CCI Management Trainee Syllabus 2025, Exam Pattern, topics

The Cotton Corporation of India has predefined the CCI Management Trainee Syllabus 2025 in its official notification. Candidates who are going to appear in the examination must understand the syllabus and prepare a reliable study timetable to score well in the examination. The syllabus consists of various subjects, English, Reasoning, Aptitude, GK, and the Concerned Subject. The exam has questions from all these subjects, so it is important for candidates to finish the syllabus as soon as possible and revise it many times 

CCI Management Trainee Selection Process 2025

Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) has started the recruitment process to invite eligible candidates to apply for 20 Management Trainee vacancies in the Marketing and Accounts departments. The selection process for the Cotton Corporation of India Management Trainee includes three stages: Written Test, Document Verification, and Medical Examination. To be selected as a Management Trainee, candidates must clear all three stages. To help candidates, we have shared the detailed syllabus along with the exam pattern below.

CCI MT Exam Pattern 2025

The written examination for Management Trainees (MTs) for Marketing and Accounts consists of 5 sections: English, Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, GK, and Concerned Discipline.

1. There are 120 multiple-choice questions.
2. Each correct answer gives 1 mark
3. 0.25 marks will be deducted for each incorrect attempt.
4. Candidates must complete the exam in 2 hours.
5. There is a minimum qualifying percentage set by the CCI that the candidates from UR/EWS/OBC categories have to score at least 40% marks. Candidates from SC, ST, PwBD, and Ex-Servicemen categories have to score at least 35% marks.

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CCI Management Trainee Syllabus

The syllabus for English, Reasoning, Maths, GK, and Concerned Discipline is common and well explained for the Marketing and Accounts discipline. The subject-wise topics for both discipline is also shared in the article below.

General English

• Articles, Prepositions
• Vocabulary and Synonyms
• Reading Comprehension
• Jumbled Sentences

Reasoning

• Syllogism
• Coded Inequalities
• Direction & Distance
• Blood Relations
• Ordering & Ranking, Puzzles
• Data Interpretation & Sufficiency
• Coding-Decoding, Series, Pattern Completion
• Deductive Logic

Quantitative Aptitude

• Ratio and Proportion
• Profit, Loss, and Discount
• Simple and Compound Interest
• Probability
• Time and Work
• Speed and Distance
• Percentages and Averages

General Knowledge

• Current Affairs (India and World)
• Scientific Research
• Indian and World Geography
• Indian Trade and Economy
• Awards and Sports

CCI Management Trainee Marketing Syllabus (Subject Discipline)

• Value Chain Management – Applications in Agribusiness
• Agricultural & Food Policy
• Agricultural Finance
• Marketing of Agricultural Inputs
• Strategic Food Marketing
• Management for Agribusiness Projects
• Market Research and Information Systems
• International Agri-Food Trade
• CINE: Understanding Creativity, Innovation, Knowledge, Networks, And Entrepreneurship
• Food and Agri-business International Strategies and Organizations
• Micro Finance Management
• Food Supply Chain Management
• Analyzing and Building Competencies
• Carbon Finance
• Farm Power and Machinery
• Agricultural Entomology
• Crop Pests and their Management
• Agricultural Microbiology
• Soil Microbiology
• Principles of Agricultural Agronomy
• Public Policy
• Social Entrepreneurship: Innovating Social Change
• Sales and Distribution Management For Agriculture
• Agribusiness Entrepreneurship
• Agribusiness Leadership
• Agricultural Futures and Option Markets
• Agricultural Markets and Pricing
• Economics of Food Quality
• Applied Agricultural Trade and Policy Analysis
• Managing Sustainability
• Managing Energy Businesses
• Agricultural Marketing, Trade & Practices
• Field Crops
• Weed Management
• Organic Farming
• Dimensions of Agricultural Farming
• Cotton procurement, cotton area, production, yield, and cotton scenario, both domestic and international cotton.

CCI MT Accounts Syllabus (Subject Discipline)

Accounting Standards, Introduction to Accounting Standards, Overview of Accounting Standards 

• AS 1: Disclosure of Accounting Policies,
• AS 2: Valuation of Inventories
• AS 3: Cash Flow Statements,
• AS 6: Depreciation Accounting,
• AS 7: Construction Contracts,
• AS 9: Revenue Recognition,
• AS 10: Accounting for Fixed Assets,
• AS 13: Accounting for Investments,
• AS 14: Accounting for Amalgamation
• Financial statements of Company, Preparation of financial statements,  Cash flow Statement (Profit and Loss Account, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement)-Profit/Loss prior to incorporation- Accounting for Bonus Issue, Amalgamation and Reconstruction,
• Average Due Date and Account Current,
• Self-Balancing Ledgers,
• Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Organizations,
• Accounts from Incomplete Records,
• Accounting for Special Transactions
  (a) Hire purchase and installment sale transactions
  (b)Investment accounts
  (c) Insurance claims for loss of stock and loss of profit. Issues in Partnership Accounts
• Accounting in a Computerized Environment.

Business Laws

• The Indian Contract Act, 1872, the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881,
• The Payment of Bonus Act, 1965, The Employees’ Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, The Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972.

Company law

• The Companies Act, 2013, Preliminary, Prospectus, Share and Share capital.

Cost Accounting

• Introduction to Cost Accounting, Materials, Labor, Overheads, Non-Integrated Accounts, Methods, Job and Batch, Contract, Operating, Process and Operation, Standard Costing, Marginal Costing, Budgets and Budgetary Control

Financial Management

• Scope and Objectives of Financial Management, Time Value of Money, Financial Analysis and Planning, Financing Decisions, Types of Financing, Investment Decisions, Management of working capital.

Tax

• The Income-tax Act, 1961, Basic concepts, Residential status and scope of total income, Incomes which do not form part of total income ( Sec 10), 5 Heads of income, Provisions of Clubbing, Set-off and carry forward of losses, Deductions from gross total income, Computation of total income and tax payable. Provisions concerning Advance tax and TDS, Provisions for filing of return of income highlights of Goods
  and Services Tax Act (GST).

Advanced Accounting

• Conceptual Framework for Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements Accounting Standards
• AS 4: Contingencies and Events occurring after the Balance Sheet Date
• AS 5: Net Profit or Loss for the Period, Prior Period Items and Changes in Accounting Policies
• AS 11: The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates
• AS 12: Accounting for Government Grants
• AS 16: Borrowing Costs
• AS 19: Leases
• AS 20: Earnings per Share
• AS 26: Intangible Assets
• AS 29: Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and Contingent Assets
• Advanced Issues in Partnership Accounts, Company Accounts, Employee stock option plan and Buy back of securities, Amalgamation and Reconstruction, Underwriting of shares and debentures, Redemption of debentures, Accounting for Special Transactions, Insurance Companies, Banking Companies, Electricity Companies, Departmental accounts, Branch accounts including foreign branches.

Auditing and Assurance

• Auditing Concepts, Auditing and Assurance Standards, Preparation for an Audit, Internal Control, Vouching, Verification of Assets and Liabilities, Company Audit, Audit Report, Special Audit

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