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Economics CPA Section 2 Notes
Economics CPA Section 2 is a KASNEB foundational course for students. Economics is a useful course for accountants, auditors, investment analysts or advisors, finance managers and financial analysts.
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Economics CPA Section 2 KASNEB New Syllabus 2021 course has the following topics:
- Microeconomics
- Introduction to economics: Basic economic concepts: economic resources, human wants, scarcity and choice, opportunity cost, production possibility curves/frontiers – Scope of economics: Micro and macro economics – Methodology of economics: positive and normative economics, scientific methods, economics as a social science.
- Demand, supply and determination of equilibrium: Demand analysis, Supply analysis, Determination of equilibrium
- The theory of consumer behavior: Approaches to the theory of the consumer – cardinal versus ordinal approach – Utility analysis, marginal utility (MU), law of diminishing marginal utility (DMU) – Limitations of cardinal approach – Indifference curve analysis; Indifference curve and budget line – Consumer equilibrium; effects of changes in prices and incomes on consumer equilibrium – Derivation of a demand curve – Applications of indifference curve analysis: substitution effect and income effect for a normal good, inferior good and a giffen good; derivation of the Engels curve – Consumer surplus /Marshallian surplus
- The theory of a firm: The theory of production: Short run analysis – Total product, average and marginal products – Stages in production and the law of variable proportions/the law of diminishing returns – Long run analysis – Isoquant and isocost lines – The concept of producer equilibrium and firm’s expansion curve – Law of returns to scale – Demand and supply of factors of production. The theory of costs: Short run costs analysis and size of the firm’s total cost, fixed cost, average cost, variable costs and marginal cost – Long run costs analysis – Optimal size of a firm – Economies and diseconomies of scale
- Market structures: Necessary and sufficient conditions for profit maximisation – Mathematical approach to profit maximisation – Output, prices and efficiency of: perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, oligopolistic competition
- Macroeconomics
- National income: Concepts of national income: gross domestic product (GDP), gross national product (GNP) and net national product (NNP), net national income (NNI) at market price and factor cost, disposable income – Difficulties in measuring national income – Uses of income statistics – Analysis of consumption, saving and investment and their interaction in a simple economic model – Determination of equilibrium national income – Inflationary and deflationary gaps – The multiplier and accelerator concepts – Business cycles/cyclical fluctuations
- Economic growth, economic development and economic planning
- Money and banking: Money, The banking system: The nature and functions of money – Demand and supply of money – Theories of demand for money: The quantity theory, the Keynesian liquidity preference theory; The role of commercial banks and non-banking financial institutions in the economy – Credit creation – Definition of central bank – The role of the central bank; traditional and changing role in a liberalised economy, such as financial sector reform, exchange rate reform – Monetary policy, definition, objectives, instruments and limitations – Determination of interest rates and their effects on the level of investment, output, inflation and employment – Harmonisation of fiscal and monetary policies – Simple IS–LM Model – Partial equilibrium and general equilibrium
- Inflation and unemployment: Inflation, unemployment: Types and causes of unemployment – Control measures of unemployment – Relationship between unemployment and inflation: the Phillips curve
- International trade and finance: Theory of absolute advantage and comparative advantage – World trade organization (WTO) and concerns of developing countries – Protection in international trade – Regional integration organizations, commodity agreements and the relevance to less developed countries (LDCs)
- Emerging issues and trends
Institute of Economic Affairs-Kenya (IEA-K) and Kenya Institute of Public Policy Research Analysis (KIPPRA) are major bodies of Economics in Kenya.
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Other units or courses in CPA Section 2 include:
After completion of KASNEB CPA Section 2, the student is well equipped with skills and is on a career path to advancing to CPA Section 3 which has the following units:
KASNEB CPA Section 3 Study notes and past papers are available for the above units.
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