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You should definitely make good hold on your general knowledge and Current Affairs as it is the main key aspect. - Daily newspaper reading is a must but I never did that (given my time constraint). I preferred watching daily news analysis of The Hindu from one of the youtube channels. There are plethora of options out there. SEE what suits you best. I never made notes out of it. It was just to remain aware of what is going on in the world. - Secondly, on the monthly basis I used to watch monthly GK capsule by a youtube channel named Endeavour (to cover the important highlights of the month for the quick revision)
Lastly, towards the end of my preparation, it was the time for a final revision. THEN IT COMES TO YOUR STATIC PART -
- GK by Manohar Pandey (Arihant publication). It costed me around 30 bucks back then (imagine how slim it was as a book). I referred to this book for polity and history. The idea was to cover the width and not the depth. To understand the topics better, I used to watch random youtube videos. However, my final point of reference was this book only. -History and Polity done, now comes the geography part. Here it was the game of visualization so I again took help from youtube. Please note that you can get the basic topics to read from anywhere, what matters is the medium you're consuming it from. Make sure your refer to the interactive sources. -Then there is the miscellaneous part- everything from the superlatives, the international organisation to tribes and what not. For these topics, I again watched random videos and many a times, I found amazing tricks to learn. While it may sound so unplanned, trust me that when you keep doing over a period of time, you realize its working. I hope it helps.

It does not really matter whether you have passed graduation through distance as long as you have good skills in SAP. That is what your employers' or clients' will be interested in. Therefore, please do not worry much about your distance education. If you have 9 good years of ERP experience, you should be in a position to utilize it in a better way. There are a number of opportunities in FICO. You could even enhance your knowledge by learning FSCM and BPC.
Certified Internal Auditor Training
The courses offered in Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) prep programs are usually broken into four parts and are based on a learning sequence developed by the IIA. Students learn how to provide risk and control analysis by utilizing information technology. Often, the curricula found in accounting degree programs can complement the coursework provided in internal auditing certificate programs. Training topics can include:
Fraud prevention methods
Accounting practices
Economic regulations
Use of information technology
Business operations analysis
Organizational behaviour issues

The general path would be doing graduation in commerce and pursuing CFA. CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) is a course to train people in the investment sector. Most of the people start out as equity research analyst or financial analysts after doing CFA and some of them are able to climb the ladder to become portfolio managers. CFA constitutes of three levels. Each level requires around 6 months to one year depending on an individual's capabilities. The first level covers the basics. The second level is said to be the most important and the toughest. The third level goes into details of being a portfolio/investment manager. But it isn't the only option. The other well tested option is doing MBA in finance from reputed institutes like IIMs. The most wanted jobs in finance sectors are one in investment banks due to the hefty compensation. The path which many students follow is start to as an investment banker and then move to private equity or portfolio management.

Some books are given below
: Mission MBA MAT Guide by B S Sijwali and Tarun Goyal (Arihant Books).
: MAT (Management Aptitude Test) Entrance Exams with Practice CD by GKP (G K Publications Pvt. Ltd.) covers.
: 10 Challengers MAT: 10 Mock Tests for Management Aptitude Test by Dharmendra Mittal (Arihant Publications).
: MAT Score Accelerator (Disha Publication).
: MAT Solved Papers by Disha Experts (Disha Publication).
: 10 Mock Test Papers MAT by Career Launchers (Oswaal Books).
The above-mentioned are the best books to score more in MAT but make sure that you must give more time to practice not only this refer online lectures by YouTube to solve problems in simple terms with minimum time as possible or else go coaching if you need. With this practice to solve those mock test papers, read newspapers daily make the important news as points to understand quickly, Read General Knowledge books for much more information like economics, politics, etc.
All the best.

Government sector jobs after CFA course:
Many governmental organizations are there in our country that takes in efficient Chartered Financial Analyst. A few of those firms include:
Airport Authority of India
Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML)
Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC)
State Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited
In addition to these, many banks also take on company secretaries. A few other job areas in the public sector are:
Accounts Branch of the Central Government Law Services
Bureau of Public Enterprises
Government Financial Institutions
Stock Exchanges
Individuals also have the option to work with universities and colleges. With the right combination of expertise as well as experience, one can get promoted to senior positions such as Managing Director, Chairman and Directors in firms of repute.

SNAP syllabus is not much different from other national-level MBA entrance tests. SNAP exam tests the aptitude of a candidate for management programmes.The test comprises four sections General English: Reading Comprehension, Verbal Reasoning, Verbal Ability / Quantitative Data Interpretation & Data Sufficiency / General Awareness: General Knowledge, Current Affairs, Business Scenario / Analytical & Logical Reasoning.
The detailed syllabus for SNAP exam is given below:
Quantitative Data Interpretation & Data Sufficiency GeometryTrigonometryRatios and ProportionNumber systemPercentagesWork and timeIn-equations Quadratic and linear equations AlgebraPartnershipWork, Pipes and CisternsSimple Interest & Compound InterestTime-Speed-DistanceHCF &LCMGeometric ProgressionArithmetic progressionProfit & LossAveragesArithmetic meanGeometric meanNumber Base SystemMensurationVenn diagramPermutations & Combinations
Analytical & Logical ReasoningData Interpretation based on text, graphs and tables.Column graphsBar GraphsFunctionsStatements and conclusionsPie ChartGraphs representing AreaCritical reasoningCoding and decoding PuzzlesIdentifying valid inferencesAssumption-Premise-ConclusionAssertion and reasonsLine chartsSyllogismsIdentifying next number in seriesStatements and assumptionVisual reasoningSymbol Based problemsIdentifying Strong arguments and Weak argumentsCause and EffectIdentifying Probably trueMatrix arrangementsFamily tree - identifying relationship among group of people
General EnglishComprehension of passage / PoemVerbal ReasoningSentence correctionSyllogismsOdd man outContextual usageAnalogiesFill In the BlanksOne word substitutionJumbled paragraphsSentence CorrectionAntonymsSentence completionIdioms
General AwarenessCurrent AffairsFamous awardsInternational organizations Major corporate eventsSportsBusiness

Government sector jobs after CWA course:
Many governmental organizations are there in our country that takes in efficient Cost Accountant. A few of those firms include:
Airport Authority of India
Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML)
Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC)
State Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited
In addition to these, many banks also take on company secretaries. A few other job areas in the public sector are:
Accounts Branch of the Central Government Law Services
Bureau of Public Enterprises
Government Financial Institutions
Stock Exchanges
Individuals also have the option to work with universities and colleges. With the right combination of expertise as well as experience, one can get promoted to senior positions such as managing director, chairman and directors in firms of repute.

Career options after completing a finance degree:
With Masters in finance and accounting degree in finance, you could have your choice of career in the financial domain. Some of your choices include careers in the areas of corporate financing, commercial banking, money managing, investment banking and financial planning.
Job opportunities:
1. Financial analyst
Work for: commercial banks, brokerage firms, insurance companies, government
2. Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agent
Work for: brokerage firms, investment banks, trading companies
3. Financial Manager
Work for: any type of company
4. Personal Financial Advisor
Work for: insurance companies, real estate companies

The CPT is the first level of Chartered Accountancy examinations in India. This exam need whole year concentration on your study and if you studied whole year then no need to study in the last month. In the last month never start new chapter and try to practicing from Mock test which is best option for last month before exam. Just afer attempting the mock test and getting result, student will be curious to know what is right answer. In traditional mock test candidate has to open book and search, which consumes valuable time of the candidate. Online mock test, along with giving instantaneous result also gives instant feedback. Hence the candidate can save time by just seeing the explanations.
Mock test tells candidate where they stand among others nationally or internationally before the exam. Also it motivates candidate more towards their goal.
Time is the most important factor when it comes to clearing competitive exams. Attempting questions in the given time is not an easy task, considering the amount of questions asked in the exam and total time available. Hence, solving mock test helps! The more mock test candidate practice, more chance he/she has to complete exam on time.

Hi,
Yes, there are multiple opportunities for successfully completed B.Com students. B.Com qualified graduates can go for government jobs like bank jobs, Railway, SSC jobs. They are also qualified to appear for Groups and Civils. There are various positions especially for Accounts and tax department in all these jobs like CAG in civil services.
There are positions like accounting officers, tax assistants for fresher's in all these sectors. They are eligible for bank clerical and PO's and for bank PO's (Probation officers), the percentage of marks in degree should be 60 or more to apply for the post.
Apart from all these jobs, they are also eligible for all other jobs for notifications are issued based on degree by central and state governments.
There are positions for B.Com graduates in defense also in Indian Accounting Defence Services which is responsible to maintain the accounts for defence, as a fresher B.Com graduates can join as assistant controller of accountants in IADS department.

CAT is an exam where your basics need to be strong. They will ask you questions anyhow by combining two topics together or putting up a single topic example in a unique and different way.
The main topics that a student should prepare would be time distance, time speed, probability, ages, dice, ratio and proportions, etc., from Quants.
Verbal is considered to be the most difficult area in CAT exam as you need to have a strong hold on English language i.e you must be having a very good vocabulary, grammar should be perfect, etc.
For Reasoning, your focus should be on matrix puzzles, coding-decoding, sequential output, etc.
You need to be very strong in verbal and reasoning to crack CAT as these are the two main sections where you can score more than others if you practice well.
So, start with basics as those are the most important ones.

Pros of doing ACCA-
1.Studying IFRS.
2.You would be a global CA in next few years.
3.ACCA is recognized in 178 countries.
4.More job opportunities all over the world.
5.Most probably in 33.5 years, you will have an Indian graduation (If you do) degree+ ACCA degree+ OBU (Oxford Brookes University) degree.
Cons of doing ACCA-
1.In India, ACCA is not popular. I still have a tough time explaining to people what actually I am doing.
2.Job opportunities, packages are less. More preference will be given to Indian CA any day.
3.Lack of coaching institutes for ACCA.
4.Exam fees are really high. GBP converts to INR. So technically you are paying 10k to give an exam. If you fail 10k gone.
Every course every degree has its own features. Just stay focused once you choose a path never look back. Keep going!
Best of luck.

Here's a detailed description of all these fields for better understanding. Civil services: It is the most sought after job, for any young man in India. SSC: The craze of SSC CGL is increasing day by day, more because of good salary package and not so hectic working conditions. Banks: IIM Grads even opt for RBI- Grade B exams and specialised posts in various government banks. PSUs: PSUs like ONGC, BEL NTPC etc. Make recruitment for specialised posts, but not on regular basis. One has to be very prompt about the timings of the vacancies. Consultant: Even if one is working for MNCs, Big 4 etc. And if he is keen in working with Government, he can work as consultant in various departments of the Government. Government relies a lot on the recommendations of these consultant. Internship: One can work as an intern in election campaigning of political parties, in order to gain first hand experience of real politics. They also give stipends. All the best.

For practical papers, the main source is past year questions and practice manual, they cover upto 90% of the paper. Rest 10% is from study material.
So you should start with 3 subjects at a time. One should be theory, one practical and one that contains both. Whatever u study on day 1, you should revise on day 4.
Study the mix subject like taxation in the morning uptil 1112 for 3 hours, have your lunch and then study practical subject for 5 hours and in night study the theory subject coz studying theory does not exhaust your energy too much. Study it for 3 hours or until you fell asleep.
Your revision time should be at least half of what you took to study it earlier,
And, that's it you are good to go. If you stick to your plan, then you will finish your course with umpteen time revision in within 3 months of time.