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CS Final course is ten months duration course which is the final stage course after clearing the foundation course on the path of becoming a Company Secretary.

The Institute of Company Secretaries of India has released new syllabus for the Company Secretary (CS) Final Program. CS Final Study Materials have been incorporated with all recent amendments, circulars, and notifications.

Below, we are providing the Study Material of CS Final latest editions applicable for 2017 exams. Interested students, please download the CS Final Syllabus Pdf from the below-stated links.

CS Final Syllabus Brief Details

Company Secretary Final Course Syllabus

Every stage of course is a mixture of postal tuition and optional coaching classes. The CS final syllabus consists of theoretical examinations only, and total nine papers are there. Each paper contains 100 marks.

The syllabus of CS final course includes topics like business communication, basic economics, company law, financial accounting, management accounting, banking & insurance, general and communication law, world trade organization and international trade etc.

The subjects of the CS Final course is given below.

• Paper 1: Advanced Company Law & Practice
• Paper 2: Secretarial Practice Relating to Economic Laws and Drafting & Conveyancing
• Paper 3: Secretarial, Management and Systems Audit
• Paper 4: Financial, Treasury and Forex management
• Paper 5: Corporate restructuring – Law, and Practice
• Paper 6: Banking and Insurance – Law and Practice
• Paper 7: World Trade Organization – International Trade, Joint Ventures & Foreign Collaborations
• Paper 8: Direct and Indirect Taxation – Law and Practice
• Paper 9: Human resources management and industrial relations.

Syllabus for CS Final Examination

Group I

Paper 1: Advanced Company Law & Practice

1. Petitions, Applications and Appearances before Company Law Board
2. Applications to the Central Government
3. Petitions to the Court
4. Inspection and Investigation
5. Corporate Collapse
6. Receivers and Managers
7. Choosing the Appropriate Form
8. Buy-back of Shares
9. Insider Trading
10. Investor Relations
11. Contemporary Practices and Emerging Perspective on Corporate Governance
12. Reports of Various Committees on Corporate Governance
13. International Dimensions of Company Law
14. Other Emerging and Contemporary Issues and Practices in Company Law.

Paper 2: Secretarial Practice Relating to Economic Laws and Drafting & Conveyancing

Part A: Secretarial Practice Relating to Economic Laws 

1. Industrial Policy and Development
2. Foreign Exchange Management and Regulation
3. Competition Law and Procedure
4. Laws relating to Infrastructure Development
5. Environmental Policy and Legislations

Part B: Drafting & Conveyancing

1. General Principles of Drafting
2. General Principles of Conveyancing
3. Drafting of Orders
4. Drafting of Contracts
5. Awards and Reports
6. Deeds of Sale of Land, Building
7. Deeds of Mortgages and Charges
8. Deeds of Pledge
9. License and Lease Deeds
10. Deeds for Hire-purchase of Machinery, Plant and Other Chattels
11. Trust Deeds
12. Deed of Exchange and Gift Deeds
13. Deed of Assignment
14. Partnership Deeds
15. Deeds of Power of Attorney
16. Drafting of Other Documents, Petitions and Applications.

Paper 3: Secretarial, Management and Systems Audit

Part A: Secretarial Audit 

1. Company Secretary in Practice
2. Areas of Practice
3. Setting up of Professional Practice
4. Secretarial Audit and Auditors
5. Certification, Due Diligence, and Signing
6. Pre-certification of Documents
7. Search/Status Reports
8. Securities Audit
9. Due Diligence of Pre-capital Issues Work
10. Due Diligence of Post-capital Issue Work
11. Share Transfer Audit
12. Internal Audit of Depository Participants
13. Compliance Certificate

Part B: Management Audit

1. Management Audit
2. Operational Audit
3. Internal Audit
4. Internal Control
5. Review of Internal Control
6. Cost Audit

Part C: Systems Audit

Systems Audit

Group II

Paper 4: Financial, Treasury and Forex management

1. Nature and Scope of Financial Management
2. Capital Budgeting Decisions
3. Capital Structure Decisions
4. Sources of Company Finance
5. Dividend Policy
6. Working Capital Management and Control
7. Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
8. Financial Services
9. Project Planning and Control
10. Derivatives
11. Treasury Management
12. Forex Management
13. Recent Developments in Financial, Treasury and Forex Management
14. Case Studies

Paper 5: Corporate restructuring – Law, and Practice

1. Introduction
2. Strategies
3. Mergers and Amalgamations
4. Takeovers
5. Revival and Restructuring of Sick Companies
6. Funding of Mergers and Takeovers
7. Valuation of Shares and Business
8. Corporate Demergers/Splits and Divisions
9. Post-Merger Re-organization
10. Financial Restructuring
11. Alliances
12. Legal Documentation
13. Case Studies

Paper 6: Banking and Insurance – Law and Practice

Part A: Banking Law and Practice 

1. Introduction to banking
2. Relationship between banker and customer
3. Law and procedure governing banking instruments
4. Management of assets
5. Lending policies
6. Development banking

Part B: Insurance Law and Practice

1. Insurance
2. Life insurance
3. General insurance
4. Accident and motor insurance
5. Deposit and credit insurance
6. Marine insurance
7. Risk management
8. Insurance surveyorship

Paper 7: World Trade Organization – International Trade, Joint Ventures & Foreign Collaborations 

1. International Trade and Trading Blocks
2. World Trade Organization (WTO)
3. Anti-dumping Duties
4. Subsidies and Countervailing Duties
5. Competition Law and International Trade
6. Intellectual Property
7. Foreign Collaborations and Joint Ventures
8. Export-Import Policy and Procedures
9. Settlement of Disputes under WTO
10. International Commercial Arbitration

Paper 8: Direct and Indirect Taxation – Law and Practice

Part A: Direct Taxation – Law and Practice

1. General Framework of Direct Taxation in India
2. Companies under Income-tax Laws
3. Tax Planning
4. Advance Rulings
5. Tax Management

Part B: Indirect Taxation – Law and Practice 

1. Introduction
2. Central Excise Laws
3. Service Tax
4. Customs Laws
5. Central Sales-tax Laws
6. Central Sales-tax Laws
7. Promissory Estoppel in Fiscal Laws
8. Tax Planning and Management

Paper 9: Human resources management and industrial relations 

Part A: Human Resource Management 

1. Introduction to Human Resource Management
2. Structure and Role of Human Resource management
3. Human Resource Planning and Procurement
4. Human Resource Training and Development
5. Compensation Management
6. Performance Appraisal
7. Human Resource Organization

Part B: Industrial Relations

1. Industrial Relations
2. Anatomy of Industrial Relations
3. Industrial Relations Policy
4. Industrial Disputes
5. Collective Bargaining
6. Dispute Settlement Mechanism
7. Industrial Adjudication
8. Industrial Relations Related Laws
9. Union Negotiations
10. Voluntary Retirement Schemes