UGC NET (Commerce) exam pattern includes both objective as well as short essay type questions. Some of the topics covered under the syllabus of UGC NET (Commerce) exam are - Business Environment, Financial and Management Accounting, Elasticity of Demand, Sampling Methods and Errors, Principles of management, Marketing Management, Working capital Management, Recruitment and Selection, Banking and Financial Institutions and International Business.

Detailed Syllabus for UGC NET (Commerce)

Unit I

• Second Generation reforms
• Policy Environment
• Liberalization
• Legal Environment of business in India
• Industrial Policy and Implementation
• Industrial Growth and Structural changes
• Globalization and Privatization
• Environment protection
• Economic policies
• Economic Planning
• Economic Environment
• Consumer protection
• Competition Policy
• Business Environment

Unit II

• Valuation and Absorption of shares
• Reconstruction
• Ratio analysis
• Partnership Accounts
• Marginal costing
• Holding company accounts
• Fund flow analysis
• Financial Statements
• Cash flow analysis
• Capital and Revenue
• Budgetary control
• Basic Accounting Concepts
• Advanced Company Accounts

Unit III

• Pricing Strategies
• Laws of variable Proportion
• Laws of returns
• In difference Curve analysis
• Elasticity of Demand
• Different market Conditions
• Demand Analysis
• Cost, revenue and Price determination

Unit IV

• Sampling needs
• Sampling Methods and Errors
• Data Entry
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Computer Application to Functional areas
• Co relation and Regression
• Business Statistics and Data Processing
• Analysis and Interpretation of data

Unit V

• Staffing
• Planning process
• Planning Objectives and Strategies
• Organizational Structure
• Leadership
• Decision making
• Corporate Ethics and Governance
• Controlling
• Business Management

Unit VI

• Product Decisions
• Pricing Decisions
• Organizing and Control
• Marketing Planning
• Marketing mix
• Marketing Management
• Market Segmentation
• Market Environment
• Evolution of Marketing
• Consumer Behavior

Unit VII

• Working capital Management
• Financial Management
• Financial and Operating Leverage
• Dividend Policy
• Cost of capital
• Capital Structure
• Capital budgeting

Unit VIII

• Wage and Salary Administration
• Training and Development
• Succession Planning
• Recruitment and Selection
• Performance Appraisal
• Morale and Productivity
• Industrial Relations in India
• Incentives and Fringe benefits
• Human Resource Planning
• Health, Safety, Welfare and Social Security
• Employee Participation in Management
• Compensation

Unit IX

• Types of banks
• Rural banking
• RBI
• NPA
• NABARD
• Development banking
• Capital Adequacy norms
• Banking Sector Reforms
• Banking Importance to business
• Banking and Financial Institution

Unit X

• WTO
• Theoretical foundations of International Business
• Structure of India’s Foreign Trade
• Regulation and Promotion of Foreign Trade
• International Liquidity
• International Economic institutions
• International Business
• Balance of payments

List of Elective Subjects

• Marketing
• International Business
• Income Tax Law and Tax Planning
• Human Resource Management
• Accounting and Finance

Apart from the above subjects, a general paper on Teaching and Research Aptitude is also part of the UGC NET (Commerce) syllabus which is as follows -

• Communication
• Data interpretation
• Higher Education System – Governance, Polity and Administration
• Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
• Logical Reasoning
• People and Environment
• Reading Comprehension
• Reasoning (Including mathematical)
• Research Aptitude
• Teaching Aptitude

There will two types of questions, objective type questions and short essay type questions.