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Idea?

What is the Opposite

of a Very Good Idea? CA Shreyansh Shah

I am thankful to ICAI Dubai for giving me this eye as he saw nothing but the darkness of the pupil of
opportunity to publish an article in the newsletter to the birds eye while the others saw the trees, the sky
our members on behalf of the Tax & Compliance Focus and everything around it.
Group, Whilst I write this article I reflect on the success The same is true in real life, markets tend to appreciate
of our group and what really were the secret and value an individual or a company greater than
ingredients as determined by our managing competition which invests time and capital in its own
committee, It becomes very apparent that field and nothing but it. The classic example of why
administrators of the group kept the membership Indian Tobbaco Company whose shares prices have
limited to a fewer numbers and the focus shall be only become a butt of the joke on twitter, the simple reason
on sharing tax and compliance related information it is attributed to why its share prices have not
between the members, it ensured that only relevant increased is because investors are seeing that the
information is floated on the group, this group has company is allocating money from a highly profitable
today compounded knowledge at a rate which is business and diverting the same to less profitable and
higher than the prices of bitcoin, the reputation of us economically unviable businesses.
CA’s in Dubai has been aptly sealed as the go to skilled
person for any tax and compliance related issue. The While staying Focused and True is a very good and
secret is the single minded focus on tax and idea, but what exactly is the opposite of being
compliance in UAE which has eliminated noise and FOCUSSED? As per the Oxford there are 467
every single message in the group is seen relevant and antonyms to this, I will pick the word DISTRACTED as
is rarely missed by any of the members, Just like the opposite of being FOCUSSED.
Swami Vivekananda says the difference between a
man and an animal is that the man has greater power However, the question here pertains to if being
of concentration, Success in life according to him was distracted is not a good idea, the answer shall lie in the
the power of an individuals’ concentration, clear fact whether this article shall be published in the
thinking and this why Arjun was able to shoot the birds newsletter of this Tax Focused Group, if you are

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