Important Questions 
for Appendix3 exam and LDCE of Accounts
Dept 
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My advice is to read and cover the entire syllabus irrespective of
important or not so important.   
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Subsequently give more preference to important ones because they are repeatedly
asked in the previous examinations and for the importance they have in
association with the working of Indian Railways as well  
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suggested / recommended questions. Questions from this may or may not appear in
the exam. The responsibility of the author guaranteeing the appearance of the
same questions in the exam is ruled out. 
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Books & Budget  
1.    AG Suspense
2.    Allocations /
Classification of Expenditure & Earnings – Finance Code Vol. II
3.    Appropriation Accounts
& Various Annexures 
4.    Audit objections /
communications 
5.    Budget Preparation
& Budget Reviews 
6.    Cheques & Bills   
7.    Credits outside scope of Demands 
8.    DHR – Debt Head Report
9.    Distinguish between
Budgetary and Extra Budgetary Sources  
10. Distinguish between
Reserve Bank Suspense & Reserve Bank Deposit 
11. Distinguish between
Voted and Charged expenditure 
12. Draft Para,
Provisional Para & Audit Para 
13.  DSB – Door Step Banking & Rail Shakti Account
14.  E Recon / Transfer Transactions 
15.  Exchequer control and Net withdrawals 
16.  Focal Point system 
17. Govt Accounts
maintained in 3 parts. A. Consolidated Fund B. Contingency Fund & C. Public
Account 
18. 
Journey of traffic earnings from station to cash office and
accounts at RBI/Nagpur
19.   Link Heads  
20. Mapping of Erstwhile
Demands to Major / Sub Major Heads
21.  Merger of Budget – Pros & Cons
22. Operating Ratio, PEI
and Distinguish between them 
23.  PAO Suspense  
24. Parliamentary control
over Railway finances incl: Committees 
like PAC, Estimates Committee, RCC, Cut motions, NRUCC etc 
25.  Plan Heads 
26. 
 Proportionate Budget Allotment (or Budget proportions) 
27. PSB Suspense
28. Reappropriation Rules  
29. RIB  
30.  Single Account Current
31. Single Demand 
32.  Supplementary Grant & Excess Grant 
33.  Suspense Balances – Half Yearly Review 
34.  Theme Based Audit 
35.  Transfer Railway Transactions 
- Inter & Intra
36.  TWFA 
37.  Vote on Account and Interim Budget  
Expenditure Accounts  
1.    Arbitration 
2.    Asset Register and FAR
3.    Average
Rate of Return  
4.    Canons of Financial
Propriety 
5.    COE 
6.    Completion Reports ‘ 
7.    Contractor’s
Measurement Book ‘
8.    D & G Charges  
9.    DCF Technique
10.  Departmental Charges & Deposit Works  
11. Differences between
GCC for Works & Services
12. Differences between
Internal Audit and Internal check 
13. Direct Acceptance of
Tenders
14. Distinguish between
IRFA & IRCA Transactions 
15. Distinguish between
Lease and License 
16. Distinguish between
Variation & Vitiation  
17. Distinguish between
Vetting & Concurrence 
18. Distinguish between
Write off and Write back 
19. EBR (IF) 
20. EMD 
21. EPC – Engineering,
Procurement & Construction Contracts
22. Estimates and checks
on estimates
23. Financial Justification
of various Projects
24.  GCC for Services – Salient features
25. GCC for Works -  Salient features
26. GFR
– General Financial Rules
27. IREPS 
28. IRR 
29. IRWCMS
30.  Joint Ventures 
31. LAW Book, Pink
Book  
32. Letter of Credit 
33. Liability Register
34. Line Capacity Works 
35.  Line Capacity Works 
36. LSWP – LumpSum Works
Programme 
37. MAS – Material At Site
38.  Material Modifications
39. Negotiation
40.  Order of Precedence of Documents as per GCC
for Works
41. Outsourcing Contracts
42. Payback
method 
43. Performance Guarantee
44. PMC – Project
Management Consultancy  
45. PPP
46. Price Variation Clause
47.  RRSK  
48.  Salient features and benefits of MSOP
49. SD 
50. Shramik Kalyan 
51. Social Costs / Social
Service Obligations
52. Surveys 
53. Two Packet system of
Tendering 
54. Umbrella Works 
55. Unsanctioned
expenditure  
56. USSOR 
57. Various Funds such as
DRF, DF, CF, SF, DSF, CRIF, NIF  
58. VGF  - Viability Gap Fund
59. Way Leave charges 
60. Works Programme  
61. Works Registers,
RAR    
Establishment
1.    Benchmarking
in Manpower  
2.    BOS – Book of
Sanctions 
3.    Cadre check / Scale
Check 
4.    CEA – Children
Education Allowance 
5.    CGEGIS
– Central Govt Employees Group Insurance Scheme 
6.    Compulsory Retirement 
7.    CTG – Composite
Transfer Grant
8.    Distinguish between
NPS and OPS 
9.    DLI
– Deposit Linked Insurance 
10.  E Pass  
11.   FSC  
12. HOER 
13. Honorarium 
14. Joining Time 
15. Leave
Not Due  
16. Leaves – all types of 
17. Lien
18. MACP 
19. Major Penalties &
Minor Penalties  
20. Medical
Decategorisation  
21. Memorandum of
Differences 
22. NBR – Next Below Rule 
23. NPS 
24. Online PPO 
25. Pass Rules  
26. Pay Fixation 
27.  PF – Final and Temporary withdrawals 
28.  PLB 
29. Railway Service
Conduct Rules 
30. RELHS
– Railway Employees Liberalized Health Scheme
31. Retirement Benefits 
32. RTI  
33. SBF
34.  Selection & Non Selection Posts 
35. Supernumerary
Post  
36. TA Rules 
37. UMID  
38. Vacancy Bank 
39.  Work charged posts 
Management
Accounting (for LDCE only)
  
1.    BEP
– Break Even  Point 
2.    Cash
Flow and Fund Flow  
3.    Differences
between Financial Accounting and Management Accounting
4.    Different
costs like Standard cost, marginal cost, average cost, joint cost, common cost,
Fully distributed cost etc  
5.    Different
Parameters  
6.    Functions
of Management Accounting
7.    Make
or Buy Decision
8.    Marginal
costing principle
9.    PERT
& CPM
10. PV
Ratio 
11. Ratio
analysis  & Different Ratios
12. Responsibility
Accounting
13. SPV
14. ZBB 
Miscellaneous 
1.    Accounting Reforms
i.e., Accrual Accounting, Performance Costing & Outcome Budget 
2.    AIMS 
3.    CIPS 
4.    Composition Scheme (in
GST) 
5.    Computerisation of Indian
Railways  
6.    CONCOR 
7.    CORE – Importance of
Railway Electrification 
8.    CRIS 
9.    CSR – Corporate Social
Responsibility  
10. DFC 
11.  DSC – Digital Signing Certificate 
12. E Office 
13. GEM 
14. Green Railways   
15. GST 
16. HRMS  
17. HSR – High Speed Rail
18. IPAS 
19. IRCON 
20. IRCTC 
21. IREPS 
22. IRFC  
23. IROAF - Indian Railway
Organization for Alternate Fuels
24. IRPSM 
25. IRWCMS 
26. ITC – Input Tax Credit
27. National Rail Plan,
2030
28.  NITI Aayog – Importance of its role in Indian
Railways
29. Novation Agreement
30. Outsourcing policy 
31.  Private Trains   
32. Privatisation 
33. Railway Rates Tribunal
34. RCIL – Railtel
Corporation of india Limited  
35. RITES
36. RLDA   
37. RVNL 
38. Station Redevelopment
& IRSDC  
39. Transformation Cell 
40. ZBB – Zero Based
Budget    
Stores Accounts  
1.   
ABC analysis
2.   
Clauses like Fall, PV, Book Examination, Option etc
3.    GEM 
4.   
iMMS
5.    Inventory
Control  
6.   
ISA Duties
7.   
LC – Letter of Credit 
8.   
LD – Liquidated Damages
9.    Make
in India policy 
10. 
Minima and maxima 
11. 
Narrative Reports 
12. 
PAC 
13. 
Price Ledger
14. 
Purchase Policy
15. 
Rate / running contract
16. 
Receipt note
17. 
Reserve Price  
18. Reverse
Auction 
19. 
Risk Purchase 
20. 
Role of finance member in stores tender committee
21. Scrap
Disposal – E Auction 
22. 
SMS – Stores Monthly Summaries 
23. 
Sources of supply 
24. Stock
Adjustment (SA) Account
25. 
Stock Sheets 
26. Stock
Verification 
27. Stores
Budget 
28. 
Stores Suspense Heads
29. 
Surplus stores/ dead surplus
30. TOR
– Turn Over Ratio    
31. 
Types of Stores Tenders 
32. User
Depot Module
Traffic Accounts  
1.    Accounts Office
Balance Sheet 
2.    Apportionment
of Earnings
3.    Cash
in transit
4.    Differential
pricing 
5.    Dynamic
Pricing policy
6.    Earning
Contracts 
7.    Earnings
Budget
8.   
Earnings Vs Revenue
9.   
Error Sheets 
10. 
Frauds 
11. 
Freight Business Development Portal
12. 
Freight Forwarder Scheme
13. 
Freight Management Module 
14. 
GTKM, NTKM
15. 
JTBS – Jansadharan Ticket Booking Sevak 
16. LHC – Line Haul
Cost   
17.  LTTC
- Long Term Tariff Contract
18. LWIS
- Liberalized Wagon Investment Scheme
19. NINFRIS  - New Innovative Non Fare Revenue Ideas
Scheme
20. Non
fare Revenue  / Sundry Earnings 
21. 
Passenger classification 
22. PFT
- Private Freight Terminal
23. Role
of TIA in preventing leakage of Revenue
24. SFC & SEC 
25. SLR
Leasing
26. Station Balance Sheet 
27. Station
Outstanding’s
28. STS
- Station To Station Rates
29. TAMS  - Traffic Accounts Management System
30. Tatkal
31. 
Traffic Accounts office objects
32. Traffic
Book and its parts
33. Traffic
costing system – It’s role, limitations and suggestions for improving it.  
34. Traffic Suspense 
35. UTS
- Unreserved Ticketing System 
36. Wagon Turn Round (WTR)
37. 
Wharfage & Demurrage 
38. 
Withdrawal from station earnings 
Workshop Accounts  
1.    Account
Current in Workshop Accounts 
2.    Differences
between CLW Incentive Scheme and Group Incentive Scheme
3.    Group
Incentive Scheme
4.    Importance
of WMS.  Reasons for increasing the
balances in WMS
5.    Linking
of WMS to Stores and Revenue Demands 
6.    M
& P Programme 
7.    On
cost charges  & its Budget 
8.    Outturn
Statements 
9.    RSP
– Rolling Stock Programme
10. WAMS
– Workshop Accounting Management System 
11. WGR 
12. WMS
Budget   
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