Third Semester

S.No
.

Subject

Subject

Evaluation

Code

Credit

Scheme
Internal External Total

EMBA401

Project Management

40

60

100

EMBA402

Corporate Governance,
Values and Ethics

40

60

100

EIT-01

40

60

100

EIT-02

Business System Analysis

and Design

40

60

100

EFM-02

Mergers, Acquisition and

Corporate restructuring

40

60

100

EFM-07

Futures, Options and Risk

Management

40

60

100

200

200

100

100

240

660

900

30

Data Warehousing and

Database Management

EMBA407

Major Project

EMBA408

*Comprehensive
Voce
Total

Viva

EMBA-401 Project Management

Max :40 hrs

Unit 1: Project Management Principles and Strategies, key concepts and principles in project management
to describe the roles and responsibilities of the project manager
Unit 2: Definition of project and project management, project life cycle
Unit 3: Planning the project, project planning process , project charter and project plan, work breakdown
structure (WBS) techniques,, project structuring and organization.
Unit 4: Estimating Project Costs, organize project activities, resource and time constraints, final project
schedule manually or by using automated tools.
Unit 5: Activity sequencing, precedence network diagram, critical path method, program evaluation and
review techniques, project scheduling, basics of scheduling.
Unit 6: Executing the Project, basic needs and requirement of project execution, project tracking and
control elements, factor contribute to successful project control.
Reference Books:
1. Meredith, J.R. & Mantel, S.J. (2008) Project Management: a managerial approach. 7th ed.
Indianapolis: Wiley Publishing.
2. Charvat, J., Project management methodologies: selecting, implementing and supporting
methodologies and processes for projects. 2003: John Wiley & Sons.
3. PMI, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. 2000.

EMBA-402 Corporate Governance, Values and Ethics

Max :40 hrs

Unit 1: Introduction: CSR, CSR A New Paradigm, Framework of Corporate Governance

Unit 2: Globalization and CSR, Phases and Generations of CSR
Unit 3: Theories of CSR and Need of CSR, Pyramid of CSR, Corporate Responsibilities and Ethics,
Comprehensive Case Studies
Unit 4: Models and Promotion of CSR, Emerging Trends in Corporate Governance, Comprehensive Case
Studies on the emerging trends in CSR
Unit 5: The Nature of Ethics in Management Business Standards and Values Value Orientation of the Firm
Unit 6: Measuring the impact of CSR, Steps and Implementation, Collaboration Continuum, Case Study.
Reference Books:
1. Fernando A.C; Business Ethics and Corporate Governance; Pearson Education; 10th edition
2. McGregor, Lynn, The human face of Corporate Governance, Palgrave Publishers,
2000.
3. Monks, Robert A.G., Corporate Governance, Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

EIT-01 Data Warehousing and Data Base Management

Unit 1: Concept of Data warehouse, Uses of Data warehouse, Justifying a Data warehouse, Contents of
Data warehouse, Data Warehouse design approaches, Relational Data Warehouse, Multi-Dimensional
Database structures, ETL: Data extraction, Transformation, Cleansing, Loading, Data Mart, Data Warehouse
Information flows, Metadata.
Unit 2: Analyzing the contents of a data warehouse: Online analytical processing (OLAP).
Unit 3: Hardware and Software Tools, Concepts of Data Mining, Using Data warehouse for: Business
Intelligence and CRM. Introduction to Database; Organization of Database; Components of Database
Management Systems; Data Models; Entity-Relationship Model; Network Data Model; Hierarchy Data
Model; Semantic Data Model; Advantages of DBMS
Unit 4: Basic File Structure Indexed: Sequential; Hashing and File Organization; Relational Data Model;
Relational Calculus; Tuple Calculus System; Structured English Query Language; Algebraic Operations
Unit 5: Relational Database Design: Integrity Constraints; Functional Dependencies; Normalization;
Physical Database Design; Decomposition of Relation Schemes; Query Processing and Optimization SQL
Queries; SQL; The Client / Server Database Environment
Unit 6: Object Oriented Data Models; Network and Hierarchy Models; Security; Data Warehousing; Data
and Database Administration; Distributed Databases.
Reference Books:
1. Beynon-Davies P- Database Systems; Palgrave, 2003
2. Hoffer- Modern Database Management; Pearson Education, 6 th edition
3. Majumdar and Bhattacharya- Database Management System; Tata McGraw-Hill.

EIT-02- Business Systems Analysis and Design

Unit 1: Information System Building Blocks, System Analysis: Fact finding Techniques for Requirement
Analysis
Unit 2: Modeling System Requirements with Use Cases, Data Modeling and analysis, Managing
Requirement Changes
Unit 3: Process Modeling, Re-engineering Business Processes, Object-Oriented Analysis and Modeling
Unit 4: Application Architecture and Modeling, Database Design, user interface design and prototyping
Unit 5: Issues in Planning and Implementation of IT based Systems
Unit 6: Implementing and Maintaining System.
Reference Books:
1. Jeffrey Whitten & Lonnie D Bentley; Systems Analysis and Design Methods; Tata Mcgraw Hill
2. Sommerville ; Software Engineering; Pearson Education
3. Roger S. Pressman; Software Engineering; McGrawHill

EFM-02 Mergers, Acquisitions & Corporate restructuring

Unit 1 Mergers an Introduction:
In the nature of acquisitions and amalgamations. types of merger motives behind mergers
theories of mergers operating, financial and managerial synergy of mergers value creation in
horizontal, vertical and conglomerate mergers internal and external change forces contributing to
M & A activities A strategic perspective- industry life cycle and product life cycle analysis in M&A
decision, strategic approaches to M&A- SWOT analysis, BCG matrix, Porters Five forces model
Unit 2 Legal Framework
Legal and regulatory frame work of M & A provisions of companies act 1956, Indian Income Tax
act 1961 SEBI takeover code, Provisions of Competition Act.
Unit 3 Corporate restructuring:
Different methods of restructuring joint ventures sell off and spin off divestitures equity carve
out leveraged buy outs (LBO) management buy outs master limited partnerships employee
stock ownership plans (ESOP)
Unit 4 Merger Process:
Dynamics of M&A process- identification of targets negotiation closing the deal. Five-stage model
due diligence (detailed discussion). Process of merger integration organizational and human
aspects managerial challenges of M & A
Unit 5 Valuation:
Valuation approaches discounted cash flow valuation relative valuation valuing operating and
financial synergy valuing corporate control valuing of LBO Methods of financing mergers cash
offer, share exchange ratio mergers as a capital budgeting decision
Unit 6 Accounting and taxation for amalgamation:
Pooling of interest method, purchase method procedure laid down under Indian companies act of
1956 Takeovers, types, hostile takeover approaches, Takeover defenses financial defensive
measures Coercive offers and defense anti-takeover amendments poison pill defense Legal and
regulatory frame work of M & A.
Reference Books:
1. Mergers acquisitions and Business valuation
2. Ravindhar VadapalliExcel books, 1/e 2007
2. Ashwath Damodaran Corporate Finance-Theory And PracticeJohn Wiley & Sons.
3. Company Law & Practice Taxmann Recommended book for module-8

EFM-06 Futures, Options and Risk Management

Unit 1 Fundamentals of derivatives: Basics of hedging credit, currency and interest rate risks
-Difference between hedging and speculation -Devising and analyzing a borrowing and hedging
strategy -Hedge Funds Vs Fund Managers/Mutual Funds
Unit 2 Forwards and Futures; Option fundamentals: calls, puts, and underlying; Hedging with
Futures, Option Positions and Strategies; Binomial and Black-Scholes Option Valuation. Introduction
to Interest Rate Derivatives; Credit Risk; Credit Derivatives
Unit 3 Interest rate markets-Type of rates, Zero rates, Bond pricing, Determining Zero rates, Farward
rules, Farward rate agreements (FRA), Treasury bond & Treasury note futures, Interest rate
derivatives (Black model).
Unit 4 Risk management: objective of Risk management, Identifying types of risk, management of
translation, transaction and economic exposure. Quantifying risk and Hedging techniques
Unit 5 Credit risk-Bond prices and the probability of default, Historical default
experience, Reducing exposure to Credit risk, Credit default swaps, Total
return swaps, Credit spread options, Collateralized debt obligation.
Unit 6 Value at Risk (VAR)-Measure,
Historical simulation, Model building approach, linear approach, Quadratic model, Monte Carlo
simulation, stress testing and back testing.
Reference Books:
1. Futures, Options and Swaps Robert W Kolb Blackwell Publishing.
2. Introduction to Derivatives and Risk Management Chance Thomson Learning, 6/e, 2004
3. Options Futures & Other Derivatives- John C.Hull - (Pearson Education), 6/e