Master of Business Administration Semester I MB0039 - Business Communication (4 credits)

Assignment - Set 2 Marks 60 Note: Each Question carries 10 marks each 1. You are the Marketing Manager of a consumer durables company, manufacturing washing machines. Write a routine adjustment letter to a customer in response to his routine claim letter requesting replacement of a defective product (10 marks) 2. Write a one page press release, highlighting the launch of an innovative new product by your organization. (10 marks). 3. List and briefly explain ten guidelines for writing effective business reports. (10 marks). 4. You have just completed your MBA from SMU. Write a job application letter in response to an appointment advertisement for a position in your area of specialization, addressed to the HR Manager of the organization. (10 marks). 5. What is a case-based group discussion? What are some of the skills required to participate in a case-based GD? ( 10 marks). 6. Write your resume with a specific career objective, including all the other standard components. (10 marks).

MBA SEMESTER 1 MB0040 STATISTICS FOR MANAGEMENT- 4 Credits (Book ID: B1129) Assignment Set- 1 (60 Marks) Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions
1. (a) Statistics is the backbone of decision-making. Comment. (b) Statistics is as good as the user. Comment. 2. Distinguish between the following with example. (a) Inclusive and Exclusive limits. (b) Continuous and discrete data. (C) Qualitative and Quantitative data (d) Class limits and class intervals. 3. In a management class of 100 students three languages are offered as an additional subject viz. Hindi, English and Kannada. There are 28 students taking Hindi, 26 taking Hindi and 16 taking English. There are 12 students taking both Hindi and English, 4 taking Hindi and English and 6 that are taking English and Kannada. In addition, we know that 2 students are taking all the three languages. i) If a student is chosen randomly, what is the probability that he/she is not taking any of these three languages? ii) If a student is chosen randomly, what is the probability that he/ she is taking exactly one language? 4. List down various measures of central tendency and explain the difference between them? 5. Define population and sampling unit for selecting a random sample in each of the following cases. a) Hundred voters from a constituency b) Twenty stocks of National Stock Exchange c) Fifty account holders of State Bank of India d) Twenty employees of Tata motors. 6. What is a confidence interval, and why it is useful? What is a confidence level?

MBA- I semester MB0041- Financial & Management Accounting 4 Credits Book ID- ( B1130 ) Assignment Set 1- (60 Marks)
Note: Answer all the questions. 1. Accounting Principles are the rules based on which accounting takes place and these rules are universally accepted. Explain the principles of materiality and principles of full disclosure. Explain why these two principles are contradicting each other. Your answer should be substantiated with relevant examples. (10 Marks) 2. Journalize the below transactions, prepare relevant ledger accounts and finally trial balance. . ( 6+6+3 = 15 Marks) M/s Ventak Enterprise Pvt Ltd. 01.01.2009 01.01.2009 02.01.2009 Started business with cash Rs. 2,00,000 Goods Rs. 1,00,000 Furniture Rs. 50,000 Opened Current Account with Rs. 1,00,000 Placed an order with Ritik for the supply of goods of the list price of Rs. 1, 00, 00.In this connection, we paid 9% of the list price as an advance by cheque. Ritik supplied goods of the list price of Rs. 1, 00,000 less 12% trade discount. Packing and delivery charges Rs. 1,000. Purchased goods from Murali of the list price of Rs. 1,00,000 less 12% trade discount and paid him by cheque under a cash discount of 5% Received an order from Shyam for supply of goods of the list price of Rs. 1, 00,000 with an advance of 10% of list price. Supplied the above goods at 10% trade discount. Packing and delivery charges Rs. 1000. Goods costing Rs. 80,000 sold to Mr X at a profit of 20% on sales less 10% trade discount and 2% cash discount Goods (cost Rs. 3,000, Sales Price Rs. 4,000) taken away by the proprietor for his personal use. Shyam became insolvent and paid 80 paise in a rupee in full and final settlement Paid Ritik 80% on account. Goods (Cost Rs. 3,000 , Sales Price Rs. 4,000) stolen Paid Life Insurance Premium Rs. 1,000. Cash embezzled by an employee Rs. 1,000.

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3. Explain any two types of errors that are disclosed by trial balance with examples and rectification entry. Note - Avoid giving examples given in the self learning material. (10 marks) Summer 2011- May drive

4. Let us assume you have been recently appointed as Management Accountant of a small but upcoming firm. Your immediate supervisor has asked you to prepare certain financial ratios from the balance sheet of one of their clients M/s Vinod Enterprise. Liabilities Amount Assets Amount Equity Share Capital 50000 Fixed assets 87500 8% Pref Share 10000 Investments 25000 Capital Reserve Fund 40000 Stock 30000 6% Debentures 20000 Sundry Debtors 13500 Sundry Creditors 30000 Bank Balance 7000 P & L account 21000 Preliminary 8000 Year 2000 - 1000 expenses 2001 - 20000 Total 171000 Total 171000 The director intent to transfer a sum of Rs.5000 out of the current years profit to provision for tax. The financial ratios needed are: a. Return on capital employed b. Current ratio c. Fixed assets to networth d. Debt - Equity ratio e. Return on owners capital. (10 Marks) 5. A friend of you has approached to help him out in setting his books of accounts in order. Unfortunately he is struck with difference in trial balance. Help him in redrafting the trial balance. (5 Marks) Sl.no Particulars Dr Cr 1 Stock on 31st Dec,2008 1,92,100 2 Capital 13,450 3 Cash in hand 1,400 4 Bank Overdraft 9,320 5 Sales 2,36,400 6 Purchases 106,400 7 Returns inward 13,400 8 Returns outward 2,960 9 Carriage outward 2,360 10 Carriage inward 14,260 11 Salaries 9,600 12 Wages 3,660 13 Sundry debtors 16,300 14 Sundry creditors 37,360 15 Stock on 1st Jan 2006 94,120 16 Land and building 15,000 17 Plant and machinery 20,900 18 Trade expenses 2,090 3,95,540 3,95,540 6. Explain the accounting treatment of bad debt and provision for doubtful debts with suitable example. (10 Marks)

Masters of Business Administration- Semester 1 MB0045 Managerial Economics - 4 Credits (Book ID: B1131) Assignment Set- 1 (60 Marks)
Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions.

1. Explain what is price elasticity of demand and outline the determinants of price elasticity of demand with examples. 2. In the newspapers we read about mergers between companies in the same line of business. What are the economies of scale that can be availed of with mergers. 3. Discuss the features of monopolistic competition and the method of price determination in monopolistic competition. 4. If you were to buy a car, what are the factors that would affect the demand for your purchase. 5. When factors of production are combined to produce a particular level of output, what would be the effect on total product when all factors are kept fixed and only one factor is varied. For example, when the amount of land used for producing a particular crop is kept the same, and the other factors of production like labour, fertilisers, etc is increased. 6. A company wishes to project the production requirements of a particular product in the coming years. How will the company forecast the demand in the coming years, using the trend projection method.