Enron, Satyam and wake-up call for audit professionals

Over the last couple of decades, a few incidents have acted as big blows to the profession of audit. The jolts include the dissolution in 2001 of Arthur Andersen, which was one of the big five global accounting firms at that time, and recently-declared two years of ban on audits...

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Massive cabinet restructuring aims at 'strengthening' Chinese govt. roles in 'economic management'

China's national legislature adopted a massive cabinet restructuring plan last Saturday to make the government better-structured, more efficient and service-oriented.Approved at a plenary meeting of the first session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC), the plan will create an immigration administration, an agency to coordinate foreign aid, a combined...

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Tourism sector posting steady growth

The tourism sector of Bangladesh is set to stage a comeback defying security concern of some of the western countries. Threats were issued to the citizens of a number of countries so that they cannot tour Bangladesh in the wake of Holey Artisan Bakery attack in Dhaka on July 1,...

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