Forma # 1.ai - ICAB

Students’
Section
1/15/ICAB-2010 28 March 2010
CIRCULAR
ICAB New Curriculum
The Council ICAB in its meeting held on 23 March 2010 decided that from May-June 2010 onward, the
following Examination Structure & Conversion Criteria would be followed by the examinees of ICAB in
super-session of all previous Circulars issued in this regard.
1. Examination Structure
(i) The examinations structure shall comprise of 2-stages as follows:
Professional Stage (PS)
Advanced Stage (AS)
Professional Stage examination shall again consist of 2 progressive level of examination as follows:
1. Knowledge level
2. Application level
(ii) Professional Stage (Knowledge Level) i.e. PS (K) shall consist of 07 papers with examination duration of 1½
hours each except ‘Taxation-I’ which will be of 3 hours duration, as under:
Subject Duration Marks
(1) Assurance 1½ hours 100
(2) Accounting 1½ hours 100
(3) Business and Finance 1½ hours 100
(4) Management Information 1½ hours 100
(5) Taxation-I 03 hours 100
(6) Business and Commercial Law 1½ hours 100
(7) IT Knowledge 1½ hours 100
700
(iii) Professional Stage (Application level) i.e. PS (A) shall consist of 07 papers with examination duration of 2½
hours each as under:
Subject Duration Marks
(1) Audit and Assurance 2½ hours 100
(2) Financial Accounting 2½ hours 100
(3) Business Strategy 2½ hours 100
(4) Financial Management 2½ hours 100
(5) Taxation-II 2½ hours 100
(6) Corporate Laws and Practices 2½ hours 100
(7) IT Application 2½ hours 100
700
(iv) Advanced Stage (AS) shall consist of the following 04(four) papers with examination duration of 3 hours each
except Case Study which will be of 4 hours duration:
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