Financial Management
Financial Management
Financial Management
Q1. (a) What is the adjusted present value (APV) approach? How does it differ from the conventional net present value approach of evaluating a target firm?
Q1. (b) What are the factors that determine the dividend policy of a company? Do you believe it will be justifiable for a company to obtain a short-term loan from a bank to allow payment of a dividend?
Q2. (a) Explain the organizational structure required for the implementation of effective credit administration and risk management systems of banks and FIs, within the framework of the RBI guidelines.
Q2. (b) Assuming that the daily volatility of the Nifty is 1.75 and trading happens on 256 days in a year compute the sigma figure used in the Black Scholes formula.
Q3. (a) What is the value of a call option on maturity? When the call option owner is said to be at break-even? Can the value of call option be negative?
Q3. (b) "The important aspect of exit stage of VC financing is the decision regarding the realizing/disinvestment alternatives which are related to the type of investment". Elaborate.
Q4. (a) Distinguish between import lease and cross-border lease. What are the advantages of the latter?
Q4. (b) Discuss the symbols and their implications used by (i) CRISIL (ii)ICRA,(iii)CARE and (iv)FITCH India for rating debentures.
Q5. (a) Explain the pre-emptive rights of the ordinary shareholders. How is their financial interest affected by the issue of rights shares?
Q5. (b) How can the effect of profitability on designing an appropriate capital structure be analyzed? Illustrate your answer with the help of EBIT-EPS analysis.
Q6. (a) Give a critical appraisal of the traditional Approach and (a) traditional approach and (b) the Modigliani-Miller Approach to the theory of capital structure.
Q6. (b) What is meant by the term leverage'? What are its types? With what type of risk is each leverage generally associated? Why is increasing leverage also indicative of increasing risk? State the situation when there is neither a financial risk nor business risk.
General Management
General Management
General Management
Q1. (a) Discuss the importance of management in the present-day world.
Q1. (b) "Managers at all levels required some competence in each of the technical, human and conceptual skills, albeit with difference in emphasis." Analyze this statement with suitable examples from your work experience."
Q2. (a) What is the major task of manager according to the contingency approach?
Q2. (b) Describe in detail the social performance of business in India.
Q3. (a) What is the different between a policy and a procedure? Should a policy be permanent or subject to changes?
Q3. (b) What do you understand by the process of decision-making? What are the main stages in the process of rational decision-making?
Q4. (a) What is the importance of sales forecasting in planning? A sales forecast is often regarded both as a plan and as a premise. Comment!
Q4. (b) What is meant by departmentalization? Explain different types of departmentalization.
Q5. (a) What do you understand by "span of management"? How is this taken into account in preparing an organization structure?
Q5. (b) "Authority is an all inclusive principle of management from which all other principles are derived." Do you agree? Give your reasons.
Q6. (a) "Coordination and communication are the sine qua non of managements."
Q6. (b) Describe the difference between a formal and an informal organization.
International Business
International Business
International Business
Q1. (a) What kind of economic system did India operate under during 1947 to 1990? What kind of system is it moving toward today? What are the Impediments to completing this transformation?
Q1. (b) What does the Matsushita case teach you about the relationship between societal culture and business success?
Q2. (a) In retrospect, could the large Western pharmaceutical have responded differently to the 1997 South African law? How might they have better taken the initiative?
Q2. (b) How will China's increasing involvement in global trade help that country? How will it help the world's developed economies? What potential problems are associated with moving work to China
Q3 (a) Do you think that R&D contracts from NASA and the pentagon benefit Boeing's commercial aerospace business? How?
Q3. (b) Do you think the successful conclusion of a multilateral agreement to liberalize regulations governing FDI will benefit the world economy? why?
Q4. (a) By establishing facilities in Mexico, Dixon became a multinational company. Why has Dixon become a multinational? What are the economic benefits to Dixon of becoming an international business?
Q4. (b) If the U.S. dollar had appreciated against the euro and Canadian dollar, instead of depreciating, which company would have done better? Why?
Q5. (a) Over the last decade many foreign firms have invested in China and used their Chinese factories to produce goods for export. If the Yuan is allowed to float freely against the U.S. dollar on the foreign exchange markets and appreciates in value, how might this affect the fortunes of those enterprises?
Q5. (b) By the 2000s, what strategy was Black & Decker pursuing in the global Market place? How would you characterize its structure? Fit the strategy and environment?
Q6. (a) Discuss how the need for control over foreign operations varies with firms' strategies and core competencies. .What are the implications for the choice of entry mode?
Q6. (b) What evidence is there in the case that Toyota is becoming more of a global corporation? What are the implications of this for the long-term competitive advantage of the company?
Marketing Management
Marketing Management
Marketing Management
Q1. (a) Analyze the existing business portfolio of any one company using BCG matrix, GE matrix, and Ansoff model.
Q1. (b) Discuss the Macro environment of a pharmaceutical company.
Q2. (a) Explain the components of MIS.
Q2. (b) Explain the Henry assail model of buying decision behavior.
Q3. (a) Discuss the segmentation strategy of a cement company.
Q3. (b) Explain the relevance of VALS to Marketing.
Q4. (a) Critically analyze the product mix strategies of a beverage company.
Q4. (b) What is private brand? Explain private brand strategy of a retailer
Q5. (a) Explain the partner relationship management at Airtel.
Q5. (b) Critically analyze the five best advertisements released in this year.
CASE STUDY – INFOSYS
Q6a1. Do you think ticket based pricing will provide continuous revenue to Infosys in the long term?
Q6a2. Compare three pricing strategies discussed here and choose any one as your choice.
CASE STUDY – KURKURE
Q6b1. Explain the viability of market expansion strategy of Kurkure.
Q6b2. Critically analyzes the consumer behavior towards snacks products.
Operation Management
Operation Management
Operation Management
Q1. (a) "Project Control should always focus on the critical path" comment.
Q1. (b) Discuss the product design philosophy behind industrial design and design for manufacturing and assembly. Which one do you think is more important in a customer focused product development?
Q2. (a) Explain how having more work in process inventory can improve the Efficiency of a process. How can this be bad?
Q2. (b) Is there an inconsistency when a company requires precise time standards and encourages job enlargement?
Q3. (a) How does the production volume affect break even analysis?
Q3. (b) What is meant by a process? Describe its important features.
Q4. (a) What is the objective of assembly line balancing? How would you deal with the situation where one worker, although trying hard, is 20 percent slower than the other 10 people on a line?
Q4. (b) Consider a department store. Which departments probably should not be Located near each other? Would any departments benefit from close proximity?
Q5. (a) List some occupations or sporting events where the ending is a dominant element in evaluating success. Explain?
Q5. (b) "If line employees are required to work on quality improvement activities, their productivity will suffer." Discuss.
Q6. (a) What recent changes have caused supply chain management to gain importance?
Q6. (b) Management may choose to build up capacity in anticipation of demand or in response to developing demand. Cite the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches.
Financial Management
Financial Management
Q1. (a) What is the adjusted present value (APV) approach? How does it differ from the conventional net present value approach of evaluating a target firm?
Q1. (b) What are the factors that determine the dividend policy of a company? Do you believe it will be justifiable for a company to obtain a short-term loan from a bank to allow payment of a dividend?
Q2. (a) Explain the organizational structure required for the implementation of effective credit administration and risk management systems of banks and FIs, within the framework of the RBI guidelines.
Q2. (b) Assuming that the daily volatility of the Nifty is 1.75 and trading happens on 256 days in a year compute the sigma figure used in the Black Scholes formula.
Q3. (a) What is the value of a call option on maturity? When the call option owner is said to be at break-even? Can the value of call option be negative?
Q3. (b) "The important aspect of exit stage of VC financing is the decision regarding the realizing/disinvestment alternatives which are related to the type of investment". Elaborate.
Q4. (a) Distinguish between import lease and cross-border lease. What are the advantages of the latter?
Q4. (b) Discuss the symbols and their implications used by (i) CRISIL (ii)ICRA,(iii)CARE and (iv)FITCH India for rating debentures.
Q5. (a) Explain the pre-emptive rights of the ordinary shareholders. How is their financial interest affected by the issue of rights shares?
Q5. (b) How can the effect of profitability on designing an appropriate capital structure be analyzed? Illustrate your answer with the help of EBIT-EPS analysis.
Q6. (a) Give a critical appraisal of the traditional Approach and (a) traditional approach and (b) the Modigliani-Miller Approach to the theory of capital structure.
Q6. (b) What is meant by the term leverage'? What are its types? With what type of risk is each leverage generally associated? Why is increasing leverage also indicative of increasing risk? State the situation when there is neither a financial risk nor business risk.
General Management
General Management
General Management
Q1. (a) Discuss the importance of management in the present-day world.
Q1. (b) "Managers at all levels required some competence in each of the technical, human and conceptual skills, albeit with difference in emphasis." Analyze this statement with suitable examples from your work experience."
Q2. (a) What is the major task of manager according to the contingency approach?
Q2. (b) Describe in detail the social performance of business in India.
Q3. (a) What is the different between a policy and a procedure? Should a policy be permanent or subject to changes?
Q3. (b) What do you understand by the process of decision-making? What are the main stages in the process of rational decision-making?
Q4. (a) What is the importance of sales forecasting in planning? A sales forecast is often regarded both as a plan and as a premise. Comment!
Q4. (b) What is meant by departmentalization? Explain different types of departmentalization.
Q5. (a) What do you understand by "span of management"? How is this taken into account in preparing an organization structure?
Q5. (b) "Authority is an all inclusive principle of management from which all other principles are derived." Do you agree? Give your reasons.
Q6. (a) "Coordination and communication are the sine qua non of managements."
Q6. (b) Describe the difference between a formal and an informal organization.
International Business
International Business
International Business
Q1. (a) What kind of economic system did India operate under during 1947 to 1990? What kind of system is it moving toward today? What are the Impediments to completing this transformation?
Q1. (b) What does the Matsushita case teach you about the relationship between societal culture and business success?
Q2. (a) In retrospect, could the large Western pharmaceutical have responded differently to the 1997 South African law? How might they have better taken the initiative?
Q2. (b) How will China's increasing involvement in global trade help that country? How will it help the world's developed economies? What potential problems are associated with moving work to China
Q3 (a) Do you think that R&D contracts from NASA and the pentagon benefit Boeing's commercial aerospace business? How?
Q3. (b) Do you think the successful conclusion of a multilateral agreement to liberalize regulations governing FDI will benefit the world economy? why?
Q4. (a) By establishing facilities in Mexico, Dixon became a multinational company. Why has Dixon become a multinational? What are the economic benefits to Dixon of becoming an international business?
Q4. (b) If the U.S. dollar had appreciated against the euro and Canadian dollar, instead of depreciating, which company would have done better? Why?
Q5. (a) Over the last decade many foreign firms have invested in China and used their Chinese factories to produce goods for export. If the Yuan is allowed to float freely against the U.S. dollar on the foreign exchange markets and appreciates in value, how might this affect the fortunes of those enterprises?
Q5. (b) By the 2000s, what strategy was Black & Decker pursuing in the global Market place? How would you characterize its structure? Fit the strategy and environment?
Q6. (a) Discuss how the need for control over foreign operations varies with firms' strategies and core competencies. .What are the implications for the choice of entry mode?
Q6. (b) What evidence is there in the case that Toyota is becoming more of a global corporation? What are the implications of this for the long-term competitive advantage of the company?
Marketing Management
Marketing Management
Marketing Management
Q1. (a) Analyze the existing business portfolio of any one company using BCG matrix, GE matrix, and Ansoff model.
Q1. (b) Discuss the Macro environment of a pharmaceutical company.
Q2. (a) Explain the components of MIS.
Q2. (b) Explain the Henry assail model of buying decision behavior.
Q3. (a) Discuss the segmentation strategy of a cement company.
Q3. (b) Explain the relevance of VALS to Marketing.
Q4. (a) Critically analyze the product mix strategies of a beverage company.
Q4. (b) What is private brand? Explain private brand strategy of a retailer
Q5. (a) Explain the partner relationship management at Airtel.
Q5. (b) Critically analyze the five best advertisements released in this year.
CASE STUDY – INFOSYS
Q6a1. Do you think ticket based pricing will provide continuous revenue to Infosys in the long term?
Q6a2. Compare three pricing strategies discussed here and choose any one as your choice.
CASE STUDY – KURKURE
Q6b1. Explain the viability of market expansion strategy of Kurkure.
Q6b2. Critically analyzes the consumer behavior towards snacks products.
Operation Management
Operation Management
Operation Management
Q1. (a) "Project Control should always focus on the critical path" comment.
Q1. (b) Discuss the product design philosophy behind industrial design and design for manufacturing and assembly. Which one do you think is more important in a customer focused product development?
Q2. (a) Explain how having more work in process inventory can improve the Efficiency of a process. How can this be bad?
Q2. (b) Is there an inconsistency when a company requires precise time standards and encourages job enlargement?
Q3. (a) How does the production volume affect break even analysis?
Q3. (b) What is meant by a process? Describe its important features.
Q4. (a) What is the objective of assembly line balancing? How would you deal with the situation where one worker, although trying hard, is 20 percent slower than the other 10 people on a line?
Q4. (b) Consider a department store. Which departments probably should not be Located near each other? Would any departments benefit from close proximity?
Q5. (a) List some occupations or sporting events where the ending is a dominant element in evaluating success. Explain?
Q5. (b) "If line employees are required to work on quality improvement activities, their productivity will suffer." Discuss.
Q6. (a) What recent changes have caused supply chain management to gain importance?
Q6. (b) Management may choose to build up capacity in anticipation of demand or in response to developing demand. Cite the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches.
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