class xii board results are out and students are preparing to apply to their choice of colleges and courses in the new academic session a large number of students every year apply to the commerce stream in a new trend in the last few years the cutoffs for commerce have been increasing even going up to a 100 for bcom honours at shri ram college of commerce srcc in 2011 however students opting for commerce courses at the undergraduate level in du this year will have a range of mandatory and optional papers to study the course curriculum under the commerce stream has undergone a major restructuring during the shift from annual to semester mode last year according to amit sachdeva head department of commerce srcc changes introduced in the syllabus in the semester mode will be applicable from the academic year 201213 a number of subjects which were optional till last year have been made mandatory and a range of optional papers have been introduced the changes have been made keeping in mind the demands of the contemporary world human resource management principals of marketing international business and financial management which were optional papers have been made mandatory subjects from the upcoming session this is to give students a wider knowledgebase which will help them in higher studies as well as in the industry adds sachdeva in order to offer more options of subjects and topics in commerce which are not covered in the main papers about 1015 new optional papers have been introduced some of these include financial markets and institutions entrepreneurship compensation managements corporate taxes advertising as well as personal selling according to him in a new trend there is a gradual shift from doing a ca as opposed to earlier when there was a major inflow of commerce graduates these days more students want to opt for an mba in finance marketing human resources etc or open their own startups after a few years of work experience however this is different for students who go abroad for an mba foreign universities offering mba allow students to take admission only if they have a work experience of about two or three years in this case students after graduating in commerce take up a job for a few years and later enrol for an mba outside this makes students more equipped for the course and allows them to appreciate the programme better a plethora of contemporary career options are open to bcom honours students adds sachdeva these include business administration ca cfa chartered financial analyst investment management auditing tax planning corporate banking global banking corporate governance etc also few of the new optional papers introduced to the curriculum deal with studying business related to information technology which opens up more avenues apart from the regular ones for students of commerce a number of concurrent papers have been introduced to the commerce syllabus at the undergraduate level some of these like