Which Company Law and Practice topics matter most for CS Executive?

Method — How to Write Company Law Answers, Prospectus, Share Capital and Debentures, Management, Administration and Dividend, Accounts of Companies, Audit and Auditors, Secretarial Standards, the Company Secretary's Role, Inspection and Investigation carry the highest question counts based on previous-year analyses.

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Company Law and Practice for CS Executive

Paper 2 · Group 1 · Section A Incorporation, Capital & Charges · Section B Management & Secretarial Function.

📊 20% MCQ + 80% descriptive · 100 marks · 3 hours

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How toppers play this section

The paper closest to daily Company Secretary practice, and it rewards the same provision-cited, applied-to-the-facts, concluded discipline every law paper on this hub rewards. Secretarial Standards SS-1 and SS-2 (on board and general meetings) are this paper's most distinctly CS-specific content — memorise their notice periods and quorum rules precisely, since they are drafted to a level of procedural detail the Companies Act itself does not always specify.

Chapters

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1How to Write CA Inter Law AnswersThe three-move structure ICAI marks in Paper 2, why a right answer without a provision scores badly, how to handle a section number you cannot recall, and the threshold table that decides more marks than anything else in the paper.⏱ 18 min read

2Preliminary and Incorporation of CompaniesThe definitions that govern the whole Act, the classes of company and the thresholds that separate them, the incorporation procedure, and the doctrines that follow from a company being a separate legal person.⏱ 30 min read

3Prospectus, Share Capital and DebenturesHow a company raises money from the public and from its members — the prospectus and liability for misstatements, private placement, kinds of share capital, further issues, bonus and buyback, and the issue and redemption of debentures.⏱ 32 min read

4Deposits and Registration of ChargesHow a company borrows from the public and from its members, the conditions and exclusions that define a deposit, and why a charge over the company's assets must be put on a public register within thirty days.⏱ 26 min read

5Management, Administration and DividendRegisters and the annual return, the three kinds of general meeting and the machinery of notice, quorum, proxies and resolutions, voting by poll and postal ballot, and the law governing the declaration and payment of dividend.⏱ 32 min read

6Accounts of Companies, Audit and AuditorsBooks of account and financial statements, the Board's report and corporate social responsibility, and the appointment, rotation, removal, powers, duties and disqualifications of auditors.⏱ 32 min read

7Secretarial Standards, the Company Secretary's Role, Inspection and InvestigationThe two ICSI standards that fill in procedural detail the Companies Act itself leaves silent, why a Company Secretary owes duties to the company rather than to any individual director, and what separates a routine inspection from a full-blown investigation.⏱ 10 min read

Topic-wise weightage in CS Executive

Expected question counts from previous-year paper analyses. Topics with an arrow already have a full chapter.

Topic	Seven papers in two groups, 700 marks Q	Priority
Method — How to Write Company Law Answers	method	Very high
Preliminary and Incorporation of Companies	~14	High
Prospectus, Share Capital and Debentures	~16	Very high
Deposits and Registration of Charges	~10	Medium
Management, Administration and Dividend	~16	Very high
Accounts of Companies, Audit and Auditors	~16	Very high
Secretarial Standards, the Company Secretary's Role, Inspection and Investigation	~18	Very high