NMIMS Global Access
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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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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NMIMS Global Access
School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE)
Course: Business: Ethics, Governance & Risk
Internal Assignment Applicable for June
2022 Examination
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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NMIMS Global Access
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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NMIMS Global Access
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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NMIMS Global Access
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:
NMIMS Global Access
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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NMIMS Global Access
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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NMIMS Global Access
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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NMIMS Global Access
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)
NMIMS Global Access
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)
NMIMS Global Access
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)
NMIMS Global Access
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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NMIMS Global Access
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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