Fair Value Accounting in IFRS

To what extent fair value accounting holds good for valuation in IFRS

Significant percentage of the balance sheet would be at Fair Value compared to current practice of carrying at historical cost under IFRS.

Use of Fair value:

At present Fair Value is limited to impairment of assets, measurement of retirement benefits and More >

As the holiday season sets in markets seem to be mostly listless with a slight bullish bias for the USD. The dollar is at its year high. However, while the bullish dollar has had a strong impact on almost all the majors with Euro shedding around 400 pips and currently More >

Inflation After Effects

India’s WPI inflation rose by 4.78% y-o-y in November compared to1.34% in October. 4.20%. It was more than the Bloomberg consensus street expectations of around 4.2%. This was mainly on account of higher manufactured product prices which has a weight of around 63% on the index. This I believe is More >

Indian Equity Markets – Is it a bull rally?

In one of my earlier posts titled “Sell equity and Base Metals” I had said that Euro is reaching a crucial level of around 1.5 and is expected to correct from here, leading to a correction in Gold prices, Crude, other metallic commodities and equities.

What has happened that the More >

Currency Outlook – Fortnightly Currency Review November

Standing on the fence, waiting for clear signals

Markets remained in consolidation mode for major part of November. The Sensex and the Nifty are hovering around the October 2009 levels. We expect the sentiment to continue well into the closing year. While every good US data is now being viewed as More >

IIP Data: October 2009 -Index for Industrial production

The IIP figure for October stood at 10.3%, disappointing everybody since the expected figure was hovering around 12%.The same index registered a growth of -0.4% y-o-y in Oct’08 whereas a growth of 9.6% (revised) y-o-y in the last month

The figure was below the market expectations, leading to a fall of More >

Accounting and Business are Interrelated in IFRS

There is a feeling that IFRS – rather than business strategy – might actually be driving changes to corporate behavior. In some cases, it may help companies do things better – such as revisit their derivatives strategies – in other cases, it could be changing the way companies work just More >

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Initiating Coverage with BUY: Joining the Economic Recovery

Economy swings back on the recovery path: The Indian economy grew 7.9 per cent during the July-September period — its strongest in six quarters. The growth achieved beat most forecasts and prompted experts to revise their full-year growth projections. This will certainly lead to More >

Indian Economy – Review and Analysis, November 2009

First of all sorry for the delay in posting October’s monthly economic review. This is the third review in the “Economic review and analysis” series bought to you by MoneyBol every month. Hope this is useful to you.

SENSEX

After massive fall witnessed during October, equity markets paired the gains during first More >

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