Advertise your services, dear CA friends!

When it comes to choosing a career, doctors and lawyer may rank better than a CA.
But, ICAI, has been constantly working on better recognition for the Chartered Accountants and so is the ICWAI for the Cost Accountants.
In a recent development, CAs are allowed to advertise their services. This is ahead of of their doctors and lawyer counterparts!

So now, here is a sample advertisement:

Escape from all taxes!
Call XYZ and Company
Experts in arriving at NIL Income Tax

This is going to be ahhh!
But I feel, more than advertising their services, the CAs need to advertise why Chartered Accountancy is a good career to choose, for the benefit of the IT crazy younger generation.
Perhaps the younger generation needs to know that at the end of any business or career, the money earned is to be managed well, the financial plans need to be drawn for the progress of the company and a good management information system (MIS) should be in place to monitor growth and ring the bells when needed!
ICAI gives an overview here.

M. J. Akbar's Covert is out!

Politics has never been my favourite subject for discussion, neither in college, nor now.
But I keenly follow current affairs that affect our daily life and in general, the public.
And when the news is about writings and authors, I follow with more interest.
The recent news which caught up my attention is the launch of veteran journalist M. J. Akbar's new political magazine - Covert.

What's more interesting is that the online edition of the magazine is also up!
Akbar knows the media as well as the medium to launch his new effort, though his blog is written by a 'Power of Attorney holder'!

By the way, Mr. Akbar, the 'About us' page link of Covert is blank!

Roadside cement factory!

Suddenly, our colony footpaths, which are reasonably well maintained, started looking bad in the eyes of the city fathers!
The bordering slabs were dug out and laid again. For reasons best known to the Corporation!
In the process a few slabs were broken and new slabs needed to be put up in their place.
On a quiet night, a truckload of stones and sand arrived in front of our home. A week later a few workers came early morning and started 'producing' the slabs on the spot.
The frontage and side spaces of a huge vacant house, located in a corner of the main road and a cross road became the production area.
A scene of the work spot!
Our colony gets a face lift!