Yagna Vyas

This study investigated the knowledge of external auditors about corporate governance. The study has four objectives which determine audit report, audit size, audit hours and audit feeswhich are affected by corporate governance. The study adopted a descriptive research design which assisted to examine the influence of external auditors. The sample size was 60 collected from external auditors of the companies. The nonprobability sampling method was used. The data was then well examined and checked for completeness and comprehensibility. A Likert type of scale was used to evaluate answers varying from strongly agree to strongly disagree. The data was coded and analyzed by the use of descriptive statistics using EXCEL and SPSS. The frequency test, Normality test, Chi-Square test, and Mann-Whitney test were used. In this study, there is no relationship found between the genders of respondents on knowledge of corporate governance and even there is no relationship found between the experiences of respondents on knowledge of corporate governance. Further research can be done by checking the knowledge of corporate governance between internal and external auditors, and even by collecting data from different cities or districts for more accuracy and by applying other sampling techniques.

The main aim of this study is to check an individual’s knowledge of tax planning and
management and to measure it with demographic factors. This study focuses on
professional help and advice for return filing and tax planning. Primary data has been
collected with a structured questionnaire by using Google doc. The data is collected
from 250 salaried individual assesses of Bardoli region through convenience sampling.
For statistical analysis, Chi-square test has been applied. The findings of the study show
that demographic factors of salaried people affect the knowledge of tax planning. The
analysis reveals that higher-income individuals need professionals’ help to manage their
tax, but qualified people are having sufficient knowledge for the same. The respondents
are investing and knowing 80C and 80D deductions but they are not taking education
loans and giving donations for the purpose of deduction.

The main objective of the study was to find the green banking initiatives and to know the implementation of green banking initiatives in private banks of India. The comparative analysis of presentation of green banking initiatives between two years has been studied. For the analysis secondary non- monetary data was collected from the annual report of total 16 private sectors banks of India. To find the comparison between the presentations of green banking initiatives non-parametric test – Wilcozon Signed Rank has been applied for analysis. Total 13 variables were broadly collected from the data provided in sustainability report of banks viz, online banking, green building, energy consumption, paperless banking, clean technology, green product service, tree plantation, waste management, mass transportation system, solar energy projection, carbon disclosure project, water consumption and community outreach. There is no significant difference found in presentation of green banking initiatives between two years. The private banks are still ignoring three initiatives likes green building, carbon disclosure and mass transportation.
Keyword: Green Banking, Green Banking Practices, Online Banking, Green Building, Green Products, Green Banking Activities, Green Banking Initiative.