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BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

Answer the following question.

Q1.

Define meeting & State the golden rules of meetings

(10marks)

Q2.

Which are the factors affecting negotiation

(10marks)

Q3.

How to organize the Speech

(10marks)

Q4.

Write notes on Audience Analysis

Q5.

What are the dis-advantages of Oral Communication

(10marks)

Q6.

Differentiate between oral & Written Communication

(10marks)

Q7.

Write about effective use of Grapevine

(10marks)

Q8.

What is the objective of Communication?

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

Answer the following question.

Q1.

State causes of inflationary trends in India.

(10marks)

Q2.

Discuss budgetary developments in 2005-06.

(10marks)

Q3.

Give objectives of disinvestment.

(10marks)

Q4.

Give reasons for slow growth under the plan .

Q5.

What are the consequences of expansion in the money supply.

(10marks)

Q6.

Discuss strategic Human Resource Management.

(10marks)

Q7.

Discuss external trade .

(10marks)

Q8.

Is India sharing a comfortable position with regard to natural resources?

BUSINESS ETHICS

Answer the following question.

Q1.

Give pts of Narasimhan Committee Report (1991)?

(10marks)

Q2.

What are attributes of profession.

(10marks)

Q3.

What are the fundamental duties of every citizen of India.

(10marks)

Q4.

Explain need for a check on quackery.

Q5.

Explain National consumer disputes redressal commission.

(10marks)

Q6.

Discuss managers role in business ethics.

(10marks)

Q7.

Write a note on human culture and civilization.

(10marks)

Q8.

What is imperative need?

BUSINESS STRATEGY

Answer the following question.

Q1.

Define : 1) incremental change 2) transformational change

(10marks)

Q2.

Write a short note on value chain analysis.

(10marks)

Q3.

Define Corporate Entrepreneurship.

(10marks)

Q4.

Write a short note on vertical integration.

Q5.

Explain the concept of international strategic alliances.

(10marks)

Q6.

Describe characteristics of Reid which is influenced the internationalization decision.

(10marks)

Q7.

Discuss Business Intelligence Systems.

(10marks)

Q8.

Discuss internationalisation strategies

CORPORATE LAW

Answer the following question.

Q1.

Explain why financial planning is important to today’s chief executives?

(10marks)

Q2.

What are the obligation imposed on a creditor in a contract of guarantee

(10marks)

Q3.

What is the standard form contract ?

(10marks)

Q4.

Discuss contract.

Q5.

Who is a small depositor

(10marks)

Q6.

What is an unlimited company

(10marks)

Q7.

Give meaning and effect of unilateral mistake

(10marks)

Q8.

What are essentials of a valid offer

ESSENTIALS OF MANAGEMENT

Answer the following question.

Q1.

Write any two HR related controlling technique.

(10marks)

Q2.

Why leadership is different from manager ship?

(10marks)

Q3.

What are the scopes or areas of control?

(10marks)

Q4.

Discuss principles, types & techniques of direction.

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Answer the following question.

Q1.

What are the three major sections of the statement of cash flows?

(10marks)

Q2.

Briefly define the terms proprietorship, partnership, and corporation.

(10marks)

Q3.

Explain why accounting profits and cash flows are not the same thing.

(10marks)

Q4.

Give four example of movement between cash and cash equivalents.

Q5.

Under which accounting standard , cash flow statement is prepared ?

(10marks)

Q6.

What is meant by Financial Planning?

(10marks)

Q7.

Why does diversification reduce risk?

(10marks)

Q8.

Explain the equation of EBIT when it is equal to Break Even Point

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Answer the following question.

Q1.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of HRIS?

(10marks)

Q2.

What are the advantages of HRP?

(10marks)

Q3.

What do you understand by employee benefits?

(10marks)

Q4.

What are the pay-surveys? And whats its usefuless?

Q5.

Who should evaluate the employee’s performance?

(10marks)

Q6.

State the objectives/ purposes of performance evaluation?

(10marks)

Q7.

What are the strategic challenges HRM facing?

(10marks)

Q8.

Explain the nature of Strategic HRM?

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Answer the following question.

Q1.

Explain the role of MIS in business.

(10marks)

Q2.

How are reports different from queries?

(10marks)

Q3.

Explain the client/server computing.

(10marks)

Q4.

Structure of MIS-Write short notes.

Answer the following question.

Q1.

How does e-business fit into different locations within the production chain?

(10marks)

Q2.

Explain the SAP and its function in an Organization.

(10marks)

Q3.

Define OLAP. What is the role of OLAP in decision-making?

(10marks)

Q4.

Explain Centralization in MIS.

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

Answer the following question.

Q1.

How does IHRM affect the staffing policy of a company ?

(10marks)

Q2.

Explain the relationship between IHRM and International Labor.

(10marks)

Q3.

What is advertising ? Explain it.

(10marks)

Q4.

Describe concept of international market.

MANAGEMENT CONTROL SYSTEM

Answer the following question.

Q1.

Explain the various components of control systems.

(10marks)

Q2.

Write a short note on Operating Budget

(10marks)

Q3.

What are the various special control issues faced by Multi National Corporations?

(10marks)

Q4.

Describe the criteria on which the incentives of business unit managers are decided.

MARKETING MANAGEMENT

Answer the following question.

Q1.

What is Inventory Management?

(10marks)

Q2.

Explain the terms Product Item and Product Line in the context of Product Mix. Why and how productmix is changed?

(10marks)

Q3.

Advertisement expenses are usually wasteful, with no guarantee of enhanced sales or higher loyaltyfrom among the target audience” .Do you agree with this statement ?Present your view – point.

(10marks)

Q4.

“Ware – housing decision are growingly becoming more critical” . Discuss quoting examples.

Q5.

Present the major. issues affecting “costs’ in the context of Inventory , management. Explain your viewsciting examples.

(10marks)

Q6.

Discuss the role & importance of physical distribution in the consumer products marketing.

(10marks)

Q7.

Bring out the utility & quality- aspects of packaging. Quote examples as appropriate.

(10marks)

Q8.

What are the various channels of distribution generally used by companies of Distribute FMCG.

NETWORK MANAGEMENT

Answer the following question.

Q1.

Explain any two functions of each layer of TCP/IP protocol stack

(10marks)

Q2.

Write any two differences between OSI and TCP/IP protocol suit. Also give reasons why OSI is notpopular

(10marks)

Q3.

Define: WAN?

(10marks)

Q4.

NMS client design?

Answer the following question.

Q1.

What are CPE networks?

(10marks)

Q2.

Explain SMI Actions?

(10marks)

Q3.

Architecture of NMS server?

(10marks)

Q4.

List and explain any five ISDN applications.

QUANTITATIVE METHODS

A monte Carlo Case Study

(20Marks)

Laura,' a 57 year old unmarried woman, earns around 68,000 dollars per year with expenditure of 37,500 dollars. She hitaway 14,000 dollars each year and collected 330,000 dollars in her RRSP and TFSA, and also a rented apartment worth250,000 dollars. She has a iixed pension given by her employer, although it is not indicated to price rise, and Is entitled

to get complete benefits of Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security, for retirement. She did not have a verycompetent portfolio: one fourth of cash is there, and most of it was in contracted sector ETFs, single stocks andbusiness bonds. Due to wrong entry of ETFs in the account, unnecessary taxes were charged. Even beforereconstructing Laura's portfolio,"he had to make certain that it matched with.her financial aims. Laura's main aim was toascertain if she could retire before the age of 65, maybe as early as 60, therefore she had to know if her investmentscould produce enough flow of cash after she retires. Monte Carlo may show a top possibility of success with theallotment of equity of 70% ot 80%. Through a risky questionnaire and art open interview, Justin Ill 'ascertain that Laurawas the best person for a portfolio of 60% fixed income and 40% equities. . Through Monte Carlo software, Justinentered the current portfolio . size of Laura, her rate of savings, projected retirement expenditure, and other employerincome and government pensions. If Laura feels that working till the age of 63 was unpleasant, she could go for thereproduction again and with different estimation. Increasing her anticipated returns or bringing down the rate of inflation,is only a thought, therefore, she will have to make some stronger decisions: she will have to making some more savings,or bring down her rate of planned expenses after retirement. Amazingly, by bringing up the allotment to fixed salarycould increase her opportunity to succeed: in spite of th returns being lower than the equities, the volatility is also less,which lessens the risk of helpless decline in the early years. At last, Laura decided to work for 6 more years and plan herretirement at the age of 63. After this, Justin decided to help her make a fresh ETF portfolio to match that goal: it wasfinalized at 30% short term business bonds, 30% GICs, and the rest of it was divided among Canadian, L'S and globalequities. Laura was able to make a notified decision through the Monte Carlo simulation, but this wasn't the end of theprocedure. In two or three years time, she will have to visit the location again to see that she is still on the right path ofher retirement goal, as many issues like, loss of job, a legacy, new connections, increase in the interest rates, all thesecould bring a change in the main suppusitions 1 ; and she will have to redo her plans. The possibilities are differentbefore the age of 63. For each added year that Laura works, her portfolio will addition instead of a decrease and this willlead to a thrilling difference: the success rate will rise up by 25% points if she continues to work till the age of 61 insteadof 60.

Answer the following question.

Q1.

How much was Laura earning at the age of 57? (Hint: 68,000 dollars per year)

Finoplastika Industries Ltd, Nigeria

(20Marks)

Time series analysis has two important aims: 1) recognizing the quality of the phenomenon shown by the series ofstudies, and 2) Both the aims need the plan of the viewed time series data is recognized and somewhat officiallyexplained: A time series is said to be a 'collection of observations made in sequence with time'. For example: recording

level of daily rainfall, periodical total domestic product of US, and monthly strength of the. workers in Marine Corps for aspecific rank and MOS. The evaluation of time series gives instruments for picking a symbolic model and deliveringforecasts. There are two sorts of times series data: • Continuous: in this the data consists of study at every moment, forexample, seismic movement recorded on a seismogram. • Discrete: the data contains recordings taken at differentperiods ,like, statistics of each month crime. Until the data is absolutely haphazard, studies in time series are usuallyrelated to each and the following studies could be partly ascertain by the last values. For instance, the reasonspertaining to the meteorology which have an effect on the temperature for any given day tend to have some affect on thenext day's climate. Hence, the observations of the past temperature are helpful for predicting temperatures for thefollowing days. • A time series can be deterministic if there are no haphazard or feasible features but goes in a set andforeseeable manner. The data gathered during the classical physics experiment like showing Newton's Law of Motion, isone example of a deterministic time series. The stochastic type of series is more appropriate to the econometricfunction. Stochastic variables contain undefined or arbitrary viewpoint. Though the worth of each study cannot beprecisely foreseen, calculating the various observations could follow the expected method. These methods can beexplained through the statistical models. According to these models, studies differ erratically on the underlying meanvalue whtch is the role of time. Time series data can be put in the following categories: one or more performance factors;trend, seasonality, cyclical function and random sound. Various kinds of time series predicting models give forecaststhrough extrapolating the previous performance of the values of a specified \'l!riable of interest. Consecutive study ineconometric times series are generally not free and forecast can be made on the basis of last observations. Althoughprecise predictions can be made with deterministic time series, predictions of stochastic time series are restricted to'conditional statements regarding the future on the basis of particular hypothesis.' Armstrong (2001) says, "The basicAssumption is that the variable ui!! continue in the future as it has behaved in the past. " Particularly, the time seriespredictions are suitable for stochastic type of data in which the fundamental root cause of variation like, trend, cyclicalperformance, seasonality, and uneven variations, do not change radically m time. Therefore, modeling is considered tobe more suitable temporarily instead of permanent predictions.

Answer the following question.

Q1.

Write briefly on time-series analysis. (Hint: recognizing the quality of the phenomenon shown by theseries of studies, and, both the aims need the plan of the viewed time series data is recognized andsomewhat officially explained)

A Network Rail

(20Marks)

The railways play an important role in the economy and infrastructure of Britain. Not very many people travelled back jn

the 1920 as compared to present time, in spite of 50% reduction in raif routes as compared to the 1960s. Rail is alsoused for transporting goods around Britain. Rail proves to be• more eco-friendly and safest means of transportation ascompa;ed to other vehicles so, not surprisingly, the number of people commuting have gone 40% more since the pastten years. By 2034, this figure can go up. The work of network rail has to look after the tracks, bridges and tunnels whichcomprises of the British rail network. The railway infrastructure is made up of signals and level crossings. It has to lookafter the 20,000 mile long track and 40,000 bridges and tunnels. Britain's 18 main rail stations, from Edinburg Waverleyto London King's Cross, are looked after by the Britain rail system. Ten years ago, when the network rail took up theseresponsibilities, • it had to face some challenges. The rail neork was facing some problems. Trains were running late, thecosts were too high and there was shortage of assets in both the people and machinery. Due to these issues, peoplehad less confidence in the rail network. Ever since then, rail network has aimed at sustaining operations to reduce theexpenses. There has been 28% reduction in expenses mainly because of conomy of scale. New tracks and machineryhave been bought, and there has been 90% rise in the rail punctuality. Huge projects have been given on time antowards th budget, as a result the confidence of the people has improved. Rail network has moved from 'find and fix' to'predict and prevent' policy. This has proved to be more cost effective and competent and enabled in avoiding delay orobstruction for the people in their travel. The rail network invested approx. 12 billion pounds between 2009 and 2014,towards the rail network. Britain has the fastest developing network in whole of Europe. By investing in people, the railnetwork is investing in the future to. .B ritain has the largest working personnel of 35,000 workers. It has people workingin various positions, like, engineers for maintenance and signaling to project managers. Each area offers an opportunityto work. They also consist oi HR (human resources), IT (information technology), and finance and customer service.Network Rail needs to employ and keep capable engineers in order to get the work done. Presently, its engineers aredoing some oi the most stimulating projects in Europe. The projects include HS2, which is the new super spted rail linkbetween the north and south Britain, and the project of London Crossrail. Some oi the biggest and busiest rail stationsare being upgraded, like, London King's Cross and Birmingham New Street. The main focus of the HR of Network Rail isto recruit various personnel. This not only deepens the culture of business but it also makes sure that it can reach everytalent. It offers training for every applicant, whether he is a school drop-out or a graduate, whether male or female, acontinued flow of appropriate talent is ensured to keep its long term project going. The company abo gives manyopportunities to its workers to receive recognized qualifications, such as an exclusive programme in post graduation,sponsoring the Master's Degree in project management and trainee.

Answer the following question.

Q1.

What were the initial problems that Network Rail of Britain face? (Hint: It has to look after the 20,000mile long track and 40,000 bridges and tunnels. Trains were running late, the costs were too high andthere was shortage of assets in both the people and machinery)

Q2.

What is the new super speed rail link between the north and south Britain called? (Hint: HS2)

Case

(20Marks)

Since 9/11•terrorism has cased threat attacks which have drawn the attention of political and media world. The US hadto launch. a 'war on terror' and applied a range of counteract terrorism safety measures towards aviation, publictransportation, ports, borders, publicgMhermg places, etc. While these steps may show cheap course of act!on bygovernment and security services, it is quite expensive. According to the calculations done by Mueller and Stewart(2011), the expenditure of US homeland and security has gone over 1.1 trillion dollars, which includes federal, state anddomestic government, and private sector, and also the cost of opportunity. The Iraq an Afghanistan wars have added 1.2trillion dollars to this expenditure. The expenditure of federal, state and local US government on home ground securityhas been estimated to 75 billion dollars more than the last levels of 2001. It is seen that US is not the only country to bein thse high level of expenses, even though no other country can match its per capita or GDP expenditure. For example,increased expenditure• on homeland security in UK, Canada and Australia is nearly one half to one quarter of USexpenditure per capita or GDP. Nevertheless, in 2009, the government spent nearly 141.6 billion dollars each year onhomeland security. This figure is expected to reach about 300 billion dollars by 2016. After 9/11, the main objective hasbeen to prevent or alleviate any harm or casualty as a result of terrorism. The main issue is, if this expenditure ofcounteracting terrorism been invest.ed in a way that has increased the cost of security of the public efficiently or not.Hence, the commission report of 9/11, among other issues, was called upon • the US government to execute safetymeasures which show evaluation of risks and effectiveness of expenditure. Nevertheless, while the US needs to.evaluate expenditure benefits for government regulations, such evaluation seems co have not been done for homelandsecurity in general, or for the DHS (department of homeland security). One of the causes could be that DHS is not ableto take up such evaluation. The NRC (national research council) committee of the National Academics of Sciences,Engineering and Medicine, made a request through S Congress to evaluate the functions of DHS, which was working onthe project for almost 2 years, came up with some surprising result-. Besides e'•aluation of natural disasters, thecommittee 'did not find any DHS risk analysis capabilities and methods that are yet adequate for supporting DHSdecision making.' Due to which, very less confidence could be had in most of the risk evaluation done by DHS. Thecommittee said that "it is not yet clear that DHS is on a I ! trajectory for development of methods and capability that issufficient to ensure reliable risk analyses". l.sually the government and their rigid agencies shoo a neutral behaviortowards their decision making. Stewart says that "the standard criterion for deciding whether a government; programmecan be justified on economic principles is net present rnlue - the discounted monetized value of expected net benefits(i.e., benefits minus costs)" and that "e'Cpecttd values (an unbiased estimate) is the appropriate estimate for use" (UMB,1992).

Answer the following question.

Q1.

The government spent nearly 141.6 billion dollars each year on 1 1 il (Hint: homeland security)