CA Foundation Course (Syllabus) 2025

Paper-1: Accounting

Paper-2: Business Laws

Paper-3: Quantitative Aptitude

Paper-4: Business Economics

Foundation Course - Paper-1: Accounting- (Applicable for May 2025 Exam)

Chapter 1: Theoretical Framework

Unit 1: Meaning and Scope of Accounting

Unit 2: Accounting Concepts, Principles and Conventions

Unit 3: Capital and Revenue Expenditures and Receipts

Unit 4: Contingent Assets and Contingent Liabilities

Unit 5: Accounting Policies

Unit 6: Accounting as a Measurement Discipline – Valuation Principles, Accounting Estimates

Unit 7: Accounting Standards

Chapter 2: Accounting Process

Unit 1: Basic Accounting Procedures – Journal entries

Unit 2: Ledgers

Unit 3: Trial Balance

Unit 4: Subsidiary Books

Unit 5: Cash Book

Unit 6: Rectification of Errors

Chapter 3: Bank Reconciliation Statement

Chapter 4: Inventories

Chapter 5: Depreciation and Amortisation

Chapter 6: Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes

Chapter 7: Preparation of Final Accounts of Sole Proprietors

Unit 1: Final Accounts of Non-Manufacturing Entities

Unit 2: Final Accounts of Manufacturing Entities

Chapter 8: Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Organisations Chapter

Chapter 9: Accounts from Incomplete Records

Chapter 10: Partnership and LLP Accounts

Unit 1: Introduction to Partnership Accounts

Unit 2: Treatment of Goodwill in Partnership Accounts

Unit 3: Admission of a New Partner

Unit 4: Retirement of a Partner

Unit 5: Death of a Partner

Unit 6: Dissolution of Partnership Firms and LLPs

Chapter 11: Company Accounts

Unit 1: Introduction to Company Accounts

Unit 2: Issue, Forfeiture and Re-Issue of Shares

Unit 3: Issue of Debentures

Unit 4: Accounting for Bonus Issue and Right Issue

Unit 5: Redemption of Preference Shares

Unit 6: Redemption of Debentures

Foundation Course - Paper-2: Business Laws - (Applicable for May 2025 Exam)

Chapter 1: Indian Regulatory Framework

Chapter 2: The Indian Contract Act, 1872

Unit 1: Nature of Contracts

Unit 2: Consideration

Unit 3: Other Essential Elements of a Contract

Unit 4: Performance of Contract

Unit 5: Breach of Contract and its Remedies

Unit 6: Contingent and Quasi Contracts

Unit 7: Contract of Indemnity and Guarantee

Unit 8: Bailment and Pledge

Unit 9: Agency

Chapter 3: The Sale of Goods Act, 1930

Unit 1: Formation of the Contract of Sale

Unit 2: Conditions & Warranties

Unit 3: Transfer of Ownership and Delivery of Goods

Unit 4: Unpaid Seller

Chapter 4: The Indian Partnership Act, 1932

Unit 1: General Nature of Partnership

Unit 2: Relations of Partners

Unit 3: Registration and Dissolution of a Firm

Chapter 5: The Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008

Chapter 6: The Companies Act, 2013

Chapter 7: The Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881

Foundation Course - Paper-3: Quantitative Aptitude (Applicable for May 2025 Exam)

PART-A: BUSINESS MATHEMATICS

Chapter 1: Ratio and Proportion, Indices, Logarithms

Chapter 2: Equations

Chapter 3: Linear Inequalities

Chapter 4: Mathematics of Finance

Chapter 5: Basic Concepts of Permutations and Combinations

Chapter 6: Sequence and Series – Arithmetic and Geometric Progressions

Chapter 7: Sets, Relations and Functions, Basics of Limits and Continuity functions

Chapter 8: Basic Applications of Differential and Integral Calculus in Business and Economics

(A) Differential Calculus

(B) Integral Calculus

PART-B: LOGICAL REASONING

Chapter 9: Number Series, Coding and Decoding and Odd Man Out

Chapter 10: Direction Sense Test

Chapter 11: Seating Arrangements

Chapter 12: Blood Relations

PART-C: STATISTICS

PART-C: STATISTICS

Unit I: Statistical Description of Data

Unit II: Sampling

Chapter 14: Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion

Unit I: Measures of Central Tendency

Unit II: Dispersion

Chapter 15: Probability

Chapter 16: Theoretical Distributions

Chapter 17: Correlation and Regression

Chapter 18: Index Numbers

Foundation Course - Paper-4: Business Economics - (Applicable for May 2025 Exam)

Chapter 1: Nature & Scope of Business Economics

Unit 1: Introduction

Unit 2: Basic Problems of an Economy & Role of Price Mechanism

Chapter 2: Theory of Demand and Supply

Unit 1: Law of Demand and Elasticity of Demand

Unit 2: Theory of Consumer Behaviour

Unit 3: Supply

Chapter 3: Theory of Production and Cost

Unit 1: Theory of Production

Unit 2: Theory of Cost

Chapter 4: Price Determination in Different Markets

Unit 1: Meaning and Types of Markets

Unit 2: Determination of Prices

Unit 3: Price Output Determination under Different Market Forms

Chapter 5: Business Cycles

Chapter 6: Determination of National Income

Unit 1: National Income Accounting

Unit 2: The Keynesian Theory of Determination of National Income

Chapter 7: Public Finance

Unit 1: Fiscal Functions: An Overview, Centre and State Finance

Unit 2: Market Failure/ Government intervention to correct Market Failure

Unit 3: The Process of Budget Making: Sources of Revenue, Expenditure Management and Management of Public Debt

Unit 4: Fiscal Policy

Chapter 8: Money Market

Unit 1: The Concept of Money Demand: Important Theories

Unit 2: The Concept of Money Supply

Unit 3: Monetary Policy

Chapter 9: International Trade

Unit 1: Theories of International Trade

Unit 2: The Instruments of Trade Policy

Unit 3: Trade Negotiations

Unit 4: Exchange Rate and Its Economic Effects

Unit 5: International Capital Movements

Chapter 10: Indian Economy

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