Corporate Annual Reports these days are incomplete without the Directors report. For most operational companies the Annual Report run into dozens of pages and for the listed companies, it exceeds a hundred pages. The content in an annual report can be bifurcated into mandatory and voluntary disclosures; further, mandatory disclosures have three key components – [...]
Listing of the most viewed sections in the Companies Act for the month of March 2019 based on visitors to our free to use website www.ca2013.com. March 2019 Company Law Top 5 Chartbuster Rank in February Change in Rank Rank in March Section reference Section title 3 ↑ 1 12 Registered Office of the [...]
April 02, 2019 Summary of Amendments in the SEBI (LODR), 2015, SEBI (SAST), 2011 and the Companies Act, 2013 issued on 29th and 30th March, 2019 are listed below: The SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosures Requirements) (Amendment) Regulations, 2019: Regulation 23(1A)is amended to provide that w.e.f., July 01, 2019, payments made to a related [...]
Listing of the most viewed sections in the Companies Act for the month of February 2019 based on visitors to our free to use website www.ca2013.com. Company Law Top 5 Chartbuster sections in January 2019 Rank in January Change in Rank Rank in February Section reference Section title 1 ↔ 1 62 Further Issue [...]
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 [...]
