Kerala PSC ACCOUNTS OFFICER Full Syllabus

Part I 
Accounting for Managers 
Introduction to Financial Accounting – Rules Concep ts and Conventions. Structure and contents of Financial Statements – Profit and Loss Account & Ba lance Sheet- Need for adjusting entries – Revenue expenditure- Depreciation, Closing inventor ies, bad debts- Provision for doubtful debts- Discounts- Prior year expenses. Analysis of financial statements, Ratios, types of ratios, their meaning, use of ratios to understand financial status and performance of an organisation . 

Part II 
Financial Management 
Principles, Concepts. Investment decisions- Capital Budgeting- Selection of Projects- Project evaluation techniques- Pay back period- ARR-NPV-IRR Finance Decisions- Meaning- Optimum Capital Structu re – Capital Structure Theories – MM Approach- Traditional Approach- Cost of Capital- Me aning- Methods of computing cost of capital. Dividend Decisions- Factors influencing- Cash divid end- Stock dividend- Dividend models. 
Part III 

Financial Products & Services 
Money Market & Capital Market Features of both mark ets – Financial Services – Financial Systems- Financial intermediaries- Framework of regulating a gencies – Role of RBI, SEBI and Ministry of Finance. 
Corporate Financial Services – Merchant Banking – M utual funds – credit rating – venture capital – leasing – factoring – Banking services 
Part IV 

Business Environment Economic/Social/Political/Legal environment. New E conomic Policy. 
Part V 
Kerala Co-operative Societies Act Provisions relating to Management Administration an d Accounts. 
Part VI 
General Knowledge, Current Affairs and Renaissance in Kerala

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NOTE: - It may be noted that apart from the topics detailed above, questions from other topics prescribed for the educational qualifi cation of the post may also appear in the question paper. There is no undertaking that all the topics above may be covered in the question paper

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