CA Foundation Exam Syllabus

The CA Foundation Exam is conducted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and is the first level of the Chartered Accountancy course. The syllabus for the CA Foundation Exam is divided into four subjects:

1. Paper 1: Principles and Practices of Accounting
- Theoretical Framework
- Accounting Process
- Bank Reconciliation Statement
- Inventories
- Concept and Accounting of Depreciation
- Accounting for Special Transactions
- Final Accounts of Sole Proprietors
- Partnership Accounts
- Introduction to Company Accounts

2. Paper 2: Business Laws and Business Correspondence and Reporting
- Business Laws:
- Indian Contract Act, 1872
- Sale of Goods Act, 1930
- Indian Partnership Act, 1932
- Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008
- Business Correspondence and Reporting:
- Communication
- Sentence Types and Vocabulary
- Comprehension Passages
- Note Making
- Introduction to Basic Writing

3. Paper 3: Business Mathematics and Logical Reasoning & Statistics
- Business Mathematics:
- Ratio and Proportion, Indices, and Logarithms
- Equations and Matrices
- Linear Inequalities
- Time Value of Money
- Permutations and Combinations
- Sequence and Series
- Logical Reasoning:
- Number Series, Coding-Decoding, and Blood Relations
- Direction Sense Test
- Logical Venn Diagrams
- Analytical Reasoning
- Statement-Assumption
- Statistics:
- Statistical Description of Data
- Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion
- Probability
- Theoretical Distributions
- Correlation and Regression

4. Paper 4: Business Economics and Business and Commercial Knowledge
- Business Economics:
- Introduction to Microeconomics
- Theory of Demand and Supply
- Theory of Production and Cost
- Price Determination in Different Markets
- Business and Commercial Knowledge:
- Business Environment
- Business Organizations
- Government Policies for Business Growth
- Organizations Facilitating Business

It is important for CA Foundation candidates to thoroughly understand and study the topics mentioned in the syllabus to successfully clear the exam.