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Performance Prism is one of the development in management accounting put forth by Cranfield University. The theory is performance of an organisation depends on how effectively it meets the needs and requirements of all its stakeholders.

The five facets of the Performance Prism:

1. Stakeholder Satisfaction
2. Stakeholder Contribution
3. Strategies
4. Processes
5. Capabilities

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Approach: Starting with Stakeholders, not with Strategy. Five key questions for measurement design:

1. Stakeholder Satisfaction – who are the key stakeholders and what do they want and need?
2. Strategies – what strategies do we have to put in place to satisfy the wants and needs of these key stakeholders?
3. Processes – what critical processes do we require if we are to execute these strategies?
4. Capabilities – what capabilities do we need to operate and enhance these processes?
5. Stakeholder Contribution – what contributions do we require from our stakeholders if we are to maintain and develop these capabilities?

Once the answers to the above questions have been dealt, Performance Prism can use the results to identify performance measures which will enable the company to monitor the success of processes in place.

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Further Reading:

• PB Measurement on Value Based Management
• Bnet Business Directory
• Cranfield Research Institute

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The ICAEW has Thursday 20 November signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in India (ICAI) which will establish closer working relations between the two bodies as well as new recognition arrangements for members.

CA. Ved Jain, President ICAI in his address remarked “This is a historic and a momentous occasion for the members of the ICAI and ICAEW. These are two largest accounting bodies with membership of over 150,000 & 130,000 respectively. The two Institutes have been following highest standards of professional education, training, technical & ethical standards. At this point of time, seeing the need of the hour, we have to make our profession recognized globally. The MoU entails coming together of two largest Accounting bodies working in tandem with each other to provide a synergy. This agreement would facilitate mobility of members across the borders and further strengthen the ties between India and United Kingdom (U.K.). Our mission is to make the next decade for accounting professionals. We look forward to working closely with each other and to collaborate further in the field of research & accounting.”

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Commenting on the signing of the MoU, Michael Izza, ICAEW chief executive said:

“India has emerged as a significant player in the global economy. As a result of this agreement, members of the ICAEW will be able to work as chartered accountants within India. We also look forward to welcoming ICAI members to the ICAEW. Removing barriers for our members across markets through agreements such as this is an important part of our international strategy.”

Minimum Entry Requirements for ICAI member to join ICAEW

Members of the ICAI who have obtained membership by complying with its training and examinations requirements can become a member of the ICAEW. You must maintain ICAI membership to be eligible for ICAEW membership, and comply with our CPD obligations and Code of Ethics.

ICAI members must complete the ICAEW’s Technical Integration Business Reporting and Technical Integration Business Change papers, Case Study and Structured Training in Ethics programme.

If you have two years of appropriate work experience, you will not need to take the Technical Integration papers. Click here for details.

Route for ICAEW member to become member of ICAI

On the other hand, members of ICAEW who are trained in public practice will become eligible for ICAI membership subject to passing ICAI’s 4 no.s of examination papers for the special modules – Taxation; Law, Ethics & Communication; Information Technology & Strategic Management; and Auditing &Assurance. Click here for more details

Practice certificate

ICAEW practice certificate

Members of the ICAI who join the ICAEW will be eligible for an ICAEW practicing certificate on the same basis as ICAEW members.

General practice rights in India

Similarly, members of the ICAEW who join the ICAI will have general practice rights, excluding audit rights in India.

Professional Oversight Board

As part of the agreement, the ICAEW has also agreed to assist the ICAI in any representations made to the Professional Oversight Board to grant UK audit rights to ICAI members.

Which Qualification is Expensive ?

The entry requirement for an ICAI member to ICAEW, UK is very stringent and expensive as compared to other way round. See Applying for Credit for prior learning.

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Post qualification experience (work experience)

Your two years’ post qualification experience must be certified by your current (and if appropriate, past) employer as meeting the learning outcomes of the ICAEW’s Technical Integration Business Change and Technical Integration Business Reporting papers.

Learning outcomes

To assess this, please review the learning outcomes. If you are employed, you will need to ask your employer to review these documents before signing the declaration.

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Sole practitioners

ICAI members who are sole practitioners may self-certify that their post-qualification experience meets the aims and learning outcomes of these papers.

Cost of credit for prior learning

• If sitting the ICAEW Advanced Stage Technical Integration papers £ 840.00
• If applying for credit for ICAEW Advanced Stage Technical Integration papers £1,150.00

ICAI norms for ICAEW members entry are very easy since ICAI accepts the standards of ICAEW membership. ICAEW member has to pass 4 papers in ICAI examination. See details. Surprising ICAI has mentioned that the applicants have to register with Northern Region of ICAI instead HQ (Is ICAI process dependent or Region dependent !!!). So ICAEW members can gain the membership of ICAI quickly and start practising in India.

Setting apart the entry requirements, I feel, signing of MOU is a good sign of progress by an Indian Accounting body. The standards of ICAI are bound to improve in course of time and also other Indian institutions will follow suit in pursing an alliance or MOU or MRA with overseas bodies.

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Who benefits the most of MOU ?

The party that would be benefited the most would be the one that has a larger business interest. The top 4 accounting firms, 3 are from UK and they have a strong presence in India.

• PWC - London based
• Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu - US based
• Ernst & Young - London based
• KPMG - London based

With the MOU between the two accounting bodies, the qualifications of ICAEW members has become easily portable and partners of UK based firms in India will be on the register of ICAI. I do not feel that there are currently Indian Accounting firms in the UK and it would take years to build the presence, given the fact that Big 4 are dominating the world.

I wish good luck to members of ICAI and ICAEW to gain membership of each other accounting bodies and make the most of it.

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The ICAEW has Thursday 20 November signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in India (ICAI) which will establish closer working relations between the two bodies as well as new recognition arrangements for members.

CA. Ved Jain, President ICAI in his address remarked “This is a historic and a momentous occasion for the members of the ICAI and ICAEW. These are two largest accounting bodies with membership of over 150,000 & 130,000 respectively. The two Institutes have been following highest standards of professional education, training, technical & ethical standards. At this point of time, seeing the need of the hour, we have to make our profession recognized globally. The MoU entails coming together of two largest Accounting bodies working in tandem with each other to provide a synergy. This agreement would facilitate mobility of members across the borders and further strengthen the ties between India and United Kingdom (U.K.). Our mission is to make the next decade for accounting professionals. We look forward to working closely with each other and to collaborate further in the field of research & accounting.”

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Commenting on the signing of the MoU, Michael Izza, ICAEW chief executive said:

“India has emerged as a significant player in the global economy. As a result of this agreement, members of the ICAEW will be able to work as chartered accountants within India. We also look forward to welcoming ICAI members to the ICAEW. Removing barriers for our members across markets through agreements such as this is an important part of our international strategy.”

Minimum Entry Requirements for ICAI member to join ICAEW

Members of the ICAI who have obtained membership by complying with its training and examinations requirements can become a member of the ICAEW. You must maintain ICAI membership to be eligible for ICAEW membership, and comply with our CPD obligations and Code of Ethics.

ICAI members must complete the ICAEW’s Technical Integration Business Reporting and Technical Integration Business Change papers, Case Study and Structured Training in Ethics programme.

If you have two years of appropriate work experience, you will not need to take the Technical Integration papers. Click here for details.

Route for ICAEW member to become member of ICAI

On the other hand, members of ICAEW who are trained in public practice will become eligible for ICAI membership subject to passing ICAI’s 4 no.s of examination papers for the special modules – Taxation; Law, Ethics & Communication; Information Technology & Strategic Management; and Auditing &Assurance. Click here for more details

Practice certificate

ICAEW practice certificate

Members of the ICAI who join the ICAEW will be eligible for an ICAEW practicing certificate on the same basis as ICAEW members.

General practice rights in India

Similarly, members of the ICAEW who join the ICAI will have general practice rights, excluding audit rights in India.

Professional Oversight Board

As part of the agreement, the ICAEW has also agreed to assist the ICAI in any representations made to the Professional Oversight Board to grant UK audit rights to ICAI members.

Which Qualification is Expensive ?

The entry requirement for an ICAI member to ICAEW, UK is very stringent and expensive as compared to other way round. See Applying for Credit for prior learning.

Also read below

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Post qualification experience (work experience)

Your two years’ post qualification experience must be certified by your current (and if appropriate, past) employer as meeting the learning outcomes of the ICAEW’s Technical Integration Business Change and Technical Integration Business Reporting papers.

Learning outcomes

To assess this, please review the learning outcomes. If you are employed, you will need to ask your employer to review these documents before signing the declaration.

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Sole practitioners

ICAI members who are sole practitioners may self-certify that their post-qualification experience meets the aims and learning outcomes of these papers.

Cost of credit for prior learning

• If sitting the ICAEW Advanced Stage Technical Integration papers £ 840.00
• If applying for credit for ICAEW Advanced Stage Technical Integration papers £1,150.00

ICAI norms for ICAEW members entry are very easy since ICAI accepts the standards of ICAEW membership. ICAEW member has to pass 4 papers in ICAI examination. See details. Surprising ICAI has mentioned that the applicants have to register with Northern Region of ICAI instead HQ (Is ICAI process dependent or Region dependent !!!). So ICAEW members can gain the membership of ICAI quickly and start practising in India.

Setting apart the entry requirements, I feel, signing of MOU is a good sign of progress by an Indian Accounting body. The standards of ICAI are bound to improve in course of time and also other Indian institutions will follow suit in pursing an alliance or MOU or MRA with overseas bodies.

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Who benefits the most of MOU ?

The party that would be benefited the most would be the one that has a larger business interest. The top 4 accounting firms, 3 are from UK and they have a strong presence in India.

• PWC - London based
• Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu - US based
• Ernst & Young - London based
• KPMG - London based

With the MOU between the two accounting bodies, the qualifications of ICAEW members has become easily portable and partners of UK based firms in India will be on the register of ICAI. I do not feel that there are currently Indian Accounting firms in the UK and it would take years to build the presence, given the fact that Big 4 are dominating the world.

I wish good luck to members of ICAI and ICAEW to gain membership of each other accounting bodies and make the most of it.

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I have stopped fancying expensive mobile phones rather I look for how best I can use for communication and information while I am mobile. Yesterday, I was searching for an application which should marry VOIP and IM on my mobile, I found it Talkonaut™.

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I managed to call on google talk and results are pretty good. Download it on your mobile by visiting http://www.talkonaut.com/download.shtml .

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Talkonaut™ supports Jabber, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN, AIM and Yahoo networks both for chatting and voice calling.

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The Ministry of Company Affairs has notified the concept paper on Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) inviting public comments. The main purpose of this Concept Paper is to create a basic framework, which will facilitate the creation of a new legal entity in India viz. the limited liability partnership (”LLP”). The essential feature of an LLP is that it combines the organisational flexibility and tax status of a partnership with limited liability for its partners. An LLP is a body corporate having perpetual succession and separate legal entity.

In India, a concept paper on Limited Liability Partnership Law was brought out by the Ministry of Company Affairs in 2005. In the year 2006 the Limited Liability Partnership Bill was introduced in the Parliament. In October 2008, the said Ministry has proposed a new Limited Liability Partnership Bill 2008, which has been submitted to the Parliament for its approval.

In the United Kingdom LLPs are governed by the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000 (in England and Wales) and the Limited Liability Partnerships Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 in Northern Ireland. A UK Limited Liability Partnership is a Corporate body - that is to say, it has a continuing legal existence independent of its Members, as compared to a Partnership which may (in England and Wales they do not) have a legal existence dependent upon its Membership.

A UK LLP’s members have a collective (”Joint”) responsibility, to the extent that they may agree in an “LLP agreement”, but no individual (”several”) responsibility for each other’s actions. As with a limited company or a corporation Members in an LLP cannot, in the absence of fraud or wrongful trading, lose more than they invest.

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In the United States, each individual state has its own law governing their formation. Limited liability partnerships emerged in the early 1990s: while only two states allowed LLPs in 1992, over forty had adopted LLP statutes by the time LLPs were added to the Uniform Partnership Act in 1996.[7]

The limited liability partnership was formed in the aftermath of the collapse of real estate and energy prices in Texas in the 1980s. This collapse led to a large wave of bank and savings and loan failures. Because the amounts recoverable from the banks was small, efforts were made to recover assets from the lawyers and accountants that had advised the banks in the early-1980s. The reason was that partners in law and accounting firms were subject to the possibility of huge claims which would bankrupt them personally, and the first LLP laws were passed to shield innocent members of these partnerships from liability [8]

Although found in many business fields, the LLP is an especially popular form of organization among professionals, particularly lawyers, accountants and architects. In some U.S. states, namely California, New York, Oregon and Nevada, LLPs can only be formed for such professional uses. Formation of an LLP typically requires filing certificates with the county and state offices. Although specific rules vary from state to state, all states have passed variations of the Revised Uniform Partnership Act.

The liability of the partners varies from state to state. Section 306(c) of the Revised Uniform Partnership Act (1997)(RUPA) (a standard statute adopted by a majority of the states) grants LLPs a form of limited liability similar to that of a corporation.

3rd Meeting of Indo-UK Task Force on Corporate Governance Conclude

A two-day meeting of the Indo-UK Task Force on Corporate Governance concluded here today. The Task Force was constituted in 2006 to promote bilateral collaboration between India and UK in areas of mutual interest in corporate matters, including corporate regulation and governance. UK was represented at this 3rd meeting of the Task Force by eight- member British delegation, led by Mr Geoffrey Stanley Dart, Director, Corporate Law and Governance, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform(BERR), Government of UK; while the Indian side was led by Shri Anurag Goel, Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India.

The discussions held by the Group covered various areas including the Limited Liability Partnership Bill, Private versus Public Enforcement of Good Governance in context of Shareholder Activism; and Practical aspects of IFRS implementation. The Task Force also discussed sharing of experience on economic crises and the role of various regulatory and professional institutions in meeting emerging challenges. Specific areas of discussions also on increasing Institution-to-Institution and business-to-business contacts between entities in UK and India. UK agreed to share its experiences on functioning of insolvency practitioners, their licensing, and forming joint intelligence committees. Insolvency Practitioners Association(IPA), UK will help the Society of Insolvency Practitioners in India by hand holding, training of trainers, joint projects and sensitization of creditors.

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The Task Force also emphasized the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility , i.e. CSR, and Corporate Governance in business value creation and sustainability. It was decided to take up a joint Research Project on “CSR as a contributory factor to sound business strategy”. The research will be funded by the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs(IICA). ICSI and CASS Business School also agreed to work together on research, training and networking on CSR and corporate governance areas. ICSI would organize an international conference in UK in April 2009. Company Secretaries from India would participate and study UK systems and capacity building particularly in context of small and medium practitioners.

In addition to ICSI, ICAI, ICWAI, it was also agreed to expand regulator-to-regulator contact in field of Competition and Insolvency. IICA & NFCG would contribute as think tanks and knowledge managers in various initiatives. In pursuance of B2B contacts between the corporate of the two sides, Networking of Indian and UK firms will be facilitated for sharing of experiences, draw out best practices, improve standards, promote member to member contact.

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