STAFF SELECTION COMMISSION SECTION OFFICER EXAM 2009 SYLLABUS

STAFF SELECTION COMMISSION SECTION OFFICER EXAM 2009 SYLLABUS - SUBJECT AUDIT

SECTION OFFICER 2009 ( AUDIT) EXAM SSC SYLLABUS FOR FOLLOWING SUBJECTS

GK, English, Maths, and Commerce

Paper I (Objective Type)

(a)General Awareness: Questions in this component will be aimed at testing
thecandidate's General Awareness of the environment around him and its
application tosociety. Questions will also be designed to test
knowledge of current events and ofsuch matters of everyday observation
and experience in their scientific aspect as may beexpected of an
educated person. The test will also include questions relating to
Indiaand its neighbouring countries especially pertaining to History,
Culture, Geography,Economic Scene, General Polity, Scientific Research,
etc. These questions will be suchthat they do not require a special
study of any discipline.

(b) Arithmetical Ability: This part will include questions on problems relating toNumber Systems, Computation of Whole Numbers, Decimals and Fractions andrelationship between Numbers, Fundamental arithmetical operations, Percentages,Ratio and Proportion, Averages, Interest, Profit and Loss, Discount, use of Table andGraph, Mensuration, Time and Distance, Ratio and Time, Time and Work etc.

(c) English: Questions in this component will be
designed to test the candidate'sunderstanding and knowledge of English
Language and will be based on errorrecognition fill in the blanks
(using verbs, preposition, articles etc.), Vocabulary,Spellings,
Grammar, Sentence Structure, Synonyms, Antonyms, Sentence
Completion,Phrases and Idiomatic use of Words, etc. There will be a
question on passages andcomprehension of a passage also.

Paper II (Conventional) Commerce:
This paper will cover all the subjects of B(Commerce) or similar DegreeCourse of Indian Universities specifically
it will include the following subjects:-

i) Accountancy :

Conceptual framework, Income measurement, Finalaccounts, Accounting for
partnership firms, Hire-purchase accounting, Corporateaccounting
(Issue, forfeiture and re-issue of shares, Redemption of preference
shares).

ii) Business Organisations : Business objectives,
Business environment,Business entrepreneurship (including location,
choice of form of business and growthstrategies), Business operations
including finance, production, marketing and humanresource development.

iii) Management : Concept of management, Planning, Organising, Leadingand Controlling.

iv)Micro-economics : Price-mechanism, Theory of consumer
behaviour,Elasticity of demand, Production function, Theory of costs,
Market structures, Pricedeterminationunder perfect competition and
monopoly.

v) Indian Economics: Issues involved in planning for
economic development,Sectoral analysis of Indian economy including
agriculture, industry and foreign trade.

vi) Business Statistics: Analysis of univariate data involving measurement ofcentral tendency and dispersion, correlation and regression analysis, index numbers,analysis of time-series, Theory of probability.

vii)Business law: Indian Contract Act, 1872, Sale of Goods Act, 1930,
PartnershipAct, 1932 and Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881.

viii)Company law: Kinds of companies, matters involving incorporation
ofcompany, shares and share capital and matters relating to issue and
transfer of shares,members of a company, management of a company,
meetings and resolutions, windingup of a company, amalgamation of
companies, latest improvement amendmentsbrought out in the Companies
Act etc.

ix) Cost accounting: Procedures involved in cost accounting, Marginalcosting, Cost-volume profit analysis, Budgetary control, Standard costing.

x) Auditing : Meaning and objects of auditing, Types of audit, Audit process.xi) Income Tax : Basic concepts, Residence and tax liability, heads of income.xii) Marketing and advertisements: IT Patents, Trade Marks, Copy right laws,Intellectual Property Rights, W.T.O