1. General Awareness (including some questions related to Financial Sector related topics of easy to moderate difficulty level),
2. English Language,
3. Quantitative Aptitude,
4. Reasoning & Analytical Skills,

A. Commerce & Accountancy
a) Accounting as a financial information system;
b) Accounting Standards with specific reference to Accounting for Depreciation, Inventories,
Revenue Recognition, Fixed Assets, Foreign Exchange Transactions, Investments.
c) Cash Flow Statement, Fund flow statement, Financial statement analysis; Ratio analysis;
d) Accounting for Share Capital Transactions including Bonus Shares, Right Shares.
e) Employees Stock Option and Buy-Back of Securities.
f) Preparation and Presentation of Company Final Accounts.

B. Management
a) Management: its nature and scope; The Management Processes; Planning, Organization,
Staffing, Directing and Controlling;
b) The Role of a Manager in an Organization. Leadership: The Tasks of a Leader;
c) Leadership Styles; Leadership Theories; A successful Leader versus an effective Leader.
d) Human Resource Development: Concept of HRD; Goals of HRD;
e) Motivation, Morale and Incentives: Theories of Motivation; How Managers Motivate; Concept
of Morale; Factors determining morale; Role of Incentives in Building up Morale.
f) Communication: Steps in the Communication Process; Communication Channels; Oral versus
Written Communication; Verbal versus non-verbal Communication; upward, downward and
lateral communication; Barriers to Communication, Role of Information Technology.

C. Finance
1) Financial System of India and World.
a) Role and Functions of Regulatory bodies in Financial Sector.
2) Financial Markets of India and World.
a) Primary and Secondary Markets (Forex, Money, Bond, Equity, etc.), functions, instruments,
recent developments.
3) General Topics
a) Basics of Derivatives: Forward, Futures and Swap
b) Recent Developments in the Financial Sector of India and World.
c) Financial Inclusion- use of technology
d) Alternate source of finance, private and social cost-benefit, Public-Private Partnership
e) Direct and Indirect taxes; Non-tax sources of Revenue, GST, Finance Commission, Fiscal
Policy, Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act (FRBM),
f) Inflation: Definition, trends, estimates, consequences, and remedies (control): WPI, CPI – components and trends.

D. Data Analytics, Statistics
1. Measures of Central tendency & dispersions, Correlation, Sampling methods, Sampling Distribution, Statistical Inferences, Hypothesis testing, Regression Analysis.
2. Data Analytics Overview, Importance of Data Analytics, Types of Data Analytics, Descriptive Analytics, Diagnostic Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Prescriptive Analytics, Benefits of Data
Analytics, Data Visualization for Decision Making, Data Types, Measure of central tendency, Measures of Dispersion, Graphical Techniques, Skewness & Kurtosis, Box Plot, Descriptive Stats,
Sampling Funnel, Sampling Variation, Central Limit Theorem, Confidence interval.

E. Companies Act, Indian Trusts Act,
The Companies Act, 2013 – Specific reference to Chapter III, Chapter IV, Chapter VIII, Chapter X, Chapter XI, Chapter XII and Chapter XXVII.
The Indian Trusts Act.

F. Economics
a) Demand and Supply, Market Structures, National Income: Concepts and Measurement, Classical & Keynesian Approach Determination of output and employment, Consumption Function,
Investment Function, Multiplier and Accelerator, Demand and Supply for Money, IS – LM, Inflation and Phillips Curve, Business Cycles
b) Balance of Payments, Foreign Exchange Markets, Inflation, Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Nonbanking Financial Institutions.

G. Pension Sector of India and World.
a) Status of pension sector in India
b) Different types of retirement schemes in India and their features
c) National Pension System
d) Atal Pension Yojana
e) Annuity Plans
f) Basics of investment decision making & portfolio management