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ASSIGNMENT TOPICS FOR MBA DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER - 2010
First Year
(DBUS 01 (NR))
Paper I — PERSPECTIVES OF MANAGEMENT
Assignment – I
Answer all the questions:
Maximum: 25 Marks
1. (a) Management Vs. Administration.
(b) Types of plans.
(c) Downward delegation.
(d) Placement.
(e) CPM.
(f) Social Responsibility of Business.
2. Define ‘Management’. Discuss the scope and significance of management.
3. Explain the importance of Decision Making. Briefly explain the process involved in
decision making.
4. Discuss the factors which are influencing span of control.
Assignment – II
Answer all the questions:
Maximum: 25 Marks
5. What is meant by Recruitment? Examine the different sources of recruitment.
6. What are the barriers of communication? Suggest measures to overcome those barriers.
7. Is control compulsory in a large scale organisation? Briefly explain the process of control.
Case study
8. The shopping centre branch of a well known marketing company housed in a modern,
airconditioned building situated in a prime location in the city. It has its full complements of
staff, who are well trained, but contrary to the expectation, it seems to have been losing
business to other competitions and failing to meet targets. When it was reported to the
business to other competitions and failing to meet targets. When it was reported to the
regional manager that two staff had asked for transfers, he called in on the manager.
At the interview it was revealed that friction had arisen between the manager and his
senior assistant Hemanth and between staff. According to the manager, Hemanth had an
abrasive personality which showed through his management style. He was authoritarian
and domineering in his dealings with the staff, and contemptuous of their intellect.
The manager admitted that he found the strain of working with Hemanth very wearing
himself. Inspite of serveral ‘quiet words’ with him, Hemanth had not changed his behaviour
and the manager had been forced into the role of peace maker to ensure a resemblance
of good relation in the organisation.
He added that staff no longer seem to want to do things when asked. They display a rigid
attitude towards customers and they are no longer prepared to work beyond normal hours,
except under extreme pressure. This pressure usually takes the form of threatening
behaviour form Hemanth, who says that the only important thing is to get the work out by
the end of the day. It is established that the branch problems usually began nine months
ago when Hemanth arrived.
The regional manager decided to talk to Hemanth himself. It so transpired that Hemanth
had been brough up and had also been first employed in an economically disadvantages
and tough area of the city. He had a weak boss who never gave the staff any direction,
which resulted in an easy going attitude and an unacceptable slackness which Hemanth
wanted never to repeat when he was promoted to a managerial post.
For this reason, Hemanth supervises the work very closely. He doesn't listen to
suggestions, he prefers the staff simply to do the work his way. He likes them to stick to
their technical tasks and leave the managerial work to him. He has been known to
struggle with a problem for days, when, if he asked one of his clerks, it could be solved in
minutes.
Questions:
(a) Explain and discuss Hemanth's management style.
(b) Make suggestions as to how the situation at shopping center branch could be improved.
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ASSIGNMENT TOPICS FOR MBA DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER - 2010
First Year
(DBUS 02)
Paper II — BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
Assignment – I
Answer all the questions:
Maximum: 25 Marks
1. What are the characteristics of under developed economy?
2. Discuss the structural dimensions of Indian economy.
3. Explain the performance of Public Sector Undertakings in India since Independence.
4. Enumerate the problems of small scale industries in India.
5. Narrate the evolution of Indian Industrial policy.
Assignment – II
Answer all the questions:
Maximum: 25 Marks
6. Discuss the role of foreign trade in India’s economic development.
7. Examine the problems of Balance of Payments of India.
8. Briefly explain the impact of economic reforms on India’s economic development.
9. Explain the socio, economic, political, cultural and legal environment of business.
10. Examine the impact of financial sector reforms on banking system in India.
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ASSIGNMENT TOPICS FOR MBA DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER - 2010
First Year
(DBUS 03)
Paper III — MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS
Assignment – I
Answer all the questions:
Maximum: 25 Marks
1. (a) Price Elasticity of demand.
(b) Determinants of Demand.
(c) Demand forecasting.
(d) Iso-Product curves.
(e) Market Structure.
(f) Economics of risk and uncertainty.
2. Discuss the scope of managerial economics.
3. Why long run average cost curve is ‘U “shaped?
4. Explain the law of variable proportion theory of production.
5. Explain Knight theory of profits.
Assignment – II
Answer all the questions:
6. Discuss the marginal productivity theory of distribution.
7. What is capital budgeting?
8. Examine the pricing strategies of a firm.
9. Discuss the Break-Even Analysis.
Maximum: 25 Marks
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ASSIGNMENT TOPICS FOR MBA DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER - 2010
First Year
(DBUS 04)
Paper IV — ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERS
Assignment – I
Answer all the questions:
1.
Maximum: 25 Marks
(a) Discuss the applications of accounting.
(b) Funds from operations.
(c) Forfeiture of shares.
(d) Contents of Balance sheet.
(e) Inflation Accounting.
(f) Distinguish between fixed costs and variable costs.
2. Explain about Accounting Standards.
3. Discuss the advantages and limitations of funds flow statement.
4. State the legal requirements relating to auditing of company accounts.
Assignment – II
Answer all the questions:
Maximum: 25 Marks
5. The commonised balance sheet of XYZ Ltd. for the year ended 31.3.07 and 31.3.08 are
given below :
Liabilities :
31.3.07
31.3.08
Rs. Rs.
Share capital 5,00,000
5,00,000
General reserve
2,00,000
2,20,000
P & L A/c
40,000
32,000
Bank Loan
—
1,00,000
Creditors
1,58,000
1,72,000
Provision for Taxation 45,000
30,000
9,43,000
Assets :
31.3.07
Rs.
Land and buildings
1,80,000
Plant and Machinery 2,10,000
10,54,000
31.3.08
Rs.
2,00,000
2,76,000
Assets :
31.3.07
31.3.08
Rs.
Rs.
Other fixed assets
30,000
45,000
Investments
50,000
50,000
Stock
2,00,000
1,90,000
Debtors
1,70,000
1,95,000
Cash at Bank 1,03,000
98,000
9,43,000
10,54,000
Additional informations :
(a) Dividend amounting to Rs. 30,000 was paid during the year.
(b) Provision for taxation made Rs. 12,000.
(c) Machinery worth Rs. 15,000 (book value) was hold at a loss of Rs. 3,000.
(d) Investments costing Rs. 10,000 was sold for Rs. 12,000.
(e) Depreciation on land and buildings Rs. 5,000 and plant and machinery Rs. 20,000.
Prepare a statement of sources and application funds.
6. A company is producing identical product in two factories. The following details are
available in respect of both the factories :
Factory X
Rs.
25
Factory Y
Rs.
25
20
17.50
1,00,000
1,50,000
Depreciation included in above
20,000
15,000
Sales units
30,000
20,000
Production capacity in units
40,000
30,000
Selling price per unit
Variable cost per unit
Fixed costs
You are required to determine
(a) BEP for each factory individually.
(b) Which factory is more profitable?
(c) BEP for the company as a whole, assuming the present product mix.
7. Fair practices Ltd invited applications for 20,000 shares of Rs. 100 each at a discount of
Rs. 4 per share. The amount was paid as follows :
On application Rs. 20
On allotment Rs. 30
On first and final call Rs. 46
The public applied for 18,000 shares and these were allotted. All money due was collected
with the exception of first and final call on 800 shares, which were forfeited. 400 shares of
these were re-issued as fully paid for a payment of Rs. 80 per share. Give Journal entries
in the book of Fair Practices Ltd.
8. The following is the Trial Balance of M/S Kranth agencies as on 31st March 2009.
Dr.
Rs.
Capitals
Drawings
18,000
Buildings
15,000
Furniture and fittings
Motor van
7,500
25,000
Loan from Hari @ 12% interest
Interest paid on Hari loan
Cr.
Rs.
1,00,000
15,000
900
Sales
1,00,000
Purchases
75,000
Opening stock
25,000
Establishment expenses
15,000
Wages
2,000
Insurance
1,000
Commission received
4,500
Debtors
28,100
Bank Balance
20,000
Creditors
10,000
Interest received
3,000
2,32,500
2,32,500
Adjustments :
(a) The value of stock on 31.3.2009 was Rs. 32,000
(b) Outstanding wages Rs. 500
(c) Prepaid insurance Rs. 300
(d) Commission Received in advance Rs. 1,300
(e) Allow interest on capital @ 10%
(f) Depreciate : Buildings @ 2 ½ %
Furniture and fittings @ 10%
Motor van @ 10%
(g) Charge interest on drawings Rs. 500
Prepare trading and profit and loss account and a balance short as on 31.3.2009.
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ASSIGNMENT TOPICS FOR MBA DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER - 2010
First Year
(DBUS 05)
Paper V — QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGERIAL DECISIONS
Assignment – I
Answer all the questions:
Maximum: 25 Marks
1. (a) A car is purchased for Rs. 80,000. Depreciation is calculated at 6% per annum. Find
the money value of the car after 3 years.
(b) What are the requisites of a good classification?
(c) Graphical presentation of a frequency distribution.
(d) Define (i) probability (ii) conditional probability. State addition and multiplication laws
of probability.
(e) Explain sampling distribution and standard error.
(f) Define (i) one tail and two tail tests (ii) type I and type II errors (iii) critical region.
2. (a) Find the maximum value of y =
Log x
X
2 3
(b) Show that the matrix A satisfies the equation A2 - A I and hence find A1 . Where A 
1 2
3. Find the coefficient of variation from the following data :
Marks :
No. of students :
Marks :
No. of students :
Above 0
80
Above 50
43
Above 10
77
Above 60
23
Above 20
Above 30
72
Above 70
65
Above 80
16
10
Above 40
55
Above 90
8
4. Calculate Bowley’s coefficient of skewness from the following data :
Profits (Rs. lakhs) : Below 20
No. of companies :
5.
8
Below 40
Below 60
Below 80
Below 100
20
50
64
70
(a) The life time of a certain kind of batteries has a mean life of 400 hours and
standard deviation as 45 hours. Assuming the distribution of life time to be normal,
find (i) the percentage of batteries with a life time of atleast 470 hours (ii) the
proportion of batteries with life time between 385 and 415 hours (iii) the minimum
life of the best 5% of batteries.
(b) A farm owner’s seriously considering of drilling a farm well. In the past only 70%
of well drilled were successful at 200 feet of depth in that area. Moreover on finding
no water at 200 feet some persons drilled it further upto 350 feet but only 20%
struck water at 250 feet. The prevailing cost of drilling is Rs. 50 per feet. The farm
over has estimated that in case he does not get his own well, he will have to pay
Rs. 15,000 over the next 10 years to buy water from the neighbour. The following
decisions will be optimal for the farm owner : (i) do not drill any well (ii) drill upto 200
feet (iii) if no water is found at 200 feet drill further upto 250 feet. It may be
assumed that the well has a life of 10 years only. Determine the optimal strategy.
6.
(a) In a random sample of 100 persons from town A, 400 are found to be
consumers of wheat. In a sample of 800 from town B, 400 are found to be
consumers of wheat. Do these data reveal a significant difference between town A
and town B, so far as the proportion of wheat consumer is concerned?
(b) Two Sets A and B of the students selected at random from a college were taken
: one was given the memory test as they were and another was given a memory
test after two weeks training and the scores were given below :
Set A : 10 8 7 9
8 10 9 6 7 8
Set B : 12 8 8 10 8 11 9 8 9 9
Do you think there is any significant effect due to training?
7.
(a) Production of a certain commodity is as below :
Year :
Production (’000 tons) :
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
7
9
10
7
5
Fit a parabolic curve of 2nd degree to the production. Estimate the value for 2007.
(b) Find the two regression equations and the correlation coefficient from the following
data :
X = 60, Y = 40, XY = 1150, 4160 X2 = 1720 Y 2 and N = 10 .
8.
(a) A market research organisation wants to determine on the basis of the following
information, whether there is a relationship between the size of a tooth paste which
a shopper buys and the number of persons in the Shopper’s House Hold (SH)
No. of persons in S.H. : 1–2 3–4 5–6 7 or more
Size of tube
Giant 23 116 78 43
Large 54 25 16 11
Small 31 68 36 8
Is there a relationship at 1% level of significance?
(b) An insurance salesman sells policies to 5 men all of identical age and good
health. According to the actuarial tables the probability that a man of this particular
age will be alive 30 years hence is 2/3. Find the probability that 30 years hence (i)
at least 1 man will be alive (ii) at least 3 men will be alive.
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ASSIGNMENT TOPICS FOR MBA DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER - 2010
First Year
(DBUS 06)
Paper VI — INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
Assignment – I
Answer all the questions:
1.
Maximum: 25 Marks
(a) Levels of information handling.
(b) Disk operating system.
(c) Functions of financial systems.
(d) Trojen Horse and worms.
(e) Copy right of software people.
(f) Classification of information.
(g) Constants and variables.
2. Explain the role of computers in management.
Explain different types of applications software.
3. What is an inventory? What are its characteristics? Explain the design of an inventory
system with a suitable example.
4. What is perverse software? Explain the major activities in the protection and treatment
of computer viruses.
5. Explain the legal aspects of use of computers.
Discuss the tortions liabilities in use of computers.
6. Explain
(a) Cost of information and
(b) Value of information. Explain the various stages in the cycle of a computer based
information system.
7. What are subprograms? Explain the two kinds of subprograms. Explain the structure of
a COBOL program.
8. At Viacom International, the New York based parent of MTV, Nicklodeon and other
entertainment interests the CFO teamed with executives from, sales, marketing and contracting to
lead the company in new directions. Because financial processes are so intertwined with the
processes of other departments top managers felt that redesigning finance should ideally be part
of a company - wide comprehensive reengineering project. Viacom targeted its financial systems
to find a better way to handle the financial reporting
of its wholly owned subsidiaries which it is acquiring at the rate of about three every year.
The company plans to develop a system which reduces paper pushing and facilitates the
electronic transmission of transactions from are decision maker to the next. Another goal of the
company is to build financial systems that give decision makers time to analyze data rather than
spending their time collecting it.
(a) Identity the reasons why financial systems are excellent tools for facilitating decision
making.
(b) Explain why financial information systems were at the centre of initiating change at
Viacom.