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CA Final Financial Reporting

The full ICAI syllabus for Financial Reporting, every past paper with official Suggested Answers, and free AI-graded practice so you know exactly where you stand before exam day.

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Syllabus — Financial Reporting

All 19 chapters, per ICAI's New Scheme of Education and Training.

1 Introduction to Indian Accounting Standards
2 Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting under Ind AS
3 Ind AS on Presentation of Items in the Financial Statements (Ind AS 1, 34, 7)
4 Ind AS on Measurement based on Accounting Policies (Ind AS 8, 10, 113)
5 Ind AS on Assets of the Financial Statements (Ind AS 2, 16, 23, 36, 38, 40, 105, 116)
6 Ind AS on Liabilities of the Financial Statements (Ind AS 19, 37)
7 Ind AS on Items impacting the Financial Statements (Ind AS 12, 21)
8 Ind AS on Disclosures in the Financial Statements (Ind AS 24, 33, 108)
9 Ind AS 115 Revenue from Contracts with Customers
10 Other Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS 41, 20, 102)
11 Accounting and Reporting of Financial Instruments (Ind AS 32, 107, 109)
12 Ind AS 103 Business Combinations
13 Consolidated and Separate Financial Statements of Group Entities (Ind AS 110, 111, 28, 27, 112)
14 Ind AS 101 First-time Adoption of Indian Accounting Standards
15 Analysis of Financial Statements
16 Professional and Ethical Duty of a Chartered Accountant
17 Accounting and Technology
18 Integrated Reporting and CSR Reporting (not in the syllabus from May 2026)
19 Old Scheme topics (not in the New Scheme syllabus)

How to study Financial Reporting

Where the marks tend to concentrate

Ind AS on assets, liabilities, and revenue/expenses — especially Ind AS 115 (Revenue from Contracts with Customers), Ind AS 116 (Leases), and Ind AS 103 (Business Combinations) — form the core, high-weightage block practice-community analysis consistently points to.
Consolidated and Separate Financial Statements (including associates and joint ventures) is another consistently heavy topic, often carrying one of the longer problems in the paper.
Ind AS on Financial Instruments (Ind AS 109/32/107) and Accounting for Corporate Restructuring show up regularly as substantial, calculation-heavy questions.

Common mistakes to avoid

Learning Ind AS definitions in isolation instead of practising full problems — this paper is almost entirely application-based, not theory recall.
Weak presentation discipline: not showing the required notes-to-accounts / disclosure workings that ICAI's solutions include and reward.
Under-revising the "smaller" standards (e.g., Ind AS on government grants, borrowing costs, related-party disclosures) that still show up as scoring 4-6 mark questions.

How ICAI marks this paper

Financial Reporting is a subjective, calculation- and case-study-heavy paper. ICAI's solutions award marks stage-by-stage — for identifying the correct treatment, showing the working, and arriving at the figure — so a partially correct answer with sound method still earns meaningful credit. There is no negative marking.

Weightage patterns are aggregated from past ICAI papers, not an official ICAI table — treat as directional guidance.