One who pays the piper calls the tune. More so in the corporate world, where investors rule the roost. It is no different with sustainability reporting, where the investors call the shots. Starting with ethical investing in the initial stages, to ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investments in the later stages, sustainability reporting assumed [...]
Today’s Midas touch? Ask the select Flipkart and Infosys employees, they will tell you without any hesitation that it is ESOPs. In May 2018, over a hundred Flipkart employees turned dollar millionaires as the company was bought over by Walmart. A few decades earlier, Infosys the IT Services company created thousands of rupee [...]
As many of you may be aware, we provide a free to use website that provides an integrated view of the Companies Act, LODR and IB code. Over the last three years, this site has generated good traction with 3000+ individuals registering for getting updates and attracts more than 1500 visitors who visit more [...]
Valuing Wealth The publicity blitz that Bill Gates and Warren Buffett attracted when they jointly visited India is not surprising, for the rich and the wealthy have attracted the limelight since times immemorial. But curiously, the attention the rich get is not directly proportionate to their quantum of wealth. Even among the rich there is a pecking [...]
In the beginning For long human beings have kept records of their past. One of the earliest records of scorekeeping by human race is found in the cave paintings in Europe –Lascaux, Altamira and Chauvet among Others1. These cave paintings have been dated about 40,000 years ago. They were of animals. One of the explanation provided for [...]
Buy-back of shares is an accepted practice in the corporate word today, a concept so wide-spread that in the calendar year 2018, the volume of buy-back by the US corporates is estimated at around $1 trillion. However, buy-back of shares is a recently introduced concept with the US taking the lead in the second [...]
As many of you may be aware, we provide a free-to-use website www.ca2013.com (CAIRR-Companies Act Integrated Ready Reckoner) that provides an integrated view of the Companies Act, LODR and IB code. Over the last three years, this site has generated good traction with 3000+ individuals registering for getting updates and attracts more than 1500 [...]
A key ingredient that ensured the growing success of companies is the evolution in valuation of shares that permitted shareholders to sell and investors to buy shares without diluting any of the economic advantages of ownership. The evolution of share valuation is episodic, marked by stock market bubbles and often a major scandal that [...]
Listing of the most viewed sections in the Companies Act for the month of November 2018 based on visitors to our free to use website www.ca2013.com. Company Law Top 5 Chartbusters-November 2018 Rank Section number Section title 1 62 Further Issue of Share Capital 2 186 Loans and Investments by Companies 3 179 Powers [...]
In the absence of a physical presence, the actions of a legal entity like Company is evidenced only by their records. Considering the importance of records, there are extensive provisions made in the Companies Act, Rules and Mandatory Secretarial Standards on how to maintain Secretarial Records, with penalty for non-compliances. Given this importance, we [...]
