Wednesday 21 August 2013

JNTU (H) - MBA 3rd Sem Syllabus

09MB15 Entrepreneurship and Good Governance:
 The objective of the course is to make students understand the nature of entrepreneurship, and to motivate the student to start his/her own enterprise. The objective of the course is to enlighten with the fragrance of Corporate Good Governance and Business Ethics, so that they would become the best entrepreneurs / managers of the corporate world.
Unit 1: Nature of Entrepreneurship; Characteristics, Qualities and skills of an Entrepreneur, functions of entrepreneur, Entrepreneur scenario in India and Abroad. Forms of Entrepreneurship: Small Business, Importance in Indian Economy, Types of ownership, sole trading, partnership, joint stock company and other forms. First-Mover disadvantages, Risk Reduction strategies, Market scope strategy, Imitation strategies and Managing Newness
Unit 2: Aspects of Promotion: Generation of new entry opportunity, SWOT Analysis, Technological Competitiveness, legal regulatory systems, patents and trademarks, Intellectual Property Rights- Project Planning and Feasibility Studies- Major steps in product development. Financial Aspects: Sources of raising Capital, Debt-Equity, Financing by Commercial Banks, Government Grants and Subsidies, Entrepreneurship Promotion Schemes of Department of Industries (DIC), KVIC, SIDBI,NABARD, NSIC, APSFC, IFCI and IDBI. New Financial Instruments.

Unit 3: Introduction to Business Ethics: Necessity for Business Ethics-Need for Ethical guideline – Salient Issues in Ethics and Commerce- Ethics as a Luxury – Earlier attempts at Ethics in Industry – Justification for Ethics – Effect of Migration of National Character – Shadow Economy – Basic Principles in Ethics –Corporate Climate and corporate climate audits – Political Issues – Nature and theory of Ethics – The Naturalistic fallacy – G.E.Moore’s Philosophy.

Unit 4: Understanding Corporate Governance: Corporate Governance- Capitalism at crossroads – Historical perspective of Corporate Governance – Issues of Corporate Governance – Theoretical basis of Corporate Governance – Corporate Governance mechanisms – Indian Model of Governance – Good Corporate Governance – Corporate Governance committees – OECD Principles – Indian Committee and guidelines – The confederation of Indian Industry’s initiative. Corporate Governance Models, Corporate Social Responsibility.

Unit – 5: Corporate Social Responsibility: System Concept of Business Society – Social Responsibility – Social Responsibility tools – approaches to Ethics – Corporate Social Accountability – Business in a Social World – Ethics and Social Responsibility – professional ethics – Ethics of practicing company secretaries- Ethical investing.

09MB16 Cost and Management Accounting
The objective of the course is to enable the students the components of product cost their calculation methods, and their control. Prerequisite for the course is Knowledge of Financial Accounting and Analysis taught in First Semester of the programme.

Unit – 1:Introduction: Management accounting Vs. Cost accounting vs. financial accounting, role of accounting information in planning and control, cost concepts and managerial use of classification of costs. The management process and accounting - Cost analysis and control: Direct and Indirect expenses, allocation and apportionment of overheads, calculation of machine hour rate. An introduction to activity based costing and Life Cycle Costing.

Unit – 2:Costing for specific industries: Unit costing, job costing, cost sheet and tender and process costing and their variants, treatment of normal losses and abnormal losses, inter-process profits, costing for by-products and equivalent production.

Unit – 3:Marginal Costing: Introduction, Application of Marginal costing in terms of cost control , profit planning, Closing down a plant, dropping a product line, charging general and specific fixed costs, fixation of selling price, make or buy decisions, key or limiting factor, selection of suitable product mix, desired level of profits, diversification of products, closing down or suspending activities, level of activity planning- Break-even-analysis: Application of BEP for various business problems. Inter-firm comparison: Need for inter-firm comparison, types of comparisons, advantages.

Unit – 4:Budgetary Control: Budget, budgetary control, steps in budgetary control, Flexible budget, different types of budgets: sales budget, Cash budget, Production budget, Master budget, Performance budgets, material Vs. purchase budgets, Zero Based Budgeting. An introduction to cost audit and management audit.

Unit – 5:Standard Costing: Standard Cost and Standard Costing, standard costing vs. budgetary control, standard costing vs. estimated cost, standard costing and marginal costing, analysis of variance, material variance, labour variance, Sales and Profit variance.


09MB17 MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY 
The Objective of the course is to expose students to the importance of technology in conduct of business and its skillful management for optimum results.

*Students need Discounting Table and Statistical Table to solve problem

Unit – 1:The Process of Technological Innovation: The Need for a Conceptual Approach, Technological Innovation as a Conversion Process, Factors Contributing to Successful Technological Innovation. Strategies For Research and Development: R&D as A Business, Resource Allocation to R&D, R&D Strategy In the Decision Making Process, Selection and Implementation of R&D Strategy, R and D and Competitive Advantage, New Product Development- Techniques For Creative Problem Solving.

Unit – 2:Financial Evaluation of Research and Development Projects: The Need For Cost Effectiveness, R&D Financial Forecasts, Risk as a Factor In Financial Analysis, Project Selection Formulae, Allocation of Resources, DCF and Other Techniques of evaluating R&D ventures.

Unit – 3:Research and Development: Programme Planning and Control, Portfolio Planning, Project Planning and Control, Project Termination, Resource Allocation and Management- New Product Development: New Product Development as a Competitive Strategy, Market Research For Developing New Products, Commercialisation of Research Outcomes, Industrial Design, Product Architecture and Design For Manufacture, Developing Indigenous Substitute For Raw Materials.

Unit – 4:Technological Forecasting For Decision Making: The Definition of Technological Forecasting, Forecasting System Inputs and Outputs, Classification of Forecasting Techniques, Organisation For Technological Forecasting, Current Status.

Unit – 5:Transfer of Technology: Modes of technology transfer, Price of technology transfer, Negotiation for price of MOT.

09MB18 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT 

The Objective of the course is to enable students have a grasp of various business strategies in general and functional management areas. It will provide a strategic orientation in conduct of the business

Prerequisite The subjects such as Management Theory and Practice, Financial Management, HRM, Marketing Management, Production and Operations Management taught in First and Second Semesters of the programme.

Unit – 1:Introduction- Concepts in Strategic Management, Strategic Management Process, Developing a strategic vision, Mission, Objectives, Policies – Factors that shape a company’s strategy, Environmental Scanning: Industry and Competitive Analysis – Methods. Evaluating company resources and competitive capabilities – SWOT Analysis – Value Chain Analysis and Competitive advantage.

Unit – 2:Tools and techniques for strategic analysis - Porter's Five Force Model, BCG Matrix, GE Model, TOWS Matrix, IE Matrix, The Grand Strategy Matrix. Market Life Cycle Model - and Organisational Learning, Impact Matrix and the Experience Curve, Generic Strategies- Strategy Formulation - Types of Strategies – offensive strategy, defensive strategy, Exit and entry barriers - Tailoring strategy to fit specific industry and company situations.

Unit – 3:Strategy Implementation: Strategy and Structure, Strategy and Leadership, Strategy and culture connection - Operationalising and institutionalizing strategy - Strategies for competing in Globalising markets and internet economy - Organisational Values and Their Impact on Strategy – Resource Allocation as a vital part of strategy – Planning systems for implementation.

Unit – 4:Turnaround and Diversification Strategies: Turnaround strategy - Management of Strategic Change, strategies for Mergers, Acquisitions, Takeovers and Joint Ventures - Diversification Strategy : Why firms diversify, different types of diversification strategies, the concept of core competence, strategies and competitive advantage in diversified companies and its evaluation.

Unit – 5:Strategy Evaluation and control – Establishing strategic controls for Measuring performance – appropriate measures- Role of the strategist – using qualitative and quantitative benchmarking to evaluate performance - strategic information systems – problems in measuring performance – Guidelines for proper control- Strategic surveillance -strategic audit - Strategy and Corporate Evaluation and feedback in the Indian and international context.

09MB19B Security Analysis and Portfolio Management:

 The objective of this course is to provide the conceptual and analytical frame work of Security Analysis and Portfolio Management and make them proficient in understanding the dynamics of securities market. This paper is focuses on the application of theory to practice.


Unit – 1:Investments: The Investment environment: Classification and functions of financial markets and financial instruments. Securities Markets, how securities are traded.

Unit – 2:Portfolio Theory and Capital market theory: The returns and risks from investing, Markowitz Portfolio Theory, Mean-variance approach, Portfolio selection-efficient portfolios, The Single-Index Model, Asset Pricing Models-The Capital Asset Pricing Model, Arbitrage Pricing Theory.

Unit – 3:Fixed – income Securities (Bond): Analysis, valuation and management: Interest rates, Measuring Bond Yields, Bond pricing theorems, Convexity, duration, Passive Bond Management and active bond management strategies, Bond immunization.

Unit – 4:
a) Equity: Analysis Valuation and management: Discounted Cash-flow techniques: Balance sheet analysis, Dividend discount models, intrinsic value and market price, The P/E ratio or Earnings Multiplier Approach, Price/Book value, Price /Sales ratio, Economic value Added (EVA), The passive and Active strategy.

b) Security Analysis: Macroeconomic analysis, Industry and company analysis. Technical analysis.

Unit – 5:
a) Derivatives: Overview of derivative markets, option markets, option strategies and option valuation. Futures markets, strategies and pricing. Stock index futures, interest rate futures. Swaps contracts.
b) Portfolio management: Mutual funds - Growth of mutual funds in India, Structure. Performance evaluation of mutual funds, performance measurement with changing portfolio composition


09MB20B Financial Institutions, Markets and Services

The objective of the course is to provide to students an understanding of Financial Markets, the major institutions involved and the services offered within this framework.

Unit -1: Introduction: The structure of financial system; Equilibrium in financial markets; Indicators of Financial Development, Financial system and economic development ; Financial Sector reforms after 1991 - Regulatory and Promotional Institutions: Function and Role of RBI, Monetary Policy and techniques of monetary control of RBI. The role and functions of SEBI. An update on the performance on Non-statutory Financial organization like IFCI, IRBI, NABARD, SIDBI, and SFCs .

Unit -2:The banking and Non Banking Institutions: Commercial banks – the public and the private sectors – structure and comparative performance. The problems of competition; interest rates, spreads, and NPAs. Bank capital – adequacy norms and capital market support. Banking Innovations. Co-operative banks- role, Govt. initiatives to strengthen the co-operative banks.- The Non-banking financial Institutions: Structure and functioning of Unit Trust of India and Mutual Funds. Growth of Indian Mutual funds and its Regulation. The Role of AMFI. Insurance Companies – Structure and Investment Pattern of LIC, GIC and other insurance companies, Competition, innovation, Role of IRDA, Challenges of Insurance Sector.

Unit -3:Financial and Securities Markets: Structure and functions of Call Money Market, Government Securities Market – T-bills market, Commercial Bills market, Commercial paper and certificate of deposits- Securities markets – Organisation and structure, Listing trading and settlement. SEBI and Regulation of Primary and Secondary Markets

Unit -4:Asset/fund based Financial services – lease finance, consumer credit and hire purchase finance, factoring definition, functions, advantages, evaluation and forfeiting, bills discounting, housing finance, venture capital financing. Fee-based / Advisory services: Stock broking, credit rating.

Unit -5:Investment Banking: Introduction, Functions and activities, underwriting, bankers to an issue, debenture trustees, portfolio managers. Challenges faced by investment bankers.


09MB21B DERIVATIVESThe objective of this course is to make students efficient in the area of Derivatives, giving them the knowledge of basics in Derivatives, Future Markets, Option Strategies, etc.

Unit I: Introduction to Derivatives – Development and Growth of Derivative Markets, Types of Derivatives, Uses of Derivatives, Fundamental linkages between spot & Derivative Markets, The Role of Derivatives Market, Uses & Misuses of derivatives.

Unit II: Future and Forward Market structure of forward and Future Markets, Mechanics of future markets, Hedging Strategies, Using futures, Determination of forward and future prices, Interest rate futures, Currency futures and Forwards.

Unit III: Options – Distinguish between Options and Futures, Structure of Options Market, Principles of Option Pricing, Option Pricing Models: The Binomial Model, The Black – Scholes Merton Model.

Unit IV: Basic Option Strategies, Advanced Option Strategies, Trading with Options, Hedging with Options, Currency Options.

Unit V:Swaps – Concept and Nature, Evolution of Swap Market, Features of Swaps, Major types of Swaps, Interest Rate Swaps, Currency Swaps, Commodity Swaps, Equity Index Swaps, Credit Risk in Swaps, Credit Swaps, using Swaps to Manage Risk, Pricing and Valuing Swaps.

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