How this content is made and checked
Financial information is worth exactly as much as the process behind it. This page describes that process so you can judge it.
Sources
Anything that can change is verified against a primary source before it is published, not written from memory. In practice that means:
- Regulation. SEBI circulars, master circulars and press releases.
- Tax. The Income-tax Act and Finance Act as enacted, and CBDT material.
- Market mechanics. NSE and BSE published rules, and depository documentation.
- Company information. Filings and published results, read directly rather than through summaries.
- Data on outcomes. Regulator studies, cited with the period they cover, because a figure without its period is misleading.
Where a page states a rate, a threshold or a deadline, it carries a sources list. Where sources disagree, the page says so rather than picking the convenient one.
Dating and review
Every lesson and article shows the date it was last checked. That is deliberately not the same as a publication date: it tells you when someone last verified that the facts still hold.
Pages that state tax rates or regulations are reviewed after each Union Budget, after any significant SEBI framework change, and at least annually. Pages that explain durable concepts, such as what a share is, are reviewed less often because they change less.
Corrections
When something here is wrong, it is corrected on the page and the correction is described rather than made silently. Corrections that change the meaning of a page are noted at the top of it.
This matters more in finance than in most subjects. A reader who acted on an incorrect tax rate needs to know it changed, not to find the page quietly different next time they visit.
How drafts are produced
Drafting is assisted by software. Every page is then reviewed and edited by a person before publication, fact checked against primary sources, and dated. Nothing publishes automatically.
We state this plainly because the alternative, letting readers assume otherwise, is the kind of small dishonesty that undermines everything else on the site.
Rules every page follows
- No unexplained jargon. Every financial word is explained the first time it appears.
- No promise of returns. Not implied, not illustrated, not in a headline.
- Uncertainty is stated. Where nobody knows, the page says nobody knows.
- Base rates over anecdotes. Where a regulator has counted outcomes, the count is used rather than a story.
- Counterarguments included. Any page arguing a position also states the strongest case against it.
- No stock recommendations. Examples are illustrative and are never a suggestion to buy anything.
Independence
There is no advertising, no sponsored content, no affiliate links and no referral commissions anywhere on this site. See about for how that affects what the content is able to say.
Reporting an error
If something here is wrong, please say so. Corrections from readers are the cheapest quality control available, and a page with a factual error is worse than no page. Contact details are here.