MBA III SEM II MID IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

MBA III SEM II MID IMPORTANT QUESTIONS:

Cost and Management Accounting

1.      Write the differences between Absorption costing and Marginal costing.

2.      The cost of manufacturing and bought-out prices of four articles are as follows.

Article	A (Amount in Rupees)	B (Amount in Rupees)	C (Amount in Rupees)	D (Amount in Rupees)
Production cost per article:    Marginal cost    Fixed cost Total cost	10.00      2.00 12.00	12.00     4.00 16.00	15.00      5.00 20.00	15.00    15.00 30.00
Production per-man hour	0.25	0.20	0.20	0.33
Production per machine hour	1.00	0.50	0.25	0.20
Bought-out price	9.00	17.00	22.00	26.00

Rank the products in the order of your preference for buying them from outside.

a)      When there is no limiting factor;

b)      In man-hour is the limiting factor;

c)      If machine capacity is the limiting factor.

3.   M/s. Rahul sugars Ltd. Has day-wise avoidable expenses of Rs. 2000/-. Other particulars are:

Selling price per ton of sugar         Rs. 2,000

Variable cost per ton                       Rs. 1,150

Excise duty @ 20% of selling price

Packing and delivery cost per ton   Rs. 50

Sugar cane is bought from local Farmers @ Rs. 115 per ton which control NS 10% sucrose.

From the above details compute the point of closure of the mill for the off season.

4.      The following information is related to Kakatiya Ltd.

	(Amount in Rs.)	(Amount in Rs.)
Sales(10,000 tones)		5,00,000
Cost: Material           Labour           Direct expenses	1,00,000 50,000 10,000	1,60,000
Fixed cost		3,00,000
Profit		40,000

Your are required to find out   a) Break – even point    b) P/V Ratio    c) Margin of safety                           d) Sales required to earn a profit of Rs. 50,000     e) Profit at a sales level of Rs. 9,00,000.

5.      What is Budget and types of budget? Write the differences between budget and forecast.

6.      What is standard costing? Write the advantages and limitations of standard costing.

Entrepreneurship & Good Governance

1.      Define business ethics and explain the basics principles in ethics.

2.      Explain G.E.MOORE’S Philosophy.

3.      Explain the historical prospective of corporate governance.

4.      Explain the role of CSR.

5.      Define corporate social accountability and professional ethics.

6.      Explain ethical investing process.

Management of Technology

1.   Write about R&D. Discuss about R&D program planning & control and its process.

2.   Discuss about project termination? What are the types of project termination?

3.   Definition of technological forecasting & its framework of technological forecasting methods.

4.   What are the classifications of forecasting techniques & what are its uses & its forecasting system inputs & outputs.

5.   What is transfer of technology?  Discuss about modes of technology transfer.

6.   Explain about negotiation for price of MOT & its process and pricing of technology.

Strategic Management

1.      Explain the strategic implementation process.

2.      Elaborate resource allocation as a vital path of strategies.

3.      Differentiate between mergers and acquisitions.

4.      Explain terminal round and diversification strategies.

5.      Explain the role of strategies.

6.      Define strategies survivallance, strategies audit, and strategies evaluation.

Elective-1

Consumer Behavior 

1.   Define communication? Explain the components of communication process?

2.   Describe EKB model in consumer behavior?

3.   Explain consumer decision process?

4.   Define brand loyalty and repeat purchase behavior.

5.   Explain the roots of consumerism and legal responses to consumerism?

6.   Explain consumer protection act 1986.

Security Analysis &Portfolio Management

1.   What is the meaning of Bond and reasons for issuing of bonds?

2.      Explain various risk related to bonds.

3.      A) Determine nominal yield and current yield of Rs. 100 bond with a market   value of     Rs. 80 and coupon rate of 8%.

         B) A four year bond with a 7% coupon rate and maturity of Rs. 1000 is currently  

         selling at Rs. 905. What is its yield to maturity?

4.      Find the approximate yield to maturity of the following data.

	Face value	Market value	Period	Capitalization rate
Bond I	100	80	10	14
Bond II	150	100	8	12

5.      Explain the following terms      

a) Equity Valuation (EV)   b) Earnings per share (EPS)   c) Return of Asset (ROA)    

               d) ROIC       e) Growth rate

6.   What is Economic forecasting for securities? Explain the Forecasting Techniques.

Recruitment & Selection

1.   Explain the following   a) Test validation  b) Reference check

2.   What is pre-employment testing? Explain in detail various types of testing.

3.   Define personality test? Explain various personality tests and its importance.

4.   Explain about employee selection test.

5.   What do you understand by performance test, mechanical ability test?

6.   What are the criteria for recruitment and selection process and its practices in abroad?

Logistics & Supply Chain Management

1.   Explain sourcing decision in supply chain and procurement strategies.

2.   How should we design and plan the transportation networks.

3.   Explain the concept of managing economies of scale in supply chain.

4.   Explain the role of IT in SCM?

5.   Identify the logistic performance indicators.

6.   Explain the concept of global supply chains.

Business Intelligence

1.      Explain how Knowledge most important asset of a company? Explain Market Research Function with organization.

2.      Explain Nature & scope of Qualitative Data? What is meant by designing research and managing design?

3.      Explain the concept of Data Mining and Data Warehousing

4.      Explain the tools for Data Mining

5.      Define the concept of Text Analysis and Advanced Visualization

6.      Explain the features of Business Intelligence.

Elective – 2

Marketing communications:

1.   Explain product concept in branding and the role of unique selling proposition.

2.   Define brand planning and global advertising.

3.   Explain brand life cycle and brand extension.

4.   Define brand alignments and brand repositioning.

5.   Explain brand extension strategies in Indian context.

6.   Elaborate brand equity and pricing decisions.

Financial Institutions, Markets and Services

1.      What are Mutual funds and its structure? Explain the role of AMFI?

2.      Describe about the Treasury bill market?  Explain various types of treasury bills.

3.      What are certificate of deposits? Features of CD’s.

4.      Explain the Structure of the securities market? What are the participants involved in securities    market?

5.      What is lease? Classification of lease.

6.      Credit Rating in India. Explain the credit rating agencies in India.

Project Management

1.      Explain the characteristics of a effective project team.

2.      How to conduct project evaluation.

3.      Explain managing risk – 4 stage process.

4.      Define cross functional cooperation and virtual project teams.

5.      Define project termination and explain the types of project terminations.

6.      Explain the role of human factors in project evaluation and control.

ELECTIVE-3

Retailing Management

1.      What are the criteria for store layout and space planning?

2.      Explain the objective of a good storage design

3.      Describe the location and retail strategies.

4.      Explain the factors effecting the attractiveness of a sight.

5.      Explain the present Indian retails scenario.

6.      Explain retailing opportunities in India and explain role of CRM in retail management?

Training and Development

1.    Explain the following    a) Training climate    b) Trainers role    c) Trainers style

2.   Explain different methods for training and learning on the job - 9 training requirements methods.

3.   Explain about evaluation of training and its process.

4.   What is training and training system development? Discuss.

5.   Distinguish between coaching, mentoring and counseling?

6.   What are the steps involved in creative problem solving?

Derivatives

1.   Explain the black-scholes Merton model.

2.   Distinguish between futures and options.

3.   Define trading with options and hedging with options.

4.   Explain advanced option strategies

5.   Define swaps and explain types and features of swaps.

6.   Define interest rate swaps, equity index swap, currency swap and commodity swap.