EPGP 05 Y1 Q4 Question x

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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT

KOZHIKODE

EXECUTIVE

POST

GRADUATE PROGRAMMES

ACADEMIC YEAR 2012 - 2013

BATCH:

EPGP

OSfEEPGM-12 Section A&B

Corporate

Strategy-II

End Term Examinations- January 2014

Faculty: Prof. Mahesh.P.Bhave

Duration

2

Hrs

Open book exam. Apply the lecture notes, textbook readings,

and

your familiarity with concepts

andframeworks, including Aggregate Project Planning, Ansoffmatrix Nevv Product

Development, Project Prioritization, Governance, to any two

of

he questions below. Use

diagrams to illustrate

your

points. About two answer book pages of ext per answer for people

with normal handwriting. Diagrams should be on separate extra pages.

30 marks each, 60% ofoverall grade.

1. Represent the Dilmah challenge in a diagram. Starbucks has high quality, high

volume, and high margins. How will you do it for Dilmah tea?

to compete with China and India, which have lower costs ofproduction and the advantage of

size.

To

attract business, Sri Lank.an companies have become specialists andproducers of

affordable yet exclusive products. Unless I got into branding and marketing, he said, I

would have been out of he business in two or three

ye

ars.

The company has opened tea bars where it offers tastings and classes about how to make,

drink

and

appreciate

tea

much as wineries do . These efforts are aimed at showing consumers that

its tea

is

worth the extra cost.

2

Develop your theory

of

why innovation does not happen in India? Explain it with

/

the help of a diagram.

Why

...

hasn't India produced a Google or an Apple?

...

The same idea,

i

t's born

in

Silicon

Valley it goes the distance,

said

Nadathur

S

Raghavan, a investor

in

start-ups

and

a founder

of

Infosys, one

of

ndia's most successfiil technology companies.

If

t's born

in

India it does not go

the distance.

3

Recommend a national strategy for power access and expansion for India.

/

The ship, the Vanshi was carrying coalji-om Indonesia, a two-week trip across the Indian Ocean.

India has its own abundant reserves ofcoal, which raises a question: Why did India need to go so

far to get something it already had? ...

India's economy

is

growing at more than 8 percent annually, but is badly constrained by an

inadequate power supply after years in which the government dominated the power sector and

failed to keep up with growing demand.

4

Represent Dr. Banting's discovery in a diagram.

Why

should Dr. Macleod also

get the Nobel Prize since he did little work on the discovery, and just because Dr.

Banting worked in his lab?


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Dr

. Banting's mentor and lab director,

Dr

. John

R

Macleod, was summering in Scotland. Dr.

a n t i n ~

never.forgave Dr . Macleod for arriving back

in

the autumn, rested and

reF

eshal,

and

taking over. His bitter hostility lasted years, long after the Nobel Prize ceremu11y in 1923 which

Dr. Banting refused to attend,

for

although he shared the physiology

prize

Jn

some sense, the breakthrough is the easy part, he said. Then the real work begins. For

both insulin

and

the AIDS drugs the big challenge was getting it

from

here to there, Dr

Sepkowitz said.

. By

1932 the drug's price had.fallen by 90 percent.


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INDIAN

INSTITUTE

OF MANAGEMENT

KOZHIKODE

EXECUTIVE POST GRADUATE PROGRAMMES

ACADEMIC

YE R

2012 - 2013

BATCH: EPGP 05/EEPGM 12 Section A B

Contemporary Issues in Management

Separate answer sheets needs to be used for each faculty. Write

your

Name Roll number

Faculty

ame

at the top

of

your answer sheet.

Prof. Surya Prakash Pati

Duration: 30 minutes {Closed Book Exam)

Can employee engagement lead to work life unbalance? [ 5 marks]

1 Please mention how your organization attempts

to

ensure that (a) you remain engaged in

your jobs (b) you experience a work-life balance. [2+3 marks]

Dr G Venkat Raman

Duration: 30 minutes {Closed Book Exam)

This section comprises

of

seven questions out of which you have to attempt any five. The

answers (in the form of short essays) to these questions should not exceed 80-100 words. Each

question carries 5 marks .

I \ / ~

1 Differences between CSR and CSV c S b ~

oJ

2. Relevance of Geopolitics in formulating strategies for International Business

3 Cluster Development and CSV

4

Pragmatism and Environmental Ethics

5. Any two strategies for the good enough markets in emerging markets

6 Any tluee significant cultural determinants of Chinese negotiations behavior r ;J-yI

~

-x

/

7.

Beijing Consensus /

~ _ ( r : ~

.

r ~ /

/


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Prof. Sudershan Kuntluru Prof. Sony Thomas

Duration: 30 minutes (Closed Book Exam)

Answer all the questions. Each

question

carries 5 marks. nswer should not exceed 5 sentences

1 Differentiate investment and financing decisions

2 What is an

ETF?

What are its salient features? How is it classified?

3 Differentiate between investment and speculation I R ~

4 What

are the key changes

IFRS

brings in? Briefly x p l i n

5 Does India have gone

for

either adoption or convergence

of

IFRS? What is the rational?

6

What

is

XBRL? Explain in detail.

Prof.

Saptarshi

Purkayastha

Time

30 minutes)

(Closed Book Exam)

1. Discuss the characteristics

of

emerging markets from the perspective

of

Profs .

Tarun Khanna and Krishna Palepu n their book Wi1ming in Emerging Markets .

How does their perspective help business managers take decisions while formulating

and implementing their strategy? Discuss with examples

(5+ 10)


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INDIAN

INSTITUTE OF

MANAGEMENT KOZHIKODE

EXECUTIVE POST GRADUATE PROGRAMMES

ACADEMIC YEAR 2012 - 2013

BATCH:

EPGP

05/EEPGM-12 Section A&B

Management Accounting-II

End

Term Examinations-

January

2014

Faculty: Prof. K K Ramesh

TIME- 2

HOURS

30

MINUTES

TOTAL MARKS - 90

Closed book exam

Use

of

calculators permitted

Use of laptops - not permitted

QUESTION - I 15 MARKS

,.

i

I .

Halo Enterprises recently

experienced

a fire, forcing the

company

to use incomplete information

to analyze operations.

Consider

the following data and assume that all materials purchased

during the period were used in production:

Direct materials: _,/

Standard price per pound: 9

Actual price per pound: 8

Price variance: 20,000F

Total

of

direct-material 'variances:

2,000F

Direct labor:

Actual hours worked:

40

,

000

Actual rate per hour: 15

Efficiency variance: 28 ,

000F

Total

of

direct-labor variances:

12,000U

Halo completed 12,000 units.

Required:

~

Determine the following:

(I)

actual materials used , (2) direct-material quanti ty variance, (3) .

direct-labor rate

varifl.RCe

(4) standard labor rate per hour, and (5) standard labor time per

~ 1 > ~ l . t 1

finished unit.

1

\ \


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QUESTION

-

5MARKS

Baxley Products manufactures office furniture by using an assembly-line process. All direct

materials are introduced at the

statt of

the process , and conversion cost is incurred evenly

throughout manufacturing. An examination

of

the company's Work-in-Process account for

August revealed the following selected infotmation:

Debit

s i e

August 1 balance:

600

units,

40%

complete;

cost,

44

,600*

Production

started: 1,800 units

Direct materials used during August:

90,000

August conversion cost: 51 ,

400

redit sid

Production

completed:

1,4

00

units

*Supplementary

records disc losed direct material cost of 30,000 and conversion

cost of

14 ,600 .

Conversations with

manufacturing

personnel rev

ea

led that the ending work

in

process was 80%

complete.

Required:

Determine the

number of

units in the August 31 work-in-process inventory. \

B

Calculate the cost of goods completed dming August, and prepare the appropriate journal

entry to record completed production . I ~ ~ ~

C. Determine the cost

of

the August 31 work-in-process inventory. ~ ~ 1 't, .

QUESTION III

5 MARKS

Alphabeta Corporation

sells three

products: J, K, and

L

The

following

information was taken

from a recent budget:

J

K

UNIT

SALES

40,000 130,000

SELLING

PRICE(

PER UNITO

60 80

VARIABLE

COST( PER

UNIT)

40

65

Total fixed costs are anticipated to be 2 ,450 ,000 .

Required :

A.

Determine

Alphabeta's

sales

mix.

~

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