Commerce: PPSC Exam Syllabus

Part – I : Accounting as a Financial Information System. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Emerging Dimensions of Corporate Accounting.
Role of cost accounting. Systems and Methods of Costing. Contemporary issues like Target Costing, Product-life cycle costing. Directed and Indirect Taxes-Regulatory framework.
Part – II : Theory and Partice of Management Contemporary Issues - Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility.
Part – III : Intenationalisation of Management. Organization-theories, types and structure. Motivation-theories and models. Leadership theories and styles. Transactional analysis. Organizational change and development. Industrial relations system; Trade unionism, collective bargaining and workers participation. Settlement of disputes.
Part – IV : Business Environment – concept and nature. Economic environment : planning and policy, Economic systems. Legal environment : Consumer Protection Act, FEMA, Environment Protection Act.
International and Technical Environment : Collaboration and joint ventures, International financial and trade organizations.