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MBA FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT I YEAR
1.1 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
1. Take any country with which you are familiar and discuss how a factor in the educational environment imparts on managing an enterprise.
2. Choose the organization where matrix type of departmentation is appropriate? Compare the pros and cons of this type over the others.
3. "A misconceived and incapable leader may take his followers to dangers of life". Explain the statement. Describe the qualities and trait of any two successful, Entrepreneurs in India.
4. The job of the supervisor is many more difficult than that of higher level managers . Examine the major responsibilities of a supervisor in an agro based Industry.

1.2 MARKETING MANAGEMENT
1. What kinds of sales promotion techniques are available for laptop computers? Based on the schemes available in the market, suggest a suitable scheme for a company planning to launch a Laptop.
2. How do marketers disaggregate a market into a number of sub-markets/District sub-units of buyers What are the constraints a marketer will face to a homogeneous market Explain?
3. Do you think the market segmentation criteria bring market opportunities to product marketer? If so, identify them. Also identify some leading brands currently positioned for women in these segments. Can you think of few for your own innovative product concepts targeted at these segments?
4. In today s India the growth of online marketing is going with upward trend. Discuss the pros. & cons. Which segment of consumers and what kind of products dominates online marketing?

1.3 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
1. Due to over capitalization the company may collapse which would certainly affect its employees, society, consumers and its shareholders. What remedies you would suggest? Give suitable examples.
2. Assume that you are a financial manager of medium sized company. Explore the possibilities of generating the different sources of capital at fair rate.
3. The contention that dividends have an impact on the share price has been characterized as the bird-in-the hand argument. Explain the essential of this argument. Why this argument is considered fallacious?
4. Identify the macro factors which are prevailing in the global economy, leading to mergers and acquisitions.

1.4 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
1. Discuss the various inventory models used in industries. Do you think JIT inventory is successful in India? Explain.
2. How an MRP system does helps management, monitor the performance of the inventory system? Give a specific example of what the system does to direct management s attention to problem areas?
3. Bring out the arguments for and against 'make' or 'buy' decisions. How is the problem of make-or-buy resolved? Explain this by considering a bike manufacturing company.
4. Discuss the functions of purchasing department in an Industry. Explain some methods of purchasing commonly adopted in an Industrial Purchasing. Why should the purchasing documents be legally sound?

1.5 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
1. Design a process for promoting internal candidates. How does the process differ from the one used for selecting external applicants?
2. Explain the principles of disciplining employees. What are the consequences of enforcing discipline without prior information?
3. As a frontline supervisor, what indicators would you need in order to decide whether a low-performing subordinate was a selection mistake are merely needs training? Illustrate this dilemma with suitable examples.
4. A growing number of employees are reluctant to accept overseas assignments. Why do they refuse? What benefits and services would you offer to them to accept such transfer?

1.6 STATISTICS FOR MANAGERS
1. a) Write clearly the relationship between binomial Poisson distribution.
b) Five hundred television sets are inspected as they come off the production
line and the number of defects per set is reordered below:
No. of defects : 0 1 2 3 4
No. of Television : 368 72 52 7 1
Estimate the average number of defects per set and the expected frequencies assuming Poisson distribution.
2. There is a general belief that high income families send their children to government school. For this, 1000 families were selected in a city and the following results were obtained.
Income Public school Government school Total
Low 100 200 300
High 500 200 700
Total 600 400 1000
Use chi-square test to determine whether income level and the type of schooling are associated.
3. From the following data
X 25 22 28 26 35 20 22 40 20 18
Y 18 15 20 17 22 14 16 21 15 14
a) Calculate regression equation X on Y and Y on X.
b) Estimate X when Y = 20
c) Estimate Y when X=20
d) Calculate Karl Pearson's coefficient of correlation
e) Check whether Regression line is a good fit.
4. Define the inverse of a matrix. Solve the following system of equations using matrix inversion method?
2x + 4y + 2z = 12
5x 2y + 6z = 07
3x + 3y 4z = 5
1.7 MANAGERIAL COMMUNICATION
1. Elaborate on the merits and demerits of using technology in business communication.
2. Body language is one of the ways to communicate to the employees down the line Do you consider that it is effective? Explain.
3. The President of the company has asked for a study of the employee's attitude over company's personnel policies. Write a research proposal on the specific topic of your choice.
4. You have recently joined a branch of a company as its manager. Write a report to the head office on the defects in the routine work of the branch. Also, suggest remedies for those defects.

1.8 ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERS
1. A distinguished professor has stated a statement of changes in financial position is like a motion picture, explaining the difference between two photographs, the balance sheet as of the end of the current year and the
balance sheet as of the end of the preceding year. Do you agree with this analogy? Justify your response.
2. A branch or business segment that shows negative operating income should be shutdown. Do you agree or not? Justify your views for and against.
3. The interest coverage ratio does not tell us much about the debt servicing ability of a firm Comment.
4. Indirect method of reporting cash flows from operating can create an erroneous impression about non-cash expenses (such as depreciation). What kind of impression it can create and why is it erroneous.

MBA FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT II YEAR
2.1 MANAGEMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES
1. Why companies go for leasing rather than purchasing agreement? What steps are involved in a lease agreement?
2. Analyze the trends in mutual funds and how the fresh fund capitals are mobilized during past five years.
3. In the recent past many investors lost money on stocks and mutual funds because of an economic downturn caused by global banking and financial crises. At the same time many experts argued that this was a Real Investment Opportunity because of the depressed price for many stocks and mutual funds. Do you think today is a good time to begin an investment program? Justify your answer.
4. If an entrepreneur approaches you for an advice regarding financing of a project wherein he intends to expand his existing project. What resources you should suggest him to raise his funds?

2.2 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
1. Define the balance of payments. The balance of payments records all types of international transactions. What are the three main types of international transaction in balance of payment accounts?
2. Multilateral setting process is good to read in print, but when it comes to implementation, there are bottlenecks. What does this statement imply? Discuss in detail.
3. India s Tariff and quota system is restricting international trade especially for Agri Business. Do you agree with this statement? If Yes / No substantiate your answer with suitable example.
4. Critically evaluate the success of STC of India in achieving the objectives for which it was established.

2.3 DERIVATIVES MANAGEMENT
1. How the valuation of Interest Rate SWAP, Currency SWAP and FRN are made? Explain them.
2. What is a lower bound price of a 4 month call option on a non dividend paying stock when the stock price is 28 $, strike price is 25$ and risk free interest rate is 8% per annum.
3. Examine the risks in financial derivatives and suggest measures to minimise them.
4. Write a note on role of clearing house with special emphasis upon delivery mechanism in futures market

2.4 RISK MANAGEMENT AND INSURANCE
1. You are the newly appointed Risk Manager within an organisation and have noted that there is no written risk management philosophy or statement in place. Advise to the Board regarding the advantages of adopting a risk
document, describing the elements that should be referenced within it.
2. Discuss the loss control measures are to be taken by any manufacturing company of your choice.
3. Insurance is a risk management technique of the corporate sector Analyse the statement.
4. Critically examine the role of government in regulation of insurance business in India

2.5 INVESTMENT, SECURITY AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
1. How do operators on a stock exchange affect the economic life of a nation? Is it necessary to control the stock exchange in the present situation? Give your views.
2. Companies with high credit risk are the ones that cannot access fixed rate market directly. They are the companies that are most likely to be paying fixed and receiving floating in an interest rate swap . Do you think it increases or decreases the risk of a financial institutions swap portfolio? Assume that companies are most likely to default when interest rates are high.
3. A fundamental analysis estimate of intrinsic value is different from the present value of all income . Is this statement true, false or uncertain? Justify your views with appropriate examples.
4. A stock split should have no effect on value but it does seem to affect a firm stock price. How would you reconcile this contradiction? Substantiate with suitable examples.

2.6 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
1. What are the six sigma strategies? Is this strategies has suitable to all the organization? If yes explain briefly if no justify your answer.
2. A leading steel company approaches you for strategies formulation and implementation in the changing environment. Suggest them a combination of strategies for productivity improvement (Make necessary assumptions).
3. Consider the shampoo market in India. Prepare a table showing the differences between the strategies adopted by top 5 brands. Explain each point.
4. Differentiate between competitive advantage of a country and a corporate. Discuss how this can help a firm to win over competition and grab more market share.

2.7.1 E-COMMERCE
1. What type of electronic payment systems are required in E-Commerce? Why are there different types of payment systems? Explain the necessary characteristics of each type of payment system and give an example of each where it is used.
2. Describe the current e-commerce scenario in India and explain the future prospect of e-commerce
3. Take an example of any two e-commerce companies in India providing high end e-commerce solutions and describe how they established customer confidence, trust and ensured privacy and security of the e-commerce transactions.
4. What is meant by Home entertainment? How it is related to E-Commerce and explains the size of the Home Entertainment Market?

2.7.2 BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS
1. Why do business organizations need research? A company, faced with the problem of increasing rate of work force turnover, wants you to conduct a research on this problem. Prepare a blueprint on the research process, you will follow.
2. "Research is much concerned with proper fact finding, analysis and evaluation". Do you agree with this statement? Give reasons in support of your answer.
3. Whenever possible, it is advisable to use instruments that have already been developed and repeatedly used in published studies, rather than develop our own instruments for our studies - Do you agree? Discuss the reasons for your answer
4. "Every data collection method has its own built-in biases. Therefore, resorting to multi-methods of data collection is only going to compound the biases", How would you critique this statement?