ANNAMALAI MBA FIRST YEAR AND SECOND YEAR ASSIGNMENT ANSWER SHEETS
PROVIDED. DR. PRASANTH MBA PH.D. DME MOBILE
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M.B.A. (FINANCIAL
MANAGEMENT)
FIRST YEAR
1.1
PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
1. Choose one academic administrator and another public
administrator and
conduct interview and then ask them how their job differs from
that of business
managers. How do they know how well their department, institution
or
organization is performing, Since profit is probably not one of
the criteria for
assessing effectiveness and efficiency?
2. Design a interview schedule and conduct the interview a manager
in your
locality and ask him how many subordinates he has. Are different
numbers of
subordinates supervised at the top, the middle, and the bottom of
the
organizational hierarchy? What really determines the span of
management in
the organization.
3. “There are two notions about relationship between job
satisfaction and
productivity: a happy worker is a productivity one; a happy worker
is not
necessarily a productive one. Critically evaluate this statement
and bring out the
situations under which each statement is true”.
4. “Planning is the basis, delegation is the key, information is
the guide, and action
is the essence of control of.” Trace the relationship between
control and other
functions with real life examples.
1.2 MARKETING MANAGEMENT
1. Examine the suitable demographic segmentation variables other
than age and
sex for the following industry
• Two wheeler
• Brewery
• Insurance
2. You have been selected by the ABC pharmaceutical company to be
a sales force
for the period of three years. Identify and describe how you would
progress
through the steps in effective selling.
3. Select an example of a new product failure in the recent
context. Explore and
prepare a report highlighting the causes for its failure. Do you
think a better
understanding of consumer behaviour could have contributed to its
success in
the market place? Do you accept or not? Justify your stand.
4. Design a questionnaire to determine repeat purchase behaviour
and brand
loyalty with respect to
• Fairness cream
• Mobile
• Sports shoe
• Ready-to-wear garments
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1.3 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
1. Design an appropriate capital structure which yields more
profitability of a
service industry of your choice. Illustrate your answer with the
help of an
EBIT-EPS Analysis.
2. The finance manager should take into account of the time value
of money in
order to take a correct financial decision. Elucidate the
statement with the help
of suitable illustration.
3. The goal of capital management is the maximisation of long run
earning to
present share holders – Comment
4. You are a finance manager in a manufacturing organization. You
came to know
the sales are very low when compared to the last year. So you have
decided to do
credit sales. Draft a proposal highlighting the decision areas to
be concentrated
to avoid non-payment.
1.4 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
1. Selecting a facility location usually involves a sequence of
decisions. This sequence
can include a national decision, a regional decision, a community
decision and a
site decision. Elucidate your views with reference to the above
context.
2. Why is the management of projects a challenge for most of the
managers in
production systems? How do these managers meet those challenges?
What tasks
must the project team perform before the project begins? What
tasks must the
project team perform as the project progresses?
3. Rane is a medium size manufacture of oil field pumps. The firm
has developed a
new model of high-pressure, secondary-recovery purge pump which
improved
performance. Hemalatha, manager of process engineering, is trying
to decide
whether Rane should make or buy the electronically controlled
input valve for
the new pump. Her engineers have developed the following
estimates:
Make
(Process A)
Make
(Process B)
Buy
Annual volume 10000 units
10000 units 10000 units
Fixed cost/year Rs.100,000
Rs.300,000 ---
Variable cost/unit Rs.75
Rs.70 Rs.80
a) Should Rane make the valve using Process A, make the valve
using Process
B, or buy the valve?
b) At what annual volume should Rane switch from buying to making
the valve
using Process A?
c) At what annual volume should Rane switch from Process A to
Process B?
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4. A JIT implementation team is evaluating lot sizes and setup
times throughout
the factory. The first machine to be evaluated currently requires
about 20
minutes for the machine operator to complete a changeover between
different
part types. Each part requires 1.2 minutes for processing. Parts
are currently
produced in batches of 60 units. The labor rate is Rs.14.50 per
hour.
a) What is the current average labor cost per part, including
changeovers?
b) If the changeover time could be reduced to 10 minutes, how much
labor cost
per part would be saved using the current batch size of 60 units?
c) If the changeover time could be reduced to 10 minutes, how much
could the
batch size be reduced in order to achieve the current average
labor cost per
unit?
1.5 HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT
1. “One reason for implementing global training programmes is the
need to avoid
business losses due to cultural insensitivity”. What sort of
training programme
would you recommend to avoid such cultural insensitivity?
2. Bring out some real life examples of how to use interest
inventories to improve
employee selection. In doing so, suggest some examples of
occupational
interests that you believe might predict success in various
occupations including
Professor, Accountant and System Analyst.
3. Design a graphic rating scale for the below mentioned
professions:
i. Secretary
ii. Engineer
iii. Web Designer
4. Develop an incentive plan for the following positions:
i. Chemical Engineer
ii. Plant Manager
iii. Used car sales force
iv. First-line supervisor
Examine the factors that you have to consider in reaching your
conclusions.
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1.6 STATISTICS FOR
MANAGERS
1. The personal director of a company wishes to select applicant
for advanced
training without regard to sex. Let ‘W’ denote Women and ‘M’
Denotes men and
the pattern of arrival be M WWW MMM WW M WWW MMMM W M W MM WWW
MM W MMMM WW M WW MMMM WW M WWWW MM WW M W M WW. Will
you conclude that the applicants have arrived in a random fashion?
2. The following represent the number of unit of production per
day turned out by
four different workers using five different types of machine:
Machine Type
Worker A B C D E Total
1 4 5 3 7 6 25
2 5 7 7 4 5 28
3 7 6 7 8 8 36
4 3 5 4 8 2 22
Total 19 23 21 27 21 111
On the basis of this information, can it be concluded that (1) the
Mean
Productivity in the same for different Machine, (II) the worker’s
don’t different
with regard to productivity
3. The average monthly sales of 5000 firms are normally
distributed, its mean and
standard deviation are 36,000 and 10,000 respectively, Find.
a. The number of firm have sales over 40,000
b. The percentage of firms having sales between Rs. 38,500 and Rs
41,000
c. The number of firm having sales between Rs. 30,000 and Rs.
40,000
The relevant extract of the area table (under normal curve ) is
given below
Z 0.25 0.40 0.5 0.6
Area 0.0987 0.1554 0.1915
0.2257
4. Mr. Ramana and Miss. Lalita, Researchers of Management
department, Adopted
different sampling techniques while investigating the sample of
the students to
know the number of students falling in different intelligence
level. The results are:
Researcher Below Average
Average Above Average Genius
Ramana 129 90 66 15
Lalita 80 66 50 4
On the basis of the above data, can we say that the two
researchers have
adopted significantly different sampling techniques? Test the
hypothesis at (a) 0.05
and (b) 0.01 level significance.
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1.7 MANAGERIAL
COMMUNICATION
1. Compare the barriers to oral and writtern communication. Which
is more
challenging? Provide the ways and means of overcoming these
challenges.
2. What is the relationship between leadership behaviour and
effectiveness of
communication? As a leader draft a letter to your subordinates to
propose new
product ideas. (Assume a FMCG company of your choice)
3. What is Blogs can be used to promote business for a company
selling designer
leather goods? List out the essential characteristics of a good
blog.
4. In what way business and academic reports differ? Draft a
business report to be
submitted by a Regional sales manager to Vice President of a
company marketing
medical equipments.
1.8 ACCOUNTING FOR
MANAGERS
1. How a financial statement helps the investors
and creditors for a service based
company and manufacturing company. Give your views by taking any
one company
of your choice on both the sector.
2. Identify the financial ratio on which Managerial of retail
store should focus.
Further analyse the various importance of those ratio and give
your views. How
it will help the retail store.
3. Discuss various applications of the Break Even Chart. Enumerate
the various
criticism usually levelled against Break Even Charts.
Differentiate how this
Break Even chart helps the service sector and manufacturing
sector.
4. From the following particulars, prepare the Balance Sheet of
Sri Mohan Ram.
Current Ratio -- 2
Working Capital -- Rs.
4,00,000
Capital block to Current
Assets -- 3:2
Fixed Asset to turnover --
1:3
Sales Cash / Credit -- 1:2
Stock Velocity -- 2 months
Creditor’s velocity -- 2
months
Debtor’s velocity -- 3
months
Capital block Net Profit --
10% of turnover
Debentures / Share Capital
-- 1:2
Gras Profit Ratio -- 25%
(to Sales)
Reserve -- 2.5% of turnover
M.B.A. (FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT)
SECOND YEAR
2.1
MANAGEMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES
1. Risks have always been present in the banking system but their
management
has gained prominence over the recent years'. Discuss the various
risks which
are being faced by banks and how are they being contained by them?
2. Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) has its
prime objective
to protect the interest of policy holders. What regulations have
been evolved by it
to attain this objective?
3. "The Stock Exchange is an essential pillar of the private
sector corporate
economy". Discuss this statement bringing out the role and
functions played by
these exchanges in the process of capital formation and in
mobilising resources
for the corporate sector.
4. "Issue managers play a vital role in fund raising through
public issue of
securities". Discuss this statement and explain the different
pre-issue activities
undertaken by an issue manager.
2.2
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
1. Discuss about the recent trends in foreign private capital
flows in India and
evaluate the impact of this foreign investment inflow into Indian
economy in
present and future.
2. Illustrate with suitable examples about the organizational
characteristics of the
multinational, global, international and transnational corporation
in foreign
trade.
3. Give a detailed study about the impact causes of the balance of
payments
disequilibrium and the measures you recommend to correct the
disequilibrium.
4. Write a detailed note on India’s foreign trade performance in
the recent economic
policy regime, and the changes of government policy on foreign
trade will have
some impact on export and import performance in India. Justify
your answer
with examples.
2.3
FINANCIAL ANALYSIS AND INDUSTRIAL FINANCING
1) “Analysing ability of business operations in generating funds
flow is one of the
major objectives of fund flow statement”. Do you agree or
disagree? Justify your
views how fund flow statement helps the management with
appropriate
examples.
2) You are given the following information pertaining to a
company.
Current ratio .5
Liquid ratio 1.5
Networking capital Rs. 30000
Stock turnover ratio 6 times
(cost of sales/closing stock)
Gross profit ratio 20%
Fixed asset turnover ratio (on cost of sales) 2 times
Average debt collection period 2 months
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Fixed assets/shareholder’s net worth 0.80
Reserve and surplus/capital 0.50
Draw up the balance sheet of the company
3) a) lower interest rate may reduce the size of the banks
b) banks are at a regulatory disadvantage when competing with
other financial
institutions for funds.
Interpret the above statements.
4) ICICI was formed in 1955 to provide medium and long term
finance to Indian
businesses. But over the period, it has diversified tremendously.
Has this
development helped to achieve its objective. Justify.
2.4
MANAGEMENT OF FUND AND ASSETS
1. As a management accountant you are asked to introduce a system
of capital
expenditure control for your organisation. Explain in detail the
important
feature you want to incorporate in system you propose to
introduce, with a
suitable example of a project involving capital expenditure.
2. “Efficient inventory management is reflected in the liquidity
and profitability of
the firm”. Do you agree? Justify your statement.
3. “Lease financing has proved its unique adaptability to various
financial
problems”. Explain with suitable examples.
4. If sales forecast is subject to error, then there is no purpose
of budgetary. Do
you agree (or)disagree. Give your views with appropriate examples.
2.5 INVESTMENT,
SECURITY AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
1. (a) When selecting bonds for a portfolio, what factors should
be considered
before choosing specific maturities and quality ratings?
(b) Comment on the following statement: “In evaluating the
suitability of a bond
for a portfolio, I don’t care about its maturity. Duration is all
that matters.”
2. Build a portfolio oriented towards capital appreciation using
round lots only,
costing about Rs.2,50,000 with a target PE ratio of 20, and a
target beta of 1.10.
Assign equal weighting to the beta and PE constraints.
3. With 3 suitable examples show how dollar cost averaging makes a
profit even in
a flat market, where a security is not trending up or down but
fluctuates around
a mean of 0.
4. Select any company of your choice included in Dow Jones
Industrial Average,
and calculate its dividend growth rate over the last fifteen
years.
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2.6
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
1. Trace the path taken from organizational resources and
organizational behaviour
to the development of strategic advantage.
2. In what way can timing and competitor reaction be crucial for
a strategic choice ?
Discuss.
3. Congruence and co-ordination among strategies should take
place through
vertical and horizontal fit. Explain.
4. Companies should evaluate performance on the basis of a
combination of
quantitative and qualitative criteria. Why? Discuss.
2.7.1 E-BUSINESS
1. Give a detailed presentation on designing, developing and
deploying the on-line
business system for textile industry.
2. Discuss the challenges and opportunities of e-commerce in
Indian Industry.
3. “EDI is not especially complex or convoluted, but many EDI
projects fail when
responsibility is thrust wholly on the IT staff”. Discuss in
detail.
4. Globalization has put increased pressure on organizations to
operate at entirely
new level of effectiveness. This can be managed through
application of BPR tools
to reduce procedures and the use of IT for effective
decision-making. Present
your perspectives elaborately.
2.7.2 BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS
1. Consider the following two research questions,
(a) How do the minority groups at a certain university view the
students
counseling program?
(b) Examine the relationship between intelligence and creativity
among the
students.
Indicate:
(i) The type of research that would best answer the question
(ii) An appropriate sampling method
(iii) The best method of collecting the data.
2. Discuss the role of Regression analysis in business and
industry. How are
Regression Coefficient helpful in analysing the Regression lines?
3. The mean weekly sales of soap bars in department stores was
146.3 bars per
store. After an advertising campaign, the mean weekly sales in 22
stores for a
typical week was increased to 153.7 and showed a standard
deviation of 17.2.
Was the advertising campaign successful?
4. Prepare questionnaire for the following research problem.
“Identify the factors influencing recently married couples
striking a divorce”
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