ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY

DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION

M.B.A. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
SECOND YEAR
Academic Year 2019 - 2020
ASSIGNMENT TOPICS
This booklet contains assignment topics. Students are asked to write the
assignments for SIX papers as per instructions, those who have opted project and
Viva-Voce.
Students are asked to write the assignments for the EIGHT Papers as per
instruction those who have opted Two Theory Papers (2.7.1 & 2.7.2) as
specialisation.
Last date for submission : 28-02-2020
Last date for submission: with late fee `300/- : 16-03-2020 15-03-2019
NOTE:

1. Assignments sent after 16-03-2020 will not be evaluated.

2. Assignments should be in the own hand writing of the student concerned and
not type-written or printed or photocopied.
3. Assignments should be written on A4 paper on one side only.
4. All assignments (with Enrolment number marked on the Top right hand corner
on all pages) should be put in an envelope with superscription “MBA
Assignments” and sent to The Director, Directorate of Distance Education,
Annamalai University, Annamalainagar – 608 002 by Registered post.
5. No notice will be taken on assignments which are not properly filled in with
Enrolment Number and the Title of the papers.
6. Students should send full set of assignments for all papers. Partial
assignments will not be considered.

ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS

Write assignments on any TWO topics in each paper out of the FOUR. For each
topic the answer should not exceed 15–pages. Each assignment carries 25 marks
(2 topics). You are expected to write two topics for every subject.

DR. M. ARUL
DIRECTOR
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2.1 MANAGEMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES

1. Discuss the features of the framework of regulation of the credit information

companies in India. What are the regulatory and supervisory objectives of the
RBI in relation to the NBFCs? Explain the main elements of the RBI framework
of NBFC regulation.
2. Do you think credit analysis is essential before providing loan to customers?
Explain various credit appraisal techniques used by commercial banks to
analyse the credit worthiness of borrowers.
3. “Tax considerations give a definite advantage to hire purchase financing option”
Do you agree? Explain
4. What kind of changes needed in the venture capital financing when an economy
is in the recession? Suggest some strategies approaches that are well suited for
venture capital financing for industrial activities.
2.2 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE

1. Describe the current trends in the balance of payments of some of the countries
of the Asia- pacific region.
2. "The International economy is fast turning into a borderless global economy"
Critically analyze in relation to International Financial system.
3. As an executive of a leading institution, what factors should you critically
evaluate with respect to a large industrial project, from the perspective of
environmental and economic viability.
4. “Exchange rate is focal point to understand the whole mechanism of monetary
system” Justify the statement with illustration
2.3 DERIVATIVES MANAGEMENT

1. “The basic purpose of derivatives instruments is to provide commitments to

price for future dates for giving against adverse movement in future prices.”
Discuss and critically examine the statement.
2. Options are the safest instrument for the investors for the investment purpose.
Options writer has limited profit and unlimited losses whereas option buyer has
limited losses and unlimited profits.” Critically evaluate the above statements
with suitable examples.
3. “Besides serving as a barometer of the economy /market, the index also has
other applications in finance.” – Elaborate the application of index.
4. “Forward contracts act as force runners of futures market” – Critically evaluate
the statement in the light of growth of forward market worldwide.
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2.4 RISK MANAGEMENT AND INSURANCE

1. Elaborate the loss control measures of any manufacturing company of your

choice.
2. Describe the structure of Indian general insurance industry and explain the
products being offered by them.
3. From the balance sheet of a company of your choice, analyze all risk and ERM
from asset side and from liability’s side. Create a list of actions for the ERM
functions.
4. “Privatization of insurance sector has led to substantial growth in the insurance
business in India and also led to improvement in confidence among policy
holders.” – Give your comments

2.5 INVESTMENT, SECURITY AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

1. As an investment advisor what feature would you suggest being included in the
investment bunch of a client? And also suggest where an investor should be
careful. Consider the above statements and keep the present situation in mind
Give your suggestions.
2. The technical analyst places a great deal of importance on supply and demand
in stock pricing. Presumably the fundamental analyst also believes that supply
and demand are important. In what ways do the two groups disagree on the
subject?
3. ”The concept of a random walk in stock prices is bizarre and implies totally
irrational behaviour by the investing public. Nothing could be further from the
truth than random walk. Prices are related to fundamental economic worth.”
Comment
4. Comment on the following statement “since Markowitz portfolio theory requires
so many assumptions, the notion that investors should be concerned with the
risk of the overall portfolio rather than the risk of the individual securities is
misleading.”

2.6 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

1. Take an imaginary situation relating to pricing or investment policy in a

selected industry in which there are few sellers and show how the adoption
of different strategies by a leading player defines different possible paths.
Use a decision tree to illustrate these different possible paths.
2. Carry out SWOT analysis of Indian Railways. Suggest measure to run it
profitable.
3. Nowadays Product Diversification is a mandatory process in Indian Industry.
Give an example for success and failure. Give reasons for the success and
failure.
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4. “Technological factors represent major opportunities and threats, which

must be taken into account while formulating strategies.” – Discuss. How
will a firm build a sustainable technology based competitive advantage?
2.7.1 E-COMMERCE

1. Electronic Commerce is commonly known as e-commerce, is a process of

buying and selling of goods or services using electronic systems. List out the
applications and benefits of e-commerce.
2. Discuss the role of data mining techniques and data visualization in E-
Commerce.
3. Compare the communication system in traditional business and on-line
business.
4. Discuss the challenges and opportunities of e-commerce in Indian Software
Industry.

2.7.2 BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS

1. “Research is much considered with proper fact finding, analysis and

Evaluation.” Do you agree with this statement? Substantiate your view with the
following situation. You are the HRD Manager with ABB (India). ABB has
recently taken over a major unit in Kolkata. You are sent on a posting there and
are given the task of introducing a new operation scheme which your parent
organization feels will improve efficiency. But you perceive during your stay
that there is an underlying dissatisfaction amongst the employees and it is
essential to gauge their views and opinion about the takeover and their
expectations before introducing the scheme.
2. In order to improve the importance of chi square analysis, correlation analysis
and t test. Create tables with imaginary and appropriate values and explain the
results.
3. “Every data collection method has its own built-in biases. Therefore, resorting to
multi method of data collection is only going to compound the biases”. How do
you critique this statement?
4. “Data processing is an intermediary stage of work between data collection and
data analysis”- Explain the statement by enumerating the various operations
involved in it.
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M.B.A. Assignment /FM/ 2ND Year/AUP/709/ C-1500

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