CA Foundation Business Economics weightage September 2024: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has issued updated and revised Section-wise Weightage for CA Foundation Paper-4 Business Economics applicable for September 2024 and subsequent exams till further changes are made.
CA Institute revised the weightage of marks for the examinations to be held in the year 2024. CA Foundation students may download in PDF chapter wise marks allocation. This facility would help you to plan your studies in a structured manner for the coming ICAI 2024 examinations.
Weightage of marks for Business Economics paper is here. Fourth paper of CA Foundation course is Business Economics (100 Marks). Download section-wise and chapter-wise allocation of marks for Business Economics paper.
The CA Institute has published new section wise and skill wise weightages of marks for CA Foundation September 2024 examinations. The Board of Studies (BoS) of ICAI has assigned weightage of marks to various sections of Paper 4: Business Economics.
The question paper would take into consideration the weightage range assigned to different sections.
CA Foundation Paper-4 Section wise Weightage
| Section No. | Weightage |
|---|---|
| Section-I: | 5% |
| Section-II: | 10% |
| Section-III: | 10% |
| Section-IV: | 15% |
| Section-V: | 15% |
| Section-VI: | 5% |
| Section-VII: | 10% |
| Section-VIII: | 10% |
| Section-IX: | 10% |
| Section-X: | 10% |
CA Foundation Paper-4 Chapter wise Weightage
| Chapter Name | Weightage |
|---|---|
| Chapter 1: Nature & Scope of Business Economics | 5 Marks |
| Chapter 2: Theory of Demand and Supply | 10 Marks |
| Chapter 3: Theory of Production and Cost | 10 Marks |
| Chapter 4: Price Determination in Different Markets | 15 Marks |
| Chapter 5: Business Cycles | 5 Marks |
| Chapter 6: Determination of National Income | 15 Marks |
| Chapter 7: Public Finance | 10 Marks |
| Chapter 8: Money Market | 10 Marks |
| Chapter 9: International Trade | 10 Marks |
| Chapter 10: Indian Economy | 10 Marks |
CA Foundation Weightage of Marks for Business Economics
Section-I (Weightage 5%) i.e. 5 Marks
Introduction to Business Economics: Meaning and scope of Business Economics Basic Problems of an Economy and Role of Price Mechanism.
Section-II (Weightage 10%) i.e. 10 Marks
Theory of Demand and Supply: Meaning and Determinants of Demand, Law of Demand and Elasticity of Demand – Price, Income and Cross Elasticity Theory of Consumer’s Behaviour –Indifference Curve approach Meaning and Determinants of Supply, Law of Supply and Elasticity of Supply, Market Equilibrium and Social Efficiency.
Section-III (Weightage 10%) i.e. 10 Marks
Theory of Production and Cost: Meaning and Factors of Production, Short Run and Long Run Law of Production – The Law of Variable Proportions and Laws of Returns to Scale, Producer’s Equilibrium Concepts of Costs – Short-run and long-run costs, Average and Marginal Costs, Total, Fixed and Variable Costs.
Section-IV (Weightage 15%) i.e. 15 Marks
Price Determination in Different Markets: Market Structures: Perfect Competition, Monopoly and Monopolistic Competition. Using Game Theory to study Oligopoly. Price Determination in these Markets Price- Output Determination under different Market Forms.
Section-V (Weightage 15%) i.e. 15 Marks
Determination of National Income:
- Macro Economic Aggregates and Measurement of National Income
- Determination of National Income: Keynes’ Two Sector Basic Model, Three Sectors and Four Sectors Models
Section-VI (Weightage 5%) i.e. 5 Marks
Business Cycles:
- Meaning
- Phases
- Features
- Causes behind these Cycles
Section-VII (Weightage 10%) i.e. 10 Marks
Public Finance:
- Fiscal functions: An Overview, Centre and State Finance
- Market Failure/ Government intervention to correct market failure
- Process of budget making: Sources of Revenue, Expenditure Management, and Management of Public Debt.
- Fiscal Policy
Section-VIII (Weightage 10%) i.e. 10 Marks
Money Market
- Concept of Money Demand
- Important theories of Demand for Money
- Concept of Money Supply, Cryptocurrency and other new terminology
- Monetary Policy
Section-IX (Weightage 10%) i.e. 10 Marks
International Trade
- Theories of International Trade including theories of intra-industry trade by Krugman.
- Trade Policy – The Instruments of Trade Policy
- Trade Negotiations
- Exchange Rates and its economic effects
- International Capital Movements: Foreign Direct Investment
Section-X (Weightage 10%) i.e. 10 Marks
Indian Economy (Before 1950-Chanakya and Nand Vansh, OECD Paper (1950-1991), Basic knowledge 1991 Onwards.