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Strategic Management and Corporate Finance

Past ICSI exam questions for CS Professional Strategic Management and Corporate Finance, taken out of the question papers and arranged chapter by chapter in the current ICSI order, each with ICSI's suggested answer or answer key.

830questions
18chapters
15attempts
Attempts covered

Every attempt from December 2018 to June 2026.

830 questions across 15 attempts

Chapter weightageMarks per chapter in every paper, averages, trends and the topics asked most. Tap through to the exact questions.
How to use this
How to use this: open a chapter, try the question, then tap Show answer. Answers are ICSI's suggested answers exactly as published for that attempt. SMCF was introduced with the 2022 syllabus, and its first guideline answers are for June 2024. Before that, its two Parts were examined in two different papers: Strategic Management in the CS Executive paper Financial and Strategic Management (FSM), and Corporate Finance in the CS Professional paper Corporate Funding and Listings in Stock Exchanges (CFLSE). Questions from both are included and tagged with the paper they came from. FSM was a 100-question MCQ paper from December 2019 to December 2024; for those, the answer shows the option in ICSI's answer key and any note ICSI added. Topics that are not in the SMCF syllabus, such as most of FSM's financial management and CFLSE's listing obligations and overseas stock exchanges, are left out of the chapters. Where a later amendment recorded in ICSI's current study material or its December 2026 supplement changes an answer, the question carries a Law changed note. It covers every attempt from December 2018 onwards.
Part I · Strategic Management
  1. 01Introduction to Strategic Management46 questions1 cross-ref
  2. 02Analyzing the External and Internal Environment35 questions2 cross-ref
  3. 03Business Policy and Formulation of Functional Strategy63 questions3 cross-ref
  4. 04Strategic Analysis and Planning116 questions4 cross-ref
  5. 05Competitive Positioning71 questions1 cross-ref
  6. 06Managing the Multi-Business Firm and Analyzing Strategic Edge69 questions
Part II · Corporate Finance
  1. 07Sources of Corporate Funding16 questions2 cross-ref
  2. 08Raising of Funds from Equity and Procedural Aspects: Public Funding65 questions2 cross-ref9 law changed
  3. 09Real Estate Investment Trusts10 questions2 cross-ref2 law changed
  4. 10Infrastructure Investment Trusts13 questions2 cross-ref1 law changed
  5. 11Raising of Funds: Private Funding30 questions5 law changed
  6. 12Raising of Funds: Non Fund Based16 questions3 law changed
  7. 13An Overview on Listing and Issuance of Securities in International Financial Services Centre2 questions2 law changed
  8. 14Raising of Funds from Debt and Procedural Aspects151 questions5 cross-ref4 law changed
  9. 15Foreign Funding: Institutions6 questions
  10. 16Foreign Funding: Instruments, Laws and Procedures27 questions8 law changed
  11. 17Role of Intermediaries in Fund Raising8 questions1 cross-ref
  12. 18Project Evaluation86 questions3 cross-ref