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NMIMS PGDFM ASSIGNMENTS 9967480770

 

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INTERNAL ASSIGNMENT APPLICABLE FOR DECEMBER 2020 EXAMINATION

 

Capital market and portfolio management

1. Distinguish between systematic and unsystematic risk. Explain different mutual fund schemes for diversifying enlisted risks. (10 Marks)

2. Given below are likely returns in case of shares of Sun Ltd. and Moon Ltd. In the various economic conditions. Both shares are presently quoted at Rs. 100 per share.

Economic Condition Probability Returns of Sun Ltd.(%) Returns of Moon Ltd.(%) High Growth 0.3 100 150 Low Growth 0.4 110 130 Stagnation 0.2 120 90 Recession 0.1 140 60

Compute – Expected Return and Standard Deviation for both stocks and provide your suggestion for suitable investment. (10 Marks)

3. Rajesh, 35-year-old salaried individual wishes to invest Rs. 15 lakhs in different investment avenues. He plans to invest for the education of his two children aged 5 and 8 years old, retirement and contingency. Assuming the role of a Portfolio Management Consultant design a suitable portfolio for Rajesh if –

a. He is willing to take moderate risk for his investments. (5 Marks)

b. He is a risk neutral investor. (5 Marks)

 

Strategic cost management

1. “Beautiful Masks“ is a start-up manufacturing designer masks for men and women set up in April’ 20 post COVID. It is managed by Ms Meher. She is facing a huge demand for her designer masks from Retail outlets and on their Online store as well. She wants to understand the correct approach for pricing the masks. She has appointed you as the management accountant. Please advise her regarding the key factors affecting pricing decisions, both internal and external. Also, suggest any 3 types of pricing methods she can choose from highlighting 2 salient features of each method. (10 Marks)

2. Mr Chopra is the CEO of Tasty packaged Foods. They manufacture various products like potato fries, samosas etc. Post covid, the company is under revenue pressure due to the reduced demand for packaged food. Like every other business, the short term decision making process in this business is also a process of selecting the best amongst various alternatives considering the cost benefit factors and impact on overall profitability of the firm. These could involve accepting or rejecting a special order, making or buying decisions, product mix decisions etc. These decisions require different analysis like Contribution margin analysis, relevant and irrelevant cost analysis. Please describe any 3 of these short term decision strategies with salient features. (10 Marks)

3. Make vs Buy Harish Aggarwal, A management accountant with Car Udyog is evaluating whether a component MTR2000 should continue to be manufactured by Car or purchased from Outside Vendor company. Outside Vendor has submitted a bid to manufacture and supply the 32000 units of MTR 2000 that Car udyog will need for 2021 at a selling price of Rs 173 Harish has gathered the following information regarding Car Udyog's costs to manufacture 30000 units of MTR-2000 IN 2020

Direct Materials

19,50,000

Direct Manufacturing Labour

12,00,000

Plant space rental

8,40,000

Equipment leasing

3,60,000

Other manufacturing overhead

22,50,000

Total Manufacturing costs

66,00,000

Harish has also collected the following information related to manufacturing MTR 2000: a. Prices of direct materials used in the production of MTR 2000 are expected to increase by 8% in 2021 b. Car Udyog's direct manufacturing labour contract calls for a 5% increase in 2021 c. Car Udyog can withdraw from the plant space rental agreement without any penalty. Car Udyog will have no need for this space if MTR 2000 is not manufactured d. The equipment lease can be terminated by paying Rs 60,000/- e. 40% of the other manufacturing overhead is considered variable. Variable overhead changes proportionately with the number of units produced. The fixed component of other manufacturing overheads is expected to remain the same whether or not MTR 2000 is manufactured

Required: a. On the basis of the financial information Harish has obtained, calculate the cost of making MTR 2000 inhouse in 2021? Please share calculations (5 Marks)

b. Please compare with the cost of outsourcing the product and whether it is profitable to buy or manufacture MT 2000? (5 Marks)

 

Marketing of financial services

1. Develop a Service Marketing Mix (using 8 Ps) for an Asset Management Company (Mutual Fund) of your choice. (10 Marks)

2. Sanjay Bhatia, (age 30 years) works with a pharmaceutical company and has not yet started to invest for his retirement. Sanjay is married to Preeti (age 28 years) and they have one son aged 2 years. Sanjay wants you to prepare a plan for him to retire latest by age 55. (You can make any assumptions to further build up your case.) (10 Marks)

3. Raj Shah, aged 36 years, is employed with a MNC. His wife Pooja, aged 34 years, is also working part - time. The couple has two children - daughter Rima aged 7 years and son Ansh aged 4 years. Raj and Pooja require your help to make a few financial decisions. (You can make any assumptions to further build up your case)

a. Raj and Pooja want to invest for their children’s higher education for the long term (over 12 to 15 years). Develop a plan so that they can accumulate a sufficient education corpus. (5 Marks)

b. Raj wants to take a Life Insurance cover of Rs 1.5 crore. Advise him whether he should go for a ULIP or a term insurance. (5 Marks)

 

Taxation- Direct and Indirect

1. GST is a tax that subsumed a number of state and central indirect taxes. Discuss the statement and also share your view on, why GST is called as an Indirect tax. Further, list down any ten taxes being subsumed under GST (10 Marks)

2. Depreciation is the reduction in the usable value of fixed assets due to normal wear and tear of time. Depreciation is an indirect non – cash expenditure which is provided on SLM or WDV basis.

Rahul is new junior accountant with Hardwork Mills Private Limited he wants to understand normal depreciation differs from additional depreciation. As a tax adviser, guide him on the two concepts and discus the cases where additional depreciation is not allowed. (10 Marks)

3. Miss Seema, is a resident individual, shares following information in relation to previous year

Particulars

Amount in Rs

Salary Income (Net)

200000

Business Income(Net)

350000

Long term capital gain on sale of land

16000

Loss from Gambling in a game

30000

There are certain other types of losses-

Unabsorbed Depreciation

Short term capital Loss

15000

10500

a. Define and Compute Gross Total income (5 Marks)

b. Discuss the concept of carry forward of losses with reference to above context also, discuss the amount of Loss that can be carried forward in the said case. In case it’s any number 15000/10500/Nil give reason for the same (5 Marks)

 

Cost and management accounting

1. Excellent Clothing Company is run by Ms Dilnaz and her son, Burzin. They manufacture dresses for women and have diversified into the production of masks since April’20 to take advantage of the huge demand for masks due to the recent COVID-19 impact. Till now the decisions were taken on an adhoc basis by the promoters. However, given the phenomenal growth in business, they understand the importance of having formal processes in place. You were hired as the Management accountant to enable them to formalize the decision making process in the company. Please advise them regarding the significance and components of the following 3 key steps involved in Decision making process of a company: a) Planning b) Directing c) Controlling (10 Marks)

2. Marginal Costing is a key tool used by Managements for Cost-Volume- Profit analysis enabling comparative assessment of 2 or more products / divisions. However, Absorption costing is the preferred method of accountants as it is a recognized and accepted practice for external reporting. Please describe the differences between Marginal Costing and Absorption costing (Any 5). (10 Marks)

3. WRITERS' Company

Writers' Company produces 2 products presently

The information related to manufacturing is given below.

WRITERS' Company

Yr 2018-19

Fountain Pen

Ball point

Units

10000

20000

Area occupied (sq feet)

7000

8000

Variable cost – Direct

32

25

Fixed Cost - Direct (per unit)

10

8

Rent - Fixed Cost per month (Indirect - common for all products)

3,00,000.00

The Fixed indirect cost of Rent of Rs 3,00,000/- is to be allocated to both the products

The company was doing this on the "number of units" basis till now.

a. Please compute cost per unit of each product basis the above method.

You have researched and advised Writers' Company to have Activity Based Costing and have gathered data to support the allocation of the Fixed indirect cost as follows :

Break-up of Indirect Fixed Costs

Allocation basis

Rent

3,00,000

Area of operations

(5 Marks)

b. Please compute cost per unit of each product on the new method of allocation

WRITERS' Company

Writers' Company produces 2 products presently

The information related to manufacturing is given below.

WRITERS' Company

Yr 2018-19

Fountain Pen

Ball point

Units

10000

20000

Area occupied (sq feet)

7000

8000

Variable cost – Direct

32

25

Fixed Cost - Direct (per unit)

10

8

Rent - Fixed Cost per month (Indirect - common for all products)

3,00,000.00 ( 5 Marks)

 

Corporate Finance

1. ABC Pvt. Ltd. is considering two mutually exclusive capital investments. The project’s expected net cash flows are as follows:

Expected Cash Flows

Year

Project A

Project B

0

-375

-575

1

-300

190

2

-200

190

3

-100

190

4

600

190

5

600

190

6

926

190

7

-200

0

If you were told that each project’s cost of capital was 12%, which project should be selected using the NPV criteria? What is each project’s IRR? What is the regular payback period for these two projects? What is the profitability index for each project if the cost of capital is 12%? (10 Marks)

2. Assume that your father is now 50 years old and plans to retire after 10 years from now. He is expected to live for another 25 years after retirement. He wants a fixed retirement income of Rs. 5,00,000 per annum. His retirement income will begin the day he retires, 10 years from today, and then he will get 24 additional payments annually. Your father has current savings of Rs. 10,00,000 and he expects to earn a return on his savings @ 10% p.a., annually compounding. How much (to the nearest of rupee) must your father save during each of next 10 years to meet his retirement goal? (10 Marks)

3. CP India Ltd has the following capital structure, which it considers optimal:

Debt 25%

Preference Shares 15%

Equity shares 60%

Total 100%

Applicable tax rate for CPIL is 25%. and investors expect earnings and dividends to grow at a constant rate of 9% in the future. Risk free rate of return is 6%, average equity share has expected rate of return of 15%. CPIL’s beta is 1.50. Following terms would apply to new securities being issued as follows:

1. New preference can be issued at a face value of Rs. 100 per share, dividend and cost of issuance will be Rs. 8 per share and Rs. 4 per share respectively.

2. Debt will bear an interest rate of 10%.

Calculate

a. Component cost of debt, preference shares and equity shares assuming that CPIL does not issue any additional equity shares. (5 Marks)

b. WACC.

(5 Marks)

 

Corporate Social Responsibility

1. Explain in detail any five CSR activities that an organization should undertake to help the society. (10 Marks)

2. As part of CSR Team you have been asked to write your views in 1000 words on organisations responsibility towards different stakeholders, which will be published on the company’s website under “CSR Column” (10 Marks)

3.a. It is the government job to take care of the society and private organization should focus only on profit. Explain your view on the statement. (5 Marks)

3.b. Citizen should only pay taxes and this is the only duty of an individual towards a country. Explain your view on the statement. (5 Marks)

 

International Finance

1. Elaborate ‘Hedging and Speculation are important functions of derivatives’. Distinguish between exchange traded derivatives and over the counter derivatives. (10 Marks)

2. Elaborate on the various channels through which a company can mobilize equity capital from the international market. (10 Marks)

3. A country’s Balance of Payment includes two components – Current account, Capital and financial account. Current account measures the value of all goods and services imported and exported during a given financial year. Current Account Deficit (CAD) arises when the value of imported goods and services exceeds the value of exported goods and services. As on June 30, 2020 RBI reported India’s current account deficit has been reduced to 0.9% of the GDP in 2019-20 as compared to 2.1% in FY 2018-19 due to curtailed imports.

a. Differentiate between Current account and Capital account. (5 Marks)

b. What measures can be taken to reduce the disequilibrium in the balance of payments’ position? (5 Marks)

 

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