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Issue # 7 December 05,
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| We wish all of
our audience a very Happy Eid Mubarak! May Allah bestow his
blessings upon everyone on this Eid and always.
The Accountancy team |
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| Weekly
Poll Results |
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current theme of discussion in our forum, we asked our readers
whether the firms should publicly announce their financial results
or not. This is how our readers have answered. |
| Yes |
58% |
| No |
37% |
| Don't Care |
6% |
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In this week's issue:
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| In the News |
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| Featured Articles |
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| The ultimate
responsibility for financial statements may lie with corporate
managers, but by any measure, the audit firms have failed
miserably in their role as financial watchdogs. And with their
profession about to undergo a major overhaul, they have been a
very quiet voice in the reform debate. There's a void of
leadership in the audit industry. The firms are all in
defensive mode.
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the full article |
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| These days most
companies want their executives to focus on strategic issues
rather than back-office work. Many, however, still choose to
outsource specific functions piecemeal. Now a few big
companies have become early adopters of "end-to-end HR
outsourcing."
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the full article |
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| Articles for Students |
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| A work-life balance is
by its nature very subjective, and achieving a good balance
between work, study and the rest of your life is no easy task.
Balance for you will very much depend on your personality, how
much study you need to do and the type of job you have.
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the full article |
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Standards and an IT auditor
- by J.P. Pathak |
| The term 'standards'
is defined in any profession irrespective of its nature, as
the minimum expected level of performance desired from an
individual or an activity relevant to the needs of that
particular profession's domain or any of its segments.
Information Technology (IT) auditing has been accepted as a
distinct profession carved out of two distinctly separate
professions of IT-based data communications and Auditing.
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the full article |
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