Organisation : Meghalaya Public Service Commission
Announcement : Syllabus
Designation : Treasury Officer, Finance & Accounts Officer

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Treasury Officer, Finance & Accounts Officer Syllabus :
General English :
Shall confine to Precis writing, Drafting, Essay on topics of national importance/ current events / economy of India & Meghalaya, and grammatical comprehension.

General Studies :
Shall comprise of General Science, Current events of national and international importance, History of India and Indian National Movement, Indian and World Geography, Indian Polity and Economy, General Mental Ability.

a) On General Science, questions will cover general appreciation and . understanding of science including matters of everyday observation and experience as may be expected of an educated person not necessarily one who specialist study in any scientific discipline.
b) On Current events, questions/probe of knowledge on topics of local, national and international importance.

c) On History of India, emphasis will be on broad general understanding of the subject in its social, economic and political aspect. And on Indian National Movement, question will relate to nature and character of the 19th century resurgence, growth of nationalism and attainment of Independence.

d) On Geography, emphasis will be on Indian Geography. Questions on Geography of India will relate to physical, social and economic geography of the country, including the main features of Indian agricultural and natural resources.

e) On Indian Polity and Economy, questions will be on knowledge of the country's political system and Constitution of India, Panchayati Raj, Social System and economic developments in India.
f) On General Mental Ability, the candidates will be tested on reasoning and analytical abilities.

Optional Papers :
Commerce :
Paper I : Accountancy (150 marks)
Unit 1 : Accounting principles - concepts and conventions, journal, ledger, trial balance, rectification of error, cashbook - (single, double and triple column excluding petty cash book), preparation of bank reconciliation statement.

Unit 2 : Accounting Standards (concepts only). Capital and revenue expenditure, construction of trading, profit and loss account and balance sheet of sole proprietorship concerns with adjustments. Simple problems on final accounts of companies [Horizontal and Vertical presentation]. Preparation of income and expenditure account and balance sheet (from receipts and payments Account) with common adjustments for non trading institutions.

Unit 3 : Ratio Analysis - meaning, advantages, limitations, types of ratios and their usefulness, simple problems on ratio analysis.Fund Flow Analysis - preparation of statement of changes in working capital, preparation of fund flow statement. Cash Flow Analysis - Difference between cash flow statement and fund flow statement, preparation of cash flow statement (Direct/Indirect method).

Unit 4 : Budget, Theoretical concept of different types of budget, preparation of flexible budgets and cash budgets. Concept of Zero Base Budgeting. Capital budgeting, meaning of, various methods of ranking investment . proposals, numerical problems (payback period method, present value method, rate of return method)

Unit 5 : Installation of costing system, classification of cost, preparation of cost sheet. Marginal costing, Basic concepts of, break-even analysis, construction of break-even chart, practical problems of break-even analysis (use of BEP, PN ratio, contribution, margin of safety, target profit, target sales), application of marginal costing in decision making.

Paper II : Management and Statistics
Section A : Management 75 marks)
Unit : 1 Planning and Decision making - Types of planning, planning process, rational decision making, evaluation of alternatives, Management Information System, major factors determining success of planning, effective implementation. Management by Objectives.

Unit : 2 Organization and Communication, Types of organizational structure, centralization, decentralization. Communication, process of, formal and informal communication, barriers to communication, flow of communication. Motivation.

Unit : 3 Controlling and Management of Change - control process, critical control points and standards . . Controlling techniques - budgetary and non budgetary control, PERT, CPM. Preventive control - budget summary and reports, profit and loss control, control through return on investment, direct control V s preventive control. Management of change

Section B : Statistics (75 marks)
Unit : 1 Meaning, scope and limitations of Statistics. Collection of data - types of data, methods of collection, sources, classification, tabulation, presentation. Measure of central tendency - mean, median, mode. Measure of dispersion - range, quartile deviation/semi inter quartile range, mean deviation and standard deviation (including coefficients).

Unit : 2 Index Number - meaning, utility, construction of various types of index number. Time series analysis - components (secular trend, seasonal variations, cyclical variations, residual/irregular variations), measurement of trends (graphic, semi-average, moving average, least squares).

Unit : 3 Correlation- scatter diagram, Karl Pearson's coefficient of correlation, rank correlation. Interpolation and extrapolation - meaning, methods of interpolation (Binomial expansion, Newton's Lagrange's). Probability - simple applications (numerical problems) of Addition and Multiplication theorems