UGC NET Commerce Stream Test

Will you please provide me syllabus for the NET Commerce Stream examination organized by University Grants Commission

University Grants Commission is a well known organization that organized National eligibility test for recruitment in many streams .. below I am giving you syllabus for the UGC NET commerce stream

UGC NET commerce stream :
UGC NET Commerce Paper II and Paper III ( A ) ( Core Group ) :

Unit – I :
Business Environment :
Meaning and Elements of Business Environment.
Economic environment, Economic Policies, Economic Planning.
Legal environment of Business in India, Competition policy, Consumer protection, Environment protection.
Policy Environment : Liberalization Privatisation and globalisation, Second generation reforms, Industrial policy and implementation. Industrial growth and structural changes.

Unit – II :
Financial & Management Accounting :
Basic Accounting concepts, Capital and Revenue, Financial statements.
Partnership Accounts : Admission, Retirement, Death, Dissolution and Cash Distribution.
Advanced Company Accounts : Issue, forfeiture, Purchase of Business, Liquidation, Valuation of shares, Amalgamation, Absorption and Reconstruction, Holding Company Accounts.
Cost and Management Accounting : Ratio Analysis, Funds Flow Analysis, Cash Flow Analysis, Marginal costing and Break-even analysis, Standard costing, -Budgetary control, Costing for decision-making Responsibility accounting.

Unit – III :
Business Economics :
Nature and uses of Business Economics, Concept of Profit and Wealth maximization. Demand Analysis and Elasticity of Demand, Indifference Curve Analysis, Law.
Utility Analysis and Laws of Returns and Law of variable proportions.
Cost, Revenue, Price determination in different market situations : Perfect competition, Monopolistic competition, Monopoly, Price discrimination and Oligopoly, Pricing strategies.

Unit-IV :
Business Statistics & Data Processing :
Data types, Data collection and analysis, sampling, need, errors and methods of sampling, Normal distribution, Hypothesis testing, Analysis and Interpretation of Data.
Correlation and Regression, small sample tests : t-test, F-test and chi-square test.
Data processing : Elements, Data entry, Data processing and Computer applications.
Computer Application to Functional Areas : Accounting, Inventory control, Marketing.

Unit – V :
Business Management :
Principles of Management.
Planning : Objectives, Strategies, Planning process, Decision-making.
Organising, Organisational structure, Formal and Informal organisations, Organisational culture.
Staffing
Leading : Motivation, Leadership, Committees, Communication.
Controlling
Corporate Governance and Business Ethics.

Unit – VI :
Marketing Management :
The evolution of marketing, Concepts of marketing, Marketing mix, Marketing environment.
Consumer behaviour, Market segmentation.
Product decisions
Pricing decisions
Distribution decisions
Promotion decisions
Marketing planning, Organising and Control.

Unit – VII :

Financial Management :
Capital Structure, Financial and Operating leverage.
Cost of capital, Capital budgeting.
Working capital management
Dividend Policy

Unit – VIII :
Human Resources Management :
Concepts, Role and Functions of Human Resource management.
Human Resource Planning, Recruitment and Selection.
Training and Development, Succession Planning.
Compensation : Wage and Salary Administration, Incentive and Fringe benefits, Morale and Productivity.
Performance Appraisal
Industrial Relations in India, Health, Safety, Welfare and Social security, Workers’ Participation in Management.

Unit – IX :
Banking and Financial Institution :
Importance of Banking to Business, Types of Banks and Their Functions, Reserve Bank of India, NABARD and Rural Banking.
Banking Sector Reform in India, NPA, Capital adequacy norms.
E-banking
Development Banking : IDBI, IFCI, SFCs, UTI, SIDBI.

Unit – X :
International Business :
Theoretical foundations of international business, Balance of Payments.
International liquidity, International Economic Institutions : IMF, World Bank IFC, IDA, ADB.
World Trade Organisation-its functions and policies.
Structure of India’s foreign trade : Composition and direction, EXIM Bank, EXIM Policy of India, Regulation and promotion of Foreign Trade.

Paper – III (B) ( Elective / Optional ) :
Elective – I : Accounting and Finance
Accounting standards in India, Inflation Accounting, Human Resource Accounting, Responsibility Accounting, Social Accounting.
Money and Capital market, Working of stock exchanges in India, NSE, OTCEI, NASDAQ, Derivatives and Options.
Regulatory Authorities : SEBI, Rating Agencies; New Instruments; GDRs, ADRs.
Venture Capital Funds, Mergers and Acquisitions, Mutual Funds, Lease Financing, Factoring, Measurement of risk and returns securities and portfolios.
Computer Application in Accounting and Finance.

Elective – II : Marketing
Marketing Tasks, Concepts and Tools, Marketing Environment.
Consumer Behaviour and Market Segmentation.
Product decisions
Pricing decisions
Distribution decisions
Promotion decisions
Marketing Researchs
On-line marketing
Direct Marketing; Social, ethical and legal aspects of marketing in India.

Elective – III : Human Resource Management
Concept; Role and Functions of Human Resource Management.
Human Resource Planning, Job analysis, Job description and specifications, Use of Job analysis information, Recruitment and Selection.
Training and Development, Succession Planning.
Compensation : Wage and Salary administration, Incentives and Fringe benefits, Morale and Productivity.
Appraisal Performance
Industrial Relations in India, Health, Safety, Welfare and Social Security, Workers participation in Management.

Elective – IV : International Business
Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Corporations-MNCs Culture, MNCs and LDCs, Joint Ventures.
Regional Economic Integration : SAARC, ASEAN, EC, NAFTA.
India and WTO, Intellectual Property Rights.
Foreign Exchange : Exchange rate, Mechanism, Risk management, Transfer of international payments, Convertibility of Rupee, Current and Capital Accounts; Issues and Perceptions, Derivatives and Futures.
Foreign investment Institutions; Instruments : GDRs, ADRs, FIIs-their role in Indian Capital Market.

Elective – V : Income – tax Law and Tax Planning
Basic concepts, Residential status and tax incidence, exempted incomes, computation of taxable income under various heads.
Computation of taxable income of individuals and firms.
Deduction of tax, filing of returns, different types of assessment; Defaults and penalties.
Tax Planning : Concept, significance and problems of tax planning, Tax evasion and tax avoidance, methods of tax planning.
Tax considerations in specific business decisions, viz., make or buy; own or lease, retain or replace; export or domestic sales; shut-down or closure; expand or contract; invest or disinvest.
Computer Application in Income tax and Tax planning.

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I will write NET exam in commerce subject. Will you please forward me previous year question paper of the NET commerce test?

As per your request, I am forwarding you previous year question paper of the NET commerce stream.

There is acute shortage of electricity in some of the states in India. This reflects a problem in which type of business environment ?
(A) Economic
(B) Demographic
(C) Politico-legal
(D) Socio-cultural

Which of the following is true ?
(A) A consumer court setup under the Consumer Protection Act, does not have the power to punish for its contempt.
(B) Professional services are outside the purview of the CPA.
(C) A consumer court cannot force a person indulging in misleading advertising to confess his quit.
(D) None of the above.

Which one among the following is not the salient feature of industrial
policy since 1991 ?
(A) Enormous expansion of the private sector.
(B) Redefining the role of public sector.
(C) Limited exposure of Indian industry to foreign competition.
(D) Pruning of the list of items reserved for SSI units.

A, a partner in a firm, is drawing 500 regularly on the 16th of every month. He will have to pay interest at the given rate in a year on 6000 for the total period of
(A) 5 months (B) 6 months
(C) 7 months (D) 12 months

At a point of satiety for a commodity the marginal utility is
(A) Negative
(B) Positive
(C) Zero
(D) Highly positive

A rectangular hyperbola shaped demand curve on all its points has
(A) Equal slopes and equal point elasticities.
(B) Unequal slopes and unequal point elasticities.
(C) Unequal slopes and equal point elasticities.
(D) Equal slopes and unequal point elasticities


If the dependent variable increases as the independent variable increases in
an estimating equation, the coefficient of correlation will be in
the range
(A) 0 to (–) 1
(B) 0 to (–) 0
(C) 0 to (–) 0.05
(D) 0 to 1

Which one of the following options deals with the process of making estimates, predictions and decisions ?
(A) Descriptive statistics
(B) Inferential statistics
(C) Probability theory
(D) None of the above

A hypothesis test is being performed for a process in which a Type-I error will be very costly, but a Type-II error will be relatively inexpensive and unimportant. Which of the following would be the best choice for alpha (α) in this test ?
(A) 0.10
(B) 0.05
(C) 0.01
(D) 0.50









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