Happy to announce the Amazon Kindle launch of Auditing Mantras for CA IPCC , revised per Companies Act 2013
Friday, 1 May 2015
Monday, 27 April 2015
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
Often we get disillusioned about societal rejection even when we are trying our best and find no reason why they should act that way
Please find a thought which is so pertinent in this direction
Also attaching a compilation by cajobportal.com of the differences between Companies Act 1956 and Companies Act 2013
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Saturday, 18 April 2015
Recruitment is NOT Talent Acquisition
Recruitment is NOT Talent Acquisition
Tuesday, February 07, 2012In our Lexicon, we define Talent acquisition as “a strategic approach to identifying, attracting and onboarding top talent to efficiently and effectively meet dynamic business needs.”
The term Talent Acquisition (TA) is often used synonymously with Recruiting. However, these are two very different things. Recruiting is a subset of TA, and includes the activities of sourcing, screening, interviewing, assessing, selecting and hiring. In some organizations this extends to the early stages of onboarding, which then becomes a shared responsibility between HR and the hiring manager, with support from the learning organization.
Talent acquisition includes recruiting, but it is inclusive of other strategic elements as follows.
- Talent Acquisition Planning & Strategy – ensures business alignment, examines workforce plans, requires an understanding of the labor markets, and looks at global considerations.
- Workforce Segmentation – requires an understanding of the different workforce segments and positions within these segments, as well as the skills, competencies, and experiences necessary for success.
- Employment Branding – includes activities that help to uncover, articulate and define a company’s image, organizational culture, key differentiators, reputation, and products and services. Employment branding can help advance the market position of organizations, attract quality candidates and depict what it is truly like to work for that organization.
- Candidate Audiences – necessitates defining and understanding the audiences in which an organization needs to source for specific roles. Different sourcing strategies should be applied based on the understanding of the jobs and where the audiences will come from to fill them.
- Candidate Relationship Management – includes building a positive candidate experience, managing candidate communities, and maintaining relationships for those candidates not selected.
- Metrics & Analytics – is the continuous tracking and use of key metrics to drive continuous improvement and to make better recruitment decisions, to ultimately improve the quality of hire.
Within each of these core elements of TA are many other sub-activities and best practices. And, of course, the selection of tools, technology and outsourcing partners is a key element of a company’s talent acquisition strategy.
Recruiting is what many people want to dive into; however, that is what we call putting the cart before the horse. The elements listed above are necessary for doing recruiting well. To use an analogy - the design and implementation of leadership programs is only a piece of a leadership development strategy, following an understanding of business goals, defining leadership competencies, and integrating with other talent management process. In other words, a leadership program is to leadership development what recruiting is to talent acquisition. Alone, neither will drive their highest value to the business.
www.bersin.com/blog/post/2012/02/Recruitment-is-NOT-Talent-Acquisition.aspx
Friday, 17 April 2015
Hosting of exemption(s) in a paper(s) granted in Intermediate (IPC) and Final examinations, valid for May, 2015.
Exemption(s) in a paper(s) are granted to candidates of Intermediate and Final examinations, in terms of Regulation 37C (8) and Regulation 38C (6), respectively, of the Chartered Accountants Regulations 1988.
The rules in this regard are provided in the Guidance Notes made available to the candidates along with the examination forms and hosted onhttp://icaiexam.icai.org. The related FAQs are also hosted on www.icai.org.
However, in spite of the information already made available, it is seen that some of the candidates carry a mistaken notion that they enjoy an exemption in a paper(s) whereas in reality they do not and end up absenting themselves in the said paper, resulting in avoidable hardships.
To avoid this kind of situation, exemption(s) granted in a paper(s) which are valid for May, 2015 examination are hosted on http://exemptions.icaiexam.icai.org, so that candidates can check their exemption status before the exams and take necessary action.
Date of hosting the exemption data: 16th April, 2015
Last date for emailing discrepancy, if any: 26th April, 2015
Hence, candidates are advised to check the details more particularly, the month and year of exam and roll number indicated on the said site, with those contained on the relevant Statement of marks issued to them. Exemptions granted in a paper(s) are indicated by way of “#” against the marks awarded thereon and the Result of the relevant Group is indicated as “F-EX”, in the Statement of Marks.
In case of discrepancy, if any, candidates are advised to write to Exam Dept. immediately, in any case not later than 26th April, 2015, at the e-mail address provided herein below, enclosing scanned copy of the relevant mark sheet in which exemption was granted.
Final candidates: final.exemption@icai.in
Intermediate (IPC) candidates: inter.exemption@icai.in
Exam Dept. will respond, within 7 days of the receipt of the e-mail. In case you do not receive any response within 7 days, write to:
Final candidates: final2@icai.in
Intermediate (IPC) candidates: inter7@icai.in
Sunday, 8 February 2015
23 Amazing Facts About The Indian Railways You Never Knew
to a different space. Indian Railways – the World’s third largest Railway Network encompasses a host of facts that most of us are not aware of.
1. Indian Railway is constructing the highest rail bridge over Chenab, in J&K
Five times the height of Qutub Minar, it will be taller than the Eiffel Tower.
highestbridges
2. Loco-pilots (train drivers) are paid more than an average software engineer
Salaries are the tune of Rs. 1 Lakh per month and more.
The Hindu
3. No loco-pilot has abandoned the train even in the face of certain death
AP
4. The Indian Railways website gets close to 12 Lakh hits per minute
Hourly traffic on IRTC.com is more than annual traffic of some of the most popular Indian websites. It can support almost 5 million threads at one time. But, we’ve got more people than that.
Hence the never ending trolls.
nextbigwhat
5. The slowest train goes uphill at the speed of 10 kilometers per hour
You can jump off the train, light up a smoke, take few drags and climb on the train again. It’s the Mettupalayam Ooty Nilgiri Passenger train.
6. If the tracks of Indian railways were to be laid out, they would circle the earth almost 1.5 times
7. The trains got toilets after Indian Railways completed about 50 years!
Back then, passengers had to wait till the next station to answer the call of nature!
Thank Okhil Chandra for making Indian Railways do the needful. He wrote the following letter to Indian Railways and finally, there were toilets in 1909!
8. Back in the old days, elephants were used to position the cartridges
9. Its 161 years old!
16th April, 1853. That’s a long time ago.
10. The station with the longest name isVenkatanarasimharajuvaripeta
And it’s sometimes spelled with ‘Sri’ prefixed. Quite a mouthful.
11. Most unreliable train in Indian Railways is Guwahati-Trivandrum Express
It is late on an average by ten to twelve hours. Gosh!
12. The longest tunnel in the country is 11.215 kilometers long!
It is the Pir Panjal Railway tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir.
13. The station with the smallest name is called ‘IB ’: It’s in Odisha
14. Before installing Automatic Point System was installed, hundreds of guards lost their hands and fingers trying to fix it manually. Every time a train got delayed and we complained, an Indian Railways employee probably lost his limbs for us
Wikimedia
15. The longest running train covers a distance of 4273 km between Dibrugarh and Kanyakumari: It’s called the Vivek Express
16. The shortest distance covered between two successive stations is 3 kilometers
It’s between the Nagpur and Ajni station.
17. A train covers a distance of 528 km without a single stop
It’s Trivandrum – H. Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express.
18. Lucknow is the busiest junction in the nation: 64 trains come in and move out, every day
19. A massively successful organization – running 11,000 trains in a day is no joke!
20. Indian Railways transports almost 2.5 crore passengers daily
That’s nearly the total population of New Zealand, Australia and Tasmania put together!
21. The Rail Museum in Delhi is the largest in Asia
It has working and non-working models both.
Wikipedia
22. The railway station of Navapur is built in two states; half in Maharashtra and the rest is in Gujarat
23. Indian Railways has a mascot – Bholu, the Guard Elephant
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
The body language that's making you unemployable
How to repel interviewers with non-verbal cues.
Why have you been to multiple job interviews and had no job offers? Why do your interviewers look at you as if you're Nigel Farage? Why do they stare out the window while you explain your motivation for working there?
If you’re interviewing for a job in an investment bank, your lack of success may be because banks are conducting purely ‘informational interviews’ - namely interviews with the sole intention of extracting market intelligence from unsuspecting candidates. Then again, it may also be because your body language during job interviews is a big turn-off.
Why is body language so important to interview success? A seminal study on ‘non-verbal cues in the employment interview’ published in the Journal of Applied Psychology 30 years ago, found that interviewers see motivation, social skills and ‘hireability’ as highly correlated. Motivation can be difficult to prove: interviewers are reliant upon candidates’ own claims about their level enthusiasm. However, social skills can be judged objectively – through body language. Body language therefore becomes thekey component of hireability.
In other words, if you get your body language wrong, you will be viewed as both socially inept and a bad hire . If you want to avoid this and to get your interview body language right, this is what you should not do.
You are slouching or assuming other powerless poses before the interview
It’s a cliché to say that first impressions count. It’s also true. ‘Confirmatory bias’ occurs when an individual decides that something is true and then actively seeks evidence to affirm this decision whilst discounting evidence disproving it. Confirmatory bias has been shown to be an issue in employment interview situations. “Most hiring decisions are made within the first ten seconds of an interview,” says Patti Wood, a US body language guru and author of numerous body language books.
Fortunately, there are things you can do to increase the chance that your interviewer’s first impression is favourable.
A study by Harvard Business School found that candidates make better impressions in interviews if they spend two minutes before the event in a ‘high power pose.’ This kind of pose can involve one of two things: standing, feet apart, with your hands on your hips; or sitting on a chair with your hands behind your head and your feet up on the table. In a test involving 66 Columbia University students, those adopting such high power poses prior to their interview were deemed significantly more hireable. The researchers postulated that this was because high power poses actually produce the impression of power – they increase testosterone and they reduce stress, anxiety and production of the stress hormone cortisol. Power-posers seem more calm and collected in a subsequent interview situations as a result.
To turbo-charge your power pose, Harvard’s researchers also suggest that whilst posing you should be scanning photographs of faces on a computer: this will help activate the ‘social component of power’ and enhance the pose’s efficacy.
Conversely, you should not spend time before the interview in a ‘low power’ position. For example, don’t sit with your hands or feet crossed. This kind of submissive pre-interview stance will erode your attempt to project confidence in the interview. For this same reason, you should not spend your pre-interview time checking your mobile phone: you will hunch over and assume an involuntary pose of powerlessness. “It’s sounds like a small thing, but don’t get out your smart phone while you’re waiting for the interview,” says Wood. “It looks bad: your body bends over and you’re looking down. Little changes like that can have a big impact.”
You are misjudging the preliminary handshake
Shaking hands in an interview situation is fraught with danger. Wood points out that handshakes must be culturally aligned: Asians expect soft shakes, Westerners expect hard ones. Russian women have notoriously limp shakes. Get the shake wrong and you could cause offence: “A soft handshake conveys trust in Asia,” says Wood, “an initial hard handshake with an Asian can really affect the job interview.”
You are failing to make enough physical contact
Although handshakes are fraught with peril, the more you shake hands with and come into physical contact with your interviewer, the greater your chance of interview success.
“Physical touch is a very important piece to the interview,” says Wood. “A handshake has been shown to be equivalent to three hours of face to face verbal interaction in establishing rapport. If you shake your interviewer’s hand, it will immediately make you feel more comfortable and more likable. This is very beneficial in an interview situation.”
Wood advocates multiple handshakes, especially in the interview’s ‘exit phase.’ Try shaking hands as you stand up from the table. Do it again as you go out through the door.
You are avoiding eye contact with the interviewer
Making eye contact with the interviewer is also a good way of increasing your likelihood of success.Various studies of interviewee body language have shown that candidates who engage in eye contact are deemed more alert and assertive, more dependable, more confident, more responsible, and more creative.
You don’t need to maintain eye contact with your interviewer while you’re answering their questions. But Wood says you do need to be looking them in the eye when they’re talking. “It’s about being present and connected to the interviewer,” she says. “There’s research showing that the amount of eye contact an interviewee made with the interviewer while questions were being asked is a key determinant of success.”
You are copying your interviewer when he folds his arms and crosses his legs
In theory, it’s a good idea to ‘mirror’ or mimic the body language of your interviewer. Mirroring is supposed to make people warm to you. “If you are mimicking your interviewer’s posture it’s no bad thing,” says Adrian Furnham, a professor of psychology at University College London.
Wood says mirroring is helpful for establishing rapport at the start of an interview. Too much emphasis on mirroring may be detrimental, however: a recent study found that candidates whose body language mirrored that of an unfriendly interviewer were seen as less competent.
You are forgetting to smile
Smiling and head movement are proven determinants of interview success. However, fake smiling will work against you, particularly if you are a woman and your fake smiles are concocted to mask negative emotion.
Monday, 2 February 2015
Exam Form for IPCC & CA Final May 15 Exams
The Exam Form for IPCC & CA Final May 15 Exams have been released today by ICAI. The last date for submitting the Exam Form is 24th Feb 2015.
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
17 Scientifically Proven Reasons Why Indian Women Live Much Longer Than Men
According to a report by WHO in 2009, women in India live much longer than men. It is also scientifically proven that women outlive men because of their lifestyle habits and behaviors. But some scientists around the world also argued that life-expectancy in women doesn’t have to do with lifestyle, as it all lies in genes.
So, why do women actually live longer than men? When scientists keep arguing about the possibilities, the internet has easily found out the possible reasons with definitive proofs. Here they are…
1. Because women would never climb the electric post and fix wires with bare hands like this…
2. Because being an electrician is really tough, and only a few of them can handle their job like this…
3. This guy who discovered a way to dry clothes faster.
imgur
4. Now, this is called heights of stupidity. This guy jumps into tiger enclosure, scares off the animal, and does yoga like an idiot.
Cover Asia Press via Youtube
5. It’s too hot out here! A simple example of how Indian jugaads fix everyday’s problems easily.
Via facebook
6. And this dude. Like a boss.
7. Just one ‘wrong step’ away from landing with broken legs.
8. These two dudes are not at all afraid of heights.
9. Now, will you please stop complaining about how tough your job is?
Youtube
10. Young artists risking their life to paint the most awesome art ever.
11. That train stunt by Salman Khan in KICK is too fake. See, how this old man does…
12. And here is the most idiotic stunt in the history of stunts.
13. The guy on the right has some BALLS. 
blogspot via coolpictures.in
14. Because that day these guys couldn’t find any long ladder.
Via lolindian
15. Caution: This stunt is performed by experts. Never try it yourself.
16. ‘Living life dangerously’
17. And The Darwin Award goes to this guy, for dousing off the electrical fire with water.
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