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MS - 04: ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE FOR MANAGERS
1. “ Accountancy is an Information System” do you agree? Substantiate your answer with reasons. How does an
Accountant help in planning and controlling a large commercial organisation? Explain.
2. Prepare Cash Budget for April-Oct. 2017 from the information relating to Shah Agencies, a trading concern:-
Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2017
Liabilities Rs. Assets Rs.
Proprietor’s Capital 1,00,000 Cash 20,500
Outstanding Liabilities 17,000 Stock 50,500
Sundry debtors 26,000
Furniture 25,000
Dep. 5,000 20,000
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1,17,000 1,17,000
Sales and salaries for different months are expected to be as under:
Months Sales Salaries
April 80,000 3,000
May 52,000 2,500
June 50,000 35,000
July 75,000 4,000
August 90,000 4,000
September 35,000 3,000
October 25,000 3,000
The other expenses per month are: Rent Rs. 1,000, Depreciation Rs. 1,000, Misc. Expenses Rs. 500 and Commission
1% of sales.
Of the sales, 80% is on credit and 20% for cash. 70% of the credit sales are collected in one month and the balance
in two months. Debtors on March 31, 2017 represent Rs. 6,000 in respect of sales of February and Rs. 20,000 in
respect of sales of March. There are no debt losses. Gross profit on sales on an average is 30%. Purchases equal to
the next month’s sales are made every month and they are paid during the month in which they are made. The firm
maintains a minimum cash balance of Rs. 10,000. Cash deficiencies are made up bank loans which are repaid at the
earliest available
opportunity and cash in excess of Rs. 15,000 is invested in securities (Interest on bank loans and securities is to be
ignored). Outstanding liabilities remain unchanged.
3. Taking a suitable example and explain how the semi-variable costs will be segregated into fixed and variable
using the Scattergraph Method.
4. Aditi Ltd. is considering the selection of one a pair of mutually exclusive investment projects. Both would involve
purchase of machinery with a life of 5 years.
Project 1 would generate annual cash flows (receipts less payments) of Rs. 2,00,000; the machinery would cost Rs.
5,56,000 and have a scrap value of Rs. 56,000.
Project 2 would generate annual cash flows of Rs.5,00,000; the machinery would cost Rs. 16,16,000 and have a
scrap value of Rs. 4,31,000.

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Company use the straight line method for providing depreciation. Its cost of capital is 15% per annum. Assume that
annual cash flows arise on the anniversaries of the initial outlay, that there will be no price changes over the
project lives and that acceptance of one of the projects will not alter the required amount of working capital.
You are required to:
(a) Calculate for each project:
(i) the accounting rate or return (ratio, over project life, of average accounting profit to average book value of
investment) to nearest 1%.
(ii) the net present value
(iii) the internal rate or return (D.C.F. yield) to nearest 1%, and
(iv) the pay back period to one decimal place, and
(b) State which project you would select for acceptance, if either, giving reasons for your choice of criterion to
guide the decision. Ignore taxation.
5. “ Dividend can be paid only out of profits”. Explain this statement and also discuss your role as a Finance
Management in matters of dividend policy?
MS - 08: QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS FOR MANAGERIAL APPLICATIONS
1. The net incomes of a sample of large importers of antiques were organized into the following table:
Net income Number of
($ millions) Importers
2 up to 6 1
6 up to 10 4
10 up to 14 10
14 up to 18 3
18 up to 22 2
(a) What is the table called?
(b) Based on the distribution, what is the estimate of the arithmetic mean net income?
(c) Based on the distribution, what is the estimate of the standard deviation?
2. The employees of Cartwright Manufacturing are awarded efficiency ratings based on such factors as monthly
output, attitude, and attendance. The distribution of the ratings follows the normal probability distribution. The
mean is 400, the standard deviation 50.
(a) What is the area under the normal curve between 400 and 482? Write this area in probability notation.
(b) What is the area under the normal curve for ratings greater than 482? Write this area in probability notation.
(c) Show the facets of this problem in a chart.
3. Advertisements by Star Fitness Center claim that completing its course will result in losing weight. A random
sample of eight recent participants showed the following weights before and after completing the course. At the .01
significance level, can we conclude that the students lost weight?
Name Before After
Himmat 155 154
Chandan 228 207
Mohan 141 147
Meera 162 157
Cimola 211 196
Peterson 164 150
Reddy 184 170
Prakash 172 165
(a) State the null hypothesis and the alternate hypothesis.
(b) What is the critical value of t?
(c) What is the computed value of t?
(d) Interpret the result. What is the p-value?
(e) What assumption needs to be made about the distribution of the differences?
4. What is time series analysis? Decompose a time series into its various components and describe them.

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5. What is a random variable? How is it used to define a probability distribution? Make the probability distribution
of “scores facing up” in a throw of two dice.
MS - 09: MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS
1. Opportunity costs are the ‘costs of sacrificed alternatives.’ Discuss with the help of examples.
2. How are income effect and substitution effect important in explaining the negative slope of demand functions?
Explain giving examples from real world.
3. When there are 2 inputs K, L, given the price of capital (PK)= 10 and price of labour (PL)=20. Total Expenditure
C=100. Draw and explain the effect on the isocost curve in case of the following:-
(i) decrease in price of labour (PL)=10
(ii) increase in the price of capital (PK)= 20
(iii) decrease in the price of capital (PK)= 5
(iv) increase in the firms budget with no change in the price of labour and capital.
4. Explain the difficulty in sustaining collusion with the help of prisoner’s dilemma.
5. Briefly discuss the Chronology of Indian Telecom Deregulation from the year 2003 to present times.
6. Write short notes on the following:-
(a) Market Demand curve
(b) Optimal Input Combination
(c) Peak Load Pricing
MS – 41: WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
1. As a Finance Manager describe the various factors that you would take into consideration before assessing the
working capital requirements.
2. The Average Monthly Usage of a particular item in Reliable Industries Limited in the current year is expected to
be 3000 units. The fixed cost per order is Rs. 1500/-. The purchase price is Rs. 2400 per box, containing a dozen
units in each box. It, however, is not necessary to order for the full box of 12 units. The inventory carrying cost is
25% of the inventory value per annum. The quantity discount allowed per unit is 2%.
What will be the Optimum Order Quantity in each of the following three cases, on an Annual Usage Basis:
When the minimum order size required for quantity discount is:
(a) 1000 units
(b) 3000 units
(c) 10,000 units
Give reasons for your specific answers in each of three cases separately, duly supported by facts and figures.
3. “Trade credit is regarded as a spontaneous source of short term finance”, discuss and comment.
4. The management of Royal Industries has called for a statement showing the working capital to finance a level of
activity of 1,80,000 units of output for the year. The cost structure for the company’s product for the above
mentioned activity level is detailed below:
Cost per unit
Raw material Rs. 20
Direct labor 5
Overheads (including depreciation of Rs. 5 per unit) 15
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Profit 40
Selling price 10
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50
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Additional information:
(a) Minimum desired cash balance is Rs. 20,000.
(b) Raw materials are held in stock, on an average, for two months.
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(d) Finished goods remain in warehouse, on an average, for a month.
(e) Suppliers of materials extend a month’s credit and debtors are provided two month’s credit; cash sales are 25%
of total sales.
(f) There is a time-lag in payment of wages of a month; and half-a-month in the case of overheads.
From the above facts, you are required to prepare a statement showing working capital requirements.
5. Discuss the critical decisions that you need to take in working capital management. Emphasize the important
ways in which those decisions differ from those concerned with the management of the fixed capital of a business.
MS - 51: OPERATIONS RESEARCH
1. Enumerate, with brief description, some of the techniques of O.R. Describe the various steps involved in O.R.
study.
2. The final product of a firm has a requirement that it must weigh exactly 150 kg. The two raw materials used in
the manufacture of this product are A with a cost of Rs. 2 per unit and B with a cost of Rs. 8 per unit. Each unit of A
weighs 5 kg. and each unit of B weighs 10 kg. At least 14 units of B and no more than 20 units of A must be used.
How much of each type of raw material should be used for each unit of the final product if cost is to be minimized?
3. Discuss briefly:
(a) The general similarities between dynamic programming and linear programming.
(b) How dynamic programming differs conceptually from linear programming?
4. What constitutes inventory ordering costs, carrying costs and stock out costs? Explain the behaviour and
relationship of these costs.
5. One hundred unemployed people were found to arrive at a one-person state unemployment office to obtain their
unemployment compensation cheque according to the following frequency distribution.
Inter- arrival Frequency Service Time Frequency
Time (min) (min)
2 10 2 10
3 20 3 20
4 40 4 40
5 20 5 20
6 10 6 10
The state office is interested in predicting the operating characteristics of this one-person state unemployment
office during a typical operating day from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Use simulation to determine the average waiting
time and total time in the system, and the maximum queue length.
MS - 52: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
1. What is the concept of concurrent engineering in project management and how can it be used to optimise project
durations?
2. Economic analysis is done from societal point of view in contrast to financial analysis which is a private appraisal
from the viewpoint of a producer. How does it bring about a change in the methods of evaluation? Describe with
examples.
3. A project comprising of eight tasks (A to H) has the following characteristics:
Tasks Preceding Tasks Time Duration in Weeks
Optimistic Most Likely Pessimistic
A None 2 4 12
B None 10 12 26
C A 8 9 10
D A 10 15 20
E A 7 7.5 11
F B, C 9 9 9
G D 3 3.5 7
H E, F, G 5 5 5

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(a) Draw an AOA network. Carry out all the calculations, determine the critical path and mark it in the network.
What is the total project duration.
(b) What is the probability of achieving the project within the deadline of 30 weeks?
4. ‘Contract Planning’ phase of project is often compared with constructing the foundations of a building – building
will be as strong or as weak as its foundation. Justify.
5. (a) Explain the use and advantages of squared networks in project management.
(b) What are network-based milestone charts and what are their advantages and disadvantage as compared to
squared networks?
MS - 95: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY FOR MANAGEMENT DECISIONS
1. A social scientist sampled 140 people and classified them according to income level and whether or not they
played a state lottery in the last month. The sample information is reported below. Is it reasonable to conclude that
playing the lottery is related to income level? Use the .05 significance level.
Income
Low
Middle
High
Total
Played
46
28
21
95
Did not play
14
12
19
45
Total
60
40
40
140
(a) What is this table called?
(b) State the null hypothesis and the alternate hypothesis.
(c) What is the decision rule?
(d) Determine the value of chi-square.
(e) Make a decision on the null hypothesis. Interpret the result.
2. What is of more value to the corporate world –basic, fundamental, or applied research? Justify your reasoning!
3. Distinguish between secondary and primary methods of data collection. Is it possible to use secondary data
methods as substitutes of primary methods? Justify your answer with suitable illustrations.
4. What is a systematic sample? How is it selected? What are the advantages and disadvantages of a systematic
sample?
5. Discuss the applications of rating scales in various functional areas of management.
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