Email forwards...nice management stories:(a) A story from Buddha’s life… Once Buddha was walking from one town to another town with a few of his followers. This was in the initial days. While they were travelling, they happened to pass a lake. They stopped there and Buddha told one of his disciples, “I am thirsty. Do get me some water from that lake there.” The disciple walked up to the lake. When he reached it, he noticed that some people were washing clothes in the water, and right at that moment,...
Basics of Stock Market - 7
Let us now start analyzing a scrip's fundamental. Today being Vijayadhasami day and normally every hindu will start learning today, I thought of posting today. It will be a short posting.There are certain key indicators that are used by investors to see whether it is worth investing in that scrip. They are:(a) ProfitabilityFirst of all we need to see whether the company is a profit making one or a loss making one. If it is loss making, no one would be interested in the company, unless you see...
ICWAI - Name change, impact of IFRS, Mandatory Training & CAS
Name change===========September 11 may be a worst day for the world and especially US. But, for ICWAI, Sep 11 was a great day..YES...Cost accounting body ICWAI will soon be known as Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of India (ICMAI) with the government agreeing for a change of name of the body."The request for name change to Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of India has been accepted in principle ... It will require amendment in the ICWAI Act. We are working on it ... Hopefully...
Basics of Stock Market - 6
Now let us go into the market!The market can be classified into 2 categories - Primary & Secondary.Primary market is the market where the new securities are issued. IPO, Rights, FPO, Private Placements are primary marketSecondary market is the market where the shares are traded on a daily basis, after they are issued in the Primary market. When we talk about buying and selling of scrips, it is in the secondary market.DepositoryA depository is like a bank, wherein the deposits are securities...
Weekly Digest - 27 Sep 09
Friends,I need to thank you for all your support and feedback, without which I would not have taken so much enthusiasm in blogging. It is all because of you, the ranking has gone up from 49 to 73! Normally in any ranking, lower the better. But in Indiblogger.in's IndiRank...it is higher the better. We have suggested to change the name to IndiScore, so that people can understand it better.I got feedback from many saying that a weekly or fortnightly digest of all that happens around the world in the...
Basics of Stock Market - 5
Okay. Having seen what is a Share, Share Market, SEBI etc., let us get little deeper into the Stock Market fundamentals. Before that let us see some important terminologies that are used more frequently.The securities market essentially has three categories of participants, namely, the issuers of securities (The companies, for example L&T ) the investors in securities (Individuals, Foreign Financial Institutions (FII), Domestic Financial Institutions (like LIC)the intermediaries, such as merchant...
Basics of Stock Market - 4
Let us see how the shares are issued and at what price.At what price a Share is issued?Every share will have a Face Value (FV). Normally it will be Rs.10. Now every company decides their own (Rs.5, Rs.2, Re.1, Rs.100). For example, if the Share Capital of a company is Rs.100,00,000, it will be either10,00,000 shares of Rs.10 each100,00,000 shares of Re.1 each20,00,000 shares of Rs.5 eachSo the face value will decide how many number of shares to be issued for a given share capital.If a Share is issued...
Pranams to the teachers !
Today being the Teachers' Day, let us salute the teachers, who helped us to grow to this level and and wish them very good health and prosperity.
My sweet memories on the School, the teachers Ms.Joseph, Ms.Radha, and them to the High School - RR- Rajagopalan, Rangarajan (Tamizh) B.Radhakrishnan, PTG, TKG, KTG, Kannan (maths), Basheer (maths), KND (Desikachar), KDR (K.Dharmaraj, Accounts), SRK (Economics), Janakiraman (Navy), Madhavan (Commerce), VPKrishnamurthy, Mani (Crafts), AV (Sanskrit) and...
Andhra Pradesh CM, Shr.YSR Reddy is dead
Today all the news channels finally confirmed that Shri.YSR Reddy, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh is dead in the helicopter crash. It is so sad. I can see lot of people sympathizing for YSR ( as he is called popularly).
What I could see among those in the office cafeteria , who were watching the news, said that he is a very good person. Of late very few Indian politician got this praise from educated lot. He was not looking as he is 60. I was told that he is very down to earth person and...
Basics of Stock Market - 3
Let us see what is a Stock MarketIt is an organised market where the listed shares are traded. This place enables to buy or sell the shares they hold in a Company. Again only the shares of the Company, which was allowed to trade in the particular stock can be dealt with.What is a Stock Exchange?Stock Exchange’ is any body of individuals, whether incorporated or not, constituted for the purpose of assisting, regulating or controlling the business of buying, selling or dealing in securities. A Stock...
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The only thing that is constant is Change. So, with the growing need and to look better, I tried to change the layout and contents of the blog. Would like to add some more features like Email etc., with my very little technical knowledge.
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