ICAN · Foundation
Business Environment
The Business Environment syllabus for the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, broken down by how much of the paper each area is worth. Business Processes and Environment is the heaviest at 25% of the marks.
Where the marks are
Percentages are the examinable weighting for each area. Revising in this order puts your time where the marks are.
Business Processes and Environment
25%Nature of business, types and objectives · Business and organisational structures and choices · The business environment
Management and Organisational Behaviour
20%Basic management functions · Management, individual and organisational behaviour · Communications in business · Digital Communication
Elements of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics
20%Introduction to economics and the market · Issues of economic growth and development · Demand and supply, and price mechanism · Costs, revenue and productivity · Market structures · Market failure, externalities and interventions · National income accounting · Financial institutions · Issues in monetary and fiscal policy · Issues of inflation and unemployment
Technology and Data Analysis
20%Business uses of computers and information technology (IT) · E-commerce and electronic businesses · Emerging technologies and the accountancy profession
The Role of Accountancy in Business and Society
15%Finance function · Ethics and code of corporate governance
What Edentos holds for this paper
- 82 past questions from the Institute’s own papers, with its published solutions.
- Timed mock examinations sat on screen.
Syllabus areas and weightings are published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria. Past questions and their official solutions are the Institute’s copyright and are available to signed-in candidates only.