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The Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICAI) is a statutory body set up under an Act of Parliament in the year 1959. The Institute as a part of its obligation regulates the profession of Cost and Management Accountancy. The Institute also pursues the vision of cost competitiveness, cost management, efficient use of resources and structured approach to cost accounting as the key drivers of the profession.

The Institute is also successfully publishing its pioneering Journal, ‘The Management Accountant’ since 1966. This Journal is being published keeping in mind the needs of the Cost and Management Accountants (CMA), and provides wide knowledge on the recent developments and changes in the global and national financial scenarios. The wide circulation and inputs from academicians, researchers and industry stalwarts are the keys to the success of this journal.

FIELD EXPERIMENTS AND CUSTOMIZABLE DEVELOPMENT POLICIES:THE NOBEL PRIZE IN 2019

Recently, Prof. Esther Duflo was invited to the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, a premier social science research institute with strong international repute, to deliver the R. C. Dutt Lectures in Economics.

10+ mins

A STUDY ON AWARENESS WHILE INVESTING IN REAL ESTATE AND GOLD

There are various avenues for investment ranging from risk – less to high – risk. One of the renowned option as investment is real estate sector. In India, real estate holds key position in providing business and employment opportunities. The intention of this paper is the integral parts of real estate investments. Further, this paper focuses on the various real estate laws in India. The study also focuses on the comparison between investment in real estate and gold. This study suggested precautions to be taken while investing in real estate and investment in gold.

8 mins

IS CONSIDERATION OF GLOBAL REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT RISKS WORTH?

Real estate investment acts as a collateral security and facilitates easy access to credit. Cross-border real estate investment has also been on the increase, investors are considering real estate as a global asset class. But there is huge uncertainty in the returns as high risk is associated with investment. To capture different levels of market risk, it is necessary to identify and measure the factors leading to this uncertainty, such as country risk, structural risk etc. this paper simply puts the focus on various global real estate investment risk associated while considering it as an investment option.

6 mins

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION – STARTUP ECOSYSTEM AND PEOPLE CENTRIC SOLUTION DESIGNING

Indian startup ecosystem has presented so far twenty-seven Unicorns.

4 mins

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The Management Accountant Magazine Description:

The Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICAI) is a statutory body set up under an Act of Parliament in the year 1959. The Institute as a part of its obligation regulates the profession of Cost and Management Accountancy. The Institute also pursues the vision of cost competitiveness, cost management, efficient use of resources and structured approach to cost accounting as the key drivers of the profession.

The Institute is also successfully publishing its pioneering Journal, ‘The Management Accountant’ since 1966. This Journal is being published keeping in mind the needs of the Cost and Management Accountants (CMA), and provides wide knowledge on the recent developments and changes in the global and national financial scenarios. The wide circulation and inputs from academicians, researchers and industry stalwarts are the keys to the success of this journal.