BMS VI Sem Question Bank of all the subjects (PDF)

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF SMA LL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES

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INTERNATIONAL FINANCE

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INTERNATIONAL MARKETING

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INDIAN MANAGEMENT THOUGHTS and PRACTICES

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INVESTMENT ANALYSIS AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT

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OPERATION RESEARCH

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES CH 1: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Meaning & Definition of entrepreneur Characteristics Characteri stics of Ideal Entrepreneur Qualities of an Entrepreneur Definition of Entrepreneurship Nature & Characteristics Characteristi cs of Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurshi p Definition & meaning Intrapreneur Characteristics Characteri stics of an Intrapreneur Distinguish Distinguis h between Entrepreneurial Entrepreneuria l culture and administrative culture Comparaison of Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs, & traditional traditi onal Man agers

CH 2: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Classification Classific ation of Entrepreneurs Definition and Importance of Women Entrepreneurs Functions and role of Women Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurs Features of Women Entrepreneurs Problems faced by Women Entrepreneurs

CH 3: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Theories of Entrepreneurship Schumpeter‟s Views on o n Entrepreneurship Peter Drucker‟s Views on Entrepreneurship Max Weber‟s Views on Entrepreneursh ip Mc Clelland‟s Clell and‟s Views on Entrepreneurship

CH 4: 1. Maslow‟s Need Hierarchy Theory 2. McClelland‟s Acquired Needs Theory 3. THE KAKINADA EXPERIMENT CH 5: 1. 2. 3. 4.

Importance and Objectives of Training Methods of Training Entrepreneurial Entrepreneuria l Development Programme (EDP) Strategy for Entrepreneurship Development rd


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5. Need, importance and Short Comings of EDP CH 6: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Ancillarisation Franchising Outsourcing Mergers Takeovers/Acquisitions

CH 7: 1. 2. 3. 4.

Social Entrepreneur Definitions of Social Responsibility Responsibilit y Social Responsibility Responsibilit y of Business Non – Non – Governmental Organization

CH 8: 1. 2. 3. 4.

Business Environment Macro Environment Environmental Scanning SWOT ANALYSIS

CH 9: 1. 2. 3. 4.

Project Ideas Classification Classific ation of Industri es Business Plan Steps In Preparing A Business Plan

CH 10: 1. Problems Faced By Entrepreneur in Project Formulation 2. Stages of Project Formulation 3. Project Report CH 11: 1. Various Aspects of Project Appraisal 2. Project Appraisal Methods 3. Break - Even Analysis CH 12: rd


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1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.


Evolution of the Definition Definition of Small-Scale, Small-Sc ale, Ancillary, and Tiny Sector Concept and Definition of of SSI Cottage Industries v/s Small-Scale Industries Ancillary v/s Small-Scale Small-Scal e Industry Small-Scale Units v/s Large Scale Units Relationship between Small & Large Units Characteristics Characteri stics of SMALL-SCALE INDUSTRIES Objectives of Small-Scale Small-Sca le Industries Concessions to SSI

CH 13: 1. Industrial Policy Framework 2. Small Enterprise Policy 1991 3. Regulations Governing SMEs CH 14: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Definition Need and Importance Principles of Organisation Nature/Characteristics Nature/Charac teristics of Organisatio n Factors To Be Considered In Selecting A Suitable Form of Organisation Forms of Organisation Types of Co-Operatives Joint Stock Company and Partnership Firm Joint Stock Company and Cooperative Society

CH 15: 1. Getting 3M‟s Right 2. Project Report CH 16: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Capital Requirement Factors Governing Capital Structure Features a Fixed Capital Factors Determining Fixed Capital Requirement Factors Determining Working Capital Requirement Importance of Working Capital Sources of Working Capital Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI) rd


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9. Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI) 10. Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) 11. Maharashtra State Financial Corporation (MSFC) 12. State Industrial and Investment Corporation of Maharashtra Limited (SITCOM) 13. Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) 14. Venture Capital Financing CH 17: 1. Tax Benefits Under the Income Tax Act CH 18: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Functions of Marketing Traditional v/s Modern Marketing Concept MARKETING MIX Basis of Market Segmentations Marketing Research Areas of Marketing Research Methods of Marketing National Small Industries Corporation (NSI C)

CH 19: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

International Exposure to MSME Products Export Procedure Export Marketing Assistance to SSI Export Incentives to SMEs Export Credit Guarantee Corporation (ECGC) Quality Control

CH 20: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Problems of of Small and Medium Enterprises Analysis of the Problems Problems of SMEs in India MEASURES for the development of of SMEs Causes for Sickness/Incipient Sickness/Incipi ent Sickness in SSI Measures to prevent industrial sickness Working group of rehabilitation rehabilitati on of sick units Warning signals of industrial sickness Turnaround

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INTERNATIONAL FINANCE Explain the Following Concepts Chapter 1 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)

Fiat Currency Foreign Currency Foreign Exchange Foreign Exchange Market Correspondent Bank Nostro / Vostro / Loro accounts Balance of Payments Balance of Trade

Chapter 2 1. Foreign Exchange Rates 2. Direct Rates I Quotes 3. Indirect Rates / Quotes 4. Cross Currency Rates 5. Cross Rates 6. Vehicle Currency 7. Spread I % spread 8. Pips / Points 9. Arbitrage 10. Speculation 11. Trading 12. Settlement / Value date 13. Cash / Value today cont ract / rate 14. Torn / Value tomorrow contract / rate 15. Spot contract / rate 16. Forward contract / rate 17. Premium and Discount 18. Holgates principle Chapter 3 (1) Outright forward forward rates (2) Annualised Forward Margin Chapter 4 (1) (2) (3) (4)

Mint Parities Gold Points Gold convertibility convertibility clause Gold Exchange Standard rd


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Intervention Triffins Paradox Paradox Clean or Free float Dirty or Managed float

Chapter 5 (1) Merchant Rates (2) Card Rates (3) Ready Rates

Chapter 6 (1) Euro-currency market (2) Euro-currency deposits (3) Petrodollars (4) Offshore Financial center (OFC) (5) Roll-over of euro-currency credits (6) Mark-up in euro-currency credits (7) LIBOR (8) Foreign Bonds (9) Offshore Bonds (10) Euro-currency Notes (11) Tax Havens (12) Yankee Bonds (13) Collared Bonds (14) Bonds with options (15) Note Issuance Facility (NIF)

Chapter 7 (1) Depository receipt (2) Global Depository Deposit ory Receipt (3) American Depository Receipt (4) Indian depository Receipt (5) Depository Bank (6) Custodian bank (7) Book-runners (8) Cooling-off period (9) Green-shoe option (10) Fungibility in DR‟s (11) DR arbitrage (12) Unsponsored ADR‟s (13) Foreign currency Convertible Bonds (FCCB) (14) Foreign Currency Exchangeable Bonds (FCEB) (15) Hot money (16) ADS and ADR ratio (17) Cross listing of shares rd


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(18) Participatory notes (19) Hedge Funds (20) Sub Accounts

Chapter 8 (1) Authorised Dealers (AD‟s) (AD‟s) (2) Authorised money changers (3) Exchange control (4) Liberalised Exchange Rate Management Management System (5) Unified Exchange Rate System (6) Inter-bank Market

Chapter 9 (1) Transaction Risk faced by corporate entities (2) Translation Risk (3) Economic Risk (4) Transaction Risk faced by banks (5) Position Risk (6) Daylight limit (7) Stop-loss limit (8) Overnight limit (9) Overbought / oversold position (10) Cover transactions (11) Pre-settlement Risk (12) Settlement Risk (13) Hedging (14) Derivatives (15) Option forward contracts contract s (16) Swap cost (17) Margin in futures contracts (18) Basis in Futures contracts (19) Call /Put options (20) American and European options (21) option price (22) Option Pricing (Intrinsic and Time value) Chapter 10 (1) Basel Norms (2) European System of Central Banks

SHORT NOTES Chapter 1 (1) Balance of Payment as representative of Demand-Supply factors for foreign currencies rd


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(2) Factors affecting demand for and supply of foreign currencies (3) Factors influencing exchange rates Chapter 2 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

Foreign Exchange Market Vehicle Currency Arbitrage Speculation Trading Forward Rates

Chapter 3 (1) PPP theory (2) CIP theory (3) Covered Interest arbitrage Chapter 4 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

Features of Gold Standard Smithsonian Agreement Central Bank Intervention Market Stabilisation Scheme (MSS) Merits and demerits of Fixed Exchange Exchang e Rate System Merits and demerits of Flexible Exchange Rate System

Chapter 5 (1) Describe the structure of the foreign exchange dealing room (2) Explain in detail the role of a dealer in the foreign exchange dealing operations Chapter 6 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

Explain the method o off calculation of LIBOR Enumerate the features of the euro-currency credit market List the features of Offshore Financial Centers (OFC‟s) Explain Offshore Banking How is the Offshore banking concept being implemented in India

Chapter 7 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)

What are the factors which create the need for foreign capital? Enumerate the features of GDR‟s Describe the various types of ADR‟s What are the advantages of GDR‟s to the issuing company and investors? Explain in detail the features of FCCB‟s What are the advantages and disadvantages of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) What are P-Notes? How are they issued? rd


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(8) Explain Indian policy towards FDI (9) Define FCEB‟s and enumerate their features. (10) Examine the role of Fli‟s, Sub Accounts and Hedge Funds in the P -notes issuance process. Chapter 8 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

List the features of the Retail Foreign Exchange market in India List the features of the Wholesale Foreign Foreig n Exchange market in India Management of reserves is a balancing act. What is the role of RBI in this area? Convertibility Convertibilit y of a currency is a two-edged sword, why? Foreign Exchange Dealers Association of India (FEDAI)

Chapter 9 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)

Describe the internal hedging systems used in foreign exchange operations Foreign Currency Forward Contracts Foreign Currency Swaps Foreign Currency Futures Foreign Currency Options How credit risk is eliminated in Futures contracts? What are NDF‟s? What are their features?

Chapter 10 (1) Explain the origin of the ECB and its functions (2) Explain the Origin of the BIS and its contribution to the subject of Risk Management

DISTINGUISH BETWEEN Chapter 1 (1) Autonomous and Accomodating transactions. (2) Devaluation and Depreciation. (3) Nostro and Vostro accounts.

Chapter 2 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9)

Direct and Indirect rates Arbitrage and Speculation Arbitrage and Trading Speculation and Trading Bulls and Bears Devaluation and Depreciation Depreciation and Appreciation Devaluation and Revaluation Revaluation and Appreciation rd


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Chapter 3 (1) CIP theory and UIP theory.

Chapter 4 (1) FIXED and FLEXIBLE exchange rate systems (2) Gold Standard and Bretton Woods System

Chapter 5 (1) Merchant transactions and Interbank transactions

Chapter 6 (1) (2) (3) (4)

Euro-currency Euro-curre ncy market and Foreign exchange market Euro-currency Euro-curre ncy Bonds and Credits (Loans) Euro-currency Bonds and Notes Offshore financial centers and Tax Havens

Chapter 7 (1) (2) (3) (4)

GDR‟s and ADR‟s Level 1, level 2 and Level 3 ADR‟s AD R‟s FCCB and FCEB FDI and FPI

Chapter 8 (1) Retail and Wholesale segments of Indian Foreign Exchange market

Chapter 9 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

Risk and Exposure Forward Contracts and Swaps Forward Contracts and Futures Contracts Futures Contracts and Option Contracts Domestic Forwards and NDFs

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(1) The Current Account of the Balance of Payments is the key to establised foreign currency demand/supply equilibrium. Discuss. (2) Discuss the relationship between the Balance of Trade and Current Account of Balance of Payments.

Chapter 2 (1) Define Forward Rates. Explain the concept of Premiums and Discounts in the context of Holgates Principle. (2) The term „Cash Contract‟ does not refer to currencies in physical ca sh form. Discuss. (3) A market is imperfect without the presence of market makers. Explain the importance of Foreign Exchange traders.

Chapter 3 (1) Discuss the connectivity between exchange rates, interest rates and commodity prices. (2) The Covered Interest Parity theory forms the basis for decision making for borrowing / investing on a risk free basis when multi-currency options are possible. Discuss.

Chapter 4 (1) Explain the features of the Gold Standard and how the concept of Gold Points helped to maintain exchange rate stability? (2) Describe the t he features of the Gold Standard and how the Price Pr ice Specie Adjustment Adjustm ent mechanism helped to achieve trade equilibrium? (3) Enumerate the features of the Bretton Woods System and explain the reasons for its failure. (4) What are SDR‟s? Describe their characteristics i n detail.

Chapter 5 (1) Describe in detail the characteristics of the International Foreign Exchange market. (2) Describe the operations of a Foreign Exchange Dealing Room. (3) Who are „Dealers‟? What role do they play in dealing room operations?

Chapter 6 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

What is the Euro-currency market? What factors have contributed to its growth? Define Euro-currency market. Enumerate its characteristic features. Define a Bond. Discuss the various types of international bonds. Trace the origin of Tax Havens and factors contributing to their growth. Offshore Financial centers represent the globalisation of the Euro-currency concept. Explain how this development took place.

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Explain the mechanism of a GDR issue Dual fungibility of DR‟s represents currency convert ibility. Elaborate in the Indian context. Enumerate the features of the FCEB scheme Discuss the concept of Participatory notes in the Indian context

Chapter 8 (1) Enumerate the roles of particants ii the Indian Foreign Exchange market (2) Discuss the issue of Convertibility Convertibilit y of INR

Chapter 9 (1) Define Forward Contract. What am the sub-categories of such contr acts? contr acts? Enumerate their fear. (2) Explain in detail the various internal hedging mechanisms that a corporate entity can use to hedge foreign exchange risk (3) Define NDF‟ NDF‟s. What their f eatures? Discuss the implications implications of the NDF INR market.

Chapter 10 (1) Elaborate on the role of the BIS in the current international financial architectur e. (2) Discuss the operational issues pertaining pertaini ng to the ECB ECB as regulator for Euro- zone.

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INTERNATIONAL MARKETING Concept questions: 1. International marketing 2. Trading bloc 3. Export incentives 4. Break even pricing 5. Export through internet 6. Import licensing 7. Tariff quota 8. Economic union 9. Joint ventures 10. INCOTERMS 11. MOD VAT 12. VAT. 13. IRMAC scheme 14. Vishesh Krishi Upaj Yojana 15. Contract manufacturing 16. Management contracting

SHORT NOTES 1. FDI 2. Types of foreign intermediaries intermediarie s 3. Factors influencing pricing policy 4. Base for market segmentation 5. Culture 6. Tariff barriers 7. Non – Non – tariff barrier 8. WTO 9. Trade liberalization 10. MNC 11. Product packaging 12. Indian institute of packaging 13. Skimming pricing strategy 14. Penetration pricing strategy 15. Types of quotations 16. INCOTERMS 17. Licensing method 18. Franchising 19. Collaboration 20. Merger rd


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21. Takeover / acquisition 22. Turnkey projects 23. International market segmentation

Brief note: 1. Explain classical theory of international trade? 2. How packaging forms a part of product planning? 3. Enumerate the method of market entry. How should an exporter proceed to select potential markets? 4. Difference between international marketing and domestic marketing 5. Explain the types of trade barriers? 6. Difference between Tariff Barriers and Non Tariff Barriers 7. Factors for package design in international market 8. Explain the types of foreign intermediaries 9. Factors determining export pricing 10. Explain export costing methods 11. What are the elements of cost 12. Difference between Skimming Pricing and Penetration Pricing Policies 13. Difference between FOB price quotation and CIF price quotation 14. Which are the factors influencing pricing policy? 15. Difference between direct exporting and indirect exporting. 16. Brief details of steps in selecting overseas market. 17. What are the parameters in international marketing? 18. Which are the factors for segmentation based on market profile? 19. Difference between geographic and psychographic segmentation. 20. Difference between demographic and psychographic segmentation. 21. Which are the factors influencing market segmentation? 22. What are the characteristics of market segmentation?

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INDIAN MANAGEMENT THOUGHTS and PRACTICES CH 1 1. What is ethos? What are the distinctive characteristics chara cteristics of Indian Ethos? 2. „Unity in Diversity‟ is one of the most important features of Indian ethos. Do you agree? Discuss. 3. Discuss Indian Ethos and explain how it is influencing the management an d business practices in India. 4. Shot Note on Indian Ethos Ethos in Management. 5. Principle of Divinity. 6. Explain the concept of Divinity CH 2 7. Is there a conflict in the value system of east and west? Make a comparative study between value system of India, USA, and Japan. 8. Define Culture. 9. Make a comparative study of values practiced in Japan, India and America 10. Explain the concept of Renunciation. CH – 3 11. Discuss personality development in relation to S-R-T Gunas.  Short note: a. Peace through Yoga 12. Meditation and Astanga Yoga 13. Karmayoga and Bhaktiyoga 14. What is Yoga? What is the relationship between Yoga and Successful Manager? 15. Describe the 4 Margas to attain the ultimate objective of bliss. 16. Describe 3 Gunas/ SRT Gunas 17. What is the effect of food on Gunas. 18. Explain how Gunas affect the success of a Manager. 19. Can organisation help its HR personnel to develop desirable gunas. 20. Explain the concept of Sakshi Bhav & Kundalini Shakti. 21. Distinguish between Role Personality and True Personality 22. Explain Patanjali Munis Ashtanga yoga. 23. Moksha through Karma Yoga CH – 4 24. Five Sheaths and individual personality. rd


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25. Short note on: a. Atman b. Panchkoshas c. Potential Divinity 26. Describe the 5 Kosha‟s/Sheath of a human body. 27. Explain the concept of Moksha 28. What are the guidelines to restore the sound mental health? CH – 5 29. How far is it important for a manager to search for inner peace in the Mi dst of hustle and bustle of corporate life? 30. Explain how inner peace contributes to the performance of a manager in corporate life. 31. What is Meditation? What are its benefits to a Manager? 32. Explain the procedure of Meditation. CH – 6 33. What is the difference between manager and leader? What are the responsibilities of a good leader? 34. Explain the qualities of an effective leader. 35. Define Leadership 36. Gandhiji‟s philosophy of Trusteeship 37. Transactional leadership 38. Enumerate the various var ious style of leadership, giving givi ng suitable examples exam ples from both Indian industry and mythology. 39. Discuss the ideal qualities of a corporate leader, quoting examples from Indian epics and mythology. 40. Write about Motivation and Leadership theory is most effective in Indian? Explain. 41. Discuss the Ideal qualities of Corporate Leader quoting examples from Indian Mythology 42. Krishna as a Management Guru 43. Explain Dharmic Leadership. 44. Short note on Transformational Leader/ Explain the concept of Transformational leadership style with reference r eference 45. Short Note on Raj Rishi model of leadership. 46. Short note on Krishna as a Management Guru. 47. Short Note on Karta in Family Managed Business 48. Describe the concept of Family Managed business and karta leadership in brief. 49. Who is a Mentor? Describe its importance in transforming an organisation. CH -7 50. What is the Indian Approach to motivation? What is the difference between the American and Japanese approach? rd


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51. Explain the concept of Rina System of Motivation 52. Describe ancient technique of motivation 53. Suggest Motivational practices that can be adopted by Indian corporate houses. 54. Distinguish between Indian Approach of Motivation and Western Approach of Motivation. 55. Compare and contrast Maslow‟s hierarchy of needs and the concept of Purusharthas as theories of motivation 56. How can Indian motivation theory be applied to boost the efficiency of a business manager 57. Is ANANDA a motivating factor? 58. Suggest suitable motivational practices that can be adopted by Indian Corporate Houses 59. Analyse the concepts of Inspiration and Motivation in the Indian context and compare them with the western concepts. 60. Compare and contrast Maslow‟s hierarchy of needs with the Purushartha Model of Motivation CH – 8 61. Discuss the co-relation between nature and human society. How does it help in building human capital. 62. How do Indian Management thoughts harmonize human values, environment, culture and society? 63. Business Meeting etiquette in India. 64. Role of Women in India. 65. Discuss correlation between nature and Indian ethos or society. CH – 9 66. What is significance of different festivals in social and cultural life an individual? 67. Discuss the significance of religion and festivals for developing team-spirit and creativity in management. CH – 10 68. What are the benefits of learning to individuals organisations and society. 69. Gurukul system and learning organisation. 70. What is learning? Explain the different mechanism of learning 71. Explain Gurukul System of learning. 72. Short Note on Traditional Values. Modern Values 73. Distinguish between Traditional education system and Modern day learning. 74. Coercion, Conformity and change 75. Short Note on Karta in a Family Managed Business.

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CH – 11 76. Briefly Explain the Law of Karma (Karma Sidhanta) 77. What is the need to study the concept of Vasudhiva Kutumbakam in today‟s world or for today‟s youth. 78. Explain the difference between religion and Spirituality. 79. Explain the values thought by different religions. CH – 12 80. Explain the concept of Maya. What are its Significance? 81. Maya in Advaita Vedanta

CH –13 82. What is Dharma? Explain Swadharma 83. What is the meaning of “Dharma”? How is it differen t than Religion? 84. What is the difference between Dharma and Swadharma? 85. Dharma vis-à-vis Profit 86. What is Varna Ashram Dharma? CH –14 87. What are the implications of Nishkama Karma? 88. What do you mean Corporate Cor porate Karma. Explai Explain n the confluence of individual karma ka rma and Corporate karma. 89. Explain how selfless self less work (Nishkama ( Nishkama Karma) improves the quality q uality of work life and productivity in the organisation. 90. Individual Karma and Corporate Karma 91. Karma Siddhant and Productivity CH – 15 92. Vasudaiva Kutumbakam & Globalisation

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION Long answer questions 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Explain the role of retailer in a distribution channel What are the functions of a retailer? Differences between services and merchandise retailers Explain the types of franchising Benefits of franchising Challenges faced by a franchiser Types of Retailer

Short notes 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Franchising Retailers Ownership Breaking bulk Channel of Communication Corporate Chain Store Shop-in-shops Multichannel Retailing

RETAILING STRATEGY Long answer questions questions 1. Strategic retail planning process 2. Role of information technology in retailing 3. How retailers have gained certain cost and productivity benefits and marketing benefits by using it. 4. Write in brief about the Indian scenario in retail market

Short notes: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

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6. Retail branding

MERCHANDISE MANAGEMENT Long answer questions 1. Comparison between the top management‟s merchandising strategy and merchandise planner‟s planner‟ s merchandising approach 2. Phases in the merchandise planning 3. Which are the branding options available to retailers 4. Why retailers prefer private labels? Short notes: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Inventory turnover Sales forecasting Staple merchandise (basic merchandise) Stock keeping unit Assortment planning process Private branding

STORE MANAGEMENT Long answer questions 1. 2. 3. 4.

What are the responsibilities responsibili ties of store st ore management? Write brief about Store design and retailing image mix Explain various types of store layout Explain Store layout in brief.

Short notes: 1. Store planning 2. Space mix 3. Floor space management 4. Visual merchandising merchandisi ng 5. Display 6. Grid 7. Free flow 8. Boutique 9. Loop (Racetrack) 10. Spine

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INVESTMENT ANALYSIS AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT Concepts/short notes 1. Tax Saving Investments. 2. Present Value of Annuity. 3. Primary market 4. Secondary Market 5. Technical Analysis 6. Dividend Discount Model. 7. Price Earnings Ratio Model 8. Initial Public Offer (IPO) 9. Non marketable Financial Assets 10. Time Value of Money 11. Stock Market 12. Yield to Maturity (YTM). 13. Portfolio 14. Portfolio management 15. Mutual fund 16. Net Assets Value (NAV) 17. Measures of Returns (Sharpe‟s Treynor‟s and Jenson‟s measure) 18. Book Building 19. Floor Price and cut-off price 20. Certificate of Deposit 21. Commercial Papers 22. Bill Discounting 23. SEBI 24. Debentures

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25. Types of Debenture 26. Investment Alternatives 27. What are the alternatives altern atives available avail able for the investment? 28. Concept : Net Asset Value (NAV) 29. Debt market 30. DEBT INSTRUMENTS 31. MONEY MARKET 32. MONEY MARKET INSTRUMENTS 33. ROLE of SEBI 34. Define Risk and what are the types of Risk? 35. Measurement of risk 36. Junk Bond. 37. Speculation. 38. COMMERCIAL PAPER (CP) 39. Blue Chip Shares 40. Public Issue 41. Bull and Bear 42. DEMAT trading 43. Net Present Value 44. Types of Return 45. Types of ratios 46. Key Determinants of Share Value


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OPERATION RESEARCH Linear Programming Problem (LPP) Q.1. What are additivity, proportionality and continuity in LPP? (Nov 2012) Q.2. When does a simplex solution to a Linear Programming problem become un bounded? (April 2009) Q.3. What is an infeasible solution in LPP? (Oct ‟ 07) Q.4. What are alternate optima in LPP? (when do you get multiple solutions to an LPP?) ( Oct ‟ 06) Q.5.What is shadow price and what is its application? (April 08) Q.6.What is a unique optimal solution? How do you test if a solution is unique in simplex method? (April 07) Q.7.Uses of Slack, surplus and artificial variables in solving the LPP. (April 04) Q.8. In simplex algorithm what does basis consists of? (Oct ‟08) Q.9. Distinguish between Basic Feasible solution and Optimal solution in LPP. (Oct ‟05) Q.10. Major steps in formulation of an LPP problem. (Oct 04) Transportation Q.1. Explain the tests which are applied to an initial (starting) basic solution before carrying out optimality test in a Transportation problem? (April 2009) Q.2. What is degeneracy in transportation problem? (April 06) Q.3. Explain unbalanced transportation problem? (April 05) Q.4. What is looping in transportation problem? (Ap ‟04) Q.5.What is the difference between Transportation problem and Assignment problem? (Ap ‟04) Q.6. Explain degeneracy test in transportation problem. (Oct ‟07) Q.7. Prohibited transportation problem (Oct ‟05) Assignment Q.1. In an assignment problem how many jobs can assigned to a worker? What procedure is followed as per Hungarian method if you have more workers than jobs in an assignment problem? (Ap‟ (Ap‟09) Q.2. How do you prepare a balanced maximization problem with restrictions for Hungarian method in assignment problem? (Ap ‟08) Q.3.Comment on Regret matrix in Assignment problem. (Ap ‟07) Q.4. Write briefly on multiple optimal solutions in an assignment problem? (Ap ‟05) Q.5.How will you deal with the assignment problem where some assignments are prohibited? (Oct‟ (Oct‟09) Q.6. What is the principle behind a balanced assignment problem? (Oct ‟08) Q.7. What is reduced matrix in Assignment problem? (Oct ‟07) rd


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Q.8. What is unbalance assignment problem? (Oct ‟05 and 03) Q.9. Comment on optimality in an assignment problem? (Oct ‟06) Q.10.How do you test a solution to an assignment problem to conclude the solution is optimal?

PERT and CPM Q.1. In what kind of projects is resource requirement probabilistic? Give two suitable e xamples. (Ap‟ (Ap‟09) Q.2. What is the utility of total float or slack in project monitoring? (Ap ‟08) Q.3. Comment on Indirect cost in a project? (Ap ‟07) Q.4. Distinguish between free float and Independent float. (Ap ‟05) Q.5. What is Dangling event and Dummy activity in network diagram? (Ap ‟05) Q.6. Explain total float, free float and Independent float, (Oct ‟07) Q.7. Explain Critical Path in PERT/CPM analysis. (Oct ‟06) Q.8. Define Optimistic, Pessimistic and Most likely times. (Oct ‟05) Q.9. What are events and activities in PERT and CPM analysis? (Oct ‟04) Q.10. Comment on Sub-critical path in PERT/ CPM analysis. (Oct ‟03)

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