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MB 0044 - PRODUCTION AND OPERATION MANAGEMENT

1. Explain the elements or components of operations strategy.

2 Answer the following questions:

a. What is location decision sequence?

b. Which general factors influence the plant location decision?

3 Write short notes on:

 Pareto analysis

 Acceptance sampling

 Juran’s quality trilogy

 Taguchi’s quality loss function

4 Answer the following questions:

a. Define project management.

b. What are the major characteristics of a project mindset?

c. What are the advantages of Gantt chart?

5 Answer the following questions:

a. What are the steps involved in developing an aggregate plan?

b. Explain the various types of pure strategies used in aggregate planning.

6 Answer the following questions:

a. Explain the classification of scheduling strategies.

b. List the distinctive differences between the scheduling followed for manufacturing and services

MB0045- FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

1 Critically analyze the four broad areas of strategic financing decision.

Four broad areas of strategic financing decision

2 What is FVIFA ? Is it different from Sinking fund factor ?

A finance company offers to pay Rs. 44,650 after five years to investors who deposit annually Rs. 6,000 for five years. Calculate the rate of interest implicit in this offer.

3 A firm owns a machine furnishes the following information :

Rs.

Book value of the machine                   1,10,000

Current market value                                   80,000

Expected salvage value after the end of five years of remaining useful life        NIL

Annual cash operating costs                                    36,000

The firm’s cost of capital                       15 %

Corporate tax rate                                     35 %

The firm follows straight line method of depreciation (permitted by the Income-tax authorities).

The management of the company is now considering selling of the machine. If it does so, the total operating costs to perform the work, now done by the machine, will increase by Rs. 40,000 p.a.

Advise the management.

4 How will you compute the cost of equity capital using CAPM ?

The Xavier Corporation, a dynamic growth firm which pays no dividends, anticipates a long-run level of future earnings of Rs. 7 per share. The current market price of Xavier’s share is Rs. 55.45. Floatation costs for the sale of new equity shares would average about 10 % of the price of the shares. What is the cost of new equity capital to Xavier Corporation ?

5 Jharkhand Mining ltd. has to select one of the two alternative projects whose particulars are furnished below :

	Project E	Project F
	Rajrappa, Hazaribagh	Tatisilwai, Ranchi
	Rs.	Rs.
Initial Outlay	11,87,200	10,06,700
Net Cash Inflow :
End of year 1	10,00,000	1,00,000
2	2,00,000	1,00,000
3	1,00,000	2,00,000
4	1,00,000	10,00,000

The company can arrange necessary funds @ 8 %. Compute the NPV and IRR of each project and comment on the results.

Is there any contradiction in the results ? If so, state the reason for such contradictions. How would you propose to resolve the contradictions ?

6 XPremier Steel Ltd. has a present annual sales turnover of Rs. 40,00,000. The unit sale price is Rs. 20. The variable costs are Rs. 12 per unit and fixed costs amount to Rs. 5,00,000 per annum. The present credit period of 1 month is proposed to be extended to either 2 or 3 months whichever is profitable. The following additional information is available :

Credit period	1 month	2 months	3 months
Increase in sales by	--	10 %	30 %
Bad debts on sales	1 %	2 %	5 %

Fixed costs will increase by Rs. 75,000 when sales increase by 30 %. The company requires a pre-tax return on investment of 20 %.

Evaluate the profitability of the proposals and recommend the best credit period for the company.

MB0046- Marketing Management

1 Do you think the argument of some theorists that the traditional Ps are not enough for services marketing? Give suitable examples to prove your point.

2 What is sales promotion? Explain any eight tools of sales promotion directed at consumers.

Definition of sales promotion

3 Define Environmental scanning. Explain Delphi technique and Scenario Building technique of Environmental Scanning.

4 Personal selling focuses in on ‘personal’ or ‘one to one’ selling. It involves an individual salesman or a sales team establishing and building a profitable relationship with customers over a period of time through a series of steps. Explain the steps in the personal selling process which helps in the successful sales.

5 What is Buying centre? Explain the seven roles of Buying centre and also specify the role of functional departments in the purchase process.

6 Describe some of the strategies for effective marketing and advertising in rural market. Also explain the innovative use of media in rural market.

MB0047 – MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

1 In today’s life, Individuals rely on information systems, generally Internet-based, for conducting much of their personal lives: for socializing, study, shopping, banking, and entertainment. Information technology refers to anything related to computing technology, such as networking, hardware, software, the Internet, or the people that work with these technologies. How do you differentiate between information system and information technology? Explain using an example.

2 Explain decision making with MIS using Travelling salesman problem

3 How to use information system to support competitive strategy? Explain with an example for each strategy

4 Decision making is a daily activity for any human being. In the decision making process, we choose one course of action from a few possible alternatives. In the process of decision making, we may use many tools, techniques and perceptions. Describe Herbert Simon model on Decision making.

5 Write short notes on

a. Data administration

b. Managing concurrency

c. Reduced data redundancy

d. Recovery from crashes

e. Data access

6 Write short notes on

a. Role of workplace monitoring

b. Power over users

MB0048 OPERATIONS RESEARCH

1 What are the features of operations research? What are the limitations of operations research?

2 a. Explain the graphical method of solving Linear Programming Problem.

b. A furniture manufacturing company plans to make two products: chairs and tables- from its available resources, which consists of 400 board feet of mahogany timber and 450 man-hours of labour. It knows that to make a chair requires 5 board feet and 10 man-hours and yields a profit of Rs.45 while each table uses 20 board feet and 15 man-hours and has a profit of Rs.80.

Formulate the LPP to maximise the profit.

3 a. List the steps of the Vogel’s Approximation Method(VAM) to find the initial feasible solution.

b. The XYZ manufacturing company has a current transportation schedule which is being questioned by the top management as to whether or not it is optimal. The firm has 3 factories and 5 warehouses. The unit transportation costs (in Rs.), factory capacities, and ware house requirements are given below. Find the initial feasible solution using Vogel’s Approximation Method (VAM).

Warehouse	Factories			Warehouse requirements
	A	B	C
1.	50	40	80	400
2.	80	70	40	400
3.	60	70	60	500
4.	60	60	60	400
5.	30	50	40	800
Factory availability	800	600	1100	2500

4 a. What is Integer Programming Problem (IPP) ?

b. Explain Gomory’s all integer algorithm of an IPP.

5 a. Write a short note on Monte Carlo Simulation.

b. A Company produces 150 cars. But the production rate varies with the distribution.

Production Rate	147	148	149	150	151	152	153
Probability	0.05	0.10	0.15	0.20	0.30	0.15	0.05

At present the track will hold 150 cars. Using the following random numbers determine the average number of cars waiting for shipment in the company and average number of empty space in the truck. Random Numbers 82, 54, 50, 96, 85, 34, 30, 02, 64, 47.

6 a. Explain the dominance principle in game theory.

b. Describe the Constituents of a Queuing System.

c. Differentiate between PERT and CPM.

MB 0049 - PROJECT MANAGEMENT

1 Explain the phases of project management life cycle.

2 List the steps involved in each process of project planning.

3 Write short notes on the following cost estimating tools and techniques:

a. Analogous estimating

b. Bottom-up estimating

c. Parametric estimating

d. Reserve analysis

4 Summarize quality control for project quality management

5 What is purchase cycle? Explain the key steps involved in the purchase cycle of a project.

6 Explain the various elements of project control.

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MB0038 –MANAGEMENT PROCESS & ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOUR

1 List and describe the different strategies in the Organization.

2 What do you mean by Decision Making? Explain Decision making under certainty, uncertainty and risk. Describe the steps in Creative Decision making.

3 What is meant by ‘span of control’? Differentiate between narrow span of control and wide span of control. What are the factors that influence the span of control?

4 Define Organizational behavior. What are the various approaches to Organizational behavior?

5 Perception is the way we see and interpret things. Explain the importance of such ‘perception’. What are the factors affecting perception?

6 Give the definition and importance of ‘Motivation’. Describe ‘Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory’.

MB0039 –BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

1 Irrespective of the setting in which communication takes place, there are some key elements involved. What are the key elements of communication?

2 What is the importance of Kinesics and Proxemics in communication? Explain with examples.

3 What are the steps in making oral business presentation?

4 Imagine a new product from kids’ apparel industry. Write a persuasive letter to customers, persuading them to buy your company’s product.

5 You are going to face a job interview for the post of Manager-operations. Which aspects you will keep in mind while facing the interview?

6 Write short notes on:

a) Skimming

b) Notices

MB0040 STATISTICS FOR MANAGEMENT

1 Distinguish between Classification and Tabulation. Explain the structure and components of a Table with an example.

2 (a) Explain Arithmetic mean

(b) The mean wage is Rs. 75 per day, SD wage is Rs. 5 per day for a group of 1000 workers and the same is Rs. 60 and Rs. 4.5 for the other group of 1500 workers.

Find the mean and standard deviation for the entire group.

3 Mr. Arun and Mr. Bhandari play a game. If Mr. Arun picks up an even number from 1 to 6, Mr. Bhandari will pay him double the amount equal to picked up number. If Mr. Arun picks up an odd number then he has to pay amount equal to double the picked up number. What is Mr. Arun’s expectation?

4 The probability that an employee will get an occupational disease is 20%. In a firm having five employees, what is the probability that:

i) None of the employees get the disease

ii) Exactly two will get the disease

iii) More than four will contract the disease

5 Microsoft estimated that out of 10,000 potential software buyers, 35% wait to purchase the new OS Windows Vista, until an upgrade has been released. After an advertising campaign to reassure the public was released, Microsoft surveyed 3000 buyers and found 950 who are still skeptical. At 5% level of significance, can the company conclude that the population of skeptical people had decreased?

6 Explain Chi-square test and the conditions for applying chi-square test

MB0041 FINANCIAL AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING

1. Inventory in a business is valued at the end of an accounting period, at either cost or market price, whichever is lower. This is accepted convention or a practice in accounting.

Give a small introduction on accounting conventions and elucidate all the eight accounting conventions.

[Introduction of accounting convention

Explanation of all the 8 types of conventions]

2. Analyse the following transactions according to traditional approach.

a. 1.1.2011 Sunitha started his business with cash Rs. 5,00,000

b. 2.1.2011 Borrowed from Malathi Rs. 5,00,000

c. 2.1.2011 Purchased furniture Rs. 1,00,000

d. 4.1.2011 Purchased furniture from Meenal on credit Rs. 1,50,000

e. 5.1.2011 Purchased goods for cash Rs. 50,000

f. 6.1.2011 Purchased goods from Ram on credit Rs. 2,50,000

g. 8.1.2011 Sold goods for cash Rs. 1,25,000

h. 8.1.2011 Sold goods to Shyam on credit Rs. 55,000

i. 9.1.2011 Received cash from Shyam Rs. 25,000

j. 10.1.2011 Paid cash to Ram Rs. 90,000

[Filling in all the details in the table for all the transactions. Each transaction carries one mark(1*10=10)]

3. The following items are found in the trial balance of M/s Sharada Enterprise on 31st December, 2000.

Sundry Debtors Rs.160000

Bad Debts written off Rs 9000

Discount allowed to Debtors Rs. 1800

Reserve for Bad and doubtful Debts 31-12-1999 Rs. 16500

Reserve for discount on Debtors 31-12-1999 Rs. 3200

You are required to provide the bad and doubtful debts at 5% and for discount on debtors at 2%. Show the adjustments for bad debts, bad debts reserve, discount account, and provision for discount on debtors.

[Calculation and Workings

Conclusion]

4. The reports prepared in financial accounting are also used in the management accounting. But there are few major differences between financial accounting and management accounting.

Explain the differences between financial accounting and management accounting in various dimensions.

[Writing down all the differences between the financial and management accounting]

5. Draw the Balance Sheet for the following information provided by Sandeep Ltd..

a. Current Ratio : 2.50

b. Liquidity Ratio : 1.50

c. Net Working Capital : Rs.300000

d. Stock Turnover Ratio : 6 times

e. Ratio of Gross Profit to Sales : 20%

f. Fixed Asset Turnover Ratio : 2 times

g. Average Debt collection period : 2 months

h. Fixed Assets to Net Worth : 0.80

i. Reserve and Surplus to Capital : 0.50

[Preparation of Balance sheet (Includes all the ratios)]

6. Write the main differences between cash flow analysis and fund flow analysis.

Following is the balance sheet for the period ending 31st March 2011 and 2012. If the current year’s net loss is Rs.38,000, Calculate the cash flow from operating activities.

31st MARCH	2011	2012
Short-term loan to employees	15000	18000
Creditors	30000	8000
Provision for doubtful debts	1200	-
Bills payable	18000	20000
Stock in trade	15000	13000
Bills receivable	10000	22000
Prepaid expenses	800	600
Outstanding expenses	300	500

[Differences between cash flow and fund flow analysis

Preparation of statement showing cash flow from operating activities]

MB0042- MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS

1 Define economies of scale. Discuss the kinds of internal economies.

2 Consumers' interview method is a survey method used for estimating the demand for new products. This method is very important with regard to collect the relevant information directly from the consumers with regard to their future purchase plans. Opinion surveys and direct interview method are the two important techniques among all. Describe these two methods in detail.

3 A cost-schedule is a statement of variations in costs resulting from variations in the levels of output and it shows the response of costs to changes in output. If we represent the relationship between changes in the level of output and costs of production, we get different types of cost curves in the short run. Define the kinds of cost concepts like TFC, TVC, TC, AFC, AVC, AC and MC and its corresponding curves with suitable diagrams for each.

4 Inflation is a global Phenomenon which is associated with high price causes decline in the value for money. It exists when the amount of money in the country is in excess of the physical volume of goods and services. Explain the reasons for this monetary phenomenon.

5 Describe perfect competition and its features.

6 Define revenue. Explain the types of revenue and the relationship between TR, AR and MR with an example of a hypothetical revenue schedule.

MB0043 –HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

1. The success of HR plans depends on the accuracy of HR forecasts. What is the meaning of this HR forecasting? Describe the following HR forecasting techniques:

(a) Index/ Trend analysis and

(b) Expert forecasting

2. Write a brief note on:

(i) Selection test and

(ii) Interviews

3. What do you mean by management development? What are its objectives and methods?

4. Suppose you have joined as HR executive in a software company. The first task you have been assigned is to work on Career planning. What are the various career programs will you consider?

5. Define performance review. What are the types of appraisal methods? Describe the ways to evaluate an employee individually.

6. Many organisations maintain a disciplinary policy or system to regulate the behaviour of the employees and deal with acts of indiscipline. Describe such various disciplinary actions – penalties in business organisations.