Subjects for study Six subjects and Seven Papers of study in IPCC are
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Group I Paper 1:Accounting (100 marks) Paper 2:Law, Ethics and Communication Part I: Law (60 marks) Business Laws (30 marks) Company Law (30 marks) Part II: Business Ethics (20 marks) Part III: Business Communication (20 marks) Paper 3:Cost Accounting and Financial Management Part I: Cost Accounting (50 marks) Part II: Financial Management (50 marks) Paper 4:Taxation Part I: Income-tax (50 marks) Part II: Service Tax (25 marks) and VAT (25 marks) Group II Paper 5: Advanced Accounting (100 marks) Paper 6:Auditing and Assurance (100 marks) Paper 7: Information Technology and Strategic Management Section A: Information Technology (50 marks) Section B: Strategic Management (50 marks) The level of knowledge expected of students in the above subjects is ‘working knowledge’. INTEGRATED PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE COURSE (IPCC) Syllabus GROUP I OF IPCC/ ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN COURSE (ATC) Paper 1: Accounting (One paper Level of Knowledge: Objectives: (a) To lay a foundation for the preparation and presentation of financial statements; (b) To gain working knowledge of the principles and procedures of accounting and their application to different practical situations; (c) To gain the ability to solve simple problems and cases relating to sole proprietorship, partnership and companies; and (d) To familiarize students with the fundamentals of computerized system of accounting. Contents 1. A General Knowledge of the framing of the accounting standards, national and international accounting authorities, adoption of international financial reporting standards 2. Accounting Standards Working knowledge of: AS 1 : Disclosure of Accounting Policies AS 2: Valuation of Inventories AS 3: Cash Flow Statements AS 6: Depreciation Accounting AS 7: Construction Contracts (Revised 2002) AS 9: Revenue Recognition AS 10: Accounting for Fixed Assets AS 13: Accounting for Investments AS 14: Accounting for Amalgamations 3. Company Accounts (a) Preparation of financial statements Statement (b) Profit (Loss) prior to incorporation (c) Alteration of share capital, Conversion of fully paid shares into stock and stock into shares, Accounting for bonus issue (d) Simple problems on Accounting for business acquisition, Amalgamation and reconstruction (excluding problems of amalgamation on inter-company holding) 4. Average Due Date, Account Current, Self-Balancing Ledgers 5. Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Organisations 6. Accounts from Incomplete Records 7. Accounting for Special Transactions (a) Hire purchase and instalment sale transactions (b) Investment accounts (c) Insurance claims for loss of stock and loss of profit. 9. Issues in Partnership Accounts Final accounts of partnership firms goodwill; 10. Accounting in Computerised Environment An overview of computerized accounting system accounts, Codification of accounts, Maintaining the hierarchy of ledger, Accounting packages and consideration for their selection, Generating Accounting Reports. Note : If either old Accounting Standards (ASs), Announcements and Limited Revisions to ASs are withdrawn or new ASs, Announcements and Limited Revisions to ASs are issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India in place of existing ASs, Announcements and Limited Revisions to ASs, the syllabus will accordingly include/exclude such new developments in place of the existing ones with effect from the date to be notified by the Institute. Paper 2: Business Laws, Ethics and Communication (One paper Level of Knowledge: Part I: Business Laws (60 marks) Objective: To test working knowledge of business laws and company law and their practical application in commercial situations. Contents: Business Laws (30 marks) 1. The Indian Contract Act, 1872 2. The Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 3. The Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 4. The Employee 5. The Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972. Company Law (30 marks) The Companies Act, 1956 (a) Preliminary (b) Board of Company Law Administration - National Company Law Tribunal; Appellate Tribunal (c) Incorporation of company and matters incidental thereto (d) Prospectus and allotment, and other matters relating to use of shares or debentures (e) Share capital and debentures (f) Registration of charges (g) Management and administration commencement of business, registers of members and debentures holders, foreign registers of members or debenture holders, annual returns, general provisions regarding registers and returns, meetings and proceedings. (h) Company Law in a computerized environment Note: corresponding provisions of such new legislations with effect from a date notified by the Institute. Part II: Ethics ( Objective: To have an understanding of ethical issues in business. Contents: 1. Introduction to Business Ethics The nature, purpose of ethics and morals for organizational interests; ethics and conflicts of interests; ethical and social implications of business policies and decisions; corporate social responsibility; ethical issues in corporate governance. 2. Environment Issues Protecting the Natural Environment conservation of natural resources. 3. Ethics in Workplace Individual in the organisation, discrimination, harassment, gender equality. 4. Ethics in Marketing and Consumer Protection Healthy competition and protecting con 5. Ethics in Accounting and Finance Importance, issues and common problems. Part III: Communication (20 marks) Objective: To nurture and develop the communication and behavioural skills relating to business. Contents: 1. Elements of Communication (a) Forms of communication: formal and informal, inter-departmental, verbal and non-verbal; active listening and critical thinking (b) Presentation skills including conducting meeting, press conference (c) Planning and composing business messages (d) Communication channels (e) Communicating corporate culture, change, innovative spirits (f) Communication breakdowns (g) Communication ethics (h) Groups dynamics; handling group conflicts, consensus building; influencing and persuasion skills; negotiating and bargaining (i) Emotional intelligence (j) Soft skills 2. Communication in Business Environment (a) Business Meetings (b) Press releases (c) Corporate announcements by stock exchanges (d) Reporting of proceedings of a meeting. 3. Basic Understanding of Legal Deeds and Documents (a) Partnership deed (b) Power of Attorney (c) Lease deed (d) Affidavit (e) Indemnity bond (f) Gift deed (g) Memorandum and articles of association of a company (h) Annual Report of a company. Paper 3: Cost Accounting and Financial Management (One paper Level of Knowledge: Part I: Cost Accounting (50 marks) Objectives: (a) To understand the basic concepts and processes used to determine product costs; (b) To be able to interpret cost accounting statements; (c) To be able to analyse and evaluate information for cost ascertainment, planning, control and decision making; and (d) To be able to solve simple cases. Contents: 1. Introduction to Cost Accounting (a) Objectives and scope of cost accounting (b) Cost centres and cost units (c) Cost classification for stock valuation, profit measurement, decision making and control (d) Coding systems (e) Elements of cost (f) Cost behaviour pattern, separating the components of semi-variable costs (g) Installation of a costing system (h) Relationship of cost accounting, financial accounting, management accounting and financial management. 2. Cost Ascertainment (a) (i) Procurement procedures - store procedures and documentation in respect of receipts and issue of stock, stock verification (ii) Inventory control - techniques of fixing of minimum, maximum and reorder levels, economic order quantity, ABC classification; stocktaking and perpetual inventory (iii) Inventory accounting (iv) Consumption - identification with products of cost centres, basis for consumption entries in financial accounts, monitoring consumption. (b) (i) Attendance and payroll procedures, overview of statutory requirements, overtime, idle time and incentives (ii) Labour turnover (iii) Utilisation of labour, direct and indirect labour, charging of labour cost, identifying labour hours with work orders or batches or capital jobs (iv) Efficiency rating procedures (v) Remuneration systems and incentive schemes. (c) Sub-contracting (d) (i) Functional analysis development Behavioural analysis (ii) Factory overheads suitable basis for allotment, capacity cost adjustments, fixed absorption rates for absorbing overheads to products or services (iii) Administration overheads (iv) Selling and distribution overheads products/customers, impact of marketing strategies, cost effectiveness of various methods of sales promotion. 3. Cost Book-keeping Cost ledgers 4. Costing Systems (a) Job cost cards and databases, collecting direct costs of each job, attributing overhead costs to jobs, applications of job costing. (b) (c) Progress payments, retention money, escalation clause, contract accounts, accounting for material, accounting for plant used in a contract, contract profit and balance sheet entries. (d) Double entry book keeping, process loss, abnormal gains and losses, equivalent units, inter-process profit, joint products and by products. (e) 5. Introduction to Marginal Costing Marginal costing compared with absorption costing, contribution, breakeven analysis and profit volume graph. 6. Introduction to Standard Costing Various types of standards, setting of standards, basic concepts of material and labour standards and variance analysis. 7. Budgets and Budgetary Control The budget manual, preparation and monitoring procedures, budget variances, flexible budget, preparation of functional budget for operating and non-operating functions, cash budget, master budget, principal budget factors. Part II: Financial Management (50 marks) Objectives: (a) To develop ability to analyse and interpret various tools of financial analysis and planning; (b) To gain knowledge of management and financing of working capital; (c) To understand concepts relating to financing and investment decisions; and (d) To be able to solve simple cases. Contents: 1. Scope and Objectives of Financial Management (a) Meaning, importance and objectives (b) Conflicts in profit versus value maximisation principle (c) Role of Chief Financial Officer. 2. Time Value of Money Compounding and discounting techniques 3. Financial Analysis and Planning (a) Ratio analysis for performance evaluation and financial health (b) Application of ratio analysis in decision making (c) Analysis of cash flow statement. 4. Financing Decisions (a) Cost of Capital (b) Capital Structure decisions constraints, various capital structure theories (c) Business risk and financial risk 5. Types of Financing (a) Different sources of finance (b) Project financing (c) Negotiating term loans with banks and financial institutions and appraisal thereof (d) Introduction to lease financing (e) Venture capital finance. 6. Investment Decisions (a) Purpose, objective, process (b) Understanding different types of projects (c) Techniques of decision making: non-discounted and discounted cash flow approaches - payback period method, accounting rate of return, net present value, internal rate of return, modified internal rate of return, discounted payback period and profitability index. (d) Ranking of competing projects, ranking of projects with unequal lives. 7. Management of working capital (a) Working capital policies (b) Funds flow analysis (c) Inventory management (d) Receivables management (e) Payables management (f) Management of cash and marketable securities (g) Financing of working capital. Paper 4: Taxation (One paper Level of Knowledge: Objectives: (a) To gain knowledge of the provisions of Income-tax law relating to the topics mentioned in the contents below; and (b) the areas mentioned in the contents below. Contents: Part I: Income-tax (50 marks) 1. Important definitions in the Income-tax Act, 1961 2. Basis of charge; rates of taxes applicable for different types of assessees 3. Concepts of previous year and assessment year 4. Residential status and scope of total income; Income deemed to be received / deemed to accrue or arise in India 5. Incomes which do not form part of total income 6. Heads of income and the provisions governing computation of income under different heads 7. Income of other persons 8. Aggregation of income; set-off or carry forward and set-off of losses 9. Deductions from gross total income 10. Computation of total income and tax payable; rebates and reliefs 11. Provisions concerning advance tax and tax deducted at source 12. Provisions for filing of return of income. Part II: Service tax (25 marks) and VAT (25 marks) Objective: To gain knowledge of the provisions of service tax as mentioned below and basic concepts of Value Added Tax (VAT) in India. Service tax (25 marks) Contents: 1. Service tax 2. Charge of service tax and taxable services 3. Valuation of taxable services 4. Payment of service tax and filing of returns VAT (25 marks) 5. VAT 6. Calculation of VAT Liability including input Tax Credits 7. Small Dealers and Composition Scheme 8. VAT Procedures. Note: corresponding provisions of such new legislations in the place of the existing legislations with effect the date to be notified by the Institute. Students shall not be examined with reference to any particular State VAT Law. GROUP II Paper 5: Advanced Accounting (One paper Level of Knowledge: Objectives: (a) To have an understanding of the conceptual framework for the preparation and presentation of financial statements; (b) To gain working knowledge of the professional standards and application of accounting principles to different practical situations; and (c) To gain the ability to solve advanced problems in the case of different entities. Contents 1. Conceptual Framework for Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements 2. Accounting Standards Working knowledge of: AS 4 : Contingencies and Events occurring after the Balance Sheet Date AS 5 : Net Profit or Loss for the Period, Prior Period Items and Changes in Accounting Policies AS 11: The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates (Revised 2003) AS 12: Accounting for Government Grants AS 16: Borrowing Costs AS 19: Leases AS 20: Earnings Per Share AS 26: Intangible Assets AS 29: Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and Contingent Assets. 3. Advanced Issues in Partnership Accounts Dissolution of partnership firms including piecemeal distribution of assets; Amalgamation of partnership firms; Conversion into a company and Sale to a company. 4. Company Accounts (a) Accounting for employee stock option plan, Buy back of securities, Equity shares with differential rights, Underwriting of shares and debentures, Redemption of debentures (b) Advanced problems for business acquisition, Amalgamation and reconstruction (excluding problems of amalgamation of inter-company holding) (c) Accounting involved in liquidation of companies, Statement of Affairs (including deficiency/surplus accounts) and Iiquidator’s statement of account of the winding up. (d) Financial Statements of Banking, Insurance and Electricity Companies 5. Accounting for Special Transactions Departmental and branch accounts including foreign branches Note If either old Accounting Standards (ASs), Announcements and Limited Revisions to ASs are withdrawn or new ASs, Announcements and Limited Revisions to ASs are issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India in place of existing ASs, Announcements and Limited Revisions to ASs, the syllabus will accordingly include/exclude such new developments in place of the existing ones with effect from the date to be notified by the Institute. Paper 6: Auditing and Assurance (One paper Level of knowledge: Objective: To understand objective and concepts of auditing and gain working knowledge of generally accepted auditing procedures and of techniques and skills needed to apply them in audit and attestation engagements and solving simple case-studies. Contents 1. Auditing Concepts principles and concept of Auditor’s Independence, Relationship of auditing with other disciplines. 2. Auditing and Assurance Standards and Assurance Standards Board and Auditing and Assurance Standards Board in India. 3. Auditing engagement and supervision of audit work. 4. Documentation custody of working papers. 5. Audit evidence evidence, Methods of obtaining audit evidence, Physical verification, Documentation, Direct confirmation, Re-computation, Analytical review techniques, Representation by management. 6. Internal Control system, Internal control questionnaire, Internal control check list, Tests of control, Application of concept of materiality and audit risk, Concept of internal audit. 7. 8. Audit Sampling 9. Analytical review procedures 10. Audit of payments Petty cash payments, Bank payments, Bank reconciliation. 11. Audit of receipts 12. Audit of Purchases received from suppliers. 13. Audit of Sales under hire-purchase agreement, Returnable containers, Various types of allowances given to customers, Sale returns. 14. Audit of Total or control accounts, Confirmatory statements from credit customers and suppliers, Provision for bad and doubtful debts, Writing off of bad debts. 15 Outstanding expenses and income, Repairs and renewals, Distinction between reserves and provisions, Implications of change in the basis of accounting. 16. Audit of assets and liabilities. 17. Company Audit auditors, Removal of auditors, Powers and duties of auditors, Branch audit, Joint audit, Special audit, Reporting requirements under the Companies Act, 1956. 18. Audit Report 19. Hospitals, Hire-purchase and leasing companies (excluding banks, electricity companies, cooperative societies, and insurance companies). 20. Comptroller and Auditor General and its constitutional role. Note: by the ICAI with reference to above-mentioned topics. Paper 7: Information Technology and Strategic Management (One paper Level of Knowledge: Section A: Information Technology ( 50 Marks) Objective: To develop an understanding of Information Technology and its use by the business as facilitator and driver. Contents: 1. Introduction to Computers (a) Computer hardware Classification of computers Computer components (b) BUS, I/O CO processors, ports (serial, parallel, USB ports), expansion slots, add on cards, on board chips, LAN cards, multi media cards, cache memory, buffers, controllers and drivers (c) Computer software Systems software utilities General purpose software/ utilities - word processor, spread sheet, DBMS, scheduler / planner, internet browser and e-mail clients Application software Specialised systems decision support systems 2. Data Storage, Retrievals and Data Base Management Systems (a) Data and information concepts: bits, bytes, KB, MB, GB, TB (b) Data organization and access Storage concepts : records, fields, grouped fields, special fields like date, integers, real, floating, fixed, double precision, logical, characters, strings, variable character fields (Memo); key, primary key, foreign key, secondary key, referential integrity, index fields. Storage techniques: sequential, block sequential, random, indexed, sequential access, direct access, random access including randomizing Logical structure and physical structure of files (c) DBMS models and classification: Need for database, administration, models, DML and DDL (query and reporting); data dictionaries, distributed data bases, object oriented databases, client server databases, knowledge databases (d) Backup and recovery frequent checking of recovery of backup (e) Usage of system software like program library management systems and tape and disk management systems (f) Data mining and data warehousing - an overview 3. Computer Networks & Network Security (a) Networking concepts Classification: LAN, MAN, WAN, VPN; peer-to-peer, client server Components - NIC, router, switch, hub, repeater, bridge, gateway, modem Network topologies transmission technologies and protocols Network operating system (b) Local Area Networks (c) Client server technology Limitation of single user systems and need for client server technology Servers servers, IDS Introduction to 3- (d) Data centres: features and functions, primary delivery centre and disaster recovery site (e) Network security need; threats and vulnerabilities; security levels; techniques 4. Internet and other technologies (a) Internet and world-wide web, intranets, extranets, applications of internet, internet protocols (b) E-commerce - nature, types (B2B, B2C, C2C), supply chain management, CRM, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Electronic Fund Transfers (EFT), payment portal, e-commerce security; (c) Mobile commerce, bluetooth and Wi-Fi 5. Flowcharts, Decision Tables Section B: Strategic Management (50 marks) Objectives: (a) To develop an understanding of the general and competitive business environment; (b) To develop an understanding of strategic management concepts and techniques; (c) To be able to solve simple cases. Contents: 1. Business Environment General environment - demographic, socio-cultural, macro-economic, legal/political, technological, and global; competitive environment. 2. Business Policy and Strategic Management Meaning and nature; strategic management imperative; vision, mission and objectives; strategic levels in organisations. 3. Strategic Analyses Situational analysis 4. Strategic Planning Meaning, stages, alternatives, strategy formulation. 5. Formulation of Functional Strategy Marketing strategy, financial strategy, production strategy, logistics strategy, human resource strategy. 6. Strategy Implementation and Control Organisational structures; establishing strategic business units; establishing profit centers by business, product or service, market segment or customer; leadership and behavioural challenges. 7. Reaching Strategic Edge Business process re-engineering, benchmarking, total quality management, six sigma, contemporary strategic issues.
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