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Full and Final Settlement: Auditing the Statement Line by Line
A full and final settlement is a one-off payslip: salary to your last day, leave encashment, and any other amounts due, less recoveries, PF and a TDS true-up. To check it, rebuild every line from your offer, your leave…
Fuel station wet-stock reconciliation: dip, sales and variance
Wet-stock reconciliation compares what should be in a fuel tank with what the dip says is there. Book closing stock is opening stock plus the quantity actually received minus net sales (totaliser sales less test…
Joining in October: Part-Year Salary and Your Regime Choice
If your first job starts partway through a tax year, only the months you are paid count towards that year's income. Your annual CTC does not. Joining on 1 October 2026 puts six months of salary into tax year 2026-27.…
Fresher interview questions when you have no work experience
Freshers with no work experience are interviewed on potential: how you learn, what you have built on your own, how you handle not knowing something, and whether you can explain technical work clearly. For data, AI and…
Freelance Data Work Under Presumptive Tax vs a Salary
Under the presumptive scheme in section 58(2) of the Income-tax Act, 2025, an eligible freelancer in a specified profession can declare 50% of gross receipts as profit. The receipts limit is ₹50 lakh, or ₹75 lakh where…
Client TDS on Freelance Invoices: 2% or 10% and Your Cash Flow
Under section 393 of the Income-tax Act, 2025, a client paying you fees deducts TDS at 2% for fees for technical services and at 10% for other professional fees. The deduction is a credit against your tax, not the tax…
Setting a Freelance Hourly Rate From a Target Income
Start with the income you want to keep, not the rate you think the market will bear. Add your real costs and the tax on the resulting receipts, then divide by the hours you can actually bill. In the hypothetical case…
Freelance AI automation for small Indian businesses: a realistic start
A realistic start in freelance AI automation for small Indian businesses is one narrow, repetitive task that costs the owner time every week — answering the same WhatsApp enquiries, typing invoice details into a…
Free data and AI learning resources that are genuinely good
The best free resources for data work are mostly official documentation and long-running teaching projects, not playlists of the week. Among the good ones: the Python tutorial, pandas' own introduction, the SQLite…
Fraud analyst role: alert queues, rule tuning and case notes
A fraud analyst in a bank, payments company, insurer or e-commerce firm works in two modes: reviewing suspicious transactions or accounts flagged by rules and models, and improving those rules so that genuine fraud is…
FP&A analyst role in India: budgets, forecasts and variance bridges
An FP&A analyst plans and explains a company's financial performance: building the annual budget, updating forecasts through the year, and explaining each month why actual revenue, costs and profit differ from plan. In…
Checking Form 16 Part B Against Your Twelve Payslips
Form 16 Part B is your employer's summary of the salary it paid you and the tax it deducted for the year. It should add up exactly from your twelve payslips. To check it, total the gross pay and TDS from the payslips…
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