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Ph: - 9025810064 (whatsapp available) NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022 Business Communication 1. You are the Team Leader with Amazon. A new group of interns has joined the company. You have been given the responsibility of explaining them how to draft business messages. You explain them about, ‘Adapting the message to Your Audience.’ This can be done by Using the You Attitude; Maintaining Standard of Etiquette; Emphasizing the Positive and Using Bias Free Language. Explain these giving appropriate examples of each. 2. Lisa, a commerce graduate, has been working in the field of Finance for the last 3 years. She now decides to do her post-graduation in management from a reputed college. As a part of her documents, Lisa requires a recommendation letter from her former professor. Imagining yourself to be Lisa, write a letter to your former professor requesting him to write a recommendation letter for you. Take care to refresh the professor’s memory because you had passed out three years ago. Creatively assume any other details that you need for writing the request letter. 3. Write a complaint letter to the Director of Consumer Grievance Redressal Cell based on the facts given below: You are Jass Javvy. You bought a Kitchen Aid stand mixer from Flipkart on 1 January 2022 for an amount of Rs.40,000. This included delivery and 40-day money-back offer. As the stand mixer did not perform satisfactorily you decide to
return it to Flipkart and send it back on 5th January. You call the company every week and the representative inform you over phone that the transportation and handling charges as well as money equivalent to the price of the mixer, would be credited to your account. On 15th March you receive a statement for your credit card and to your dismay you find that no credit has been applied to your account for the mixer, its transportation and handling charges. You are dissatisfied and decide to write a complaint letter. a. What is the appropriate ‘tone’ of a letter of claim? How will the tone affect the manner in which the reader responds? Explain b. Assume yourself to be Jass Javvy and write a complaint letter to Flipkart. NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022 Business Law 1. Please explain the different types of instruments under which a company under Companies Act, 2013 can raise capital. 2. Please give two (2) real life instances where Indian employee related laws have ensured protection of welfare of employees. 3. Gavit and Vinayak are partners who started a partnership under the Partnership Act, 1932. There are differences arisen between them and they have approached you to advise them to resolve their differences: a. Please suggest ways how they can resolve their differences without approaching conventional court of laws b. Please elaborate the advantages of resolving their differences without approaching conventional court of laws
NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022 Essentials of HRM 1. With the world returning to normalcy post the pandemic, as an HR hiring manager you have the task of forecasting the demand for the next year to make sure you hire the right number and right kind of people. Explain the techniques of HR demand forecasting that you will employ in depth. 2. As seen in recent trends, organizations have moved away from traditional induction methods to many more interesting ways to welcome their new recruits. Take industry examples and share how will you design induction for new employees in an innovative way. 3. The past few years have challenged the traditional organizations to think differently. In Intellicore Solutions, where previously no efforts were made by managers for career growth of their workforce, things are about to take a turn for the positive. The leaders now realize the importance of retaining their best talent and have therefore hired HR managers to help create career and succession plans. a. You have to guide the new HR manager to be successful in his career planning initiative. How will you explain the process to him? b. The first step to an effective succession planning is ensuring that the objectives are correctly established. Describe the goals of succession planning that the HR manager should bear in mind. NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022 Operations Management
1. List down briefly the various inventory management techniques prevalent in the industry. Discuss how some of these techniques would be applicable to an Automobile Service Shop in effective management of their inventories; i.e Spares, Consumables, etc (assume several inventories of your choice). 2. Explain in detail the various types of plant layout concepts that area available in operations management. Give examples on where each of these types can be employed respectively. Briefly explain a layout applicable for a Retail store format, highlighting the good points and bottlenecks, if any. 3. A restaurant chain is planning to open up a new mid sized multi cuisine restaurant. Considering their expertise and knowledge in the food and beverages services, they are confident of getting into the new restaurant operation. You are required to suggest the team on the following points: a. Suggest a site location for the restaurant, assuming it to be Metro city (you can assume a city of your choice). Give your reasons for the same b. What strategy would the restaurant adopt for an Aggregate Operation Plan of resources given a time frame of a year? NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022 Strategic Management 1. Strategic Management crucially define and determine the long term performance of a business entity. This is with reference to, Nokia, who lost its pace in the smartphone race. As quoted by source: “Nokia has been long the market leader in the mobile phone market and with its enormous reach and huge customer base, had successfully created significant entry barriers for any new player as such. Its Symbian OS being the backbone of the
whole success story contributed to a great deal in its higher perceived ease of use. Customers used to enjoy the features, thanks to highly simplified GUI. It ruled the middle and low end market for long. But,
Nokia
did
a
blunder
and
lost
its
market
share.”(Source:
https://www.marketing91.com/nokia-lost-market-share/) In the context of above case, define the term strategic management, discuss, what are the three major challenges to strategic management and specifically point out in relation to Nokia among the three challenges, out of these challenges which challenge hit hard to the Business Giant. 2. Reliance Industries Limited is a Fortune 500 company and the largest private sector corporation in India. RIL, have evolved from being a textiles and polyester company to an integrated player across energy, materials, retail, entertainment and digital services. In each of these areas, they are committed to innovation-led, exponential growth. It’s clearly evident that RIL has adopted parenting strategy. Discuss the concept of corporate parenting. Discuss the analytical steps which are crucial in developing corporate parent strategy. Conclude how Corporate parenting or parenting strategy is more beneficial when compared against portfolio based corporate strategy 3. General Electric (GE) is well known for its extraordinary competency in management development. a. Discuss how the terms capabilities, competency and distinctive competency differs from each other.
Also, with reference to the VRIO Framework of analysis, highlight the four questions which any strategist might have examined in relation to GE for evaluating its extraordinary competency in management development. b. Describing VRIO Framework with reference to GE: - Valuable - Rareness - Imitability - Organization NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022 Decision Science 1. Three airlines serve a Srinagar. Airline ‘Amira’ has 50% of all the scheduled flights, airline ‘Biyas’ has 30%, and airline ‘chinar’ has the remaining 20%. Their on-time rates are 80%, 65%, and 40%, respectively. Part 1) Draw the Probability tree diagram. (Note: You may use any software for this, like MS paint, MS office, etc.) Part 2) A plane has just left on time. What is the probability that it was airline ‘Amira’? 2. Rashmi Dhar, manufacturer, and seller of ‘Kashmiri- kahwa’ through Ecommers websites. She wanted to know the effect of her spending in advertisement of ‘Kahwa’ on the sales, along with the other factors; ‘number of sales representatives’, ‘customer-satisfaction ratings’. For this research she has gathered the sales data in the following table, along with other necessary information.
Part 1) Define dependent and independent variables Part 2) Write regression model equation only. Part 3) Run regression analysis in EXCEL (copy all those tables from EXCEL and paste them in your document). Part 4) Write the Interpretation of Regression statistics-table, ANOVA- table. Write an interpretation (by referring P-value/ t-stat) on significant effect of independent variables on sales. 3.a. According to one survey in India, 75% of Instagram users love REELS. Suppose that 25 Instagram users (randomly selected) have been approached in the university located in vile parle. They have been asked about their status of like/ dislike the Instagram- REELS. a) What is the probability that Exactly 15 of them would agree with the claim (or said they love Insta-REELS)? b) What is the probability that Exactly 20 of them would agree with the claim (or said they love Insta-REELS)? 3.b. ‘Bhartdarshan’ is an Internet-based travel agency wherein customers can see videos of the cities they plan to visit. The number of hits daily is a normally distributed random variable with a mean of 10,000 and a standard deviation of 2,400. a. What is the probability of getting more than 12,000 hits? b. What is the probability of getting fewer than 9,000 hits? NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022
Consumer Behaviour 1. Celebrities, particularly movie stars, TV personalities, popular entertainers, and sports icons, are a symbolic reference group because they are liked, admired, and often have a high degree of perceived credibility. Therefore, many marketers use them to promote their products and services. Please state what parameters would a marketer consider for determining which celebrity should be used for a particular brand. Analyse the role of celebrity star Amitabh Bachchan in influencing consumer behaviour as a brand ambassador for Gujarat Tourism 2. Culture is the fundamental determinant of a person’s wants and behavior. The growing child acquires a set of values, perceptions, preferences, and behaviors through his or her family and other key institutions. a. Explain culture, sub-culture b. Analyse any 3 typical values that Indian children are exposed to from their childhood which are part of our culture and how they impact their purchase choices when they grow 3. Answer the following a. What is Customer Involvement – Explain the 4 types of customer involvement in product purchases b. Classify the following purchase decisions in terms of the above i. Buying a gift for your parent’s 25th wedding anniversary ii. Laptop iii. Groceries for daily use at home
iv. Ordering-in food at home on a Sunday evening through Swiggy / Zomato NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022 Cost & Management Accounting 1. Management accounting is focused on bringing a greater degree of efficiency to the core business operations. Discuss, management accounting, its role, and highlight if you are working as a management accountant in an enterprise, what would be the potential areas wherein you would like to bring more efficiency. 2. From the following information provided by Alfa Manufacturing Ltd, prepare a statement of equivalent units and also, Discuss the concept of equivalent units 3. You are a manufacturer of tennis balls in the Mumbai Suburbs. Recently, you got an order to supply 1200 units of the same on a monthly basis. The cost of carrying an inventory of such tennis balls is 1.80 per unit on yearly basis. The production process requires a setup cost on a per run basis of Rs 1000. Compute: a. The EOQ, and define the need of computing the EOQ b. The Optimum number of orders and optimum period of supply NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022 Digital Marketing 1. Assume you have joined an organisation “WealthMax” that deals with investors who are investing in various financial products like Mutual Funds, Equity, Cryptocurrencies, ETF, etc. The company is not available on any online platform. The online visibility is ZERO. You are a modern-day digital marketer and you have decided to increase the online visibility of the brand WealthMax. What are
the various ways through which you will promote your brand online? Explain minimum five platforms with explanation to increase online awareness. 2. The owners of WealthMax have shown some reservation for going online, you need to explain them the difference between Traditional and Modern Marketing. Also, explain various marketing era’s with example. 3.a. You plan to purchase a new smart phone but this time you plan to do this in scientific way so you have decided to use a model that encompasses various need satisfying behaviour. Explain the process of smart phone purchase with reference to ‘Engel, Blackwell, and Miniard (EBM)’ Model. 3.b. Assume you have been invited to speak on a forum covering major types of media. The participants attending the seminar are under graduate media students. You have decided to cover all major types of media with minimum two advantages and disadvantages of each type of media. Write the above content that you plan to speak in the forum with examples. NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022 International Business 1. “War between Russia and Ukraine is not only affecting trade of these two countries but entire Global Business.” – In the light of above statement analyze International Business Environment. 2. “Documentary Letter of Credit collection method is the most popular mode of collecting payment by the exporters” – Analyse the statement. How is an irrevocable L/C different from back to back L/C? 3. In early 2000, “United Colors of Benetton”, The Italian Casual Wear Brand decided to restore it’s lost sales through a shift in strategy. They decided to allow
the country managers to adapt the product offers and rework on the marketing strategies. Products were redesigned keeping in view the physical differences among various contries customers. Regional flavours were added in product features and communication specially when more than 50% business started coming from emerging markets. a. How does the Brand “United Colors of Benetton” demonstrate the Globalisation of markets? b. Do you think that this strategy is appropriate for emerging markets? NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022 Organisational Theory, Structure and Design 1. ‘Housing Depot’ has hired you as an HR Consultant to help them improve their processes. Explain the 7S framework for this home furniture company. Give suggestion on any one type of organisation structure that will suit this organisation. Give justification for your choice. 2. Rachel wants to start her own IT consulting firm. She has hired you for handling the HR processes. As her HR expert, explain the three organisational approaches that describe the functioning and performance of individuals. In your opinion, which approach is the best? 3. Steve, VP- HR and Samantha, the Business Head can never agree on the ways to increase organisational effectiveness of their advertising business. Steve focusses more on the different levels of maintaining organisational effectiveness but Samantha is more in favor of taking up a specific approach. In this context, a. Discuss how Steve will implement the organisational effectiveness on the different levels.
b. In your opinion, why do you think that Samantha is more in favor of the Goal approach in spite of its loopholes? NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022 Project Management 1. SKAB projects, a real estate builders and construction company, is planning to construct a gated community apartment in Hyderabad. As a project manager, describe your role in different phases of its life cycle. 2. SKAB projects, a real estate builders and construction company, is planning to construct a gated community apartment in Hyderabad. The company identified that they do not have competence in managing and maintaining the project progress in all respects of the projects simultaneously. So, the company decides to contract out some of the parts to a third party to maintain the progress and quality of the project. As a project manager, what type of contract you will suggest to the company and why? (You may consider hypothetical data for cost-benefit analysis of each contract type) 3. Consider the SKAB project’s gated community apartment construction. a. Show the deliverables of the gated community apartment on a work breakdown structure (WBS). b. Create a Gantt chart to represent the project progress and duration considering the resource person for each deliverable as “person 1”, “person 2”, etc. NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022 Commercial Banking System Role of RBI
1. Banking in India has undergone systematic changes over last 5 decades permitting starting from nationalization in 1969 of 14 private sector banks again to privatization of banks in 1990s. In year 2014 small Payment Banks were set up for financial inclusion and spreading it in different nooks & corners of the country to again a diametrically opposite step of mergers and consolidation of many weak public sector banks with a few large banks in 2018/19. What are the reasons for such changes? 2. Why banks are focusing on fund based lending to non-fund based lending? Explain different types of fund based and non-fund based lending activities. 3. Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) in the Banking sector has become the subject of much discussion and scrutiny. The banks capacity to lend has been severely affected by mounting NPAs, net worth of many banks have eroded and a number of banks have reported huge losses. In recent years many rules and regulations have come from RBI, Government, IMF, BASEL recommendations, etc to keep a tab on stressed assets and timely resolution. In light of above statements: a. Write the major reasons for increase on NPAs since last 10 years b. According to you what would be the mitigating factors/solutions for NPA management. NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022 Corporate Finance 1. Determine the present value of INR 2500 invested today assuming a rate of return of 10%. Define the concept of Present value. Compute- the Present value received one year from now, received at the end of 5 years, received at the end of 10 years. Discuss with reason, which of the three value, is the lowest one
2. For a business firm leverage is about the fixed operating cost and the fixed finance costs in the cost structure of the firm. For the given details, identify for which firm the degree of operating leverage and degree of financial leverage are higher and why so: Firms
Amrit
Baayu
Sales (Rs.)
3,60,000
7,50,000
Variable cost p.u
20
150
Fixed cost (Rs.)
72,000
1,40,000
6,000
1,500
40,000
80,000
Output (units) Interest
3. Project costs Rs 180,000 and is expected to generate cash inflows as: Yea
Cash inflows(Rs)
r 1
20,000
2
24,000
3
30,000
4
36,000
5
40,000
a. Discuss the characteristics of long term capital budgeting decisions b. calculate the Net Present Value of the project if the cost of capital is 12% and conclude.
NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022 Financial Institutions and Markets 1. Vishal has recently joined an Executive MBA program from a reputed college. As a part of his assignment, his he is asked to prepare an assignment to understand how Cash Reserve ratio (CRR) is used as a credit control tool by RBI and Statutory liquidity ratio (SLR) is used in Lowering Country’s Inflation. Help Vishal to prepare his assignment. 2. Mr. Prakash wants to start up his venture. He has no idea about the investment stages, which forms the building block for the start-up business and hence seeks help from his financial advisor Mr. Sharma. Discuss the three stages of venture capital financing to Mr. Prakash 3. Ms. Sunita, after completing her graduation, has recently joined a bank. With a steady income now and good growth prospects for her career, she intends to save regularly and increase the amount of savings gradually over the years. Her colleagues in the bank have advised her investing in Mutual Funds (MFs), as a suitable option for her. However, Ms. Sunita is not at all familiar with MFs and has some queries such as: a. What are mutual funds and why should she be investing through mutual fund? b. What are the various types of mutual funds? Prepare a detailed answer for her queries NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022 Marketing of Financial Services
1. Develop a Service Marketing Mix (using 8 Ps) for an Asset Management Company (Mutual Fund) of your choice. 2. One of your clients wants to apply for a Home Loan in the next 12 to 18 months. Few months back the client had lost his job during the COVID-19 pandemic and delayed his credit card payments. The client is worried that this may impact his credit score maintained by Credit Bureaus. Suggest a roadmap to your client to improve his credit score. 3. You are a Financial Planner. Your client Ankur Desai (age 36 years) works with an FMCG company earning Rs. 15 lakhs per annum. His wife Preeti (age 32 years) is a homemaker. They have one daughter Asha (age 3 years). The couple requires your help to make few financial decisions. (You can make any assumptions to further build up your case.) a. Ankur wants to buy a Pure Risk life insurance cover of Rs 1.5 crore. He is confused whether he should buy a ULIP, Endowment or a Term Plan. Recommend the product best suited for his requirement. b. Ankur has expressed his desire to retire by the age of 60. Design a retirement plan for him. NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022 Retail Banking 1. Retail Banking is sustainable and over the years, it has grown exponentially. What are the reasons for its growth? What changes you perceive in coming years? 2. Banks are exposed to different types of risk. Recently banks in Afghanistan faced crisis due to volatile political and economic turbulence. This resulted in banking services remaining suspended for a month causing great inconvenience
not only to general trade & services but also to common men whose deposit were frozen in the banks and withdrawals were rationed/controlled. What are different types of risks banks are exposed? How to mitigate these risks? 3. Branchless Banking is one-step towards Financial Inclusion Policy of Government of India. a. What is the vision of government in this regard? b. Enumerate different technologies used in the banking sector to achieve the aim of bringing more people under banking ambit? NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022 Business Ethics Governance Risk 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. 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.
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? 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? NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022 Insurance Risk Management 1. What could be peculiar features observed for Insurance in common world? 2. Explain the typical types of Insurance apart from Life Insurance 3.a. What can be termed as Basic Characteristics of Risk Management? 3.b. How one can identify the respective Loss Exposures in Risk? NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022 International Banking Foreign Exchange Management 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. 2. As per the recent news India’s forex reserves have declined. You are a banker and you have an interview with one of the finance magazines. You are asked to
explain what are forex reserves and the objective behind forex reserves. With reference to the news, how would this decline impact India 3. Authorized dealers also play an important role in foreign exchange transactions. In context to the statement, a. Explain the role of Authorized dealers with respect to RBI. b. What are the categories and functions of these categories of Authorized Dealers. Name some Authorised dealers under each category NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022 Research Methodology 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. 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? 3.a. Describe the four types scales with examples? 3.b. The table below presented the ranks which were assigned by three judges to the works of ten articles: 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? NMIMS Assignment Solved June 2022 Treasury Management in Banking
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. Balance Sheet for Hypothetical Bank Particulars Assets Macaulay Duration Liabilities Macaulay Duration Current Assets 1500 7 years Current 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% 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. 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. 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.