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WWW.SMUSOLVEDASSIGNMENTS.COM TABLE BELOW Observed Return Beta Portfolio Delta 20% 1.25 Portfolio Theta 17% 0.8 Risk-free rate is 6.5%, Return on the market portfolio is 15%, Standard Deviation of the market is 10%. a. Suggest which portfolio has outperformed the market on the basis of Jensen index. (5 Marks) b. Suggest which portfolio is better on the basis of systematic risk using Treynor ratio. Industrial Relations & Labour Laws 1. Juvekar Industries is a medium size mineral water bottling plant. They have around 230 people working in the organization. The mix of these is 200 workers on the floor handling machinery and loading-unloading of the products. Most of these are locals in the area and not very well qualified. 15 employees are on the supervisory positions on various tasks and sub-departments. These are educated in the range from 10+2 and Graduation. 5 Management graduates working as managers – majorly into sales and marketing department. 5 production experts and engineers, holding controller positions. A staff of 5 in accounts and other back office departments. Mr. Navathe – the production controller emphasizes on worker’s participation at his floor and wants to implement some activities in that. Please list down activities that are included as worker’s participation and which three activities would you suggest Mr. Navathe to implement at his organization? (10 Marks) 2. Shekar Sahu wishes to start uniting his colleagues in the production unit of Speed Car Manufacturers. He has spoken to his management and also a few of his colleagues about the same. He has also understood the process of registration of the union and has collected all the required forms. However, he still wishes to understand the issues that will be mainly handled with a trade union. Please list down the issues for trade unions to handle commonly. (10 Marks) 3. Jivanbhai group of companies needs to run a salary survey. Before the HR head, Vishal Sabharwal, approaches a consultant, he wants to present some basic information to the Board of Directors. Please help Vishal by answering following questions. a. Vishal wants to present three different systems of wage determination. Explain the three systems. b. Vishal also wants to present various kinds of wage differentials to his Board of Directors. Please list them and describe each in one line. Strategic Cost Management 1. X Ltd has to replace its machine and the production manager has to decide between Machine A and Machine B. Machine A is having installation cost of 160 and annual electric bill 200. Machine B has installation cost of 760 and annual electric bill of 80. If both have life of 8 years which machine will you recommend if interest rate is 9 %? P/V factor @ 9 % for 8 years is 5.5348 2. A company manufacturing two products furnishes the following data for a year. Product Annual Output Units Total machine hours Total No. of purchase orders Total No. of setups A 5,000
WWW.SMUSOLVEDASSIGNMENTS.COM 20,000 160 20 B 60,000 1,20,000 384 44 The annual Overheads are as under: Volume related activity cost ( Activity driver-Machine hours ) 5,50,000 Setup related cost 8,20,000 Purchase related cost 6,18,000 You are required to calculate cost per unit of each product A & B based on i. Traditional method of charging overhead and ii. Activity based costing method 3. Following information is available from the books of ABC Ltd. As of March 31st 2020 a listed company. a. Calculate the current ratio, quick ratio and debt equity ratio (5 Marks) b. The company reported earnings after taxes of Rs. 2 crores. Assuming PE ratio of 10, calculate the theoretical stock prices of ABC Ltd. Service Operations Management 1. Define and briefly explain the term ‘Service Design’. What are the various approaches that organizations adopt to implement ‘Service Design’? Explain with examples for approach from setups like Banking or a Healthcare setup (choose any one reference of your own choice) (10 Marks) 2. Discuss the Role of Service Engineers in ‘Engineering’ Service Operations. Explain the three techniques used to evaluate service operations with reference to a setup for an Educational Institute. 3. The Hospitality sector is a good example wherein the businesses involve both manufacturing (food preparations) as well as service operations. The sold products are evaluated by the customers and they are also rated based on the service that the seller provides. With reference to the industry discuss the following aspects of service operations a. Discuss the elements that need to be planned in a Service Framework of a Hospitality setup. (5 Marks) b. What are the challenges faced by the Service Managers who manage these service operations? Strategic Financial Management 1. A Project costs Rs 1,00,000 and is expected to generate cash inflows as: Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 Cash Inflows(Rs) 20,000 25,000 28,000 31,000 35,000 40,000 Calculate Net Present Value and Profitability Index. Comment whether project should be accepted or not. Assume cost of capital is 12%. Enumerate the steps of calculation of NPV. (10 Marks) 2. Calculate EVA if the Earnings before interest and tax is Rs 15,00,000 and applicable tax rate is 30%. The capital structure of the firm consists of 75% Equity and 25% debt capital. After tax cost of debt is 7% and cost of equity is 12%. Total borrowed capital of the firm is Rs 25,00,000. Explain EVA and comment on the value of EVA(calculated). (10 Marks) 3. A firm wanted to understand what is the importance of debt in the capital structure on the value of the firm. Company’s current operating income is ₹7 lakhs and cost of equity capital is estimated to be 12%.
WWW.SMUSOLVEDASSIGNMENTS.COM Assume tax rate as 30%. If you are the Finance Manager of the company determine the value of the firm using Net Income Approach and comment on the results: a. if the firm has ₹5 lakhs of 10 percent debt outstanding b. if the firm has ₹7 lakhs of 10 percent debt outstanding
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