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Unit 2: Accounting and Auditing
Unit 3: Business Economics
Unit 4: Business Finance
Unit 8: Marketing Management
Unit 9: Legal Aspects of Business
Unit 10: Income-tax and Corporate Tax Planning
Unit 1: Business Environment and International Business
∙ Concepts and elements of business environment Economic environment- Economic systems, Economic policies (Monetary and fiscal policies); Political environment – Role Of government in business; Legal environment – Consumer Protection Act, FEMA; Socio-cultural factors and their influence on business; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
∙ Scope and importance of international business; Globalization and its drivers; Modes of entry into international business
∙ Theories of international trade; Government intervention in international trade; Tariff and non –tariff barriers; India’s foreign trade policy
∙ Foreign direct investment (FDI) and Foreign portfolio investment (FPI); Types of FDI, Costs and benefits of FDI to home and host countries; Trends in FDI; India’s FDI policy
∙ Balance of payments (BOP): Important and components of BOP
∙ Regional Economic Integration: Levels of Regional Economic Integration; Trade creation and diversion effects; Regional Trade Agreements; European Union (EU), ASEAN, SAARC, NAFTA
∙ International Economic Institutions: IMF, world Bank, UNCTAD
∙ World Trade Organisation (WTO): Functions and objections of WTO; Agriculture Agreement; GATS; TRIPS; TRIMS
Unit 2: Accounting and Auditing
∙ Basic accounting principles; concepts and postulates
∙ Partnership Accounts: Admission, Retirement, Death, Dissolution and Insolvency of partnership firms
∙ Corporate Accounting: Issue, forfeiture and reissue of shares; Liquidation of companies; Acquisition , merger, amalgamation and reconstruction of companies
∙ Holidays company accounts
∙ Cost and Management Accounting: Marginal costing and Break-even analysis; Standard costing; Budgetary control; Process costing; Activity Based Costing (ABC); Costing for decision-making; Life cycle costing, Target costing, Kaizen costing and JIT
∙ Financial Statements Analysis: Ratio analysis; Funds flow Analysis; Cash flow analysis ∙ Human Resources Accounting; Inflation Accounting; Environmental Accounting ∙ Indian Accounting Standards and IFRS
∙ Auditing: Independent financial audit; Vouching; Verification ad valuation of assets and liabilities; Audit of financial statements and audit report; Cost audit
∙ Recent Trends in Auditing; Management audit; Energy audit; Environment audit; Systems audit; Safety audit
Unit 3: Business Economics
∙ Meaning and scope of business economics
∙ Objectives of business firms
∙ Demand analysis: Law of demand; Elasticity of demand and its measurement; Relationship between AR and MR
∙ Consumer behavior: Utility analysis; Indifference curve analysis
∙ Law of Variable Proportions: Law of Returns to Scale
∙ Theory of cost: Short-run and long-run cost curves
∙ Price determination under different market forms: Perfect competition; Monopolistic competition; Oligopoly-Price leadership model; Monopoly; Price discrimination
∙ Pricing strategies: Price skimming; Price penetration; Peak load pricing
Unit 4: Business Finance
∙ Scope and sources of finance; Lease financing
∙ Cost of capital and time value of money
∙ Capital structure
∙ Capital budgeting decisions; Conventional and scientific techniques of capital budgeting analysis
∙ Working capital management; Dividend decision; Theories and policies ∙ Risk and returns analysis; Asset securitization
∙ International monetary system
∙ Foreign exchange market; Exchange rate risk and hedging techniques
∙ International financial markets and instruments; Euro currency; GDRs; ADRs ∙ International arbitrage; Multinational capital budgeting
Unit 5: Business Statistics and Research Methods
∙ Measures of central tendency
∙ Measures of dispersion
∙ Measures of skewness
∙ Correlation and regression of two variables
∙ Probability: Approaches to probability; Bayes’ theorem
∙ Probability distributions: Binomial, poisson and normal distributions
∙ Research: Concept and types; Research designs
∙ Data: Collection and classification of data
∙ Sampling and estimation: Concepts; Methods of sampling – probability and non probability methods; Sampling distribution; Central limit theorem; standard error; Statistical estimation
∙ Hypothesis testing: z-test; t-test; ANOVA; Chi-square test; Mann-Whitney test (U-test); Kruskal-Wallis test (H-test); Rank correlation test
∙ Report writing
Unit 6: Business Management and Human Resource Management
∙ Principles and functions of management
∙ Organization structure: Formal and informal organizations; Span of control ∙ Responsibility and authority: Delegation of authority and decentralization ∙ Motivation and leadership: Concept and theories
∙ Corporate governance and business ethics
∙ Human resource management: Concept, role and functions of HRM; Human resource planning; Recruitment and selection; Training and development; Succession planning
∙ Compensation management: Job evaluation; Incentives and fringe benefits ∙ Performance appraisal including 360 degree performance appraisal
∙ Collective bargaining and workers’ participation in management
∙ Personality: Perception; Attitudes; Emotions; Group dynamics; Power and politics; Conflict and negotiations; Stress management
∙ Organizational Culture: Organizational development and Organizational change
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Unit 7: Banking and Financial Institutions
∙ Overview of Indian financial system
∙ Types of banks: Commercial banks; Regional Rural Banks (RRBs); Foreign banks; Cooperative banks
∙ Reserve Bank of India: Functions; Role and monetary policy management
∙ Banking sector reforms in India: Basel norms; Risk management; NPA management ∙ Financial Institutions: Development Finance Institutions (DFIs); Non –Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs); Mutual funds; Pension Funds
∙ Financial Regulators in India
∙ Digitisation of banking and other financial services: Internet banking; mobile banking; Digital payments systems
∙ Insurance: Types of insurance- Life and Non-life insurance; Risk classification and management; Factors limiting the insurability of risk; RE-insurance; Regulatory framework of insurance- IRDA and its role
Unit 8: Marketing Management
∙ Marketing: Concept and approaches; Marketing channels; Marketing mix; Strategic marketing planning; Market segmentation, targeting and positioning
∙ Product decisions; Concept; Product line; Product mix decisions; Product life cycle; New product development
∙ Pricing decisions: Factors affecting price determination; Pricing policies and strategies
∙ Promotion decisions: Role of promotion in marketing; Promotion methods – advertising; Personal selling; Publicity; Sales promotion tools and techniques; Promotion mix
∙ Distribution decisions: Channels of distribution; Channel management
∙ Consumer Behavior; Consumer buying process; factors influencing consumer buying decisions
∙ Service marketing
∙ Trends in marketing: Social marketing; Online marketing; Green marketing; direct marketing; Rural marketing; CRM
∙ Logistics management
Unit 9: Legal Aspects of Business
∙ Indian Contract Act, 1872: Elements of a valid contract; Capacity of parties; Free consent; discharge of a contract; Breach of contract and remedies against breach; Quasi contracts;
∙ Special contracts: Contracts of indemnity and guarantee; contracts of bailment and pledge; Contracts of agency
∙ Sale of Goods Act, 1930: Sale and agreement to sell; Doctrine of Caveat Emptor; rights of unpaid seller and rights of buyer
∙ Negotiable Instrument Act, 1881: Types of negotiable instruments; Negotiation and assignment; Dishonour and discharge of negotiable instruments
∙ The Companies Act, 2013: Nature and kinds of companies; Company formation; Management, meeting and winding up of a joint stock company
∙ Limited Liability Partnership: Structure and procedure of formation of LLP in India ∙ The Competition Act, 2002: Objectives and main provisions
∙ The information Technology Act, 2000: Objectives and main provisions; Cyber crimes and penalties
∙ The RTI Act, 2005: Objectives and main provisions
∙ Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs): Patents, trademarks and copyrights; Emerging issues In intellectual property
∙ Goods and Services Tax (GST): Objectives and main provisions; Benefits of GST; Implementation mechanism; Working of dual GST
Unit 10: Income-tax and Corporate Tax Planning
∙ Income-tax: Basic concepts; Residential status and tax incidence; Exempted incomes; Agricultural income; computation of taxable income under various heads; Deductions from Gross total income; Assessment of individuals; Clubbing of incomes
∙ International Taxation: Double taxation and its avoidance mechanism; Transfer pricing
∙ Corporate Tax Planning: Concepts and significance of corporate tax planning; Tax avoidance versus tax evasion; Techniques of corporate tax planning; Tax consideration in specific business situations; Make of buy decisions; Own or lease an asset; Retain; Renewal or replacement of asset; Shut down or continue operations
∙ Deduction and collection of tax at source; Advance payment of tax; E-filing of income tax returns
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