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CA Foundation Chapter Wise Weightage 2024

Explore the comprehensive chapter-wise weightage for CA Foundation subjects. This page provides valuable insights into the distribution of marks, helping you prioritize your study efforts effectively. Enhance your preparation strategy with this essential resource for success in your CA Foundation exams.

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Welcome to our CA Foundation Chapter-wise Weightage guide – your key to strategic exam preparation! Aspiring to excel in the CA Foundation exams requires not only dedication and hard work, but also a smart approach to studying. Understanding the distribution of marks across different chapters can significantly aid your preparation strategy. This page serves as your roadmap, providing an insightful breakdown of chapter-wise weightage for each subject in the CA Foundation curriculum. Whether you're a diligent planner or a last-minute crammer, this resource will empower you to make informed decisions on where to focus your efforts and time. Let's dive into the world of chapter-wise weightage and pave the way for your success in the CA Foundation exams.

FOUNDATION COURSE PAPER – 1: ACCOUNTING (100 MARKS)

Contents Section Weightage

1. Theoretical Framework
(i) Meaning and scope of accounting
(ii) Accounting Concepts, principles and conventions
(iii) Capital and revenue expenditure, capital and revenue receipts, contingent assets and contingent liabilities
(iv) Accounting policies
(v) Accounting as a measurement discipline – valuation principles, accounting estimates
(vi) Accounting Standards – concepts and objectives.
I
5%-10%

2. Accounting Process

(i) Recording accounting transactions: principles of double entry book-keeping, books of original entry – journal, subsidiary books, cash book, ledger-format, posting from journal and subsidiary books, balancing of accounts
(ii) Preparation of trial balance
(iii) Rectification of errors.

 

3. Bank Reconciliation Statement

Introduction, reasons and preparation of bank reconciliation statement.

 

4. Inventories
Meaning, Basis and technique of inventory valuation, Cost of Inventory, Net Realizable value and Record System.

 

5. Depreciation and Amortisation
Tangible and Intangible assets -Meaning and difference, concepts, methods of computation and accounting treatment of depreciation / amortization, change in depreciation method.

 

6. Bills of exchange and Promissory
notes
Meaning of bills of exchange and
promissory notes and their accounting
treatment; accommodation bills.
II
30%-35%

7. Preparation of Final accounts of
Sole Proprietors

Elements of financial statements, closing adjustment entries, trading account, profit and loss account and balance sheet of manufacturing and non-manufacturing entities.


8. Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Organizations Significance and preparation of receipt and payment account, income and expenditure account and balance sheet, difference between profit and loss account and income and expenditure account.


9. Accounts from Incomplete Records
(excluding preparation of
accounts based on ratios)
III
20%-25%

10. Partnership and LLP Accounts
(i) Final accounts of partnership firms and LLP’s
(ii) Admission, retirement and death of a partner including treatment of goodwill
(iii) Dissolution of partnership firms and LLP’s including piecemeal distribution of assets
IV
15%-20%

11. Company Accounts

(i) Definition of shares and debentures
(ii) Issue of shares and debentures, forfeiture of shares, re-issue of forfeited shares
(iii) Redemption of preference shares
and debentures (excluding purchase  and redemption of own debentures and sinking fund method)
(iv) Accounting for bonus issue and right issue
V
15%-25%

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PAPER – 2: BUSINESS LAWS (100 MARKS)

To develop general legal knowledge of the law of Contracts, Sales and understanding of various forms of businesses and their functioning to regulate business environment and to acquire the ability to address basic application-oriented issues.

Contents Section Weightage

1. Indian Regulatory Framework

Major Regulatory Bodies such as Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, SEBI, RBI, IBBI, Ministry of Law and Justice etc.
I
0%-5%

2. The Indian Contract Act, 1872:

General nature of contract, Consideration, Other essential elements of a valid contract, Performance of contract, Breach of contract, Contingent and Quasi Contract, Contract of Indemnity and Guarantee, Contract of Bailment and Pledge, Contract of Agency.
II
20%-30%

3. The Sale of Goods Act, 1930:

Formation of the contract of sale, Conditions and Warranties, Transfer of ownership and Delivery of goods, Unpaid seller and his rights.
III
15%-20%

4. The Indian Partnership Act,
1932:

General Nature of Partnership, Rights and Duties of partners, Reconstitution of firms, Registration and Dissolution of a firm.
IV
15%-20%

5. The Limited Liability Partnership
Act, 2008:

Introduction-covering nature and scope, Essential features, Characteristics of LLP, Incorporation and Differences with other forms of organizations.
V
15%-25%

6. The Companies Act, 2013:

Essential features of company, Corporate veil theory, Classes of companies, Types of share capital, Incorporation of company, Memorandum of Association, Articles of Association, Doctrine of Indoor Management.
VI
15%-20%

7. The Negotiable Instruments Act,
1881:

Meaning of Negotiable
Instruments, Characteristics,
Classification of Instruments,
Different provisions relating to
Negotiation, Presentment of
Instruments, Rules of Compensation.
VII
10%-15%

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PAPER –3: QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE (100 Marks)

Objective
(a) To develop an understanding of the basic mathematical and statistical
tools and apply the same in business, finance and economic situations.
(b) To develop logical reasoning skills.
The whole syllabus of Quantitative Aptitude shall be divided into three
broad areas.
• Business Mathematics
• Logical Reasoning
• Statistics

Contents Section Weightage

Part A: Business Mathematics (40 Marks)

1. Ratio and proportion, Indices and
Logarithms

Ratio and proportion and Time and work related problems, Laws of Indices, Exponents and Logarithms and Anti Logarithms.


2. Equations:  Linear Simultaneous linear equations up to three variables, Quadratic and Cubic equations in one variable. Applications in Business related problems.

3. Linear Inequalities: Linear Inequalities: Linear Inequalities in one and two variables and the solution space.
I
20%-30%

Mathematics of Finance
o Simple Interest
o Compound interest

Nominal and Effective Rate of
Interest
o Present Value
o Net Present Value
o Future Value
o Perpetuity
o Annuities
o Sinking Funds
o Calculating of EMI
o Calculations of Returns: Nominal
and Effective rate of Return
o Compound Annual growth rate
(CAGR)
II
30%-40%

5. Permutations and Combinations: Basic concepts of Permutations and combinations: Introduction, the factorial, permutations, results, circular permutations, permutations with restrictions, Combinations with standard results.

 

6. Sequence and Series:

Introduction Sequences, Series, Arithmetic and Geometric progression, Relationship between AM and GM and Sum of n terms of special series and Business Applications.

 

7. Sets, Relations, and Functions. Basics of Limits and Continuity functions.

 

8. Basic applications of Differential and Integral calculus in Business and Economics (Excluding the trigonometric applications).
III
30%-50%

Part B: Logical Reasoning (20 Marks)

9. Number series coding and Decoding and odd man out.

10. Direction Tests

11. Seating Arrangements

12. Blood Relations
IV
20%-30%

Part C: Statistics (40 Marks)

13. Unit 1: Statistical Representation of Data, Diagrammatic representation of data, Frequency distribution, Graphical representation of Frequency Distribution  Histogram, Frequency Polygon, Ogive, Pie-chart.


Unit:2 Sampling: Basic principles of sampling theory, comparison between sample survey and complete enumeration, some important terms associated sampling types of sampling, sampling and non sampling errors.

 

14. Measures of Central tendency and
Dispersion: Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion: Mean Median, Mode, Mean Deviation, Quartiles and Quartile Deviation, Standard Deviation, Co efficient of Variation, Coefficient of Quartile Deviation.
V
45%-50%

15. Probability: Independent and dependent events; mutually exclusive events. Total and Compound Probability and Bayes’ theorem.

 

16. Theoretical Distributions: Random variables, Discrete and Continuous Random variables, Expectation of a discrete random variable, Theoretical Distributions: Binomial Distribution, Poisson distribution – basic application and Normal Distribution – basic applications.
VI
25%-30%

17. Correlation and Regression: Scatter diagram, Karl Pearson’s Coefficient of Correlation Rank  Correlation, Regression lines, Regression equations, Regression coefficients.
VII
10%-15%

18. Index Numbers: Uses of Index
Numbers, Problems involved in
construction of Index Numbers,
Methods of construction of Index
Numbers. BSE SENSEX and NSE
VIII
10%-15%

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PAPER – 4: BUSINESS ECONOMICS (100 Marks)

Objective To develop an understanding of the concepts and theories of Economics and to acquire the ability for addressing application-oriented issues.

Contents Section Weightage

1. Introduction to Business
Economics Meaning and scope of Business Economics Basic Problems of an Economy and Role of Price Mechanism.
I
5%

2. Theory of Demand and Supply
Meaning and Determinants of Demand, Law of Demand and Elasticity of Demand – Price, Income and Cross Elasticity Theory of Consumer’s Behaviour-Indifference Curve approach Meaning and Determinants of Supply, Law of Supply and Elasticity of Supply, Market Equilibrium and Social Efficiency.
II
10%

3. Theory of Production and Cost

Meaning and Factors of Production, Short Run and Long Run Law of Production – The Law of Variable Proportions and Laws of Returns to Scale, Producer’s Equilibrium Concepts of Costs – Short -run and long -run costs, Average and Marginal Costs, Total, Fixed and Variable Costs
III
10%

4. Price Determination in Different Markets

Market Structures: Perfect Competition, Monopoly and Monopolistic Competition. Using Game Theory to study Oligopoly. Price Determination in these Markets Price- Output Determination under different Market Forms
IV
15%

5. Determination of National Income
a) Macro Economic Aggregates and Measurement of National Income

b) Determination of National Income: Keynes’ Two Sector Basic Model, Three Sectors and Four Sectors Models.
V
15%

6. Business Cycles

  • Meaning
  • Phases
  • Features
  • Causes behind these Cycles
VI
5%

7. Public Finance

a) Fiscal functions: An Overview, Centre and State Finance

b) Market Failure/ Government intervention to correct market failure.

c) Process of budget
making: Sources of Revenue, Expenditure Management, and Management of Public Debt.

d) Fiscal Policy
VII
10%

8. Money Market

a. Concept of Money Demand

b. Important theories of Demand for Money

c. Concept of Money
Supply, Cryptocurrency and other new terminology

d. Monetary Policy
VIII
10%

9. International Trade


a) Theories of International Trade including theories of intra-industry trade by Krugman.

b) Trade Policy – The Instruments of Trade Policy

c) Trade Negotiations

d) Exchange Rates and its economic effects

e) International Capital Movements: Foreign Direct Investment

IX

10%

10. Indian Economy (Before 1950- Chanakya and Nand Vansh, OECD Paper (1950-1991), Basic knowledge 1991 Onwards
X
10%

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