Business quiz questions

Dr. T.K. Jain.

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 Why is Khaloud Ahmed
Juwan Al Dhahiri famous
these days?
• She became the first women judge in
the Arab world.

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 Why is Kashmir Singh
famous these days?
• He was granted amnesty by Pakistan
President recently – he spent 35
years in Pakistani Jails.

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 Why is Sister Alphonsa
famous these days?
• She will the first completely Indian
Saint as per Vetican. She will be
second saint from India – the first
was Gonsalo Garcia in 1862 ( who was
partly Indian).

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 Why is Arvind Johari in
news these days?
• He has been debarred from trading
in stock markets by SEBI for 10
years due to involvement in securities
scam.

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 Why is Kaku Yamanaka
famous these days?
• He was the oldest person of Japan –
died at the age of 113 recently.

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 Why is DD LAPANG
famous these days?
• He has recently taken over as Chief
Minister of Meghalaya (India).

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 Why is Dr. Amar Bose
famous these days?
• He has become the second Indian
after Dr. R. Srinivasan to be inducted
in the National Inventors’ Hall of
Fame a

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What is asset turnover?
• Sales divided by Average Assets.

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 What is ROI?
• (PBIT / NET OPERATING
INVESTMENT) *100

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 WHAT IS TRANSFER
PRICING?
• Pricing system for transfer products
from one unit of a group to another
unit of the same group.

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 What is profit centre?
• A division or unit of an organisation
which is responsible for revenue and
expenses both – and is evaluated on
the basis of profit earned.
Measurement focuses on revenue and
expenses on which the organisation
has control.

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 What is responsibility
report?
• A report providing information as to
how well the manager achieved
organisational goals and plans. It
covers controllable factors under the
manager’s responsibility.

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 What is ALPHA?
• It is the percentage of return of the
security – when the return on market
portfolio is Zero.

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 What is BETA?
• Coveraiance (between Return from
company and market return)/
Variance of company returns
• Higher the BETA - more the risk.
• Beta of Market portfolio is always
taken as 1.

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What is systematic risk?
• It is the extent of fluctuations in
the returns on account of certain
factors, which will affect all the
companies in the Industry – thus it
cannot be minimised.

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 What is financial
leverage?
• It is the variability in EPS due to
changes in EBIT.
• It denotes percentage change in EPS
due to 1% change in EBIT.
• EPS = Earnings per share
• EBIT = Earning before interest and
taxes

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 What is operating
leverage?
• It denotes variability in EBIT due to
changes in level of output. It depends
on ratio of fixed expenses / variable
expenses.
• It denotes percentage change in
EBIT due to 1% change in out put.

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 What is demerit goods?
• The goods for which social value is
less than their monetary value – for
example low quality liquars,
cigerattes etc.

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What are externalities?
• A project may have external benefits
and external costs – examples of
external costs include pollution,
opportunity cost, shadow prices.
Examples of external benefits are:
social welfare, increased education
etc.

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 What is shadow price?
• The real price which is not reflected
by the market forces is called
shadow price – which may be
identified by willingness of people to
pay

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 What is SCBA?
• It is the systematic evaluation of
project on social costs and social
benefits. Social costs and benefits
are different from financial costs
and benefits.

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 What is LM approach of
SCBA?
• Little and Mirrlees approach to SCBA
– it is also called UNIDO approach of
SCBA.

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 What is opportunity
cost?
• The best opportunity forgone is
called opportunity cost. For example,
if you leave a job of 5 million Rs. To
become an entrepreneur – your
opporutnity cost is 5 million Rs. This
concept was given by David Ricardo.

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 Name any two popular
probability distributions?
• Pascal
• Poisson
• Normal
• Binomial etc.

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 What is bernoulli
process?
• Where there are only two outcomes
possible – and their probability is
stable- observations are independent
– we use this process to identify
probability. We use it in binomial or
pascal distribution.

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What is cluster analysis?
• It is a systematic technique for
market segmentation in marketing
research (segmentation means
breaking down market in smaller
groups – based on any logical criteria
- like gender, age , etc.)

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 What is MDS or
positioning map?
• It is a multivariate analysis technique
of marketing research. It is used to
identify preferences of people
regarding products / brands etc.
• MDS= Multi Dimensional Scaling

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 What is conjoint
analysis?
• It is a powerful technique of
marketing research – where we use
factor analysis and data
decomposition to identify attributes
of products as perceived by the
custoemers.

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