ASSIGMENT MBA- 4th SEM

FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (KMBFM05)

UNIT-1
Q.1- Define Derivatives. Explain different types of financial derivatives.

Q.2- Discuss various functions & advantages of derivative markets.

Q.3- Clearly differentiate b/w options & future.

Q.4- What is hedging? What are the various applications of hedging in case of forwards?

Q.5- Explain the concept of forward market transactions.

Q.6- Write a note on Indian Derivative Market.

UNIT-2
Q.7- Clearly differentiate b/w forward contract & future contracts.

Q.8- Discuss the functions of future markets.

Q.9- Discuss the classification of forward contract.

Q.10- Clearly discuss the concept of cost of carry model in relation to future pricing.

Q.11- Future contracts are improvised forward contracts- Do you agree? Explain.

UNIT-3

Q.12-Clearly explain the concept of call options & put options in detail.

Q.13- Discuss the Black Schole Model.

Q.14- Differentiate b/w options & future.

Q.15- What do you mean by index options? How the hedging & speculation can be done through
index options?

Q.16- Explain the intrinsic value of option & time value of option.

Q.17- “OPTIONS CONTRACTS” are relatively more safe derivative instruments.” Explain.

UNIT-4
Q.19- Explain the concept of currently swap with its nature. What are the various types of
currency swaps?

Q.20- What do you mean by swaps? Discuss the features of swaps.

Q.21- Difference b/w a regular credit default swap & a binary credit default swap.

Q.22- Write short notes on:

• Concept of American Style & European Style of an option

• Mean by OTC Trading

• Mean by Underlying

• Define Index Future

• Mean by call & put option

ASSIGNMENT MBA-4th SEM

PROJECT MGT.(KMB401)
UNIT-1
Q.1- Define project management? Explain the basic characteristics of a project.

Q.2- Define the tool & techniques of project mgt.

Q.3- Explain the term project life cycle. State the significance of implementation phase.

Q.4- State various methods of how project planning & controlling can be done? Explain with
imaginary example.

Q.5- What do you mean by organization of a project? Discuss a project organization.

UNIT-2
Q.6- ‘Project identification needs project appraisal.’ Discuss the statement with imaginary example.

Q.7- What is demand forecasting? Explain two popular methods of forecasting demand.

Q.8- Explain risk & uncertainty involved in project mgt. What are the techniques to overcome them?

Q.9- How various demand forecasting techniques can be used for estimating demand of a concerned
project?

Q.10- What is market survey? Based on market survey how would you draw market
characterization?

Q.11- What types of risks are involved in a project? What are the different methods of evaluation of
risk & how do we manage risk in a project?

UNIT-3
Q.12- Explain social cost benefit analysis (SCBA). Also discuss UNIDO approach in SCBA.

Q.13- Enlist the specific project financing source available for financing infrastructure projects. What
would be the source you would recommend for a road project with a project cost of 200rs. Crores.

Q.14- Explain the sources of finance in case of project financing.

Q.15- Cost estimation of a project.

Q.16- Differentiate NPV with IRR techniques of project appraisal.

Q.17- What are the components of cost of project? Discuss them in detail.

UNIT-4
Q.17- How important is network technique in project mgt.? Explain the concept of PERT in project
mgt with suitable diagram.

Q.18- Explain the project scheduling.

Q.19- Discuss in detail various tools & charts used for project management.

Q.20- What do you mean by Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RACI)? How a RACI can be developed
? Illustrate with one example.

Q.21- What do you understand by Work Breakdown Structure? How this is useful for successful
execution of a project?

UNIT-5
Q.22- Discuss the planning, monitoring & control cycle of a project.

Q.23- What do you mean by project termination? Discuss its types & termination process.

Q.24- Explain the project management information system. Discuss milestone analysis & Gantt chart.

Q.25- Elaborate the Planned value, Earned value.

Q.26- Explain the schedule performance index (SPI).

Assignment MBA Y

KMB402 Entrepreneurship development

Unit-1

Q1. Explain the concept of entrepreneur and explain the scope of entrepreneurial development?

Q2. Explain common myths to becoming entrepreneur and how to overcome them?
Q3. Short note-

• Explain the concept of intrapreneurship?

• Family business

Q4. Explain the women entrepreneur detail with current example.

Q5. Explain 5 types of entrepreneurs.

Unit – II

Q6. Explain the EDI in detail.

Q7. Explain different sources of finance.

Q.8. short note on-

• IFCI

• IDBI

Q9. Explain the importance of SIDBI.

Q10. Explain the role of central and state government in promoting entrepreneurship with various
incentives, subsidies etc.

Unit-III

Q11. Explain the classification of Ideas.

Q12. What are the major challenges face by entrepreneur when start-up a new venture?

Q13. What is crowdfunding?

Q14. Explain the different source of idea generation.

Q15. What is angle investing.

Unit-IV

Q16. Explain the environmental scanning for developing a business plan?

Q17. How to prepare a project plan, write down its steps?

Q18. Explain in detail the components of an ideal business plan?

Q19. Explain technological feasibility?

Q20. Short note-

• Feasibility analysis
• Financial plan

Unit-V
 Q21. Write down the steps involved in launching a business.

Q22. Explain various form of business ownership?

Q.23. write down the importance of registration of business units.

Q24. Write the Process of exit or end to a venture?

Q25. Short note on IPO.

MBA FOURTH SEM

MARKETING OF SERVICES -- KMB MK-04

ASSIGNMENT

1 Recent trend in, Interactional Marketing of Services

2 Zone of tolerance

3 Marketing of Financial Services.

4 Globalization of services is quite different from that of goods." Discuss

and elaborate.

5 What is the importance of customers in service marketing?

6 Why should the service marketers concern themselves with new

Developments in technology ? Discuss.

7 What do you mean by service marketing? Differentiate service marketing

with product Marketing.

8 Elaborate the steps involved in service product planning.

9 What is the, role of customer satisfaction in success of service

Marketing?
10 What is the role of service delivery in service marketing? Explain.

11 What are the key decisions to be accounted for global marketing of

Services?

12 What do you mean by Service Quality? How is service quality

measured?

13 Discuss the marketing mix strategies related with insurance sector.

Explain with suitable examples.

14 What is Co-branding in Service Promotion?

15 Define Customer Relationship Management

16 Define destroyers pricing in service marketing.

17 Explain different levels of service.

18 Explain service reliability.

MBA FOURTH SEM

MARKETING ANALYTICS –KMB MK-05

ASSIGNMENT

UNIT-1

1. Define marketing and discuss its characteristics and advantages.

2. What is marketing and discuss the limitation and disadvantages of marketing?

3. Mention main elements of decision making and describe primary and secondary

sources of market data.

4. Describe Stakeholders and mention market fixing approaches of marketing.

UNIT-2

5. Discuss Linear and Power demand curve and mention pricing methods of

multiple products.

6. Mention various factors of fixing prices. Discuss Non Linear pricing method.

7. How optional bounding prices are determined? Discuss profit maximizing

strategies.

8. What is Price Skimming? How it promotes sales?

9. Describe pure and mixed bounding prices and discuss optimizing pricing.

UNIT-3

10. Describe the concept of Market segmentation and discuss the process of

managing segmentation.

11. How market segmentation is derived? Discuss segment cluster analytic.

12. What is perpetual mapping and discuss the principles and component analysis.

13. Describe the concepts of Custom life time value and mention basic custom

values which measures life time value.

UNIT-4

14. How retail space is allocated and mentions marketing effort to identify sales.

15. Discuss various optimizing sales effort and describe its relation with modulating.

16. Mention the factors of Advertising Analysis and discuss the measures of effective

advertising.
17. Describe Live Advertising and mention effects for optimizing Advertising.

UNIT-5

18. What is forecast sales and discuss regression model to forecasting sales.

19. How sale of a new product can be enhanced? Describe forecasting methods for

new product.

20. What is Conjoint Analysis? How it is measured?

21. How Conjoint Analysis is used? Mention the steps in Conjoint Analysis.

MBA IV Semester

HVPE - KVE401

Assignment Questions

UNIT 1

Q. What do you mean by values or human values?

Q. What are the basic guidelines for value education?

Q. Define self exploration. What is the content of self – exploration?

Q What do you mean by your natural acceptance? Is it innate, invariant and universal?

Explain

Q What do you understand by prosperity? What is the difference between prosperity and

wealth? How are the two related?

Q. What do the abbreviations given as SVDD, SSDD and SSSS signify?

UNIT 2

Q. What do you mean by Sukh and Suvidha?

Q. The needs of the body are quantitative. Illustrate.

Q. “I am the seer, doer and enjoyer. The body is my instrument” – Explain.

Q. Explain with examples the various activities in the self 'I'.

Q. What are the programs for ensuring the health of the body? Explain.

Q Define Sanyam and Swasthya. How are they helpful in keeping harmony between self

and body.

Q. In what way can we say that the human body is a self organized unit?

UNIT 3

Q How can you say that love is the complete value?

Q What is justice? How does it lead to mutual happiness?

Q Explain the problems faced due to differentiation in relationship.

Q What is the difference between respect and disrespect? Which of the two is naturally

acceptable to you?

Q. What do you understand by trust? Differentiate between intention and competence with

examples.

What is the basic error in this statement? Explain.

UNIT 4

Q. Define harmony in nature. OR Explain the harmony in nature.

Q. What do you mean by ‘innateness’? What is the innateness in the four orders?

Q What are the natural characteristics (swabhava) of human order? Explain.

Q. Explain the differences and similarities between animal order and human order. What

is the relation between the two orders?

UNIT 5

Q. What are the values in interaction of human beings with the material things? Give one

example of each.

Q. What do you understand by definitiveness of ethical human conduct? Why is this

definitiveness desirable?

Q. What do you mean by professional ethics?

Q. What do you mean by ‘universal human order’?

Q What is a holistic technology? Take any two such examples from the Indian tradition

and elaborate on them.

Q Mention some of the unethical practices in society today. How do the prevailing world

views lead to such unethical practices?

Q. write a short note on the comprehensive human goal. Establish that it is comprehensive.

SUBJECT: - IHRM (HR specialization)

SUBJECT CODE: - KMBHR05

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Do all the questions of each and every unit.

2. Do prepare diagram as well wherever need in the questions.

UNIT -1

QUES: 1 what is IHRM. Explain the development that lead to the

perspective of IHRM.

QUES: 2 Explain the role of IHRM and their distinguish activities

associated with IHRM.

QUES 3: Design the organization structure of IHRM with the

explanation.

QUES 4: Distinguish between IHRM and HRM.

QUES 5: Write short note on:

(a) International resource planning.

(b) HRM.

UNIT -2

QUES 1: Detail explanation of IHRM practices:

(a) Staffing.

(b) Recruitment.

(c) Selection.

(d) Global staffing practices.

QUES 2: What are the criteria for selecting the overseas

assignment?

QUES 3: Briefly explain the international transfer and repatriation

strategies.
QUES 4: Brief the training and development concept in context with

IHRM.

QUES 5: Detailing the conceptual framework of international

performance management.

QUES 6: Write short note on following:

(a) Global compensation practices.

(b) Performance management.

UNIT -3

QUES 1: How can the industrial relations and international

practices be adopted in lieu of IHRM.

QUEST 2: What is International strategic human resource

management (ISHRM)? What are the strategies to be developed in

accordance with IHRM?

QUES 3: Distinguish between Industrial relations (IR) and IHRM.

QUEST 4: write short note:

(a) International labour standards (ILS).

(b) Global unions.

(c) Regional integration.

(d) Framework agreements.

UNIT -4
QUES 1: How effective the Equal opportunity and diversity

management with reference to global context.

QUEST 2: How can it overcome the obstacles of the international

employees working in the host countries?

QUEST 3: Design the global organization structure and explain it

briefly.

QUEST 4: what are the emerging trends in employee relations and

employee involvement?

QUEST 5: Detail explanation of convergence or divergence in

personnel management in developed and developing economics.

QUEST 6: Write short note on:

(a) Cultural diversity.

(b) Employee relation.

(c) Employee involvement.

UNIT -5

QUEST 1: Write short note on:

(a) IHRM

(b) CSR

(c) MNC’S

SUBJECT: - SHRM (HR specialization)

 SUBJECT CODE: - KMBHR04

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Do all the questions of each and every unit.

2. Do prepare diagram as well wherever need in the questions.

UNIT -1

QUES: 1 what is SHRM. Explain the conceptual framework and

impact of globalization on SHRM.

QUES: 2 formulate the development and delivery of SHRM

strategies.

QUES 3: Design the model of SHRM with the explanation.

QUES 4: Briefing the challenges and impact of SHRM on

globalization.

QUES 5: Write short note on:

(a) Nature of workforce.

(b) Competitive advantage.

UNIT -2

QUES 1: Detail explanation of SHRM practices:

(a) Staffing.
(b) Training and development.

(c) Performance.

(d) Compensation.

(e) Employee separation.

QUES 2: What are the strategic options of HRD in context with

SHRM?

QUES 3: What are the parameters to measure the SHRM

outcomes?

UNIT -3

QUES 1: What is HR strategy? Explain the components of HR

strategies.

QUEST 2: Detail explanation of Organizational and functional HR

strategies.

QUES 3: How can an organization improve their business

performance through SHRM?

QUEST 4: Distinguish between employee’s engagement and drivers

of engagement.

UNIT -4

QUES 1: What is strategic knowledge management? Explain in

detail the core dimensions of strategic HRM.

QUEST 2: Briefly explain the THREE STAGE model of MERGER

AND ACQUISTIONS and their implications in SHRM.

UNIT -5

QUEST 1: What are the strategic HR issues in global assignment?

QUEST 2: Distinguish between global HRM and domestic HRM.

QUEST 3: What are criteria for selecting the expatriate and

repatriate employees for overseas work?

QUEST 4: Distinguish between EXPATRIATE and REPATRIATE.

QUEST 5: WRITE SHORT NOTE ON:

(a) Strategic choice.

(b) Strategic leadership.

(c) Strategic issues.

(d) Global HRM.

Working Capital Management (KMBFM 04)

Unit -1

Q-1 What is the concept of Working Capital Cycle?

What is meant by cash conversion Cycle?

Why are these concepts important in working Capital Management?

Q-2 What do you understand by working capital? Discuss the need and significance of

the working capital.

Q-3 What factor should be considered while estimating the working capital?

Q-4 What do you understand by working capital management? Objective & importance

Explain the dimensions of W.C.M with the symptoms of poor W.C.M.

Q-5 Elaborate the policies of Working capital.

Q-6 Computation of Working Capital. (Numerical)

Unit-2

Q-7 Discuss the cash management models.

Q-8 Cash budget (Practical Problem) & motives for holding cash.

Q-9 Explain:

i) Cash Forecasting

ii) Cash receipts and Disbursement

iii) Various cash management techniques

Q-10 Write Short Notes On:

i) Lock Box System

ii) Floats in Cash Management

iii) Treasury Bills

Unit-3

Q-11 Explain the most important method which is used for managing receivables in

India.

Q-12 What does the credit policy of the firm help to decide?

Briefly explain the dimension of credit policy.

Q-13 Explain the different instruments in which investment can be made under
marketable securities.

Q-14 Explain the credit standard.

Q-15 Discuss the credit monitoring arrangement/ monitoring account receivable.

Unit-4

Q-16 What purpose is served by inventories?

Discuss the economic order quantity (EOQ) model for optimal order quantity for a

particular item of inventory.

Q-17 What you mean by Inventory Control?

Need of Inventory Control.

Q-18 “Main Problem of Inventory management is the problem of when & how much to

produce goods.” Explain it & Show which techniques can be used in solving both

problems.

Q-19 Inventory Management Techniques.

Q-20 Practical Problem regarding inventory Management.

Unit-5

Q-21 List out significant steps you would take to prepare & submit your request to your

banker for enhancement of bank limit.

Q-22 Discuss the Tandon Committee & Chore Committee.

Q-23 Discuss different forms of Trade Credit.

Q-24 Credit Financing in India.

Q-25 Elaborate the factoring (Meaning, major Functions, Mechanism)

Q-26 What are the features of trade credit as a short term service of working capital

finance? How can the cost of trade credit be calculated?

Q-27 Main conclusion & recommendation of deheja Study Group.

Q-28 Short Notes On :

i) Commercial Pepar

ii) Acc wages & Taxes

iii) Account Payable

iv) CD

v) Secured Loan