Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management (PGDFM)

Paper-I (Financial Decision Making)

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1. What are finance funcitons? Explain.
2. Discuss the different types of investment decision.
3. Define leverage. Discuss its types.
4. Define Capital Structure. Discuss its components.
5. Define Dividend. Discuss the different forms of dividend.
6. Explain Walter’s dividend relevance theory.
7. What is Share? Discuss different types of share.
8. Discuss merits and demerits of debenture.
9. Define short term financing. Discuss trade credit as a spontaneous
source of financing.
10. Define the concept of bank financing. Discuss the different forms of
bank finance.

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1. Define financial management. Discuss its nature and scope.
2. Describe in brief the process of investment decision.
3. Describe in brief the importance and limitations of leverage.
4. Describe framework of capital structure.
5. Discus the different types of dividend.
6. Define share. Discuss the merits and demertis of equity and preference
share.
7. Define bond. Discuss its different types.
8. Define term loan. Discuss its features.
9. Describe in brief the internal sources of finance.
10. Discuss in brief the procedure of obtaining bank finance.
 Paper-II (Working Capital Management)
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1. What is working capital? Discuss its importance.
2. Discuss in brief the different areas of working capital managements.
3. Discuss criterion for estimation working capital of any business firm.
4. Discuss the factors affecting working capital policy.
5. What is the role and need of liquidity in business? Discuss and explain
the functions of cash management.
6. Discuss the merits and demerits of ‘too-liberal’ and ‘too-strict’ credit
sales policy.
7. What are the main objectives of inventory management? How can a
financial manager achieve these objectives?
8. Discuss long term sources of working capital.
9. What is a commercial paper? Discuss its advantages and
disadvantages.
10. What is bank financing? Discuss the different forms of bank financing.
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1. Define the Concept of Working Capital discuss its type.
2. Discuss the objective of Working Capital management.
3. Discuss the basic concept of estimation of Working Capital. How will
you dtermine the size of Working Capital.
4. What is Working Capital policy? Discuss its types.
5. Explain the criteria that a firm should use in choosing the marketable
securities in order to invest surplus cash.
6. What should be the basic objectives of receivables management? How
can management succeed in maintaining investment of funds tried-up
in receivables within optimum limits.
7. What is inventory management. Discuss its need.
8. Discuss the short term sources of working capital.
9. What is working capital financing? Discuss its different modes.
10. Write a notes on any two of the following:-
a. Bank financing
b. Commercial paper
c. Non-Convertible debenture
 Paper-III (Management Control System)
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1. What do you understand by management control system? What are tis
basic elements? Why management control system is important for an
organisation?
2. Expalin the factors that affect design of management control system.
3. What do you mean by responsibility center? What are its nature and
purpose?
4. Discuss different types of budgets in details.
5. Discuss in details various types of audits.
6. Describe various methods of project planning and scheduling.
7. What are the advantages of participative management? How the
resistance to the participative management process be tackled?
8. Expalin different methods of transfer pricing.
9. Discuss break even analysis in detail.
10. Describe various techniques used in management control of
operations.
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1. Explain in detail various approaches to management control system.

2. Discuss in details various types of orgnizations. What are their
advantages and disadvantages?
3. Explain corporate level strategy, business unit strategy and their control
systems.
4. What is transfer pricing? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
Discuss the principles of transfer pricing.
5. Explain different types of responsibility centers.
6. What are the features of control process? Explain various steps of
management control process.
7. Explain various tools of performance management system.
8. Explain various steps involved in the audit process.
9. Describe various methods of project planning and scheduling.
10. What are the characteristics of professional service organizations?
Discuss management control in progessional service orgnaizations.
 Paper-IV (Security Analysis and Portfolio Management)
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1. What is investment? How it differes from speculation?
2. What is preference share? Throw light on different kinds of preference
share.
3. Define secondary market and throw light on its relationship with primary
market.
4. Explain various elements of settlement cycle carry forward system.
5. Discuss market inefficiencies of efficient market theory.
6. Explain various demensions of financial analysis.
7. Differential traditional portfolio analysis from modern portfolio analysis.
8. Discuss the significance of Beta in protfolio.
9. What do you understand by Capital Market Theory? Explain its
assumptions.
10. Discuss the arbitrage pricing theory.

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1. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of speculation.
2. What is debenture? Explain the different types of debenture.
3. Explain the objectives of investment.
4. What is primary market? Describe its role and functions.
5. What do you mean by technical analysis? Explain its characteristics.
6. Explain form of efficient market (EMH) hypothesis.
7. How would you construct the best portfolio? Specify the features of the
best portfolio.
8. Define Capital Market. Give some examples of capital market
transactions.
9. Throw light on asset demand and supply.
10. Write notes on any two of the following:-
(a) Mutual Funds.
(b) Government Securities.
(c) Bonds
 Paper-V (International Financial Management)
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1. Discuss the importance of International Financial Management.
2. Critically examine the role of World Bank in providing finance to
multinational corporation.
3. Discuss the factors affecting exchange rate.
4. What is foreign exchange market? Discuss the participants of exchange
market.
5. What is exchange rate? How is it determined?
6. Write an essay on currency options in India.
7. Discuss the different aspects of swap management.
8. What is the concept of FDI? Discuss the strategy for FDI.
9. Discuss financial and non-financial factors in capital budgeting.
10. Discuss the different aspects of cash management.

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1. Discuss the nature and scope of International Financial Management.
2. What is International Finance? Discuss the sources of International
finance.
3. What is exchange rate? Discuss spot exchange rate and forward
exchange rate.
4. Describe in brief the structure of foreign exchange market in India.
5. Write a note on speculation with options.
6. What do you mean by equity swap? Discuss its characteristics.
7. Discuss in brief the theories of FDI.
8. Define risk. How risk is associated with cost of capital?
9. What is inventory management. Discuss its objects.
10. Define tax. Discuss its type.
 Paper-VI (Management of Financial Services)
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1. Distinguish between capital market and money market.
2. Explain meaning and concept of derivatives. Discuss trading framework
of derivative market.
3. Define SEBI. Discuss its functions.
4. Describe in brief the financial services of financial institutions.
5. Define Marchant Bankers. Discuss the functions of Marchant Bankers.
6. Discuss the roel of Housing Development and Finance Corporation.
7. What is factoring? Discuss the types of factoring.
8. Describe in brief the methods of Venture Capital Financing.
9. What is stock exchange? Discuss the organisation and functions of
stock exchange.
10. Discuss the role of international monetary fund.

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1. What is financial market? Discuss its functions.
2. Describe the role of capital market. Explain its main problems.
3. Discuss advantages and problems of Indian money market.
4. What is future? Distinguish between future contracts and fature trading.
5. Distinguish between financial sectors and non-bank financial sector.
6. Define lease Discuss its types.
7. What is credit rating? Discuss the need of credit rating.
8. What is mutual fund? Discuss types of mutual fund.
9. Describe in brief the foreign capital market instruments.
10. What is the meaning and concept of financial information? Discuss
the need of financial information.