Syllabus

I: Business Environment and International Business

Business Environment and International Trade

  1. Concepts and Elements of Business Environment
  2. Scope and Importance of International Business
  3. Theories of International Trade
  4. Foreign Direct Investment and Portfolio Investment

Balance of Payments and Global Institutions

  1. Balance of Payments
  2. Regional Economic Integration
  3. International Economic Institutions: IMF, World Bank, UNCTAD
  4. World Trade Organisation

II: Accounting and Auditing

Accounting Foundations

  1. Basic Accounting Principles
  2. Partnership Accounts
  3. Corporate Accounting
  4. Holding Company Accounts

Cost, Management and Specialised Accounting

  1. Cost and Management Accounting
  2. Financial Statements Analysis
  3. HR, Inflation and Environmental Accounting

Standards and Auditing

  1. Indian Accounting Standards and IFRS
  2. Auditing: Concept and Practice
  3. Recent Trends in Auditing

III: Business Economics

Demand and Consumer Behaviour

  1. Meaning and Scope of Business Economics
  2. Objectives of Business Firms
  3. Demand Analysis
  4. Consumer Behaviour: Utility and Indifference Curve

Cost, Market Structure and Pricing

  1. Law of Variable Proportions
  2. Theory of Cost
  3. Price Determination Under Different Market Forms
  4. Pricing Strategies

IV: Business Finance

Foundations of Business Finance

  1. Scope and Sources of Finance
  2. Cost of Capital and Time Value of Money
  3. Capital Structure

Investment, Working Capital and Risk

  1. Capital Budgeting Decisions
  2. Working Capital Management and Dividend Decision
  3. Risk, Return and Asset Securitization

International Financial Management

  1. International Monetary System
  2. Foreign Exchange Market and Hedging
  3. International Financial Markets and Instruments
  4. International Arbitrage and Multinational Capital Budgeting

V: Business Statistics and Research Methods

Descriptive Statistics

  1. Measures of Central Tendency
  2. Measures of Dispersion
  3. Measures of Skewness
  4. Correlation and Regression

Probability and Distributions

  1. Probability and Bayes’ Theorem
  2. Probability Distributions

Research Methods

  1. Research: Concept and Designs
  2. Data Collection and Classification
  3. Sampling and Estimation
  4. Hypothesis Testing
  5. Report Writing

VI: Business Management and Human Resource Management

Management Foundations

  1. Principles and Functions of Management
  2. Organisation Structure
  3. Responsibility, Authority and Delegation
  4. Motivation and Leadership
  5. Corporate Governance and Business Ethics

HRM Functions

  1. Human Resource Management: Concept and Functions
  2. Compensation Management
  3. Performance Appraisal
  4. Collective Bargaining and Workers’ Participation

Organisational Behaviour

  1. Personality, Attitudes and Group Dynamics
  2. Organisational Culture and Change

VII: Banking and Financial Institutions

Banks and the Reserve Bank of India

  1. Overview of Indian Financial System
  2. Types of Banks
  3. Reserve Bank of India
  4. Banking Sector Reforms in India

Markets, Institutions and Regulators

  1. Financial Markets
  2. Financial Institutions
  3. Financial Regulators in India
  4. Financial Sector Reforms and Inclusion

Digitisation and Insurance

  1. Digitisation of Banking and Financial Services
  2. Insurance: Types and Regulation

VIII: Marketing Management

Marketing Mix

  1. Marketing: Concept and Approaches
  2. Product Decisions
  3. Pricing Decisions
  4. Promotion Decisions
  5. Distribution Decisions

Consumer and Service Marketing

  1. Consumer Behaviour
  2. Service Marketing

X: Income Tax and Corporate Tax Planning

Income Tax

  1. Income Tax: Basic Concepts and Computation
  2. International Taxation

Corporate Tax Planning and Compliance

  1. Corporate Tax Planning
  2. TDS, Advance Tax and E-Filing