Crude oil futures rose Rs 24 to Rs 4,066 per barrel today as speculators raised bets amid a firm trend overseas. At the Multi Commodity Exchange, crude oil for delivery in February was up Rs 24, or 0.59 per cent, at Rs 4,066 per barrel, with a business …
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“These accountants engaged in shocking misconduct – literally stealing the exam – in an effort to interfere with the PCAOB's ability to detect audit deficiencies at KPMG,” said Steven Peikin, co-director of the SEC's enforcement division. The government charged that the PCAOB and KPMG employees
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Could a central bank solve cryptocurrency woes by issuing a “safe” version of its own? Not so fast, says Bengt Holmstrom, a 2016 recipient of the Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Speaking at a seminar in Helsinki on Monday, Holmstrom said the very safety promised by a
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The study, by Rahul Vashishtha and Mohan Venkatachalam of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and Arthur G. Kraft of the Cass Business School of City University London, is set to appear in an upcoming issue of The Accounting Review, published by the American Accounting Association.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday indicated that the upcoming Budget will not be a populist one and said it's a myth that the common man expects “freebies and sops” from the government.
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