Jain Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship

Financial management terms for Placement of PGDM

1. What is the difference between Journal Entry & Ledger?

2. What is the difference between Depreciation & Amortization?

3. What is the difference between Current Assets & Current Liabilities?

4. What is the golden rule of Accountancy?
5. What is the current tax rate in the country you currently live in?
6. What are deferred taxes? 

7. Explain macroeconomics/capital markets/investment theory? 

8. When should a company issue stock rather than debt to fund its operations?

9. What do you mean by a cash flow statement?

10. What is the Acid Test Ratio

11. What is the difference between Bad Debts & Provision for doubtful debts
12. What is the format of Cost Sheet
13. What is the difference between Debtor & Creditor
14. What do you mean by Debt Equity Ratio
15. What is the difference between Depositories & Depositories participant?

16. What do you mean by Derivatives

17. Difference Between Trade Discount and Cash Discount
18. What do you mean by Dividend discount Model
19. What do you mean by Du Pont System
20. What do you mean by Economic Order Quantity
21. What do you mean by Earnings per Share(EPS)
22. What is the difference between Equity Share & Preference Share?
23. What is the difference between European Option & American Option?
24. What do you mean by Exchange Rate
25. What is the difference between Face Value & market Value?
26. What do you mean by Financial Intermediaries
27. What do you mean by Forward Contract
28. What do you mean by GAAP
29. What do you mean by Goodwill
30. What is the difference between Income Statement  & Financial Statement.
31. What do you understand by Initial Public Offering (IPO)
32. What is the difference between Tangible assets & Intangible Assets
33. Interest Rate Parity
34. What do you mean by Internal rate of return (IRR)
35. What do you mean by Inventory Control
36. What do you mean by Letter of Credit

37. What do you mean by LIBOR

38. What do you mean by Net Present Value (NPV)
39. What is the difference between Gross Profit & Net Profit
40. What do you mean by Net Working Capital
41. What is Networth?
42. What is the difference between Personal Accounts & Nominal Accounts
43. What do you mean by Operating Cycle
44. What do you mean by P/E Ratio
45. What is the difference between Prime cost & Cost of goods sold.
46. What is the difference between Public Company & Private Company.
47. What do you mean by Put Option
48. What do you mean by Retained Earning
49. What do you mean by Return On Investment (ROI)
50. What are the function of SEBI in Indian Capital Market?
51. What is the difference between Primary market & Secondary Market
52. What do you mean by Shareholders' Equity .
53. What do you mean by Spot Rate
54. What do you mean by Standard Deviation
55. What do you mean by Stock Split
56. What do you mean by Systematic Risk
57. What do you mean by The Accounting Equation
58. What is Treasury Bills?
59. What is the difference between a Trial Balance & a Balance sheet
60. What is the link between the Balance Sheet & the Statement of cash flows?
61. What is the difference between Profit &Loss A/c and Balance Sheet?
62. What is the difference between Capital Expenditure & Revenue Expenditure.
63. What is the difference between Personal A/c & Real A/c
64. What is difference between book-keeping and accounting
65. What is difference between Financial Accounting, Cost Accounting Management Accounting

66. What do you mean by Written down value method

67. What do you mean by Zero Coupon Bond
68. What do you mean by Zero based budgeting

69. What experience do you have in Finance/Accounting field? 

70. What made you choose to apply for this Finance job?
71. What are your top 3 skills that you feel you can bring and help you in this Finance/Accounting job? 
72. Can you describe a recent situation in which you accomplished an important objective in a brief period of
time? 
73. Do you prefer team work or individual work? 
74. What process/method do you use to ensure accuracy?

75. What do you mean by Benefit cost Ratio

76. What do you mean by Bill of Exchange
77. What do you mean by Blue chip company
78. What do you mean by Capital
79. What do you mean by Capital Asset Pricing Model
80. What is the difference between Money Market & Capital Market?
81. What is the difference between Certificate of Deposit & Commercial Paper?
82. What is the difference between Open ended schemes & Closed ended schemes?
83. What do mean by Convertibility Bond
84. What are debentures?
85. Is the dividend paid on common stock taxable to shareholders? Preferred stock? Is it tax deductible for the
company?
86. What is Demat Account? what is the use of it?
87. explain derivatives in terms of capital markets
88. What Is Inflation?
89. What is authorized Capital?
90. What is Discount Cash Flow Management?
91. What is secondary market?
92. What is the difference between costing and cost accounting?
93. What is insider trading and why is it illegal?
94. What is Capital Structure? What are the principles of Capital Structure management?
95. What is Working Capital?
96. What are the two most basics financial statements prepared by the companies?
97. Explain share capital & reserves and surpluses.
98. Explain Ratio Analysis and its advantages.
99. Explain Debt Equity Ratio. What are its components? What does it indicate?
100. What do you mean by Return on Assets? What does it indicate?