DETAILS OF ASSIGNMENTS FOR STUDENTS OF MBA (EXECUTIVE) 1st SEMESTER BATCH 2014-16 : EMD

The assignment must be in your handwriting not exceeding 6 to 7 pages of A4 size.LAST DATE 05.12.14
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NAME OF STUDENT

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2
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Ajay Kumar Jain

Anamika Pareek
Anita Ghiya
Chandra Prakash Khandelwal
Daljeet Sharma
Devendra Kumar Jain

Devesh Joshi

Diwanshu Shevkani

Gajendra Joshi

10

Guarav Pareek

11

Girishita Rathore

12
13
14

Himanshu Jain
Jaishree Johri
Kuldeep Lodha

Mansih Jangir

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18

Manish Sharma
Meenakshi
Mukesh Kumar

Neeraj Sharma

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Pratik Gulshan Kathuria

Priya Goyal

Rahul Aeran

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26
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29

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Rishi Raj Gupta

Shuchi Kumawat
Sruti Raizada
Vaibhav Maheshwari
Toral Patni
Aditi Dadhich
Prashant Patodia

Sajjan Singh

DETAILS OF ASSIGNMENTS FOR STUDENTS OF MBA (EXECUTIVE) 1st SEMESTER BATCH 2014-16 : EMD
The assignment must be in your handwriting not exceeding 6 to 7 pages of A4 size.LAST DATE 05.12.14
ASSIGNMENT
Explain the charatcterstics of a monopolistic market, based on your understanding of a suiatble FMCG Product
Why do seller try to move from perfect market? How do they increase their profit by moving away and to which type of market they shift?
Which type of market designer Jewellary belongs to? What are the pricing strategies followed in such markets?
Explain with suitable example , how a mraginal costing concept can be applied by a woolen manufacturer?
Explain with an example, how a businessman calculate breakeven point for a multiple products?
What is the pricing strategy most suitable for a player in competitive oligopoly? Explain with suitable example based on a product existing in indian market.
Following are the data of a firm dealing in Bi-cycles:
Year
Yearly Volume sold ( In 000)
Selling Price per unit in 00s
2005
20
15
2006
24
14
2007
27
12.5
2008
30
12
2009
35
11.5
2010
26
12
1. Please determine the sales volume in the year 2012
2. Estimate volume at a price of Rs 1400/In current Indian market, which product / service, you believe is having monopoly and why? What are the evils of monopoly and a govt. can control it?
Based on following sales data, please find out demand of pens, when the price is increased to Rs 8/- per unit
Year
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010

Price (Rs)
2
1
2
4
5
4
3
6
5
7

Units Sold (000)

9
10
8
7
5
6
8
5
6
4

Mr. S. K. Verma , who had been working as a senior manager in a good organization, had been thinking of starting his own venture. As he feels stagnation in his current job. He is
confident that he can earn much better when he starts his own business. You are his friend and he has sought your advice in on this matter. Mr. Verma gives you the following
details of his proposal:
1. At present, he is earning Rs 60000/- per month
2. He has savings of Rs. 150000/- in his bank on which he is earning an interest @5% per annum.
3. The premises, he owns can fetch him a monthly rent of Rs25000/- per month.
4. For starting his own venture, he will be required to make further following investments:
A. A bank loan of 2000000/- for initial investment, on which he shall be required to pay interest @11% per annum, besides investing his own savings.
B. The premises, he owns will be required for setting up manufacturing unit.
C. In addition to his own services full time, he needs to engage at least five persons on a total fixed cost of Rs 40000/- per month.
D. The establishment costs , which are fixed per month towards electricity, water, communication etc. would be Rs 20000/- per month.
5. Based on market survey, the projections of revenue and costs are as under
Particulars Projection Year 1
Sales Revenue 40000 units @ Rs 100/- per unit
Raw material cost Rs 50/- per unit
Packaging & forwarding cost Rs 5/- per unit
Labor cost Rs 10/- per Unit
Govt. Levies (Excise duty) Rs 10/- per unit
6. It is estimated that In 2nd Year - there will be a 20 % growth in sales volume & 3 % increase in selling price with an increase of 7% in all variable costs. In 3rd Year, compared
to 2nd Year , the sales volume growth will be 15% & there will be a 5 % increase in selling price but all the variable costs will go up by 10%.
Based on the above set of data, answer following questions:
1. What are the implicit costs in the above.
2. What would be the Breakeven Points and profits for year 1, 2 & 3
3. What would be the Total Economic Profits in three years to Mr. Dutta , if he opts for his own venture.
4. Based on the above, what is your advice to Mr. Verma? Should he continue in his job OR start his own new venture? What are the factors, you have kept in
your mind while giving your advice to Mr. Verma?
Descibe various level of price discriminations with examples from indian industry.
In case of agricultural production, to determine output of a particular crop in future, what will be the best quantitative method to be used for forecasting. Explain with an example
As a enterpreneur , what are the areas of buisness in which knowledge of managerial economics improves quality of decision making?
Study thePassenger Car market of India and analyse the same to find answers to following issues: 1. The type of market , it belongs to, based on level ofcompetition? 2. What are
the pricing strategies followed in this market? 3 How players avoid price wars and still attarct customers towards their brands?
Following are the comparative cost structure of a firm, which produces shirts of two types A & B:
Fabric Cost per unit Other material Cost per unit Labor cost per unit
Total Fixed cost
Selling price per shirt
Shirt A
36
27
15
100000
240
Shirt B
18
24
12
100000
180
The expected demand of Shirt A at the above price is 1500 units whereas Shirt B will have a demand of 2500 shirts at the price as above and there is no production constraint.
Please advise the producer in selection of shirt A OR B with the objective of profit maximization. Justify your choice with calculations
What are the products, which are in still in Perfect Market Structure. What the disadvantages to sellers in a perfect market?
Explain cross elasticity with suitable examples, both for sustitute as well as complimentry products.
What are the key differences between Monopolistic market and oligopoly market. How pricing stratregies are different in these two markets?
A firm has the following costs :
Fixed Cost Rs 50000/Variable cost per unit Rs 30/Price of the product Rs 50/The producer also has a choice to buy the product from outside at a total cost of Rs 45/- per unit. Please suggest whether he should make it himself or buy from outside, when the
demand is
a) 2000 Units
b) 3500 units
Justify your suggestion by calculations.
What is dumping? Explain with few examples from Indian industry scenario.
Sales of cell phones belong to which market type? How a seller maximises his sales in such market?
1. A restaurant owner in Jaipur was reviewing his sales of last six months, which revealed the following data:
He has to pay a minimum fixed cost of Rs 25000/- per month towards rent, electricity, wages and interest to bank.
On average, his direct ( variable cost ) was coming to Rs 30/- per meal.
He had been able to realize on average a price of Rs 75/- per meal on monthly sales of 1200 meals.
He has also analyzed that if he brings his price down to Rs 60/- per meal , he can increase his sales to 2000 meals per month.
Based on above information, please advice the owner as his friend on following points:
+ Should he reduce his price from Rs 75/- to Rs 60/- per meal? What would be his revised profit on revised price and revised sales estimate as compared to current. Will it be
higher than current profit?
+ What would be the breakeven point on revised price as compared to BEP on current price?

1. Gaurav Fruit Juice Centre has its shop in a shopping mall, where next to his shop is another vendor, Energizer, who sells soft drinks @Rs 11/- per bottle. At this price of soft
drink by Energiser, Gaurav Juice centre sells 2500 glasses of fruit juice per month, with contribution of Rs 6/- per glass and fixed cost per month of his shop is Rs12000. Energiser,
to increase sale of his soft drinks, decides to reduce the price from Rs 11 to 10 per glass, leading to a fall in sales of Gaurav Fruit Juice Center to 2000 glasses per month
Please calculate cross elasticity of Fruit juice with Soft Drink.
What will be the profit for Gaurav Juice Centre on revised demand consequent upon price reduction by Enerziser

What are Cartel & Collussions? To which category of market they belong to? What are the key differences between the two? How the pricing decisions are taken in such markets?
Explain with suitable examples from Indian Industry , various entry barriers successfully applied for forestalling entry of new players by exiting companies.
What are the factors affecting demand of : 1. Leisure travelling by customers 2. Purchase of houses , and 3 Mid size cars
Explain the impact of increaseing output on marginal , avearge and fixed cost of a product by suitable illustration.
Explain with suitable examples the concept of Accounting & Economic costs , Implicit & Explicit costs and hostorical and replacement costs
What are the key differences between Monopolistic market and oligopoly market. How pricing stratregies are different in these two markets?
1. Find out the cross elasticity of demand for the train tickets, running from Station A to B which is also covered by a bus. The details of fares and number of passengers is as
under :
TRAIN
Fare
Original
45
Revised
45
What is relationship between train journey and bus travelling.

No. Of passengers
500
400

Fare
40
35

BUS
No. Of passengers
300
400