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ACCOUNTANCY
Partition theory of numbers and project crashing
The basic idea of crashing a project is to reduce the time duration and maintain a trade-off between crash cost and indirect cost. The recent CA (Final) examination had a question on crashing of a network consisting of 11 activities and four ... More

FOREIGN TRADE
Chinindia ties
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TAXATION
Service tax on bank loan
I have taken a loan of Rs 30,000 from SBI Card. At the time of giving consent, SBI assured me that only monthly EMI (equated monthly instalment) will be levied. In the monthly statement though, SBI levied service tax at Rs 44.84 on the loan ... More

Know the tax benefit of higher education loan
Suggested answers to the November 2006 CA (PE-II) paper on I-T and CST More

MANAGEMENT
The art of negotiation
In a successful negotiation, everyone wins. The objective should be agreement, not victory. Every desire that demands satisfaction and every need to be met is, at least, potentially an occasion for negotiation; whenever people exchange ideas with ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Corus: CSN versus Tatas
Responses to Sticklish Issues dated November 20 More

EVENTS
Just Do IT
A. Jeyachandran - Madurai - jeyatmdu at hotmail.com, A.B.Amutha - Madhura college - Madurai - amutha.b.87 at gmail.com, A.K.Prasad - akprasad at iocl.co.in, A.Ramalingam - vallalar18 at yahoo.co.in, A.Satyanarayana Babu - Chennai - babu at ... More

Number Crunch
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INCOME TAX
A burning question on PAN
I am an NRI, but when I was a resident (5-6 years back) I had applied for PAN (Permanent Account Number) and got one. However, no PAN card was mailed to me (my chartered accountant at that time enquired with the tax office to obtain my ... More

RETAILING
Fate of neighbourhood shops when giant retailers march in
"IT sector is the only sector available to young professionals to jump into immediately after finishing studies. It is the silver lining in the job market." More

PEOPLE
Have an open mind
Mr Deven Patil heads the India operations of Transitions Optical, one the world's leading plastic photochromic lens manufacturing companies. He has a Masters degree in Management from Sydenham Institute of Management, Mumbai. Here's his take on ... More

BOOKS
In mathematics there is no ignorabimus
Mathematics is essentially `an activity of production and solution of problems,' writes Piergiorgio Odifreddi in The Mathematical Century, from Universities Press. Problems can be `easy or difficult, superficial or deep, theoretical or ... More

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