Basic Questions

1. What are the functions of money?

2. What does visa and mastercard do?
3. What is finance?
4. What is sensex and how it is calculated?
5. What is nifty and how it is calculated?
6. Why sensex value is higher than Nifty value?
7. What are derivatives?
8. What is meant by security?
9. What is GDP and how it is calculated?
10. What happens to govt bond yields when RBI increases interest rates (repo rate) and why?
11. Define inflation, deflation, disinflation and hyperinflation. How CPI and WPI are different
from each other?
12. What is EBITDA?
13. What is EBIT?
14. What is operating profit?
15. Difference between Depreciation and Amortisation?
16. What is Goodwill and why it is added to the asset side of balance sheet?
17. What is Cash Flow Statement and what is its importance?
18. What is book value?
19. What is enterprise value?
20. What is EPS?
21. What is P/E ratio?
22. What is P/B ratio?
23. What is underwriting?
24. Investment Banking vs Investment Management?
25. NPV vs IRR
26. 1991 balance of payment crisis
27. Current fiscal deficit, debt/gdp ratio and monthly GST Collection values
28. Badla trading and its role in 1992 scam
29. Insolvency and Bankruptcy code
30. What is haircut (understand Videocon bankruptcy proceedings, how Vedanta bought it)
31. What is Private Equity, (understand flipkart Walmart deal)
32. What is technical analysis?
33. What is Capital Asset Pricing Model?
34. What are alpha and beta?
35. Define cost of equity, cost of debt and cost of capital?
36. What is risk free rate?
37. What are mutual funds and types of mutual funds?
38. What are hedge funds?
39. What is value investing?
40. What do CDSL and NSDL do?
41. What is demat account?
42. What is securities transaction tax?
43. What is SEBI and functions of SEBI?
44. What is margin trading?
45. How brokerage firms like zerodha earn revenue?