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INTERNAL AUDIT

  WHAT IS INTERNAL AUDIT? Internal audit is an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value to and improve an organization’s operations. The role of this audit is to provide independent assurance that an organisation’s risk management, governance and internal control processes are operating effectively. An internal audit may be used to assess an organization’s performance or the execution of a process against a number of standards, policies, metrics, or regulations. Internal audits  may include examining a business’s internal controls around corporate governance, accounting, financial reporting, and IT general controls. Auditors may cover all areas of an organization or specialize based on their skill-sets. In simple words we can say Internal audits evaluate a company’s internal controls. WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF INTERNAL AUDITS? Some types are: Compliance Audit IT Audit Operation Audit Performance Audit This allows the company’s Board and manage...

INTERNAL AUDIT

  WHAT IS INTERNAL AUDIT? Internal audit is an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value to and improve an organization’s operations. The role of this audit is to provide independent assurance that an organisation’s risk management, governance and internal control processes are operating effectively. An internal audit may be used to assess an organization’s performance or the execution of a process against a number of standards, policies, metrics, or regulations. Internal audits  may include examining a business’s internal controls around corporate governance, accounting, financial reporting, and IT general controls. Auditors may cover all areas of an organization or specialize based on their skill-sets. In simple words we can say Internal audits evaluate a company’s internal controls. WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF INTERNAL AUDITS? Some types are: Compliance Audit IT Audit Operation Audit Performance Audit This allows the company’s Board and manag...

INTERNAL AUDIT

  WHAT IS INTERNAL AUDIT? Internal audit is an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value to and improve an organization’s operations. The role of this audit is to provide independent assurance that an organisation’s risk management, governance and internal control processes are operating effectively. An internal audit may be used to assess an organization’s performance or the execution of a process against a number of standards, policies, metrics, or regulations. Internal audits  may include examining a business’s internal controls around corporate governance, accounting, financial reporting, and IT general controls. Auditors may cover all areas of an organization or specialize based on their skill-sets. In simple words we can say Internal audits evaluate a company’s internal controls. WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF INTERNAL AUDITS? Some types are: Compliance Audit IT Audit Operation Audit Performance Audit This allows the company’s Board and manage...

RELEASING INVENTORY STUCK UP IN GIT TO STORES SHELF

  The need of situation A reputed brand of Apparels once asked us to analyze and provide solution to cut down its lead time and reduce the size of its GIT at any given point of time as it was eating into its shelf availability of merchandise at front end Stores. The challenge we faced The Client was having a vast supply chain network having 6 warehouses, 126 stores, 35 Consignment Selling Agents, 430 EBOs and 500 MBOs leading to inventory turnover of around 40 lakhs in quantity, out of that around 20% were in GIT. The solution we offered VGNC gracefully accepted the task. We analyzed and mapped the entire movement cycle of inventory from the requisition of stock at receiving location, till its replenishment from warehouse or other stores. Updating of stock in system was consuming huge lead time on account of various technical and human snags. We streamlined the operations and optimized  the lead time and provided solution of better order management and replenishment system. Th...

TURNING A DUMPED WAREHOUSE INTO ACTION

  The need of situation A reputed brand in retail asked us to streamline one of its inefficient warehouse of one lac square feet dumped with 20 lacs of slow moving inventory consuming huge warehouse space hardly supplying merchandise as retrieval of desired inventory from dump of stock was next to impossible. The unusual high level of inventory was recent closure of  other warehouses the stock from them being displaced and dumped to above warehouse put up for our task.  The challenge we faced The inventory at that warehouse was really a dump as all the stock with minor major repair requirements were being dispatched from all stores to that warehouse facility, apart from fresh stock which was also mixed up. Stocking and staking was in too bad a condition. Segregating and disposing off this huge inventory was an arduous task, which nobody was willing to undertake. The solution we offered Task which nobody is ready to undertake, VGNC gracefully accepts as its coveted job to ...

NEW FINANCE PANEL AND A TASK FORCE: WHAT CAN BE EXPECTED FROM NEW TAX LAWS

  The cabinet approved the constitution of the fifteenth finance commission. The fifteenth finance commission will determine the devolution formula for the revenue sharing between Centre and state (from 2020 to 2025). It will also have its task cut with the new tax system. The panel will have to deal with significant changes in the taxation framework, such as GST before making recommendations. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced that the cabinet had given an in-principle approval to form the commission and negotiate its terms of reference.The commission, whose members and terms of reference will be notified after finalisation, will make crucial recommendations which will be more in tune with India’s economic needs. The recommendations made by Fourteenth Finance Commission were accepted by the Government. These recommendations will be brought into effect until March 31, 2020. As per the recommendation, the states’ share of the central pool of taxes was increased from 32% to 42%....

UNION BUDGET 2018: EXPERT ANALYSIS BY VGNC

  Vipin Garg gives a crisp analysis of union Budget 2018; discusses positives and negatives and explains why he feels the Budget will thrust the world’s largest democracy ahead on its agenda of growth. Amidst the usual speculation of budgetary reforms, the expectation of common people and the world at large looking forward to the budget of one of the fastest growing economy, the finance minister presented the Union Budget 2018. Abstaining from all the temptation to make union budget a mirror of recent USA tax reforms, the Finance Minister presented a budget that was more focused on promoting the aspirations of New and Growing India and consolidate gains. “The highlight of Union Budget 2018 being the rural economy, agriculture, healthcare, infrastructure and MSMEs was not a surprise at all. It was evident that the finance minister will aim for bullseye by laying a robust foundation for growing economy to stand on and push the economy ahead.” – Vipin Garg The budget brings transforma...

FINANCE IN DIGITAL WORLD: VGNC PERSPECTIVE

  The finance sector has started to shift in the dramatic and dynamic waywith the launch of ‘Digital India’ Initiative of the Government. The situation, however, is a little bit confusing as thedigitization is sudden yet profound. “India is stepping into the future of finance along with the world. And the future is – digital. We need to keep up with it.” – VGNC team It may seem futuristic but at the threshold of the whole process – alignment is missing in reality and conception. The finance leaders and experts across the world are redefining the traditional structure and are slowly adopting the existing technologies of modern times. Business advisories are experimenting with exponential technologies to keep up with the digital dexterity. We, at VGNC, have identified key trends to assist our client to transcend into the digital world and to define the future of finance. For easier and smoother adoption of technologies, it is important to contextualize the whole discussion about digi...