Fall / August 2012
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
MB0038 –Management Process and Organizational Behaviour - 4 Credits
(Book ID:B1621)
Assignment Set- 1 (60 Marks)
Note: Each Question carries 10 marks. Answer all the questions.
Q1. Explain strategy as an organisational process.
Q2. What are the factors that influences span of control?
Q3. What are the types of plans found in organisations?
Q4. What are the characteristics of an effective team?
Q5. What are the internal and external forces of organisational change?
Q6. Ms. Janice Alisha is a General Manager of Production in a company. She finds that there is a need to improve the motivation level of the employees. Suggest some of the motivational tools that she can use to improve employee motivation in her organisation.
Fall / August 2012
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
MB0038 –Management Process and Organizational Behaviour - 4 Credits
(Book ID:B1621)
Assignment Set- 2 (60 Marks)
Note: Each Question carries 10 marks. Answer all the questions.
Q1. What are the principles of management?
Q2. What are the characteristics of leading?
Q3. Briefly explain the four main approaches to Organisational Behaviour.
Q4. Explain the five major leadership styles as per the Managerial Grid theory.
Q5. List some of the commonly found perceptual biases.
Q6. Suppose you are the Team Manager in a multinational company with team strength of 12 members. You are given the responsibility of ensuring that the team gives excellent performance or results. What are the key issues you have to handle in team building?
Fall/August 2012
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
MB0039 – Business Communication - 4 Credits
(Book ID: B1624)
Assignment Set - 1 (60 Marks)
Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions.
1. Explain briefly the characteristics of communication.
2. Name the communication channel to which teleconferencing, Email, and telephone belongs to. Explain teleconferencing.
3. “Informal communication network is not just for idle rumours and may be useful in many ways.” Justify.
4. Explain some of the approaches for handling customer complaints and listening to customers.
5. Explain briefly the four steps of the review process.
6. Explain the different delivery styles that speakers can select for their presentation.
Fall/August 2012
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
MB0039 – Business Communication - 4 Credits
(Book ID: B1624)
Assignment Set - 2 (60 Marks)
Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions.
1. Explain the five steps of SQ3R techniques of reading.
2. Write a note on the responsibilities of chairperson during a meeting.
3. When you write a memo what language and writing style will you follow, explain.
4. What is sampling? Briefly explain the various methods of sampling.
5. Explain the principles that you need to follow while using emails for business communication.
6. Select a company of your choice. Write a sales letter in the AIDA format to a prospective customer, persuading him/her to buy the company’s product.
Fall 2012
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
MB0040 – Statistics for Management - 4 Credits
(Book ID: B1623)
Assignment Set - 1 (60 Marks)
Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions.
1. Mention the characteristics of Statistics. Explain any two applications of Statistics.
2. Distinguish between primary and secondary data. What are the methods of collecting primary data?
3. Find Karl Pearson’s correlation coefficient between the sales and expenses from the data given below:
Sales
(Rs. Lakhs) 50 50 55 60 65 65 65 60 60 50
Expenses (Rs. Lakhs) 11 13 14 16 16 15 15 14 13 13
4. The incidence of occupational disease in an industry is such that the workers have a 20% chance of suffering from it. What is the probability that out of six workers 4 or more will contract the disease?
5. Use chi-square test to test if the two attributes (Performance and Training) in the following table are independent. Test at 5% level of significance.
Performance Training
Intensive Good Average Total
Above Average 100 150 40 290
Average 100 100 100 300
Poor 50 80 150 280
Total 250 330 290 870
Fall 2012
6. Construct index numbers of price for the following data by applying:
i) Laspeyre’s method
ii) Paasche’s method
iii) Fisher’s Ideal Index number
Commodity Base year Current year
Price Quantity Price Quantity
A 2 8 4 6
B 5 10 6 5
C 4 14 5 10
D 2 19 2 13
Fall 2012
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
MB0040 – Statistics for Management - 4 Credits
(Book ID: B1623)
Assignment Set - 2 (60 Marks)
Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions.
1. Distinguish between Classification and Tabulation of data. What are the types of Classification of data?
2. Calculate mean and median for the following data
Marks 0-20 20-40 40-60 60-80 80-100 100-120 120-140
No of Students 4 26 22 10 9 6 3
3. Calculate the regression equations of X on Y and Y on X from the following data:
X 1 2 3 4 5
Y 2 5 3 8 7
4. What is sampling? Briefly explain the various methods of sampling.
5. A company appoints four salesmen, A, B, C and D, and observes their sales in three seasons- summer, winter and monsoon. The figures ( in lakhs) are given in the following table:
Season Salesman
A B C D Total
Summer 36 36 21 35 128
Winter 28 29 31 32 120
Monsoon 26 28 29 29 112
Total 90 93 81 96 360
Carry out an analysis of variance at 5% level of significance.
Fall 2012
6. The mean wage is Rs. 75 per day, SD wage is Rs 5 per day for a group of 1000 workers and the same is Rs 60 and Rs 4.5 for the other group of 1500 workers. Find mean and standard deviation for the entire group.
Fall 2012
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
MB0041 – Financial And Management Accounting - 4 Credits
(Book ID: B1624)
Assignment Set - 1 (60 Marks)
Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions.
1. Explain the process involved in accounting.
2. The salaries paid in 2004 is Rs. 5,00,000; Salaries outstanding is Rs. 20,000; Salaries paid in advance for 2004 is Rs. 30,000. What is the actual salary expenditure for 2004? Which accounting principle is involved in this and explain that principle.
3. Find the value of the following:
a. If the total assets are Rs. 87,000 and the liabilities are Rs. 47,000, find out the amount of capital.
b. If the capital of proprietor is Rs. 4,00,000 and the total assets are Rs. 6,00,000, what is the amount of liabilities to outsiders?
c. If creditors are Rs. 56,000, bank overdraft is Rs.1,00,000, and outstanding expenses are Rs. 8,000, what is the total amount of assets?
d. Fixed assets are Rs.70,000 and current assets are Rs.1,00,000 and the creditors are Rs.30,000. What is capital?
4. Enter the following transactions in the single column cash book of Gopichand.
March, 2003
1st. Commenced business with cash 20000
2nd. Bought goods for cash 5000
3rd. Sold goods for cash 4000
4th. Goods purchased from Ravi Kumar 10000
10th. Paid to Ravi Kumar 7000
14th. Cash sales 8000
18th. Purchased furniture for office 4000
22nd. Paid wages 500
Fall 2012
25th. Paid rent 600
30th. Received commission 4000
30th. Withdrew for personal purpose 1000
Cash balance 170000
Hint: Goods Purchased from Ravi Kumar is a credit purchase.
5. Find out the missing figures.
Office stationery Consumables
Opening stock 5000 8000
Purchased during the year 25000 ?
Closing stock 3000 6000
Consumed for the year ? 24000
• Hint : Office stationery consumed for the year =27000
Consumables purchased during the year = 22000
6. Explain the tools of management accounting.
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
Fall 2012
MB0041 – Financial and Management Accounting- 4 Credits
(Book ID: B1624)
Assignment Set - 2 (60 Marks)
Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions.
1. Compute trend ratios and comment on the financial performance of Infosys Technologies Ltd. from the following extract of its income statements of five years.
(in Rs. Crore)
Particulars 2010-11 2009-10 2008-09 2007-08 2006-07
Revenue 27,501 22,742 21,693 16,692 13,893
Operating Profit (PBIDT) 8,968 7,861 7,195 5,238 4,391
PAT from ordinary activities 6,835 6,218 5,988 4,659 3,856
(Source: Infosys Technologies Ltd. – Annual Report)
Hint: The Revenue and Operating Profit (PBIDT) have almost doubled in four years. The PAT from ordinary activities has increased by 77.26% in the same period.
2. What is fund flow analysis? What are the objectives of analysing flow of fund?
From the following balance sheets of Joy Ltd., prepare a cash flow statement under indirect method.
Liabilities 2005 2006
Equity share capital 3,00,000 4,00,000
8% redeemable pref. share capital 1,50,000 1,00,000
General reserve 40,000 70,000
Profit and loss 30,000 48,000
Proposed dividend 42,000 50,000
Sundry creditors 55,000 83,000
Bills payable 20,000 16,000
Provision for taxation 40,000 50,000
Total 6,77,000 8,17,000
Assets
Goodwill 1,15,000 90,000
Land and building 2,00,000 1,70,000
Plant 80,000 2,00,000
Sundry debtors 1,60,000 2,00,000
Stock 77,000 1,09,000
Bills receivable 20,000 30,000
Fall 2012
Cash 15,000 10,000
Bank 10,000 8,000
Total 6,77,000 8,17,000
Additional Information
a) Depreciation of Rs.10,000 and Rs.20,000 has been changed on plant and building during the current year.
b) An interim dividend of Rs.20,000 has been paid during the current year.
c) Rs.35,000 was paid during the current year for income tax.
Hint: Cash flow from operating activities Rs.1,25,000; Cash flow from investing activities (Rs.1,20,000); Cash flow from financing activities (Rs.12,000).
3. Calculate the cost of raw materials purchased from the following data:
Opening stock of raw materials Rs.10,000
Closing stock of raw materials Rs.15,000
Expenses on purchases Rs.5,000
Direct wages Rs.50, 000
Prime costs Rs.1, 00,000
Hint: Cost of Raw Materials purchased is Rs.50,000
4. Distinguish between absorption costing and marginal costing
5. The Anchor Company Ltd. produces most of its electrical parts in its own plant. The company is at present considering the feasibility of buying a part from an outside supplier for Rs.4.50 per part. If this is done, monthly costs would increase by Rs.1,000.
The part under consideration is manufactured in department 1 along with numerous other parts. On account of discontinuing the production of this part, department 1 would have somewhat reduced operations. The average monthly usage production of this part is 20,000 units. The costs of producing this part on per unit basis are as follows.
Material Rs. 1.80
Labour (half-hour) 2.40
Fixed overheads 0.80
Total costs 5.00
Should the company produce this part or should it buy from an outside supplier?
Fall 2012
Hint:
Differential costs 7,000 per month
Favouring making of the parts
0.35 er unit
6. Explain the essential features of budgetary control.
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
MB0038 –Management Process and Organizational Behaviour - 4 Credits
(Book ID:B1621)
Assignment Set- 1 (60 Marks)
Note: Each Question carries 10 marks. Answer all the questions.
Q1. Explain strategy as an organisational process.
Q2. What are the factors that influences span of control?
Q3. What are the types of plans found in organisations?
Q4. What are the characteristics of an effective team?
Q5. What are the internal and external forces of organisational change?
Q6. Ms. Janice Alisha is a General Manager of Production in a company. She finds that there is a need to improve the motivation level of the employees. Suggest some of the motivational tools that she can use to improve employee motivation in her organisation.
Fall / August 2012
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
MB0038 –Management Process and Organizational Behaviour - 4 Credits
(Book ID:B1621)
Assignment Set- 2 (60 Marks)
Note: Each Question carries 10 marks. Answer all the questions.
Q1. What are the principles of management?
Q2. What are the characteristics of leading?
Q3. Briefly explain the four main approaches to Organisational Behaviour.
Q4. Explain the five major leadership styles as per the Managerial Grid theory.
Q5. List some of the commonly found perceptual biases.
Q6. Suppose you are the Team Manager in a multinational company with team strength of 12 members. You are given the responsibility of ensuring that the team gives excellent performance or results. What are the key issues you have to handle in team building?
Fall/August 2012
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
MB0039 – Business Communication - 4 Credits
(Book ID: B1624)
Assignment Set - 1 (60 Marks)
Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions.
1. Explain briefly the characteristics of communication.
2. Name the communication channel to which teleconferencing, Email, and telephone belongs to. Explain teleconferencing.
3. “Informal communication network is not just for idle rumours and may be useful in many ways.” Justify.
4. Explain some of the approaches for handling customer complaints and listening to customers.
5. Explain briefly the four steps of the review process.
6. Explain the different delivery styles that speakers can select for their presentation.
Fall/August 2012
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
MB0039 – Business Communication - 4 Credits
(Book ID: B1624)
Assignment Set - 2 (60 Marks)
Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions.
1. Explain the five steps of SQ3R techniques of reading.
2. Write a note on the responsibilities of chairperson during a meeting.
3. When you write a memo what language and writing style will you follow, explain.
4. What is sampling? Briefly explain the various methods of sampling.
5. Explain the principles that you need to follow while using emails for business communication.
6. Select a company of your choice. Write a sales letter in the AIDA format to a prospective customer, persuading him/her to buy the company’s product.
Fall 2012
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
MB0040 – Statistics for Management - 4 Credits
(Book ID: B1623)
Assignment Set - 1 (60 Marks)
Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions.
1. Mention the characteristics of Statistics. Explain any two applications of Statistics.
2. Distinguish between primary and secondary data. What are the methods of collecting primary data?
3. Find Karl Pearson’s correlation coefficient between the sales and expenses from the data given below:
Sales
(Rs. Lakhs) 50 50 55 60 65 65 65 60 60 50
Expenses (Rs. Lakhs) 11 13 14 16 16 15 15 14 13 13
4. The incidence of occupational disease in an industry is such that the workers have a 20% chance of suffering from it. What is the probability that out of six workers 4 or more will contract the disease?
5. Use chi-square test to test if the two attributes (Performance and Training) in the following table are independent. Test at 5% level of significance.
Performance Training
Intensive Good Average Total
Above Average 100 150 40 290
Average 100 100 100 300
Poor 50 80 150 280
Total 250 330 290 870
Fall 2012
6. Construct index numbers of price for the following data by applying:
i) Laspeyre’s method
ii) Paasche’s method
iii) Fisher’s Ideal Index number
Commodity Base year Current year
Price Quantity Price Quantity
A 2 8 4 6
B 5 10 6 5
C 4 14 5 10
D 2 19 2 13
Fall 2012
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
MB0040 – Statistics for Management - 4 Credits
(Book ID: B1623)
Assignment Set - 2 (60 Marks)
Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions.
1. Distinguish between Classification and Tabulation of data. What are the types of Classification of data?
2. Calculate mean and median for the following data
Marks 0-20 20-40 40-60 60-80 80-100 100-120 120-140
No of Students 4 26 22 10 9 6 3
3. Calculate the regression equations of X on Y and Y on X from the following data:
X 1 2 3 4 5
Y 2 5 3 8 7
4. What is sampling? Briefly explain the various methods of sampling.
5. A company appoints four salesmen, A, B, C and D, and observes their sales in three seasons- summer, winter and monsoon. The figures ( in lakhs) are given in the following table:
Season Salesman
A B C D Total
Summer 36 36 21 35 128
Winter 28 29 31 32 120
Monsoon 26 28 29 29 112
Total 90 93 81 96 360
Carry out an analysis of variance at 5% level of significance.
Fall 2012
6. The mean wage is Rs. 75 per day, SD wage is Rs 5 per day for a group of 1000 workers and the same is Rs 60 and Rs 4.5 for the other group of 1500 workers. Find mean and standard deviation for the entire group.
Fall 2012
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
MB0041 – Financial And Management Accounting - 4 Credits
(Book ID: B1624)
Assignment Set - 1 (60 Marks)
Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions.
1. Explain the process involved in accounting.
2. The salaries paid in 2004 is Rs. 5,00,000; Salaries outstanding is Rs. 20,000; Salaries paid in advance for 2004 is Rs. 30,000. What is the actual salary expenditure for 2004? Which accounting principle is involved in this and explain that principle.
3. Find the value of the following:
a. If the total assets are Rs. 87,000 and the liabilities are Rs. 47,000, find out the amount of capital.
b. If the capital of proprietor is Rs. 4,00,000 and the total assets are Rs. 6,00,000, what is the amount of liabilities to outsiders?
c. If creditors are Rs. 56,000, bank overdraft is Rs.1,00,000, and outstanding expenses are Rs. 8,000, what is the total amount of assets?
d. Fixed assets are Rs.70,000 and current assets are Rs.1,00,000 and the creditors are Rs.30,000. What is capital?
4. Enter the following transactions in the single column cash book of Gopichand.
March, 2003
1st. Commenced business with cash 20000
2nd. Bought goods for cash 5000
3rd. Sold goods for cash 4000
4th. Goods purchased from Ravi Kumar 10000
10th. Paid to Ravi Kumar 7000
14th. Cash sales 8000
18th. Purchased furniture for office 4000
22nd. Paid wages 500
Fall 2012
25th. Paid rent 600
30th. Received commission 4000
30th. Withdrew for personal purpose 1000
Cash balance 170000
Hint: Goods Purchased from Ravi Kumar is a credit purchase.
5. Find out the missing figures.
Office stationery Consumables
Opening stock 5000 8000
Purchased during the year 25000 ?
Closing stock 3000 6000
Consumed for the year ? 24000
• Hint : Office stationery consumed for the year =27000
Consumables purchased during the year = 22000
6. Explain the tools of management accounting.
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
Fall 2012
MB0041 – Financial and Management Accounting- 4 Credits
(Book ID: B1624)
Assignment Set - 2 (60 Marks)
Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions.
1. Compute trend ratios and comment on the financial performance of Infosys Technologies Ltd. from the following extract of its income statements of five years.
(in Rs. Crore)
Particulars 2010-11 2009-10 2008-09 2007-08 2006-07
Revenue 27,501 22,742 21,693 16,692 13,893
Operating Profit (PBIDT) 8,968 7,861 7,195 5,238 4,391
PAT from ordinary activities 6,835 6,218 5,988 4,659 3,856
(Source: Infosys Technologies Ltd. – Annual Report)
Hint: The Revenue and Operating Profit (PBIDT) have almost doubled in four years. The PAT from ordinary activities has increased by 77.26% in the same period.
2. What is fund flow analysis? What are the objectives of analysing flow of fund?
From the following balance sheets of Joy Ltd., prepare a cash flow statement under indirect method.
Liabilities 2005 2006
Equity share capital 3,00,000 4,00,000
8% redeemable pref. share capital 1,50,000 1,00,000
General reserve 40,000 70,000
Profit and loss 30,000 48,000
Proposed dividend 42,000 50,000
Sundry creditors 55,000 83,000
Bills payable 20,000 16,000
Provision for taxation 40,000 50,000
Total 6,77,000 8,17,000
Assets
Goodwill 1,15,000 90,000
Land and building 2,00,000 1,70,000
Plant 80,000 2,00,000
Sundry debtors 1,60,000 2,00,000
Stock 77,000 1,09,000
Bills receivable 20,000 30,000
Fall 2012
Cash 15,000 10,000
Bank 10,000 8,000
Total 6,77,000 8,17,000
Additional Information
a) Depreciation of Rs.10,000 and Rs.20,000 has been changed on plant and building during the current year.
b) An interim dividend of Rs.20,000 has been paid during the current year.
c) Rs.35,000 was paid during the current year for income tax.
Hint: Cash flow from operating activities Rs.1,25,000; Cash flow from investing activities (Rs.1,20,000); Cash flow from financing activities (Rs.12,000).
3. Calculate the cost of raw materials purchased from the following data:
Opening stock of raw materials Rs.10,000
Closing stock of raw materials Rs.15,000
Expenses on purchases Rs.5,000
Direct wages Rs.50, 000
Prime costs Rs.1, 00,000
Hint: Cost of Raw Materials purchased is Rs.50,000
4. Distinguish between absorption costing and marginal costing
5. The Anchor Company Ltd. produces most of its electrical parts in its own plant. The company is at present considering the feasibility of buying a part from an outside supplier for Rs.4.50 per part. If this is done, monthly costs would increase by Rs.1,000.
The part under consideration is manufactured in department 1 along with numerous other parts. On account of discontinuing the production of this part, department 1 would have somewhat reduced operations. The average monthly usage production of this part is 20,000 units. The costs of producing this part on per unit basis are as follows.
Material Rs. 1.80
Labour (half-hour) 2.40
Fixed overheads 0.80
Total costs 5.00
Should the company produce this part or should it buy from an outside supplier?
Fall 2012
Hint:
Differential costs 7,000 per month
Favouring making of the parts
0.35 er unit
6. Explain the essential features of budgetary control.
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