Section Officer Grade Examination CAG India

Will you please provide here the examination Structure detail of Section Officer’s Grade Examination for Civil Audit Branch of Comptroller and Audit General of India (CAG) India .

[Arun Vats]

As you want I am here providing you examination Structure detail of Section Officer’s Grade Examination for Civil Audit Branch of Comptroller and Audit General of India (CAG) India.

Structure of Section Officer’s Grade Examination for Civil Audit Branch:

This test will contain two parts. The following are the subjects of part 1 with their marks and duration.
Service Regulations (Theory) – 100 marks with duration of 1 ½ hours
Service Regulations (Practical) – 100 marks with duration of 2 ½ hours
Financial Rules and Principles of Government Accounts – 100 marks with duration of 2 hours
Constitution of India – 100 marks with 2 hours

The following are the subjects of part2 with their marks and duration
Précis and Draft – 100 marks with duration of 2 ½ hours
Public Works Accounts (Theory) – 100 marks with duration of 1 ½ hours
Public Works Accounts (Practical) – 100 marks with duration of 3 hours
Financial Accounting with Elementary Costing - 100 marks with duration of 3 hours
Government Audit - 100 marks with duration of 2 ½ hours
Computer System (Theory) – 50 marks with duration of 1 hour
Computer System (Practical) – 50 marks with duration of 2 hours
Statistics and Statistical sampling – 100 marks with duration of 2 hours

Syllabus :


Service Regulations- Theory & Practical
Fundamental Rules
Travelling Allowances Rules as contained in the Supplementary Rules
Central Civil Services Rules
Defined Contribution Pension Scheme

Financial Rules and Principles of Government Accounts
Central Government Accounts Rules
Central Government Compilation of General Financial Rules
Comptroller and Auditor General’s Manual of Standing Orders (A&E) Vol.II

Constitution of India
Parts I, V, VI, VIII, IX, IX A, X, XI, XII, XIV, XVIII, XIX and XX of the Constitution of India together with relevant Schedules appended to it
Comptroller and Auditor General’s Act1971

Précis and Draft
Précis of a correspondence or of notes on an official subject which is relevant and interesting to Accounts/Audit Offices in the Department
Drafting of an official letter or Office Memorandum

Public Works Accounts
CPWA Code with Appendices- First Edition 1993 ( Revised)
Account Code Volume-III
CAG’s Manual of Standing Orders (A&E) Vol.I

Financial Accounting with Elementary Costing
Financial Accounting
Accounting Process
Depreciation
Provisions
Reserves
Bills of Exchange
Promissory Notes and Cheques
Financial statements
Accounts of Joint stock companies
Accounting Standards of ICAI
International Public Sector Accounting Standards of IFAC
Uniform Format of Accounts for Central Autonomous
Cost Accounting

Government Audit
Brouchure on Comptroller & Auditor General’s (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Act
CAG’s Manual of Standing Orders (Audit)
Auditing Standards issued by C & AG.
Manual of Autonomous Bodies
Performance Audit Guidelines
Auditing and Assurance Standards of ICAI
INTOSAI Guidelines on Internal Control
ASSOSAI Guidelines for dealing with Fraud and Corruption

Computer System-Theory
Information concepts
Elements of a Computer, Hardware-Software-Computer Capabilities and Limitations
Computers and Communication
Operating System (OS): Concepts, Basic Operations of Windows
Principles of data security, preventive maintenance and trouble shooting

Computer System – Practical
Introduction to Windows 98
An overview of MS Office’97 covering MS-Excel 97, MS Power Point’ 97 and MS-Access’97 and MS-Word 97
Operating skills in Word Processing Package (MS-Word 97)

Statistics and Statistical sampling
Introduction to Statistical methods
Summarization of data
Measures of Central Tendency
Measures of Dispersion
Other statistical Measures
Elementary Probability Theory
Statistical Sampling
Risk Analysis & Audit Sampling