Basic HR questions & General Knowledge

1. What is the role of a financial manager?

2. Types of financial managers?
3. What skills do you have which would make you a good manager?
4. What is gold bond scheme?
5. Difference between IMF & World Bank.
6. Mention some World Bank funded projects in India
7. What does ISI mark stand for?
8. What is black money?
9. Introduction of yourself (max 2 mins)
10. Why MBA? Short-term and long-term career goals?
11. Global refugee crisis
12. ILFS crisis
13. Bitcoin & Blockchain
14. How many members are there in Houses of Parliament?
15. List of districts in your state
16. What is TRIPS?
17. What’s happening in Syria
18. Significant changes that have happened in your life so far.
19. Tell me about your strengths and weaknesses
20. Why should you be rejected?

Accounts, Finance & Costing

1. Do you mean by limited liability clause?

2. What is operating profit?
3. What are the benefits and drawbacks of referring to operating profit figure?
4. What is net profit?
5. What is cost of goods sold?
6. What do you mean by sales commission?
7. What is the difference between commerce and trade?
8. What is the difference between commerce and business?
9. What is EXIM policy?
10. What do you mean by Marginal standing facility?
11. What is zero base budgeting?
12. What is capital account convertibility?
13. What is single entry system? What is double entry system?
14. What is break even analysis?
15. What is NPV? IRR?
16. What is sunk cost?
17. Significance of ratio analysis?
18. Difference between accounts & finance.
19. Assets are shown in BS at Cost-Depreciation. If FMV is very high, isn’t it misrepresentation?
What accounting concepts are involved here?
20. What do you mean by Working Capital ratio? Acid test ratio? Their significance?
21. Difference between solvency and liquidity
22. What is proprietary ratio?
23. Is bank loan a current liability?
 24. What are the things that you would look for in a company’s balance sheet for performance
analysis?
25. Difference between owned and borrowed capital
26. What is capital gearing capital ratio?
27. What is marginal costing?
28. After an asset has been fully depreciated, how will it’s cost be allocated to the product?
29. What are the different types of shares? Difference between them.
30. What is working capital? How would you manage a company with high working capital
requirement?
31. What is transfer pricing?
32. Apart from shares + debentures in what ways can funds be raised from public?
33. What is the best measure to compare company performance?
34. Difference between cash and funds?
35. Can shareholders be employees of a company?
36. What is full convertibility of money?
37. Can a company have negative networth? Examples?
38. Role of SEBI
39. What is MRTP Act?
40. Difference between IFRS & GAAP?

Economics

1. When should a firm be shut down?

2. What do you mean by monetary policy? Fiscal policy?
3. What is the difference between CRR and SLR?
4. What is break even point? What is indifference point?
5. What is a trade deficit?
6. What is fiscal deficit? Budgetary deficit?
7. Basics of macroeconomics- inflation, unemployment, relationship between the two.
8. GDP vs GNP
9. Business cycles
10. Prince indexes
11. What is purchasing power parity?
12. Functions of RBI
13. What is price elasticity of demand?
14. Why is price on vertical axis opposite to conventional norms?
15. Your views on the monetary policy stance?

Taxation

1. What is angel tax?

2. What are disclosure norms?
3. What are direct and indirect taxes?
4. What is presumptive taxation scheme?
5. Any significant tax implications due to the Budget?

Marketing

1. What’s a brand?
2. Name some products which are doing well in rural markets?
 3. What do you mean by value for money?

Mathematics

1. What is a probability distribution?

2. What is a random variable?
3. What is variance?
4. Types of sampling?