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Key Facts: ENAM Régies Financières Cycle A Exam

25,000 FCFA

Non-refundable registration fee for all candidates, payable at BICEC

MINFOPRA arrêté opening the 2026/2027 concours, Article 3(2)

4 hours

Duration of each of the four written admissibility papers

MINFOPRA arrêté opening the 2026/2027 concours, Article 4

20 places

Places opened for Cycle A Régies Financières in 2026/2027, split 10 Comptabilité-Matières and 10 Prix, Poids et Mesures

MINFOPRA arrêté opening the 2026/2027 concours, Article 1

17 to 32 years

Age range required on 1 January of the concours year, with a waiver of up to 5 years for holders of a national invalidity card

MINFOPRA arrêté opening the 2026/2027 concours, Article 2

Coefficient 5

Weight of the speciality paper, the heaviest of the four written papers

Programme du concours annexed to the MINFOPRA arrêté

2 years

Duration of the Cycle A training programme at ENAM Yaoundé

ENAM

The ENAM Cycle A Régies Financières concours is Cameroon's competitive entry route into the senior corps of the financial administration, opened annually by MINFOPRA arrêté with a registration fee of 25,000 FCFA. The 2026/2027 session offered 20 places across two sections and tested four 4-hour written papers — Culture Générale (coef. 4), Droit Constitutionnel (coef. 2), Économie Générale (coef. 3) and a speciality paper (coef. 5) — followed by a Grand Oral and a language oral. This free bank provides 100 English-language practice questions weighted to those official coefficients.

Sample ENAM Régies Financières Cycle A Practice Questions

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1Ferdinand Oyono, one of the writers most often set for the ENAM Culture Générale paper's literature section, is best known for which 1956 novel satirising the colonial administration through the eyes of a houseboy?

A.Une vie de boy

B.Things Fall Apart

C.L'Étranger

D.Le Devoir de violence

Explanation: Ferdinand Léopold Oyono (1929–2010) published *Une vie de boy* in 1956. The novel is told through the diary of Toundi, a servant in a French colonial household, and its ironic first-person narration exposes the brutality behind colonial paternalism. Oyono published *Le Vieux Nègre et la Médaille* the same year and later served as a Cameroonian minister and diplomat.

2The Cameroonian novelist Alexandre Biyidi Awala wrote under two pen names during his career. Which pairing is correct?

A.He published *Ville cruelle* (1954) as Eza Boto and his later works, including *Le Pauvre Christ de Bomba* (1956), as Mongo Beti

B.He published everything under the single pen name Ferdinand Oyono

C.He wrote poetry as Léopold Senghor and prose as Mongo Beti

D.He used no pen name and published only under his birth name

Explanation: Alexandre Biyidi Awala (1932–2001) first published *Ville cruelle* in 1954 under the pseudonym Eza Boto, then adopted the name Mongo Beti for the rest of his career, beginning with *Le Pauvre Christ de Bomba* (1956). His later essay *Main basse sur le Cameroun* (1972) was banned in both France and Cameroon.

3In the *Discours de la méthode* (1637), what role does Descartes' formula 'je pense, donc je suis' play in his philosophical system?

A.It is the first indubitable certainty that survives methodical doubt and therefore serves as the foundation on which all other knowledge is rebuilt

B.It is a proof that the external material world exists exactly as the senses report it

C.It is an argument that all knowledge derives exclusively from sense experience

D.It is a political maxim justifying the absolute authority of the monarch

Explanation: Descartes applies *doute méthodique*: he provisionally rejects everything that can be doubted, including the senses and mathematics. The one thing that cannot be doubted is that a doubting subject is thinking. The *cogito* therefore functions as the first certainty, the Archimedean point from which the rest of knowledge is reconstructed.

4In Rousseau's *Du contrat social* (1762), what does the concept of the 'volonté générale' designate?

A.The will of the political body oriented towards the common interest, which is distinct from the mere sum of individual private wills

B.The arithmetic total of every individual citizen's private preference, counted vote by vote

C.The personal will of the sovereign monarch, held to embody the nation

D.The unanimous consent of every citizen, required before any law can be valid

Explanation: Rousseau distinguishes the *volonté générale*, which aims at the common good and is the only legitimate source of law, from the *volonté de tous*, the simple aggregate of private interests. Sovereignty belongs to the people, is inalienable and indivisible, and is exercised through laws expressing this general will.

5How is Kant's categorical imperative, in its formula of universal law, correctly stated?

A.Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law

B.Act always so as to produce the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people

C.Act in whatever way best advances your own long-term self-interest

D.Act only on rules that the civil authority has previously enacted into positive law

Explanation: In the *Fondements de la métaphysique des mœurs* (1785) Kant grounds morality in the form of the maxim rather than its consequences. A hypothetical imperative is conditional on a desired end; the categorical imperative binds unconditionally. A second formula requires treating humanity, in oneself and in others, always also as an end and never merely as a means.

6What is the central thesis defended by Cheikh Anta Diop in *Nations nègres et culture* (1954)?

A.That ancient Egypt was a Black African civilisation, culturally and linguistically continuous with the rest of Africa, so African peoples possess a documented historical depth denied by colonial historiography

B.That African societies had no history before European contact and therefore no basis for a national culture

C.That African states should abandon their own languages in favour of the former colonial languages

D.That African history should be studied exclusively through oral tradition, excluding archaeology and linguistics

Explanation: Diop (1923–1986), a Senegalese historian, physicist and Egyptologist, argued for the Black African character of pharaonic Egypt and for kinship between ancient Egyptian and modern African languages, notably Wolof. His purpose was to restore historical continuity to African peoples and to supply a scientific foundation for cultural and political self-determination.

7Which sequence correctly describes how the present territory of the Republic of Cameroon came together at independence?

A.French Cameroun became independent on 1 January 1960; after the February 1961 plebiscite, Southern Cameroons joined it on 1 October 1961 while Northern Cameroons joined Nigeria

B.The whole of the former German Kamerun became independent as a single state on 1 January 1960

C.British Cameroons became independent first, in 1958, and later annexed French Cameroun

D.Cameroon obtained independence in 1972 following the referendum that created the United Republic

Explanation: German Kamerun was partitioned between France and Britain after the First World War and later placed under United Nations trusteeship. The French-administered territory acceded to independence on 1 January 1960. In the UN-organised plebiscite of 11 February 1961 Southern Cameroons voted to join the Republic of Cameroon, effective 1 October 1961, while Northern Cameroons voted to join Nigeria.

8When was the United Nations Organisation founded, and under which arrangement were the Cameroonian territories administered until independence?

A.The UN was founded in 1945; the French and British parts of Cameroon were administered as United Nations trust territories, successors to the League of Nations mandates

B.The UN was founded in 1919; the Cameroonian territories were outright colonies with no international supervision

C.The UN was founded in 1945; the Cameroonian territories were sovereign states that had voluntarily joined the Commonwealth

D.The UN was founded in 1960; the Cameroonian territories had already been independent for a decade

Explanation: The UN Charter was signed at San Francisco in June 1945 and the Organisation came into being on 24 October 1945. The former German Kamerun had been divided into League of Nations mandates in 1922; after 1946 these became UN trust territories under French and British administration, which is why the UN itself organised and supervised the 1961 plebiscite.

9Which statement correctly describes the transition from the Organisation of African Unity to the African Union?

A.The OAU was founded at Addis Ababa in 1963 around sovereignty, non-interference and the intangibility of inherited borders; the African Union succeeded it in 2002 with wider economic integration powers and a right of intervention in grave circumstances

B.The African Union was founded in 1963 and was replaced by the OAU in 2002

C.The OAU and the African Union are two names for the same organisation, which has never changed its founding treaty

D.The African Union was created by the United Nations to administer African states under trusteeship

Explanation: The OAU Charter was adopted at Addis Ababa on 25 May 1963, with the intangibility of borders inherited from colonisation as a cardinal principle. The Constitutive Act of the African Union, adopted at Lomé in 2000, took effect and the AU was formally launched at Durban in 2002. Article 4(h) of the Constitutive Act introduced a right of the Union to intervene in a member state in respect of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity — a decisive break with strict non-interference.

10What was the principal outcome of the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 for the African continent?

A.It set the ground rules of the European partition of Africa, requiring effective occupation for a territorial claim to be recognised, and thereby accelerated the colonial carve-up

B.It granted independence to the African territories then under European control

C.It abolished the Atlantic slave trade for the first time in international law

D.It created the Organisation of African Unity and fixed the borders of independent African states

Explanation: Convened by Bismarck from November 1884 to February 1885, the Berlin Conference brought together European powers, without African representation, to regulate rivalry over the Congo basin and the wider continent. Its General Act laid down free navigation on the Congo and Niger and the principle of effective occupation, under which a power had to demonstrate real administrative presence for its claim to be recognised. It is at this conference that Germany's protectorate over Kamerun, proclaimed in July 1884, was consolidated.

About the ENAM Régies Financières Cycle A Exam

Competitive national entrance examination for admission into Cycle A of the Division des Régies Financières at the École Nationale d'Administration et de Magistrature (ENAM) in Yaoundé, Cameroon. For the 2026/2027 session the arrêté opened 20 places, split equally between the Comptabilité-Matières and Prix, Poids et Mesures sections. Successful candidates undergo two years of training before appointment as senior civil servants of the financial administration.

Assessment

The concours has a written admissibility stage and an oral admission stage, both held in Yaoundé. The written stage comprises three papers common to all sections — Culture Générale (4 hours, coefficient 4), Droit Constitutionnel et Institutions Politiques (4 hours, coefficient 2) and Économie Générale (4 hours, coefficient 3) — plus one speciality paper of 4 hours and coefficient 5, which is Comptabilité Générale for the Comptabilité-Matières section and Statistiques et Économétrie for the Prix, Poids et Mesures section. Candidates choose their section when lodging their application file. Candidates declared admissible sit the oral admission tests at ENAM: a Grand Oral (coefficient 1) and an Oral de langue (coefficient 1), taken in French for anglophone candidates and in English for francophone candidates.

Time Limit

4 hours per written paper (four papers), plus the oral admission tests

Passing Score

Ranked in order of merit against the number of places opened by the annual arrêté; under décret n° 2000/696/PM of 13 September 2000 on the general regime of administrative concours, an overall average of at least 10/20 without eliminatory mark is required for admissibility and 12/20 for final admission

Exam Fee

25,000 FCFA (XAF) (Ministère de la Fonction Publique et de la Réforme Administrative (MINFOPRA) & ENAM)

ENAM Régies Financières Cycle A Exam Content Outline

25%

Culture Générale (coefficient 4)

Literature, philosophy and contemporary history; scientific and technological change; arts and culture; gender and development; regional integration; geopolitics and geostrategy; information and communication technologies and their impact on society. Assessed as a 4-hour dissertation.

15%

Droit Constitutionnel et Institutions Politiques (coefficient 2)

The State and political power: constituent elements and forms of the State; adoption and revision of the constitution; democracy and citizenship; separation of the executive, legislative and judicial powers; political regimes (presidential, parliamentary, presidentialist, assembly); and the constitutional history of Cameroon from the protectorate to the current Republic.

20%

Économie Générale (coefficient 3)

Microeconomics: markets, consumer behaviour, production theory, price formation under competition and monopoly. Macroeconomics: income, saving and consumption, equilibrium models, monetary economics, financial institutions and theories of international trade. Also structural adjustment programmes, monetary policy, population and development, and the digital economy.

20%

Speciality — Comptabilité Générale (coefficient 5, Comptabilité-Matières section)

Accounting fundamentals and the SYSCOHADA chart of accounts; analysis and recording of transactions; accounting for industrial enterprises; treatment of specific transactions; year-end closing work; cost and management accounting; and financial analysis.

20%

Speciality — Statistiques et Économétrie (coefficient 5, Prix, Poids et Mesures section)

Combinatorial analysis; probability; random variables and probability distributions; sampling, estimation and hypothesis testing; simple and multiple linear regression; autocorrelation of errors; heteroscedasticity; and multicollinearity.

How to Pass the ENAM Régies Financières Cycle A Exam

What You Need to Know

Passing score: Ranked in order of merit against the number of places opened by the annual arrêté; under décret n° 2000/696/PM of 13 September 2000 on the general regime of administrative concours, an overall average of at least 10/20 without eliminatory mark is required for admissibility and 12/20 for final admission
Assessment: The concours has a written admissibility stage and an oral admission stage, both held in Yaoundé. The written stage comprises three papers common to all sections — Culture Générale (4 hours, coefficient 4), Droit Constitutionnel et Institutions Politiques (4 hours, coefficient 2) and Économie Générale (4 hours, coefficient 3) — plus one speciality paper of 4 hours and coefficient 5, which is Comptabilité Générale for the Comptabilité-Matières section and Statistiques et Économétrie for the Prix, Poids et Mesures section. Candidates choose their section when lodging their application file. Candidates declared admissible sit the oral admission tests at ENAM: a Grand Oral (coefficient 1) and an Oral de langue (coefficient 1), taken in French for anglophone candidates and in English for francophone candidates.
Time limit: 4 hours per written paper (four papers), plus the oral admission tests
Exam fee: 25,000 FCFA (XAF)

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ENAM Régies Financières Cycle A Study Tips from Top Performers

1Weight your revision to the coefficients: the speciality paper alone carries coefficient 5 out of 14 written points, and Culture Générale carries 4.

2Culture Générale is a dissertation, not a quiz. Build a bank of precise, datable examples across literature, philosophy, contemporary history, gender and development, regional integration and geopolitics, and practise structuring an argument in four hours.

3For Droit Constitutionnel, master the general theory (constituent elements and forms of the State, separation of powers, political regimes) before the Cameroonian material, and be able to trace the constitutional history from 1961 to the present.

4For the Comptabilité-Matières section, work SYSCOHADA problems end to end — invoice cascade, inventory valuation, depreciation, year-end adjustments, cost of sales and financial equilibrium — because the paper is a problem, not a recitation.

5For the Prix, Poids et Mesures section, practise the full statistical chain from combinatorics and distributions through sampling and estimation to regression diagnostics, and be ready to compute rather than merely define.

6Prepare the Oral de langue seriously: francophone candidates are examined in English and anglophone candidates in French, and it carries the same coefficient as the Grand Oral.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the official examination format of the ENAM Cycle A Régies Financières concours?

Four written admissibility papers of 4 hours each are sat at the single centre in Yaoundé: Culture Générale (coefficient 4), Droit Constitutionnel et Institutions Politiques (coefficient 2), Économie Générale (coefficient 3), and one speciality paper (coefficient 5). Candidates declared admissible then sit oral admission tests at ENAM — a Grand Oral and an Oral de langue, each with coefficient 1.

Which sections are open in the Division des Régies Financières for Cycle A?

The 2026/2027 arrêté opened 20 places split equally between two sections: Comptabilité-Matières, whose speciality paper is Comptabilité Générale, and Prix, Poids et Mesures, whose speciality paper is Statistiques et Économétrie. Candidates choose their section when lodging the application file, and the sections opened are set afresh by each annual arrêté.

What are the eligibility requirements for the ENAM Cycle A concours?

Candidates must meet the general conditions of access to public employment, hold a Licence or Licence Professionnelle in Legal, Economic or Social Sciences or in Management related to the section applied for, and be aged 17 to 32 on 1 January of the concours year, with a possible waiver of up to 5 years for holders of a national invalidity card. The registration fee is 25,000 FCFA, payable at BICEC.

How does this practice question bank relate to the real ENAM concours?

The official concours is made up of French-language dissertation and problem-solving papers followed by oral tests before a jury; it contains no multiple-choice questions. This bank is an English-language multiple-choice study adaptation, not an official translation or a simulation of the exam format. Its 100 questions are weighted to the coefficients of the official programme annexed to the MINFOPRA arrêté so that revision effort matches the real balance of the papers.