rates

Centre allows 49 pc FDI in ARCs — To help clean up bad assets in banks

No transaction costs for shifting DP accounts

Over 50 tea exporters figure in Volcker report

Uniform call rates across country from January: Maran

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