ENAM Syllabus Cycle A of the Financial Division Concours MINFOPRA Cameroun

Syllabus for Financial Division ENAM Cycle A

A – GENERAL KNOWLEDGE:

•  Literature, Philosophy. Modern History.
• Developments in Science and Technology.
• Civilization.
• Arts And Culture
• Minorities
• Gender and development
• Regional integration.

B- ECONOMICS

1- Microeconomics

a) Principles of Microeconomics

• Market research (Demand and Supply)
• Consumer behaviour.
• The producer and production theory
• Short and long-term cost
• Production function.
• The theory of prices in perfect competition : short and long term equilibrium.
• Price theory in perfect monopoly : short and long term equilibrium.
• Monopolistic competition.
• Oligopoly.

b) Applied Microeconomics

• Industrial and business firms in Cameroon : specific problems of management.
• Taxes and effects in perfect competition; short and long term Effects. Effects in monopoly.
• Problems raised by price control and quantity control in competition and in monopoly.
• Sector-based policies.

2. Macroeconomics

a) Income, Savings Consumption

Determination of national income

• National income function
• Investment function.
• Income-expenditure model
• The multiplier : principles and constraints.

Fluctuation in income

• The acceleration.
• The oscilliation.

b) Equilibrium models and Macro Economic Disequilibrium

ISLM model

• Principles and functioning
• Implications

Relationship between inflation and unemployment

• Philip’s curve
• Issues faced by the Keynessian and Neoclassical theories.

Equilibrium with rationing

• Keynesian unemployment
• Classical unemployment
• The scope of models.

Revival of neoclassical analysis through the introduction of anticipation

• Formation of anticipations;
• Conclusions of the analysis.

c) Structural Adjustment Programme

• Theoretical basis
• The search for external and internal equilibrium
• Economic revival.

3- Monetary Economic

a) Money and monetary supply

• Definition, Functions and properties of money ; 
• Monetary aggregates
• Monetary supply composition and counterparts;

b) Money supply and demand

• Determinants of money supply.
• Determinants of money demand.

c) Financial institutions

• The Central Bank
• Commercial Banks
• Other institutions
• The Treasury.

d) The Money Market and Financial Market

• Actors and mechanisms .
• The interbank markets and the open markets
• The role of the Central Bank
• Actors and the organization of the financial market.
• The stock exchange.
• New financial instruments.

e) Monetary Policy

• Objectives and instruments of monetary policies
• The discount rate policy
• The Open market policy
• Obligation reserve policies
• Selectivity and credit control
• Limits of the monetary policy in the franc zone
•  Developments in international finance
• Developing countries debt.

f) Population and development

• Population growth in developing countries
• Optimal population growth
• Education, health and development
• Democracy and development.

g) International Economics

• Theories of lnternntienal Trade.
• Labour productivity and comparative advantages :Rieardian Model.
• Resource and exchange :Hcekscher -Ohlin model
• Standard model of exchange
• Economics. imperfect competition and international Trade.
• international financial policy;
• Protectionism;
• free trade ; 
• Trade policy in developing countries ;
• world trade and globalization of trade.
• Economic integration
• Exchange policy
• National Accounting balance of payment
• Exchange rate and exchange determination
• International Monetary system
• Monetary zone.

C- PUBLIC LAW

1- Constitutional Law and Political Institutions

a)The State : definition, components 
b) The Nation : definition, components
e) The Constitution

• The preamble, content, its legal value
• The Constitution drafting process.
• Competent authority
• The Constitutional adoption process.
• The Constitutional revision process.

d)-The citizen (status, involvement)

e)-The electoral system

• The majority system
• The proportional system
• Cameroon’s electoral system (applied to presidential and legislative elections).

f) Political parties

• Origin
• Different systems (single party system. two-party system, multi-party system).
• Types. (party of the masses, party of the elite)
• Role
• Foundation.

g) – Political power

• Legality, legitimacy;
• Role

h )Political systems

• United States of America
• Great Britain
• France
• Cameroon.

D- ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

1 General Accounts
a). Generalities

• Notions of enterprise and property
• Generalitics on OHADA accounting system
• Major principles of accounts

b). Accounting analysis of transactions

• Notions of enterprise and property
• Notion of flux
• Investment cycle
• Exploitation cycle
• Financing cycle
• Cash flow cycle

c)- The Accounts of industrial corporation
d)- Labour costs
c)- Managcmcnt accounting

• Ordinary activities and non ordinary activities
• Revenue and expenditure accounts
• Significant balance

f)- Accounting Treatment for specific operations

• Transactions in foreign currency 
• Off balance sheet commitments
• Revaluation of the balance sheet

g)- Works performed at the end of the fiscal year 

• Amortisation and provisions
• Release of assets
• Adjustment of expenditure and revenues ;
• Preparation of financial statement;

h)- Cost Accounting

• Generalities of the notion of charges and cost
• Withdrawal of charges
• Full cost accounting methods
• Predetermined costs methods

i)- Financial analysis

• Functional assessment and financial balance
• Analysis of the financial stability
• Cost-benefit analysis
• Margin analysis

E -STATISTICS AND ECONOMETRICS

1) -Statistics

+ Permutations and combinations
+ Basic rules of probabilities
+ Random variable with single unknown
+ Random variable with two unknowns.
+ Random function variable

• Central tendency variable
• Uniform dispersion characteristics
• Mathematics expression advantage
• Correlation and dispersion characteristics.

+ Current laws in statistics

• Law of uniform dispersion
• Binomial theory
• Poisson’s law
• Normal distribution
• Chi square law.

+ Sample

• sampling distribution
• Observation of a sample 
  • Random samples
  • Empirical samples

+ Estimate.

• Point estimate
• Estimate by the confidence interval (average, frequency).

+ Test theory

• Choice between two parameters
  • Choice between two proportions
  • Choice between two averages 
• Comparison of distribution.
  • Qualitative characteristics
  • Quantitative characteristics

2) -Econoutetrics

+ Simple linear regression model

• Layout of the model
• Model estimation using the ordinary least squares (OLS).
• Properties of OLS estimators
• Construction of tests
• Variance equation and variance analysis table
• forecasting in a simple linear regression model.

+ Multiple linear regression model

• Presentation and matrix format of a model
• Estimation and properties of OLS.
• Determination coefficient
• Statistical tests

+ Construction of the variance analysis table and global significance of a regression test

• Forecasting in a multiple linear regression model.

+ Autocorrelation of the error term

• Presentation of the problem
• Causes and detection test of the autocorrelation of the error terms.
• Generalised least squares (GLS) estimator.
• Estimation prooedure in the presence of autocorrelation of the error terms.

+ Heteroscedasticity

• Presentation of the problem.
• Causes and tests to detect heteroscedasticity.
• Estimation procedures in the presence of heteroscedasticity.

+ Multicolinearity

• Presentation of the problem
• Consequences of multicolinearity
• detection test of multicolinearity.
• How to find a remedy for multicolinearity.

II -ORAL EXAMINATION

A – GRAND JURY

An interview with a jury aimed at detecting the personality of the candidate and his/her predisposition to serve the State and the citizen.

B – LANGUAGE JURY

An interview with a jury, in French for English speaking candidates and in English for French speaking candidates.

Recommandation

• Past questions ENAM Cameroun
• ENAM Cameroon Syllabus Cycle A Program of the Administrative Division of ENAM MINFOPRA Recruitment
• ENAM Cameroon cycle A Financial Division recruitment 50 students.
• ENAM Cameroon Examination cycle B Financial Division recruitment 70 students.

(14 April 2025)