Accountancy
An amalgam of laws
Akshey Kumar examines some of the questions in the December 1999 CS (Intermediate, Group I) paper on personnel management and industrial laws

An overdose of theory
P. V. Ratnam examines the December 1999 CS (Intermediate) paper on cost and management accounting

A fair share for all topics
S. Prasanna Venkatesh analyses some of the questions in the December 1999 CS (Final) CLP-I and CLP-II papers

A query in every quarter
V. K. Subramani looks at Part A of the December 1999 CS (Intermediate) paper on tax laws

Book Review
Suddenly last summer
ON reading the story like review report on the last year's Kargil war by the Subramaniam committee titled Surprise to Reckoning, the black humoured wit about the surprise element in relationship between Israel and Palestine, the arch rivals of the Middle East springs to mind. A scorpion wanted to cross a river, but could not swim. So he asked a frog to ferry him across on his back. ``Certainly not,'' said the frog, ``If I take you on my back, you'll sting me''. ``No I won't,'' said the scorpion, because if I do we'll both drown.'' The frog saw the logic in this, so he let the scorpion hop on. Half way across, he felt a terrible pain. The scorpion had stung him. As the two of them were sinking, the frog asked the scorpion, ``Why on earth did you do this ?'' Replied the drowning scorpion, ``Because, this is the Middle East.'' Substitute Kashmir for Middle East to map the joke to our neighbourhood.

The Balanced Scorecard
Translating Strategy into Action by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton

Ensuring a fair deal
Fair Trade in Cultural Products by Mary Ann Littrell & Marsha Ann Dickson

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