PFRDA Assistant Manager Grade A Syllabus and Exam Pattern 2022

The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has issued the official notification for the recruitment of the most eligible and abled candidates for the post of Grade A Assistant Manager. The post of Grade A Assistant Manager is highly prestigious. The recruitment will be done based on the prescribed selection process. The most important step to fulfilling your wishes is to crack the exam conducted by the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority.

The selection process for the post of Grade A Assistant Manager includes the online screening followed by the online exam and the interview. Only thos3 candidates who are selected in the first two stages will only be allowed to participate in the interview. The exam will be conducted online. There are two phases for the exam namely Phase I and Phase II. The exam dates for the phases will be intimated to the candidates through the official website of PFRDA.

Those candidates who wish to crack this highly competitive exam shall frequently check the official website for more latest details. As the number of candidates who have applied for the post is high, then candidates need to start the preparation at the earliest. The syllabus and the exam pattern for the upcoming Assistant Manger post under PFRDA are crucial. The candidates who are ready to participate in the recruitment process shall check the Assistant Manager Exam Pattern and Syllabus here.

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PFRDA Assistant Manager Grade A Exam Pattern 2022

The candidates who are eagerly waiting for the exam pattern for the upcoming PFRDA Assistant Manager Grade A exam can go through the below-furnished information. The exam pattern can decide the course of the exam. The candidates should stick on to the exam pattern while preparing for the exam. The initial phase of the selection is the online exam. The candidates shall expect multiple choice questions. The candidates can check the online exam pattern for the PFRD A Assistant Manager Grade A here.

The next phase of the exam is the online exam phase II. Those candidates who have cleared phase I can attend the  PHASE II online exam. The exam pattern is given below for the candidates to refer to. The candidates shall expect the negative marking system in this phase. A maximum of ¼ of the total marks will be deducted for each wrong answer, The candidates can attend the exam either in Hindi or English. The candidates shall receive a weightage of 85%  for phase II of the online exam. Phase III of the recruitment process shall only receive 15% of weightage.

PFRDA Assistant Manager Grade A Syllabus 2022

The syllabus plays a vital role while preparing for any competitive exams. The candidates should check the syllabus thoroughly before setting up the study plan. The candidates should keep one thing in mind the general stream syllabus will be common for both phases of the exam. Check the detailed syllabus for PFRDA Assistant Manager Grade A exam here.

Commerce & Accountancy

• Accounting as a financial information system
• Accounting Standards with specific reference to Accounting for Depreciation
• Accounting for Inventories
• Accounting for Revenue Recognition
• Accounting for Fixed Assets
• Accounting for Foreign Exchange Transactions
• Accounting for Investments
• Cash Flow Statement
• Fund flow statement
• Financial statement analysis
• Ratio analysis
• Accounting for Share Capital Transactions
• Employees Stock Option
• Buy-Back of Securities
• Preparation and Presentation of Company Final Accounts.

Management

• Management: its nature and scope
• Management Processes
• Major management processes such as Organization, Staffing, Planning, Directing, and Controlling
• Role of a Manager in an Organization
• Leadership
• The Tasks of a Leader
• Leadership Styles
• Leadership Theories
• A successful Leader versus an effective Leader.
• Human Resource Development
• Concept of HRD
• Goals of HRD
• Motivation, Morale, and Incentives
• Theories of Motivation
• Managers’ Motivate
• Concept of Morale
• Factors determining morale
• Role of Incentives in Building up Morale.
• Communication
• Steps in the Communication Process
• Communication Channels
• Oral versus Written Communication
• Verbal versus non-verbal Communication
• Types of upward, downward, and lateral communication
• Barriers to Communication
• Role of Information Technology.

Finance

Financial System

• Role and Functions of Regulatory bodies in the Financial Sector.

Financial Markets

• Primary and Secondary Markets
• Functions, instruments, and recent developments.

General Topics

• Basics of Derivative
• Forward, Futures, and Swap
• Recent Developments in the Financial Sector
• Financial Inclusion
• Use of technology
• Alternate source of finance
• Private and social cost-benefit
• Public-Private Partnership
• Direct and Indirect taxes
• Non-tax sources of Revenue
• GST
• Finance Commission
• Fiscal Policy
• Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act (FRBM)
• Inflation: Definition
• Inflation: trends
• Inflation: estimates
• Inflation: consequences and remedies (control)
• WPI, CPI – components, and trends.

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Costing

• Overview of Cost and Management Accounting
• Introduction to Cost and Management Accounting
• Standard Costing
• Marginal Costing
• Budget and Budgetary Control
• Objectives and Scope of Cost and Management Accounting
• Methods of Costing
• Single Output/ Unit Costing, Job Costing, Batch Costing, Contract Costing Process/Operation Costing
• Costing of Service Sectors.
• Basics of Cost Control and Analysis

Lean System and Innovation

• Introduction to Lean System
• 5 Ss
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
• Cellular Manufacturing
• One-Piece Flow Production Systems
• Six Sigma (SS)
• Just-in-Time (JIT)
• Kaizen Costing
• Introduction to Process Innovation
• Business Process Re-engineering (BPR).

Companies Act

• Companies Act 2013
• Specific reference to Chapter III
• Specific reference to Chapter IV
• Specific reference to Chapter VIII
• Specific reference to Chapter X
• Specific reference to Chapter XI
• Specific reference to Chapter XII
• Specific reference to Chapter XXVII.

Economics

• Demand and Supply
• Market Structures
• National Income
• Concepts and Measurement
• Classical & Keynesian Approach
• Determination of output and employment
• Consumption Function
• Investment Function
• Multiplier and Accelerator
• Demand and Supply for Money
• IS-LM
• Inflation and Phillips Curve
• Business Cycles
• Balance of Payments
• Foreign Exchange Markets
• Inflation
• Monetary and Fiscal Policy
• Nonbanking Financial Institutions.

Pension Sector

• National Pension System
• Atal Pension Yojana
• Annuity Plans
• Basics of investment
• Status of the pension sector in India
• Types of retirement schemes in India and their features

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Syllabus for Paper 2: Information Technology Stream

• Database Concepts
• ER‐model.
• Relational model
• Relational algebra
• Tuple calculus
• Functional and Logic Programming
• OOPS Concepts
• Inheritance, Class, and object
• Constructors, Functions, Exception Handling
• Data Analytics Languages
• Regex, Slicing, Data reshaping
• Data frames, Dictionaries, and Sets
• File Management, Classes, and Functions
• Data Mining, Lists
• Importing and exporting data
• Charts and graphs
• Integrity constraints
• Normal forms
• File organization
• Indexing Transactions and concurrency control
• SQL Queries Select
• View, truncate, delete, update, alter, Inner join
• Different types of outer joins
• Use of aggregate functions
• Union, intersection
• Except, in and existing clauses
• Nested queries
• Programming Concepts
• Program control
• Scope of variables
• Binding of variables & functions
• Parameter passing
• Algorithms for problem-solving Tree and graph traversals
• Connected components
• Spanning trees
• Shortest paths
• Hashing, Sorting, Searching
• Design techniques
• Greedy, Dynamic Programming
• Divide and conquer
• Networking Concepts ISO/OSI stack
• LAN Technologies (Ethernet, Token ring)
• TCP/UDP
• IP
• Basic concepts of switches
• Gateways and routers
• Application layer protocols (DNS, SMTP, POP, FTP, HTTP
• Firewalls
• Information & Cyber Security Concepts Cyber Attacks
• Software Development Security
• Network security
• Authentication
• CIA – Confidentiality
• Integrity and Availability
• Network Audit
• Systems Audit
• Data warehousing Data Extraction
• Data Cleaning
• Data Transformation
• Data Loading
• Metadata
• Data Cube
• Data Mart
• Data Models
• Shell Programming
• Shell Scripting Basics
• Shell Variables
• Shell Script Arguments
• If Statement
• Loop, Return, Basic UNIX commands

Syllabus for Paper 2: Research (Economics) Stream

Economics

• Demand and Supply
• Market Structures
• National Income
• Determination of output and employment
• Investment Function
• Multiplier and Accelerator
• Demand and Supply for Money
• IS-LM, Inflation, and Phillips Curve
• Business Cycles
• Inflation, Monetary and Fiscal Policy
• Banking Functions
• Public Goods
• Tax & Non-Tax Revenue
• Direct & Indirect Taxes
• Fiscal Balance
• Public Debt
• Public Budget and Foreign Trade
• Balance of Payments.

Statistics and Econometrics

• Measures of Central tendency & dispersions
• Correlation
• Sampling methods
• Sampling Distribution
• Statistical Inferences
• Hypothesis testing
• Regression Analysis
• Panel Data Analysis
• Time Series Properties and Analysis.

Financial Institutions and Markets

• Asymmetric Information
• Market Model
• Market Efficiency
• Money, Credit, and Capital Markets
• Primary Market, Secondary Market
• Commodity Markets
• Mutual Funds
• Stock Exchanges
• Credit Rating Agencies
• Pension And Insurance Markets
• Foreign Exchange Markets
• Role of International Financial Institutions
• IS, IMF
• World Bank

Syllabus for Paper 2: Legal Stream

• PFRDA Act, 2013
• IRDAI Act, 1999
• SEBI Act, 1992
• Constitution of India
• Preamble( Part I- Part XX)
• Law of Contracts
• Indian Contract Act, 1872
• Indian Partnership Act, 1932
• Specific Relief Act, 1963
• Criminal Law
• Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Chapter I- Chapter XXIII)
• Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
• Law of Evidence
• Indian Evidence Act, 1872
• Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 –(Part I-Part VII) Schedule-I
• Administrative Law
• Principles of Natural Justice
• Jurisprudence and Interpretation of Statutes
• Important Latin terms and maxims
• Law of Torts and Consumer Protection Act, 2019,
• Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 –Part I, Part III, Part IV,
• Transfer of Property Act, 1882 –Chapter III, Chapter IV, Chapter V,
• Law of Trusts –Parties to a Trust Deed and Duties of Trustees,
• Corporate Law –Companies Act, 2013
• Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008
• Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (Part I, Part II)
• Taxation –General principles

Syllabus for Paper 2: Finance and Accounts

• The Basic Financial Statement
• Trial Balance
• Forecasting
• Management Accounting
• Cost of capital
• Capital structure
• Capital budgeting
• Sources of finance
• Corporate accounting
• Business law
• Negotiable instruments
• Contract act
• Partnership act
• Balance Sheet
• Cash flow statement
• Income Statement
• Analysis of Financial Statement Ratio
• Break Even Analysis
• IND AS
• Standard on Auditing
• Cost accounting concepts (basics)
• Marginal costing
• Cost volume profit analysis
• Cost sheet
• Role and Functions of Regulatory bodies in the Financial Sector
• Financial Markets
• Primary and Secondary Markets
• Functions, instruments, and recent developments.
• General Topics
• Basics of Derivatives
• Recent Developments in the Financial Sector
• Financial Inclusion
• Use of technology
• Company law
• Income Tax Act
• GST
• Non-tax sources of Revenue
• Finance Commission
• Fiscal Policy
• Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act (FRBM)
• Economics: Capital market
• Money market
• Micro and macroeconomics
• RBI policies
• Knowledge of IT
• Digital Transaction
• Compliance with KYC Norms
• Financial System
• Alternate source of finance
• Private and social cost-benefit
• Public-Private Partnership
• Direct and Indirect taxes

Paper 1 of Phase- II:- English Writing Skills

• Writing skills include precis writing, essay writing, and comprehension

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