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DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.B.A. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
FIRST YEAR
Academic Year 2017 - 2018
ASSIGNMENT TOPICS
1.1 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
1. What do you see as the main difference between a successful and an
unsuccessful decision? How much does luck versus skill have to do with it? Give
a detail note on it.
2. Take any two Indian companies and examine how they have succeeded or failed
due to poor strategic planning.
3. Suggest a method of departmentation for a large multi-product organization with
a huge market spread over the whole country. Explain the reasons for your
suggestions.
4. ‘Motivation is the core of management’. Comment. What practical suggestions
would you offer to management to motivate its staff in an industrial
organization?
1.2 MARKETING MANAGEMENT
1. “Chinese computer and electronic products possess advantages in design,
innovation, rapid response and global market flexibility”- comment.
2. “Legal aspects protect competitors and consumers from many unethical pricing
strategies that unscrupulous marketers may wish to attempt”. Critically analyse
the statement.
3. “Advertising on the internet has changed significantly over the past decade and
some might argue that it is for the worse" Do you agree or disagree? Discuss
with practical illustrations.
4. Examine the challenges encountered by the pharmaceutical wholesale
distributor for surviving and thriving in this new and ever changing environment
1.3 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
1. “The consequences of over- capitalization are far more serious and fatal than
under-capitalization”. Discuss.
2. “An optimal combination of the decisions relating to investment, financing and
dividends will maximize the value of the firm to its shareholders”. Examine
3. “Efficiency inventory management is reflected in the liquidity and profitability of
the firm.” Explain.
4. “A low dividend payout Ratio promotes the welfare of stock holders because
long-term capital gains are treated more favourably than dividend income from
the tax point of view.” – Comment
3
1.4 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
1. Operations management is the area of creating competitive advantage. Do you
agree? Justify your answer.
2. A manufacturer requires 10,000 items per year. Price discount as follows:
Rs.4 upto 2000 items, Rs. 3.80 between 2000 and 4000 items. Rs.3.70 for
quantities above 4000. Ordering cost = Rs. 50.
Comparative inventory cost = 25% per year of average inventory price.
Determine the optimum purchase policy under discount.
3. Explain JIT. Do you think it is practically feasible in India? What is your
suggestion for implementing JIT?
4. Operations personnel usually have a large volume and variety of resources at
their command. They should endeavor to make effective and efficient use of
these resources to achieve the largest outputs. Comment! What are the
approaches for enhancing the utilization of resources?
1.5 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
1. “The field of HRM changes so rapidly that had become necessary for one to
constantly review procedures and laws so that the practices will be effective and
legal.” – Critically evaluate this statement.
2. “Majority of the testing techniques for selection do not accurately assess the
characteristics of the job. In fact most of the executives would divulge that the
testing had no impact on future job performance. Do you accept or not? –
Discuss with justification.
3. “Identify the paramount barriers to effective training programme in IT field and
how to crush them.” –Explain with real life examples.
4. Technological advancements and automation are causing high stress and burn
out among employees, which results negatively and unable to reap the benefit of
automation.” –Do you agree or disagree? State your view.
1.6 STATISTICS FOR MANAGERS
1. A random sample of 1000 workers from south India show that their mean wages
are Rs. 47 per week with a standard deviation of Rs. 28. A random sample of
1500 workers from North India gives a mean wage of Rs. 49 per week with a
standard deviation of Rs. 40. Is there any significant difference between their
mean levels of wages?
2. Calculate seasonal indices for the data given below by the link relative method
Quarter Years
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
I 45 48 49 52 60
II 54 56 63 65 70
III 72 63 70 75 84
IV 60 56 65 72 66
3. The following is the summary of a survey on the color of pens purchased by
persons belonging to different age groups. use chi-square test at 5 % level of
significance to find whether the age of the person has any association with the
choice of color.
4
Color
Age Group Blue Black Red
Less than 20 8 12 20
20-50 10 15 10
Above 50 10 10 5
6. The following data represents rainfall (x) and yield of paddy per hectare (y) in a
particular area.
x 113 102 95 120 140 130 125
y 1.8 1.5 1.3 1.9 1.1 2.0 1.7
a) Fit the regression equation x on y
b) Estimate y when x = 145
c) Calculate karl pearson’s coefficient of correlation.
d) Calculate regression coefficient x on y and y on x
e) Check whether the regression line is a good fit.
1.7 MANAGERIAL COMMUNICATION
1. Communication has its own merits and demerits based on the types? Discuss the
above with an example of your own.
2. It is difficult to study the growth of a firm without proper recordings of the
proceedings – Discuss the essentials of maintaining such activities in detail.
3. Success of an individual is based on the way he communicates with the people
around him – Discuss the above statement in relation with a HR Department.
4. Noise is from both external and internal sources, what are they and how it can be
overcome – Discuss in detail.
1.8 ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERS
1. Arun the managing director is surprised that his profit every year is quite
different from what he wants or expects to achieve. someone advised him to
install a formal system of budgeting. He employs a fresh accountant to do this.
For two years, the accountant faithfully makes all budgets based on previous
year accounts. The problem remains unsolved. Advise Arun the managing
director and the accountant on what steps they should take. Make assumptions
about what is lacking.
2. In a factory, actual fixed cost overheads were different from the standard fixed
overheads because the actual output, actual time consumed, actual rate per
hour and per unit of output differed. Compute the variances taking assumed
figures.
3. A company has to decide whether to Make or Buy. Through differential cost
analysis, how will you ascertain the net difference between the two alternatives
so as to assist the management in their decision making? Use hypothetical
figures to illustrate.
4. As a management accountant you were asked to introduce a system of capital
expenditure control for your organization. Explain the important feature you
want to incorporate in the system you propose to introduce with the suitable
example of a project involving capital expenditure.
M.B.A. [F.M.] – 1ST YEAR – Assignment / C- 1200
ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY PRESS 2017 -2018
ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY
DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.B.A. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
SECOND YEAR
Academic Year 2017 - 2018
ASSIGNMENT TOPICS
2.1 MANAGEMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES
1. Discuss the present state of the Insurance in India and outline causes for their
high growth.
2. Discuss elaborately the role and the progress of commercial banks in the
industrial financing of this country.
3. Explain the role of venture capital in the overall economy and how the venturecapital
industry actually works as a whole and also discuss some of the biggest
successes and failures of venture capital.
4. What do you understand by Credit Rating? Go to any financial institution , get
your credit rating and share your experience.
2.2 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
1. The international financial environment has become very volatile.’ – Do you
agree? Discuss it by taking into account all relevant factors.
2. Do you know the foreign exchange rates fluctuate? How do these fluctuations
affect us? What can be done to minimize these fluctuations?
3. Discuss the international monetary system, why did the international monetary
system move from a fixed exchange rate system to floating exchange rate
system? What has been its impact?
4. The responsibilities of the foreign banks in the export finance area have today
increased tremendously as compared to earlier years of 20th Century comment.
2.3 DERIVATIVES MANAGEMENT
1. Cipla has a market price of Rs.890. The volatility on the share is 0.32; the riskfree
interest rate is 5 percent. What would be the price of the call with a strike
price of Rs.880, if the expiry date is 20 days ahead? Assume there has not been
any dividend announcement.
2. You are given three call options on a stock at exercise price (k) of Rs 40, Rs.45 and
Rs.50 with the expiration date in 3 month and the premium of Rs.4, Rs.2 and Rs.1
respectively. Show how the call options can be used to create a butterfly spread.
Construct a table with different market prices and show how profit changes with
stock price ranging from Rs 30 to Rs 60 for a butterfly spread.
3. You are a portfolio manager who has just been exposed to the possibilities of
stock index futures. Respond to the following situations.
(a) Assume that you have the resources to buy and hold the stocks in the
S&P 500. You are given the following data. (Assume that today is January 1)
i) Level of the S & P 500 index = 258.90
ii) June S&P 500 futures contract = 260.15
iii) Annualized Rate on T. Bill expiring June 26 (expiration date) = 6%
iv) Annualized Dividend yield on S&P 500 stocks = 3%
v) Assume that dividends are paid out continuously over the year. Is there
potential for arbitrage? How would you go about setting up the arbitrage?
3
(b) Assume now that you are known for your stock selection skills. You have
10,000 shares of Texaco in your portfolio (now selling for 38) and are
extremely worried about the direction of the market until June. You would
like to protect yourself against market risk by using the December S&P 500
futures contract (which is at 260.15). If Texaco's beta is 0.8, how would you
go about creating this protection?
4. What are various types of derivative instruments traded at NSE? What are
various products available for trading in Futures and Options segment at NSE?
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 the Board of the advantages of adopting a risk document,
describing the elements that should be referenced within it.
2. You are the Internal Audit Manager within an organisation. At a recent Board
meeting, you were asked to prepare for an internal audit of the risk management
process.
(a) State the aim of an Internal Audit team as defined by the Institute of Internal
Auditors (IIA).
(b) Explain the role and assurances that the internal audit has to provide in
relation to risk management.
(c) Explain how the responsibilities of the internal audit function differ from
those of the risk management committee.
3. Discuss the need and growing importance of Liability insurance policies in India
quoting relevant examples with specific reference to Professional indemnity
liability policy in the backdrop of the recent corporate scams.
4. “Claims handling requires specialized skills.” Do you agree? What makes
insurance claims processing difficult and complicated and unpleasant especially
in general insurance. Refer to the relevant IRDA guidelines for speedy settlement
of claims.
2.5 INVESTMENT, SECURITY AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
1. Cite recent examples of political, social, or economic events (market risk) that
have excited (a) The stock market, and (b) Stocks in a specific industry, to surge
ahead or plummet sharply.
2. “Public issue of securities through prospectus is not only most popular but also
the best method of raising fresh capital.” – Critically evaluate.
3. ‘Stock market indices are the barometers of the stock market.’ – Discuss.
4. Technical analysts believe that one can use past price changes to predict future
price changes. How do you justify this belief?
2.6 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
1. If strategic planning is essentially a program, can it display the degree of
adaptiveness that 21st Century enterprises need? Would ‘strategic
improvisation’ be a plausible alternative? Explore the practical
consequences of strategic improvisation for enterprise management.
4
2. Select an Automobile industry in India, and evaluate its competitive
business strategy using Porter’s five force model? What strategies can you
suggest to convert the unattractive forces in to attractive ones?
3. “Complementary mergers may result in each firm filling in the missing
pieces of their firm with pieces from other firm” – Examine the validity of the
statement in the Indian context with necessary examples.
4. ‘Formality is the enemy of creativity and innovation’. ‘Informality is the
enemy of disciplined and reliable performance’. Is it consequently impossible
for an enterprise to be both innovative and disciplined? Investigate how
these qualities can be combined.
2.7.1 E-COMMERCE
1. Describe the current e-commerce scenario in India and explain the future
prospect of e-commerce.
2. Explain the characteristics of large companies that involve B2G and B2C
transactions in their business, which require roboust, capable and scalable
electgronic commerce system.
3. Visit the following sites:
www.olx.com /www.labour.tn.gov.in/www.clicks.co.za/www.digitalplanet.co.za
a. For each site determine whether it is in the exposure stage, interaction stage,
e-commerce stage or e-business stage. Provide reasons for your answer.
b. Determine whether each site is B2C, C2C, C2B or B2B and why.
c. Critically discuss the process of setting up a free-standing website and
evaluate the potential of e-commerce for small business development in
India.
4. Consider the development of a portal for a Retailer shop. Discuss the various
technologies, tools and components involved in designing the same..
2.7.2 BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS
1. Below is the gist of an article from Business Week. After reading it
(a) identify the broad problem area,
(b) define the problem, and
(c) explain how you would proceed further.
While Chrysler‘s minivans, pickups, and sport utility vehicles take a big share of
the truck market, its cars trail behind those of GM, Ford, Honda, and Toyota.
Quality problems include, among other things, water leaks and defective parts.
2. It is advantageous to develop a directional hypothesis whenever we are sure of
the predicted direction. How will you justify this statement?
3. If a control group is a part of an experimental design, one need not worry about
controlling other exogenous variables. Discuss this statement
4. 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.
DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.B.A. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
FIRST YEAR
Academic Year 2017 - 2018
ASSIGNMENT TOPICS
1.1 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
1. What do you see as the main difference between a successful and an
unsuccessful decision? How much does luck versus skill have to do with it? Give
a detail note on it.
2. Take any two Indian companies and examine how they have succeeded or failed
due to poor strategic planning.
3. Suggest a method of departmentation for a large multi-product organization with
a huge market spread over the whole country. Explain the reasons for your
suggestions.
4. ‘Motivation is the core of management’. Comment. What practical suggestions
would you offer to management to motivate its staff in an industrial
organization?
1.2 MARKETING MANAGEMENT
1. “Chinese computer and electronic products possess advantages in design,
innovation, rapid response and global market flexibility”- comment.
2. “Legal aspects protect competitors and consumers from many unethical pricing
strategies that unscrupulous marketers may wish to attempt”. Critically analyse
the statement.
3. “Advertising on the internet has changed significantly over the past decade and
some might argue that it is for the worse" Do you agree or disagree? Discuss
with practical illustrations.
4. Examine the challenges encountered by the pharmaceutical wholesale
distributor for surviving and thriving in this new and ever changing environment
1.3 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
1. “The consequences of over- capitalization are far more serious and fatal than
under-capitalization”. Discuss.
2. “An optimal combination of the decisions relating to investment, financing and
dividends will maximize the value of the firm to its shareholders”. Examine
3. “Efficiency inventory management is reflected in the liquidity and profitability of
the firm.” Explain.
4. “A low dividend payout Ratio promotes the welfare of stock holders because
long-term capital gains are treated more favourably than dividend income from
the tax point of view.” – Comment
3
1.4 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
1. Operations management is the area of creating competitive advantage. Do you
agree? Justify your answer.
2. A manufacturer requires 10,000 items per year. Price discount as follows:
Rs.4 upto 2000 items, Rs. 3.80 between 2000 and 4000 items. Rs.3.70 for
quantities above 4000. Ordering cost = Rs. 50.
Comparative inventory cost = 25% per year of average inventory price.
Determine the optimum purchase policy under discount.
3. Explain JIT. Do you think it is practically feasible in India? What is your
suggestion for implementing JIT?
4. Operations personnel usually have a large volume and variety of resources at
their command. They should endeavor to make effective and efficient use of
these resources to achieve the largest outputs. Comment! What are the
approaches for enhancing the utilization of resources?
1.5 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
1. “The field of HRM changes so rapidly that had become necessary for one to
constantly review procedures and laws so that the practices will be effective and
legal.” – Critically evaluate this statement.
2. “Majority of the testing techniques for selection do not accurately assess the
characteristics of the job. In fact most of the executives would divulge that the
testing had no impact on future job performance. Do you accept or not? –
Discuss with justification.
3. “Identify the paramount barriers to effective training programme in IT field and
how to crush them.” –Explain with real life examples.
4. Technological advancements and automation are causing high stress and burn
out among employees, which results negatively and unable to reap the benefit of
automation.” –Do you agree or disagree? State your view.
1.6 STATISTICS FOR MANAGERS
1. A random sample of 1000 workers from south India show that their mean wages
are Rs. 47 per week with a standard deviation of Rs. 28. A random sample of
1500 workers from North India gives a mean wage of Rs. 49 per week with a
standard deviation of Rs. 40. Is there any significant difference between their
mean levels of wages?
2. Calculate seasonal indices for the data given below by the link relative method
Quarter Years
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
I 45 48 49 52 60
II 54 56 63 65 70
III 72 63 70 75 84
IV 60 56 65 72 66
3. The following is the summary of a survey on the color of pens purchased by
persons belonging to different age groups. use chi-square test at 5 % level of
significance to find whether the age of the person has any association with the
choice of color.
4
Color
Age Group Blue Black Red
Less than 20 8 12 20
20-50 10 15 10
Above 50 10 10 5
6. The following data represents rainfall (x) and yield of paddy per hectare (y) in a
particular area.
x 113 102 95 120 140 130 125
y 1.8 1.5 1.3 1.9 1.1 2.0 1.7
a) Fit the regression equation x on y
b) Estimate y when x = 145
c) Calculate karl pearson’s coefficient of correlation.
d) Calculate regression coefficient x on y and y on x
e) Check whether the regression line is a good fit.
1.7 MANAGERIAL COMMUNICATION
1. Communication has its own merits and demerits based on the types? Discuss the
above with an example of your own.
2. It is difficult to study the growth of a firm without proper recordings of the
proceedings – Discuss the essentials of maintaining such activities in detail.
3. Success of an individual is based on the way he communicates with the people
around him – Discuss the above statement in relation with a HR Department.
4. Noise is from both external and internal sources, what are they and how it can be
overcome – Discuss in detail.
1.8 ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERS
1. Arun the managing director is surprised that his profit every year is quite
different from what he wants or expects to achieve. someone advised him to
install a formal system of budgeting. He employs a fresh accountant to do this.
For two years, the accountant faithfully makes all budgets based on previous
year accounts. The problem remains unsolved. Advise Arun the managing
director and the accountant on what steps they should take. Make assumptions
about what is lacking.
2. In a factory, actual fixed cost overheads were different from the standard fixed
overheads because the actual output, actual time consumed, actual rate per
hour and per unit of output differed. Compute the variances taking assumed
figures.
3. A company has to decide whether to Make or Buy. Through differential cost
analysis, how will you ascertain the net difference between the two alternatives
so as to assist the management in their decision making? Use hypothetical
figures to illustrate.
4. As a management accountant you were asked to introduce a system of capital
expenditure control for your organization. Explain the important feature you
want to incorporate in the system you propose to introduce with the suitable
example of a project involving capital expenditure.
M.B.A. [F.M.] – 1ST YEAR – Assignment / C- 1200
ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY PRESS 2017 -2018
ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY
DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.B.A. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
SECOND YEAR
Academic Year 2017 - 2018
ASSIGNMENT TOPICS
2.1 MANAGEMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES
1. Discuss the present state of the Insurance in India and outline causes for their
high growth.
2. Discuss elaborately the role and the progress of commercial banks in the
industrial financing of this country.
3. Explain the role of venture capital in the overall economy and how the venturecapital
industry actually works as a whole and also discuss some of the biggest
successes and failures of venture capital.
4. What do you understand by Credit Rating? Go to any financial institution , get
your credit rating and share your experience.
2.2 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
1. The international financial environment has become very volatile.’ – Do you
agree? Discuss it by taking into account all relevant factors.
2. Do you know the foreign exchange rates fluctuate? How do these fluctuations
affect us? What can be done to minimize these fluctuations?
3. Discuss the international monetary system, why did the international monetary
system move from a fixed exchange rate system to floating exchange rate
system? What has been its impact?
4. The responsibilities of the foreign banks in the export finance area have today
increased tremendously as compared to earlier years of 20th Century comment.
2.3 DERIVATIVES MANAGEMENT
1. Cipla has a market price of Rs.890. The volatility on the share is 0.32; the riskfree
interest rate is 5 percent. What would be the price of the call with a strike
price of Rs.880, if the expiry date is 20 days ahead? Assume there has not been
any dividend announcement.
2. You are given three call options on a stock at exercise price (k) of Rs 40, Rs.45 and
Rs.50 with the expiration date in 3 month and the premium of Rs.4, Rs.2 and Rs.1
respectively. Show how the call options can be used to create a butterfly spread.
Construct a table with different market prices and show how profit changes with
stock price ranging from Rs 30 to Rs 60 for a butterfly spread.
3. You are a portfolio manager who has just been exposed to the possibilities of
stock index futures. Respond to the following situations.
(a) Assume that you have the resources to buy and hold the stocks in the
S&P 500. You are given the following data. (Assume that today is January 1)
i) Level of the S & P 500 index = 258.90
ii) June S&P 500 futures contract = 260.15
iii) Annualized Rate on T. Bill expiring June 26 (expiration date) = 6%
iv) Annualized Dividend yield on S&P 500 stocks = 3%
v) Assume that dividends are paid out continuously over the year. Is there
potential for arbitrage? How would you go about setting up the arbitrage?
3
(b) Assume now that you are known for your stock selection skills. You have
10,000 shares of Texaco in your portfolio (now selling for 38) and are
extremely worried about the direction of the market until June. You would
like to protect yourself against market risk by using the December S&P 500
futures contract (which is at 260.15). If Texaco's beta is 0.8, how would you
go about creating this protection?
4. What are various types of derivative instruments traded at NSE? What are
various products available for trading in Futures and Options segment at NSE?
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 the Board of the advantages of adopting a risk document,
describing the elements that should be referenced within it.
2. You are the Internal Audit Manager within an organisation. At a recent Board
meeting, you were asked to prepare for an internal audit of the risk management
process.
(a) State the aim of an Internal Audit team as defined by the Institute of Internal
Auditors (IIA).
(b) Explain the role and assurances that the internal audit has to provide in
relation to risk management.
(c) Explain how the responsibilities of the internal audit function differ from
those of the risk management committee.
3. Discuss the need and growing importance of Liability insurance policies in India
quoting relevant examples with specific reference to Professional indemnity
liability policy in the backdrop of the recent corporate scams.
4. “Claims handling requires specialized skills.” Do you agree? What makes
insurance claims processing difficult and complicated and unpleasant especially
in general insurance. Refer to the relevant IRDA guidelines for speedy settlement
of claims.
2.5 INVESTMENT, SECURITY AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
1. Cite recent examples of political, social, or economic events (market risk) that
have excited (a) The stock market, and (b) Stocks in a specific industry, to surge
ahead or plummet sharply.
2. “Public issue of securities through prospectus is not only most popular but also
the best method of raising fresh capital.” – Critically evaluate.
3. ‘Stock market indices are the barometers of the stock market.’ – Discuss.
4. Technical analysts believe that one can use past price changes to predict future
price changes. How do you justify this belief?
2.6 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
1. If strategic planning is essentially a program, can it display the degree of
adaptiveness that 21st Century enterprises need? Would ‘strategic
improvisation’ be a plausible alternative? Explore the practical
consequences of strategic improvisation for enterprise management.
4
2. Select an Automobile industry in India, and evaluate its competitive
business strategy using Porter’s five force model? What strategies can you
suggest to convert the unattractive forces in to attractive ones?
3. “Complementary mergers may result in each firm filling in the missing
pieces of their firm with pieces from other firm” – Examine the validity of the
statement in the Indian context with necessary examples.
4. ‘Formality is the enemy of creativity and innovation’. ‘Informality is the
enemy of disciplined and reliable performance’. Is it consequently impossible
for an enterprise to be both innovative and disciplined? Investigate how
these qualities can be combined.
2.7.1 E-COMMERCE
1. Describe the current e-commerce scenario in India and explain the future
prospect of e-commerce.
2. Explain the characteristics of large companies that involve B2G and B2C
transactions in their business, which require roboust, capable and scalable
electgronic commerce system.
3. Visit the following sites:
www.olx.com /www.labour.tn.gov.in/www.clicks.co.za/www.digitalplanet.co.za
a. For each site determine whether it is in the exposure stage, interaction stage,
e-commerce stage or e-business stage. Provide reasons for your answer.
b. Determine whether each site is B2C, C2C, C2B or B2B and why.
c. Critically discuss the process of setting up a free-standing website and
evaluate the potential of e-commerce for small business development in
India.
4. Consider the development of a portal for a Retailer shop. Discuss the various
technologies, tools and components involved in designing the same..
2.7.2 BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS
1. Below is the gist of an article from Business Week. After reading it
(a) identify the broad problem area,
(b) define the problem, and
(c) explain how you would proceed further.
While Chrysler‘s minivans, pickups, and sport utility vehicles take a big share of
the truck market, its cars trail behind those of GM, Ford, Honda, and Toyota.
Quality problems include, among other things, water leaks and defective parts.
2. It is advantageous to develop a directional hypothesis whenever we are sure of
the predicted direction. How will you justify this statement?
3. If a control group is a part of an experimental design, one need not worry about
controlling other exogenous variables. Discuss this statement
4. 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.
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