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October 29, 2026

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Risk-Based Internal Audit: Building an Audit Plan That Boards Actually Use

Many internal audit plans look the same every year: the same processes, audited in the same order, with the same number of days each. Boards receive long reports on petty cash and travel claims while the risks that actually keep directors awake, such as a new market, a major IT migration, a key supplier’s […]

October 28, 2026

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Sales Tax Registration in the US: State-by-State Basics for New Businesses

The United States has no national sales tax. Instead, most states, and many cities and counties within them, impose their own, each with its own registration process, rates, rules and filing calendar. For a new business, the first question is not “what is the rate?” but “where do I need to register, and when?” This […]

Oct

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Forensic Accounting in Shareholder Disputes and NCLT Matters

Shareholder disputes in closely held Indian companies often begin with a suspicion: a co-founder is drawing money through a related company, minority shareholders are being diluted, profits are vanishing into “consultancy fees,” or a family business is being run as one branch’s private account. When the dispute reaches the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), suspicion […]

Oct

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Monthly Bookkeeping Checklist for US Small Businesses

Most small business owners only think about their books when tax season arrives or when a lender asks for financial statements. By then, months of uncategorized transactions, missing receipts and unreconciled accounts have piled up, and cleaning them up costs far more time than keeping them current would have. A short, repeatable month-end routine prevents […]

Oct

Corporate & Regulatory Compliance

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Independent Directors: Appointment Process and IICA Databank Requirements

Independent directors bring objective oversight to a board: they chair or sit on audit and nomination committees, challenge management, and protect the interests of minority shareholders. Under the Companies Act, 2013, many public companies must appoint them, and every person appointed must first be registered in the Independent Director’s Databank maintained by the Indian Institute […]

Oct

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How to Get an EIN for a Foreign-Owned US LLC

Forming a US LLC from India, the UK or anywhere else is straightforward: file articles of organization with a state, appoint a registered agent, and the company exists. The next step trips up many foreign founders. To open a US bank account, use payment processors, hire, or file any tax return, the LLC needs an […]

Oct

Audit & Assurance

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Statutory Audit Timeline: What Happens Month by Month

Most companies think of the statutory audit as something that happens in May and June. In practice, a smooth audit is the result of work spread across the whole year: planning before the year starts, interim checks mid-year, a clean year-end close, and a tight sequence of Board approval, AGM and MCA filings after it. […]

Oct

DPDP & Data Privacy

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DPDP Act for HR Teams: Handling Employee Data Lawfully

HR teams hold some of the most sensitive personal data in any organisation: identity documents, bank details, salary, health insurance information, performance reviews, disciplinary records and background check reports. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act) and the DPDP Rules, 2025 apply to all of it, from the first job application to records […]

Oct

US Tax & Accounting

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Trust Tax Returns (Form 1041): Who Must File and When

When someone creates a trust or passes away leaving an estate, a separate taxpayer often comes into existence. That trust or estate can earn interest, dividends, rent or capital gains, and the person managing it, the fiduciary, may need to file its own federal income tax return: Form 1041. Many trustees and executors are unsure […]

Oct

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Audit Outsourcing for CA Firms: How to Scale Without Hiring

For most CA firms, audit work does not arrive evenly. Statutory audits, tax audits, CARO reporting and bank or group reporting deadlines bunch into the same few months, and the firm has to staff for that peak. Hiring permanent articles and qualified assistants for the busiest months leaves them underused for the rest of the […]

US Tax & Accounting Services

Risk-Based Internal Audit: Building an Audit Plan That Boards Actually Use

Sales Tax Registration in the US: State-by-State Basics for New Businesses

Forensic Accounting in Shareholder Disputes and NCLT Matters

Monthly Bookkeeping Checklist for US Small Businesses

Independent Directors: Appointment Process and IICA Databank Requirements

How to Get an EIN for a Foreign-Owned US LLC

Statutory Audit Timeline: What Happens Month by Month

DPDP Act for HR Teams: Handling Employee Data Lawfully

Trust Tax Returns (Form 1041): Who Must File and When

Audit Outsourcing for CA Firms: How to Scale Without Hiring

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