Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) Part 1 syllabus and course input details for session 2023-24 have been amended by Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Ayodhya.
Objective: the objective of this course is to develop effective business communication skills among the students.
Unit I: Introducing Business Communication: Basic forms of communicating: Communication models and processes; Effective communication; Theories of communication; Audience analysis.
Unit II: Self-Development and Communication: Development of positive personal attitudes; SWOT analysis; Vote’s model of interdependence; Whole communication.
Unit III: Corporate Communication: Formal and informal communication networks; Grapevine; Miscommunication (Barriers); Improving communication. Practices - in business communication; Group discussions; Mock interviews; Seminars; Effective listening exercises; Individual and group presentations and reports writing.
Unit IV: Principles of Effective Communication
Unit V: Writing Skills: Planning business messages; Rewriting and editing; The first draft; Reconstructing the final draft; Business letters and memo formats; Appearance request letters; Good news and bad news letters; Persuasive letters; Sales letters; Collection letters; Office memorandum.
Unit VI: Report Writing: Introduction to a proposal, short and format report, report preparation. Oral Presentation: Principles of oral presentation, factors affecting presentation, sales presentation, training presentation, conducting surveys, speeches to motivate, effective presentation skills.
Unit VII: Non-Verbal Aspects of Communicating. Body language: Kinesics, Proxemics, Para language. Effective listening: Principles of effective listening; Factors affecting listening exercises; Oral, written, and video sessions. Interviewing Skills: Appearing in interviews; Conducting interviews; Writing resume and letter of application. Modern Forms of Communicating: Fax; E-mail; Video conferencing; etc. International Communication: Cultural sensitiveness and cultural context; Writing and presenting in international situations; Inter-cultural factors in interactions; Adapting to global business.
Objective: this course aims at acquainting the students with the emerging issues in business at the national and international level in the light of the policies of liberalization and globalization.
Unit I: Indian Business Environment: Concept, components and importance
Unit II: Profile of Public Sector, Joint Sector and Co-Operative Sector
Unit III: Economic Trends (overview): Income; Saving and investment; Industry; Trade and balance of payments, Money; Finance; Prices
Unit IV: Problems of Growth: Unemployment; Poverty; Regional imbalances; Social injustice; Inflation; Parallel economy; Industrial sickness
Unit V: Role of Government: Monetary and fiscal policy; Industrial policy; Industrial licensing, Privatization; Devaluation; Export-Import policy; Regulation of foreign investment
Unit VI: The Current Five Year Plan: Major policies; Resource allocation
Unit VII: International Environment: International trading environment (overview); Trends in world trade and the problems of developing countries; Foreign trade and economic growth; International economic groupings; International economic institutions – GATT, WTO, UNCTAD, World Bank, IMF; GSP; GSTP; Countertrade
Objective: it provides exposure to the students to the entrepreneurial culture and industrial growth so as to preparing them to set up and manage their own small units.
Unit I: Introduction: The entrepreneur; Definition: Emergence of entrepreneurial class; Theories of entrepreneurship: Role of socio-economic environment; Characteristics of entrepreneur; Leadership; Risk taking; Decision-making and business planning
Unit II: Promotion of a Venture: Opportunities analysis; External environmental analysis-economic, social, and technological; Competitive factors; Legal requirements for establishment of a new unit, and raising of funds; Venture capital sources and documentation required
Unit III: Entrepreneurial Behavior: Innovation and entrepreneur; Entrepreneurial behavior and Psycho-Theories, Social responsibility
Unit IV: Entrepreneurial Development Programmes (EDP): EDP, their role, relevance and achievements; Role of Government in organizing EDPs; Critical evaluation
Unit V: Role of Entrepreneur: Role of an entrepreneur in economic growth as an innovator, generation of employment opportunities, complimenting and supplementing economic growth, bringing about social stability and balanced regional development of industries; Role in export promotion and import substation, forex earnings, and augmenting and meeting local demand
Objective: the objective of this course is to provide a brief idea about the framework of Indian business laws.
Unit I: Law of Contract (1872): Nature of contract; Classification; Offer and acceptance; Capacity of parties to contract; Free consent; Consideration; Legality of object; Agreement declared void; Performance of contract; Discharge of contract; Remedies for breach of contract
Unit II: Special Contracts: Indemnity; Guarantee; Bailment and pledge; Agency
Unit III: Sale of Goods Act 1930: Formation of contracts of sale; Goods and their classification, price; Conditions, and warranties; Transfer of property in goods; Performance of the contract of sales; Unpaid seller and his rights, sale by auction; Hire purchase agreement
Unit IV: Indian Partnership Act 1932: Nature, Concept of kinds of Partnership, Partnership Deed, Registration of Partnership firm, Dissolution of Partnership and Firm
Unit V: Negotiable Instrument Act 1881: Definition of negotiable instruments; Features; Promissory note; Bill of exchange & cheque; Holder and holder in the due course; Crossing of a cheque, types of crossing: Negotiation: Dishonor and discharge of negotiable instrument
Unit VI: The Consumer Protection Act 1986: Salient features; Definition of consumer; Grievance redressal machinery
Objective: this course is meant to acquaint the students with the principles of Business Economics as are applicable in business.
Unit I: Introduction: Nature, Scope and Significance of Business Economics; Role of Business Economist; Difference between Economics and Business Economics: Relationship of Business Economics with other Branches of Knowledge
Unit II: Elasticity of Demand: Concept and measurement of elasticity of demand; Price, income and cross elasticities; Average revenue, marginal revenue, and elasticity of demand; Determinants of elasticity of demand; Importance of elasticity of demand
Unit III: Consumption Function: Utility, Diminishing Marginal Utility and Equi-Marginal utility: Indifference Curve, Consumer Surplus
Unit IV: Theory of Costs: Short-run and long-run cost curves – traditional and modern approaches
Unit V: Market Structures: Market structures and business; Objectives of a business firm
Unit VI: Factor Pricing-I: Marginal Productivity theory and demand for factors; Nature of supply of factor inputs; Determination of wage rates under perfect competition and monopoly; Exploitation of labor; Rent-Concept; Ricardian and modern theories of rent; Quasi-rent
Unit VII: Factor Pricing-II: Interests-concept and theories of interest; Profit-nature, concepts, and theories of profit
Objective: the course exposes the students to the working of money and financial system prevailing in India.
Unit I: Money: Meaning, Functions & Significance of Money, Various forms of Money, Causes, remadies & effects of inflation, Deflation & reflation, Principal Method of note issues, Monetary standard: Gold standard, bi-metallise & managed currency standard
Unit II: Finance: Role of finance in an economy; Kinds of finance; Financial system; Components; Financial intermediaries; Markets and instruments, and their functions
Unit III: Indian Banking System: Indian Banking System: Definition of bank, Commercial banks-importance and functions; Structure of commercial banking system in India; Balance sheet of a Bank; Meaning and importance of main liabilities and assets; Regional rural banks; Cooperative banking in India
Unit IV: Process of Credit Creation by Banks: Credit creation process; Determination of money supply and total bank credit
Unit V: Development Banks and other Non-Banking Financial Institutions: Their main features; Unregulated credit markets in India-mean feature
Unit VI: The Reserve Bank of India: Functions; Instruments of monetary and credit control; main features of monetary policy since independence
Download RMLAU B.Com part 1 syllabus here in PDF: http://rmlau.ac.in/pdf/julbcom11.pdf
| Group – A: Paper – I Business Communication B.Com Part 1 Syllabus of RMLAU: |
Objective: the objective of this course is to develop effective business communication skills among the students.
| RMLAU B.Com Part 1 Course Inputs for Group A: Paper 1: |
Unit I: Introducing Business Communication: Basic forms of communicating: Communication models and processes; Effective communication; Theories of communication; Audience analysis.
Unit II: Self-Development and Communication: Development of positive personal attitudes; SWOT analysis; Vote’s model of interdependence; Whole communication.
Unit III: Corporate Communication: Formal and informal communication networks; Grapevine; Miscommunication (Barriers); Improving communication. Practices - in business communication; Group discussions; Mock interviews; Seminars; Effective listening exercises; Individual and group presentations and reports writing.
Unit IV: Principles of Effective Communication
Unit V: Writing Skills: Planning business messages; Rewriting and editing; The first draft; Reconstructing the final draft; Business letters and memo formats; Appearance request letters; Good news and bad news letters; Persuasive letters; Sales letters; Collection letters; Office memorandum.
Unit VI: Report Writing: Introduction to a proposal, short and format report, report preparation. Oral Presentation: Principles of oral presentation, factors affecting presentation, sales presentation, training presentation, conducting surveys, speeches to motivate, effective presentation skills.
Unit VII: Non-Verbal Aspects of Communicating. Body language: Kinesics, Proxemics, Para language. Effective listening: Principles of effective listening; Factors affecting listening exercises; Oral, written, and video sessions. Interviewing Skills: Appearing in interviews; Conducting interviews; Writing resume and letter of application. Modern Forms of Communicating: Fax; E-mail; Video conferencing; etc. International Communication: Cultural sensitiveness and cultural context; Writing and presenting in international situations; Inter-cultural factors in interactions; Adapting to global business.
| Suggested Readings: |
| 1. Bovee and Thill: Business Communication Today; Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi |
| 2. Balasubramanyam: Business Communications; Vikas Publishing House, Delhi |
| 3. Kaul: Business Communication; Prentice Hall, New Delhi |
| 4. Kaul: Effective Business Communication: Prentice Hall, New Delhi |
| 5. Senguin J: Business Communication; The Real World and Your Career, Allied Publishers, New Delhi |
| 6. Vyavsayik Sampreshan: Mishra and Shukla, SBPD Publication, Agra |
| 7. Business Communication; RK Madhukar Vikas Publishing, New Delhi |
| Group – A: Paper – II Business Environment |
Objective: this course aims at acquainting the students with the emerging issues in business at the national and international level in the light of the policies of liberalization and globalization.
| Avadh University B.Com Part 1 Course Inputs for Group A: Paper 2: |
Unit I: Indian Business Environment: Concept, components and importance
Unit II: Profile of Public Sector, Joint Sector and Co-Operative Sector
Unit III: Economic Trends (overview): Income; Saving and investment; Industry; Trade and balance of payments, Money; Finance; Prices
Unit IV: Problems of Growth: Unemployment; Poverty; Regional imbalances; Social injustice; Inflation; Parallel economy; Industrial sickness
Unit V: Role of Government: Monetary and fiscal policy; Industrial policy; Industrial licensing, Privatization; Devaluation; Export-Import policy; Regulation of foreign investment
Unit VI: The Current Five Year Plan: Major policies; Resource allocation
Unit VII: International Environment: International trading environment (overview); Trends in world trade and the problems of developing countries; Foreign trade and economic growth; International economic groupings; International economic institutions – GATT, WTO, UNCTAD, World Bank, IMF; GSP; GSTP; Countertrade
| Suggested Readings: |
| 1. Agarwal A. N.: Indian Economy; Vikas Publishing House, Delhi |
| 2. Khan Farooq A: BBusiness and Society; S. Chand, Delhi |
| 3. Dutt R. and Sundharam K.P.M; Indian Economy; S. Chand, Delhi |
| 4. Misra S.K and Puri V. K: Indian Economy; Himalya Publishing House, New Delhi |
| 5. Vyavsayik Paryavaran, Dr. V. C. Sinha |
| Group – B: Paper – III Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship |
Objective: it provides exposure to the students to the entrepreneurial culture and industrial growth so as to preparing them to set up and manage their own small units.
| Faizabad University B.Com Part 1 Course Inputs for Group B: Paper 3: |
Unit I: Introduction: The entrepreneur; Definition: Emergence of entrepreneurial class; Theories of entrepreneurship: Role of socio-economic environment; Characteristics of entrepreneur; Leadership; Risk taking; Decision-making and business planning
Unit II: Promotion of a Venture: Opportunities analysis; External environmental analysis-economic, social, and technological; Competitive factors; Legal requirements for establishment of a new unit, and raising of funds; Venture capital sources and documentation required
Unit III: Entrepreneurial Behavior: Innovation and entrepreneur; Entrepreneurial behavior and Psycho-Theories, Social responsibility
Unit IV: Entrepreneurial Development Programmes (EDP): EDP, their role, relevance and achievements; Role of Government in organizing EDPs; Critical evaluation
Unit V: Role of Entrepreneur: Role of an entrepreneur in economic growth as an innovator, generation of employment opportunities, complimenting and supplementing economic growth, bringing about social stability and balanced regional development of industries; Role in export promotion and import substation, forex earnings, and augmenting and meeting local demand
| Suggested Readings: |
| 1. Tandon B.C: Environment and Entrepreneur; Chugh Publications, Allahabad |
| 2. Pandey IM: Venture Capital – The Indian Experience; Prentice Hall of India |
| 3. Shukla M.B: Entrepreneurship |
| 4. Aggrawal, R.C Udyamita |
| 5. Aggrawal and Gupta, Udyamita Ke Mul Aadhar |
| Group – B: Paper – IV Business Regulatory Framework |
Objective: the objective of this course is to provide a brief idea about the framework of Indian business laws.
| RMLAU B.Com 1st Year Course Inputs for Group B: Paper 4: |
Unit I: Law of Contract (1872): Nature of contract; Classification; Offer and acceptance; Capacity of parties to contract; Free consent; Consideration; Legality of object; Agreement declared void; Performance of contract; Discharge of contract; Remedies for breach of contract
Unit II: Special Contracts: Indemnity; Guarantee; Bailment and pledge; Agency
Unit III: Sale of Goods Act 1930: Formation of contracts of sale; Goods and their classification, price; Conditions, and warranties; Transfer of property in goods; Performance of the contract of sales; Unpaid seller and his rights, sale by auction; Hire purchase agreement
Unit IV: Indian Partnership Act 1932: Nature, Concept of kinds of Partnership, Partnership Deed, Registration of Partnership firm, Dissolution of Partnership and Firm
Unit V: Negotiable Instrument Act 1881: Definition of negotiable instruments; Features; Promissory note; Bill of exchange & cheque; Holder and holder in the due course; Crossing of a cheque, types of crossing: Negotiation: Dishonor and discharge of negotiable instrument
Unit VI: The Consumer Protection Act 1986: Salient features; Definition of consumer; Grievance redressal machinery
| Suggested Readings: |
| 1. Desai T. R. Indian Contract Act, Sale of Goods Act and Partnership Act; S.C. Sarkar & Sons Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata |
| 2. Khergamwala J.S: The Negotiable Instruments Act; N. M. Tripathi Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai |
| 3. Singh Avtar: The Principles of Mercantile Law; Eastern Book Company, Lucknow |
| 4. Kuchal M.C.: Business Law; Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi |
| 5. Kapor N. D.: Business Law, Sultan Chand & Sons, New Delhi |
| 6. Chandha P. R. Business Law; Galgotia, New Delhi |
| 7. Vyavsayik Niyamak Dhancha, R. C Aggrawal |
| 8. Vyavsayik Niyaman Ruprekha, V. N. Gupta, Navyug, Prakashan, Agra |
| Group – C: Paper – V Business Economics |
Objective: this course is meant to acquaint the students with the principles of Business Economics as are applicable in business.
| RMLAU Faizabad B.Com Part 1 Course Inputs for Group C: Paper 5: |
Unit I: Introduction: Nature, Scope and Significance of Business Economics; Role of Business Economist; Difference between Economics and Business Economics: Relationship of Business Economics with other Branches of Knowledge
Unit II: Elasticity of Demand: Concept and measurement of elasticity of demand; Price, income and cross elasticities; Average revenue, marginal revenue, and elasticity of demand; Determinants of elasticity of demand; Importance of elasticity of demand
Unit III: Consumption Function: Utility, Diminishing Marginal Utility and Equi-Marginal utility: Indifference Curve, Consumer Surplus
Unit IV: Theory of Costs: Short-run and long-run cost curves – traditional and modern approaches
Unit V: Market Structures: Market structures and business; Objectives of a business firm
| a) Perfect Competition: Profit maximization and equilibrium of firm and industry; Short-run and long run supply curves; Price and output determination. Practical applications |
| b) Monopoly: Determination of price under monopoly; Equilibrium of a firm; Comparison between perfect competition and monopoly; Multi-plant monopoly; Price discrimination. Practical applications |
| c) Monopolistic Competition: Meaning and characteristics; Price and output determination under monopolistic competition; Product differentiations; Selling costs; Comparison with perfect competition; Excess capacity under monopolistic competition |
| d) Oligopoly: Characteristics, Indeterminate pricing and output; Classical models of oligopoly; Price leadership; Collusive oligopoly; Kinked demand curve |
Unit VI: Factor Pricing-I: Marginal Productivity theory and demand for factors; Nature of supply of factor inputs; Determination of wage rates under perfect competition and monopoly; Exploitation of labor; Rent-Concept; Ricardian and modern theories of rent; Quasi-rent
Unit VII: Factor Pricing-II: Interests-concept and theories of interest; Profit-nature, concepts, and theories of profit
| Suggested Readings: |
| 1. Nellis & Parker: The Essence of Business Economics; Prentice Hall, New Delhi |
| 2. Ahuja H. L.: Business Economics, S. Chand & Co., New Delhi |
| 3. Vyavsayik Arthshastra: J. C Pant |
| 4. Vyavsayik Arthshastra: Professor K.P. Jain, Navyug Prakashan, Agra |
| 5. Arthashastra Ke Sidhant: Dr. M. L, Jhingan |
| 6. Business Economics: S. K. Agarwal, S. Chand & Co., Delhi |
| Group – C: Paper – VI Money and Financial System |
Objective: the course exposes the students to the working of money and financial system prevailing in India.
| RMLAU Faizabad B.Com 1st Year Course Inputs for Group C: Paper 6: |
Unit I: Money: Meaning, Functions & Significance of Money, Various forms of Money, Causes, remadies & effects of inflation, Deflation & reflation, Principal Method of note issues, Monetary standard: Gold standard, bi-metallise & managed currency standard
Unit II: Finance: Role of finance in an economy; Kinds of finance; Financial system; Components; Financial intermediaries; Markets and instruments, and their functions
Unit III: Indian Banking System: Indian Banking System: Definition of bank, Commercial banks-importance and functions; Structure of commercial banking system in India; Balance sheet of a Bank; Meaning and importance of main liabilities and assets; Regional rural banks; Cooperative banking in India
Unit IV: Process of Credit Creation by Banks: Credit creation process; Determination of money supply and total bank credit
Unit V: Development Banks and other Non-Banking Financial Institutions: Their main features; Unregulated credit markets in India-mean feature
Unit VI: The Reserve Bank of India: Functions; Instruments of monetary and credit control; main features of monetary policy since independence
| Suggested Readings: |
| 1. Chandler L.V. and Goldfield SM: The Economics of Money and Banking; Harper and Row, New York |
| 2. Gupta S. B: Monetary Planning of India, S. Chand, New Delhi |
| 3. Khan M.Y.: Indian Financial System – Theory and Practice, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi |
| 4. Reserve Bank of India: Functions and Working |
| 5. Banking Commission: Report (S) |
| 6. Reserve Bank of India: Bulletins |
| 7. Reserve Bank of India: Annual Reports (S) |
| 8. Report on Currency and Finance |
| 9. Sengupta A. K. and Agarwal M.K.: Money Market Operations in India, Skylark Publications, New Delhi |
| 10. Khubchandani: Practice and Law of Banking, MacMillian India Ltd, New Delhi |
| 11. Bhartiya Banking Pranali, Dr. V. C. Sinha |
| 12. Bhartiya Banking Pranali, Dr. S. K. Singh and J. P. Mishra |
| 13. Mudra Evam Vittiya Pranali: Dr. Satish Kumar Saha |
Download RMLAU B.Com part 1 syllabus here in PDF: http://rmlau.ac.in/pdf/julbcom11.pdf
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