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School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE) Course: Strategic Financial Management
Internal Assignment Applicable for June 2022 Examination
1. A Financial Express news article of February 3, 2022 mentioned that Alphabet, on
February 1, 2022 has announced that its Board of Directors has approved and declared a
20-for-1 stock split. In light of this news, explain what is a stock split and how is it different from a bonus issue made by the company? (10 Marks)
2. For the first time any BBB-rated Asian company outside of Japan has issued a 40-year dollar bond. In January 2022, Resilience Ltd. raised $1.5 billion in a 10-year issue at a coupon or interest rate of 2.875%, $1.75 billion in a 30-year bond at a 3.625% and $750 million in a 40-year issue at a 3.75% coupon rate. The coupon frequency for the 30-year bond is semi-annual and for the others is annual. You’re required to compute the value of the bonds if their face value is $1,000 and the applicable rate is 6.9 percent.
(10 Marks)
3. In India, the year of 2021 saw an immense surge in mergers and acquisitions. This was mainly propelled by first-time buyers and steered by a growth of industry disruptors across multiple sectors and business activities. The acquisition of Indian payments giant BillDesk by technology investors Prosus NV was the largest merger and acquisition deal in the Indian fintech industry. Prosus has its own Fintech business PayU. This acquisition will help PayU to become one of the leading online payments providers, globally, with presence in over 20 markets and increased total payments volume (TPV) of over US$4 billion.
a. With this deal in backdrop, explain mergers and acquisitions as a restructuring tool.
(5 Marks)
b. Identify and explain the type of merger seen here. Also, elucidate the other types of mergers and acquisitions in brief. (5 Marks)
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School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE) Course: International Finance
Internal Assignment Applicable for June 2022 Examination
1. Define interest rate parity (IRP) and explain with US and India example, when IRP does not hold good, how the opportunities for covered interest arbitrage arise. (10 Marks)
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2. Explain International Fisher Effect (IFE), forward expectation parity (FEP) and summarise the relation through an appropriate diagram. (10 Marks)
3. Mr.Suresh Bhonsle is treasury head in India of a multi-national bank. In his individual capacity he is an investor of stocks. Over the years he has built up a robust portfolio by investing in stocks of companies of various sectors. In Airlines industry he has investment in 1000 shares in Indigo ( InterGlobe Aviation Ltd.). The sector got badly hit during Covid
19. Mr. Bhonsle (being MBA finance from NMIMS and FRM and treasury head of a bank) goes through the financial statement of the company thoroughly. He notes, as a result of Covid Pandemic – Indigo suffered a net loss of Rs.58298 million during the financial year 2020-21 of which around 9% (Rs 5230 million) is attributable to foreign exchange loss. He further notes that the effect of exchange rate change (loss) on cash and cash equivalents held in foreign currency is Rs.177.28 million. ‘Notes on accounts’ further reveals that there is considerable foreign currency outgo resulting from loan repayment. The profit/ loss arises mainly on exchange difference in repayment of foreign currency loan. Despite foreign currency transaction exposure there does not seem to be in place proper ‘hedging’ of currency risk.
Currency risk can be hedged using forward contract with a multinational bank at the same future rate prevailing in the market. Alternatively, the company can deploy money market hedge. Among other loan repayments as per various schedules, suppose indigo has to pay Rs. 5 million (INR) at the yearend 2020-21 without hedging taking spot rate as USD 1 =
76 (or 1 INR= $0.0131). The market condition in 2020-21 was as under-
| Indian 1 year T-bill rate | 5.50% per annum |
| U.S 1 year bond yield | 1.00% |
| Spot exchange rate | Rs.76/$1 |
| Forward (future)exchange rate at the beginning of 2020-21 | Rs.74/$/1 |
Required:
a. Compute the impact of hedging if forward rate route (forward hedge) is taken.
b. Compute the impact of money market hedge and compare with forward hedge (a) to arrive
at logical conclusion as to hedging strategy the company should follow.
(5 Marks)
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School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE) Course: Business: Ethics, Governance & Risk
Internal Assignment Applicable for June 2022 Examination
NOTE: This assignment is application based, you have to apply what you have learnt in this subject into real life scenario. You will find most of the information through internet search and the remaining from your common sense. None of the answers appear directly in the textbook chapters but are based on the content in the chapters, directly or indirectly.
1. As a product manager you are responsible for a new hand sanitizer launched recently by your company, Health and Hygiene Ltd. Most of your business is offline through channel partners. You are considering a hybrid model of offline as well as online distribution channels (ecommerce platform). Prepare a note for your Marketing Head identifying five financial and five operational risk involved and classify them as high, medium and low, so that the reputation and stated values of your company are protected. (10 Marks)
2. Select any one popular TV advertisement for any product/service that you find ethically wrong/inappropriate/ offensive. Using any one ethical decision making model (three models covered in class during session1, chapter 2, or any other model) analyse and explain the ethical issues involved and why they are wrong /inappropriate /offensive, from the perspective of any three relevant stakeholders eg consumers, company/brand, section of society involved or targeted eg women, children etc. (10 Marks)
3. Intelligent Services, your employer, prides itself on hiring minorities. One candidate fully fits the job requirements for an open position in your division. However, your boss is concerned that some of your customers will not understand the candidate’s limited command of the English language. You are the manager to whom this candidate will report, if selected.
a. What decision will you take and how will you explain/justify it to your boss? (5 Marks)
b. Which two programs and/or processes will you introduce in your division to be able to successfully deploy many more such candidates in future? (5 Marks)
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School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE)
Course: Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Management
Internal Assignment Applicable for June 2022 Examination
1. Ayat wants to start her own restaurant. Explain detailed business canvas model for opening restaurant. (10 Marks)
2. Tia and Arjun want to start a business which will be technology oriented. Suggest Private limited or LLP will be suitable for Tia and Arjun’s business. (10 Marks)
3. ZIKVA is the family business owned by Patel family since 1960’s. They are basically into import of wood. It is basically run by second generation and will move to third generation very soon.
a. Do you think ZIKVA can expand its business? If yes, then what kind of innovation should be considered for expansion. (5 Marks)
b. According to you what are the challenges of Family Business. Also, mention the advantages and disadvantages of family run business like ZIKVA. (5 Marks)
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School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE) Course: Marketing Research
Internal Assignment Applicable for June 2022 Examination
1. A famous restaurant chain is planning to launch a health food restaurant in the four metros. They feel that the ‘eat nutritious food’ fever is catching up among the urban population in India. The restaurants will offer traditional Indian and continental healthy cuisine in a great ambience. They want to assess the readiness of potential customers to consume healthy and nutritious food and decide on the menu, how much are the customers willing to pay and above all what are the expectations of customers from such a restaurant. They want to position the restaurant as upmarket and modern. They also would like to host corporate functions, family ceremonies from birth day to weddings in their premises with a great ambience and healthy and nutritious food menu. What kind of data do you intend to collect? Prepare a research proposal. (10 Marks)
2. Prepare a questionnaire for measuring the satisfaction of customers of a 3-star resort.
Ensure that you cover all the aspects of the resort experience from booking to check-out. Use the right scales to measure customer satisfaction. (10 Marks)
3.a. A company has launched a new ad for a beauty soap which has been on air for the last two months. The ad promotes a new variant -lemon freshness of the soap and has hired a very popular Hindi film actress. How will you measure the ad effectiveness? (5 Marks)
3.b. A Hindi film channel wants to create weekly show on latest fashion and trends. They have a few short-listed ideas in hand as far as the content is concerned. They would like to know which idea would be liked by their target audience. What is your suggestion?
(5 Marks)
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School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE) Course: Research Methodology
Internal Assignment Applicable for June 2022 Examination
1. The training manager at ABC corporation has asked you to identify the kind of training programs that should be offered to the young recruits who have joined as management trainees and are to be imparted five additional general management programs along with their specify job training modules. The trainees are a mixed bunch of engineering and management graduates.
(a) How would you formulate your management research questions?
(b) How would you carry out a problem audit? Explain in detail the steps you would take for this.
(c) What could be the mix of variables that could impact the investor decisions? Is it possible to represent the same through a theoretical framework?
(d) State your study objectives and research hypotheses. (10 Marks)
2. -An Academic ———- Opportunities. The objective of the study was as follows:
1. To assess the growth and development opportunities available in IT companies.
2. To form comprehensive information shoot on the compensation packages for employees of various IT opportunities.
3. To assess the tradeoff that employees might make with respect to growth and development opportunities in case of an attractive compensation package.
4. To profile the typical employee in the IT sector.
5. The implication of the analysis for the IT study.
Develop a questionnaire for the above study based on the objectives? (10 Marks)
3.a. Describe the four types scales with examples? (5 Marks)
3.b. The table below presented the ranks which were assigned by three judges to the works of ten articles:
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School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE) Course: Research Methodology
Internal Assignment Applicable for June 2022 Examination
| S.no. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Judge A | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 6 |
| Judge B | 4 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 5 |
| Judge C | 8 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 7 |
Compute the spearman’s rank order correlation coefficients for each pair of ranking and
decide:
a) Which two judges are most alike in their opinion about these artists?
b) Which two judges are different in their opinion about these artists?
(5 Marks)
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School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE) Course: Sales Management
Internal Assignment Applicable for June 2022 Examination
1. Sales organizations should be adaptable to changing circumstances and emerging marketing environment, failing which the structure as well as process will become redundant. Explain the above proposition with examples of two Indian organizations by explaining their evolution over different periods of time. (10 Marks)
2. Bob Jones, sales manager for Steelhouse Industries, a manufacturer and marketer of heavy-duty industrial construction equipment has just finished evaluating several sales candidates for a vacant position. He has narrowed the list to two candidates that stand out. Both Russ and Susan meet the job qualification. In fact, on paper Susan appears to be a stronger candidate, having nearly twice as much industry-related sales experience as Russ. Bob, however, believes that the construction industry is a man’s world. He fears that many of Steelhouse’s customers (and even its own employees) may not respect a women sales person. Thus, even though Susan appears to be the most qualified for the position, Bob is leaning towards hiring Russ. What should Bob do and why? (10 Marks)
3.a. The new marketing strategy of Steel Tubes Limited (STL) focuses on selling CEW (cold drawn electric welded) tubes more than ERW (Electric Resistance Welded) tubes. This marketing strategy was implemented to address very low profits of the company and improve profitability. Recommend an appropriate sales quota system and substantiate your recommendation. (5 Marks)
3.b. As a Regional Sale Manager (North) of a shoe company, you have decided to promote one of the salespersons as a branch manager for a new branch at Karnal in Haryana. What kind of training would you conduct for this salesperson? (5 Marks)
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School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE) Course: Services Marketing
Internal Assignment Applicable for June 2022 Examination
1. You are the owner of a retail chain. You currently have consumer durables, groceries and private label clothing range for kids, men, and women. The price point is low and the quality you offer is fantastic. You have more than eighty percent repeat customers.
In most of the customer surveys that you have conducted with market research agencies have pointed this unique feature of your store. You have successfully operated your business in Delhi. You have about 15 stores operating across the state. During the last five years, you have spread your offerings to the other northern states, and you have seen a wonderful response. You are pretty encouraged. After operating the stores for couple of years, the brand is not growing at the pace at which it should have. You are not able to figure out why. A consultant suggested to promote the brand in a big way. How will you do this? (10 Marks)
2. You have worked in the industry for a decade, and you are now fed up with the boring work environment around you. The entrepreneurial bug has bitten you and a food business is in your mind. There are numerous challenges, however. In your city, the population is large enough to sustain the business, disposable incomes are high, and you feel that there is a niche offering that needs to be created for your restaurant. How would plan your service offering? (10 Marks)
3. Trail Blazers academy is a coaching academy, providing training, coaching, and counselling services for students. Their primary revenue source is from the coaching they do for medical and JEE. Established a decade ago, it is now a well-known brand, but faces sever competition from the crowded market of the coaching space. The quality of the students passing out are well known and many candidates are able to crack the JEE and medical exams. However, in the last couple of years, the company has tried to expand using the franchise model. This was possibly the best model available. But with tremendous amount of competition happening online and offline, the pricing model of the academy has changed. The fees for the course are on the brochure but is charged variably. There are no standardizations followed. Many of the franchisee’s charge
whatever they want to, essentially to maintain a minimum threshold of students flowing into the organisation. Sometimes the centre heads of the franchise, encourage existing students to bring in new candidates, there by incentivizing them. Some of the hard negotiators are able to settle down at a lower price point that what others are paying. In many cases, students were allowed just with a token money with more than the usual EMIs. Everything seems to be as per the flexibility of the centre managers. While some of the franchises are happy, others are not. The location of the centre, number of enrolments drive the pricing. The parents are unhappy with this mechanism and there are complaints floating in the social media about Trail Blazers.
a. How will you build a renowned ‘Trail Blazer’ brand? (5 Marks)
b. How will you deal with your complaining customers? (5 Marks)
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School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE) Course: Insurance & Risk Management
Internal Assignment Applicable for June 2022 Examination
1. What could be peculiar features observed for Insurance in common world? (10 Marks)
2. Explain the typical types of Insurance apart from Life Insurance (10 Marks)
3.a. What can be termed as Basic Characteristics of Risk Management? (5 Marks)
3.b. How one can identify the respective Loss Exposures in Risk? (5 Marks)
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School for Continuing Education(NGASCE) Course:
World Class Operations
Internal Assignment Applicable for June 2022 Examination
1. Critically examine the phases of evolution of operations with specific reference to manufacturing firms. (10 Marks)
2. In order to develop and maintain quality in processes, products and services, identify the factors that need to be considered. Refer your answer to a firm in the service industry.
(10 Marks)
3.a. As an Operations Manager with an automobile firm, with the agenda of achieving world class standards, what would be the environmental concerns in achieving world class standards in operations? (5 Marks)
3.b. As an Operations Manager to implement TPM, state the objectives to be considered for the implementation of TPM in your company. (5 Marks)
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School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE)
Course: International Banking & Foreign Exchange Management
Internal Assignment Applicable for June 2022 Examination
1. You are an intern with XYZ Indian bank. You are supposed to submit a report on working of Treasury Operations of XYZ bank as your internship end-term report. Prepare a report on organizational and divisional structure of you bank. Explain the function of each division in detail. (10 Marks)
2. XL brands follows a direct-to-consumer (D2C) model for sourcing & selling customized clothing products for men & women. With competition from similar other D2C companies, XL is looking to differentiate itself from the others based on its delivery experience. It is also looking at a superior delivery experience to provide it a source of competitive advantage. Explain, with reasons, the choice between in-house & outsourcing of logistics for XL to achieve its twin objectives. (10 Marks)
3. An international optical products company is interested in setting up its India operations by importing & selling its product range comprising of glasses, lenses, & frames through both the distributor as well as retail channel.
a. Explain the requirements & the procedure to be followed for importing the products in
India. (5 Marks)
b. What would be its requirements of warehousing in India for the distributor channel?
Would these be any different for the retail channel? Suggest the suitable type (or types)
of warehouse. (5 Marks)
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School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE) Course: Lean Six Sigma
Internal Assignment Applicable for June 2022 Examination
1. Adopting Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodologies can help employees manage their time better, resulting in a more productive and efficient end-product. Explain how Lean Six Sigma (LSS) deployment has helped a leading global coffeehouse chain in the recent pandemic time to bring about a positive impact to its operations and employees performance. (10 Marks)
2. By proactively monitoring manufacturing processes, confectionery companies can control variation to ensure quality product. Statistical control charting is used to support continued process verification, ensuring that processes are executed in a correct and consistent manner. Discuss how process control charts can be used for improving the quality levels in the confectionery companies. (10 Marks)
3.a. Suppose you work as a facilities manager in healthcare sector, identify a process that needs some improvement and create a board outline using DMAIC methodology for the process improvement. (5 Marks)
3.b. Enlist at least 5 organizations following either Kaizen or Six Sigma. Also list out 5 organizations that uses a combination of Six Sigma and Kaizen strategies. (5 Marks)
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School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE)
Course: New Product Development and Managing Innovation
Internal Assignment Applicable for June 2022 Examination
1. Dabur India Ltd is one of the largest FMCG companies in India. It is also World’s largest Ayurvedic and Natural Hair Care Company. Dabur today operates in key consumer product categories like Hair Care, Oral Care, Health Care, Skin Care, Home Care and Foods. The coronavirus pandemic has brought a change in demand dynamics with consumers increasingly seeking Ayurvedic products that build immunity.
You are the Product Development Manager and have been given a target of introducing at least 30 new products across their different product categories in the next one year. Identify different ways you shall consider introducing new products (Hint: Give some examples of the type of products you would like to consider from the product categories). Also, since the time period is short what type of “product development” model you shall use and why? (Hint: Compare some common product development models studied in the class and explain the benefit of the one that you will choose)
(10 Marks)
2. You and your friend have worked on the idea of a unique two-wheeler that runs on electricity. This can be mainly used for B2B purpose by all the delivery companies like Swiggy, Zomato, Tata 100mg and other Online E-commerce platforms. The potential for the product is huge, however, you need to be very sure of the Product Performance before you approach the VC for funding for commercial scale manufacturing. To ensure that the actual product meets the predefined quality standards, you need to do testing at various stages of NPD. Explain all the different types of testing you will be doing during the different stages of NPD of your product. What shall be your final step before
you approach VC to fund the project.
(10 Marks)
3. In the last 3-4 years, with easy and cheap access of internet, there has been significant rise in various OTT platforms, which got accentuated due to the pandemic in 2020 –
2021. This has affected the DTH market significantly especially in the Tier 1 cities in
India.
a. Considering the concept of Product Life Cycle, where would you put the
DTH/Television sector in their lifecycle? Explain each phase of the lifecycle and justify your answer with examples. (5 Marks)
b. Giving examples, explain how some of the Television network companies are evolving by new product development and attracting more consumers than ever before.
(5 Marks)
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School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE) Course: Treasury Management in Banking
Internal Assignment Applicable for June 2022 Examination
1. Calculate the duration Gap of the following excerpts from the balance sheet of a bank.
Also calculate the impact on the equity of the bank in the different interest rates scenarios.
KINDLY CHECK BELOW
| Balance Sheet for Hypothetical Bank | ||
| Macaulay Macaulay | ||
| Particulars | Assets | Duration Liabilities Duration |
| Current | ||
| Current Assets | 1500 | 7 years Liabilities 1400 5 Years |
| Fixed Assets | 1400 | |
| Other Liab. 1300 | ||
| 2900 | Equity 200 | |
| 2900 |
Scenarios for Impact analysis:
1. Interest rates increased by 1%
2. Interest rates decreased by 1%
(10 Marks)
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2. Visit www.world governmentbonds.com. and analyze the yield curves shapes of US, UK, Germany and Indian GOI bond yield curve. Explain your analysis in terms of shape and expectation about state of these economies. (10 Marks)
3. Case study
Vistara Ltd. has imported spare parts worth 1 million USD and the invoice is payable in
180 days. Current Spot rate in the market is USD/INR 75.
You are required to calculate impact on transaction exposure under following scenarios:
a. Company decides to use Forward Market for hedging and wants you determine the 180 days forward rate (based in IRP) given interest rates in India as 6% per annum and Interest rates in US as 1% per annum and suggest the relevant position it should take in this forward. (5 Marks)
b. Is it always necessary that the forex exposure should be hedged? What will you suggest to Vistara if USDINR is expected to be around 76 after 180 days. (5 Marks)
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