CS Executive Financial and Strategic Management PYQ December 2018: Question Paper and Available Answers
CS Executive
Financial and Strategic Management
PYQS Series
December 2018
29 Questions Indexed
ICSI Examination Archive & Suggested Answers: This directory contains indexed questions from the paper for CS Executive Financial and Strategic Management PYQS (December 2018). Open the source paper and available answers. Older sessions follow the syllabus and statutory provisions applicable to their examination year.
Indexed questions
- Comment on the following: Profit maximization is the sole objective of Financial Management.
- Comment on the following: The firm is not required to pay dividends on retained earnings, so it may be argued that the retained earnings have no cost as such.
- Comment on the following: The interest rate given by a bank for deposits and the repo rate are the decisive factors in the calculation of Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate
- X Ltd. issues 1,000, 6% preference shares of ₹100 each redeemable after a maximum period of 20 years at face value. The floatation cost is ₹4 per share. Find the cost of capital.
- Calculate Reorder level, Minimum level and Average stock level from the following information of X Ltd. : Normal usage 50 units per week, Minimum usage 25 units per week, Maximum u
- From the following data, calculate the degree of operating leverage of the two companies X Ltd. and Y Ltd. : X Ltd. Y Ltd. Sales (₹) 20,00,000 25,00,000 Variable expenses 40% 30% F
- The present credit term of X Ltd. are 1/10 net 30. Its annual sales are ₹40,00,000, its average collection period is 20 days. Its variable cost and average total costs to sales are
- The following information is available in respect of the rate of return on investment (r), the capitalisation rate (Ke) and earnings per share (E) of X Ltd. : r = 12%, E = 20. Dete
- Company X and Company Y are in the same risk class, and are identical in every respect except that company X uses debt, while company Y does not. The levered firm has ₹4,50,000 deb
- X Ltd. belongs to a risk class for which the approximate capitalisation rate is 10%. It currently has outstanding 2,500 shares selling at ₹100 each. The company is contemplating th
- X Ltd. has furnished the following information: Earnings per share (EPS) ₹8, Dividend payout ratio 25%, Market price per share ₹80, Tax rate 30%, Growth rate of dividend 8%. The co
- Differentiate between the following: 'Investment' and 'Speculation'
- Differentiate between the following: 'Markowitz model' and 'Sharpe index model'
- Differentiate between the following: 'Capital Budgeting' and 'Capital Rationing'.
- X Ltd. plans to manufacture and sell 400 units of electronic appliances per month at a price of ₹600 each. The ratios of cost to selling price are as follows: Raw Material 30%, Pac
- X Ltd. has a machine having an additional life of 5 years, which costs ₹2,00,000 and has a book value of ₹80,000. A new machine costing ₹4,00,000 is available. Though its capacity
- A private bank, as a part of Comprehensive Internal Management Study, has opted to modernise the banking system. The situation is very tough for the banking players in the current
- A startup company is thinking of launching a low cost detergent powder in the market. The market for the said product is already dominated by big FMCG players. As a strategic profe
- A company ABC is finding difficult to adapt itself in the changing environment. A strategic consultant has advised it to go for an environmental scanning to deal with the current p
- A food processing company has started losing its market share for its products. Based on the result of market survey for its products, it observed that the customers were not being
- Two firms A and B are belonging to the service sector. They are identical except growth rate and market share because of locational and other external reasons. Firm A has high mark
- Comment on the following: Management is the art of getting things done through people.
- Comment on the following: Strategic Management is of paramount significance for a company secretary.
- Comment on the following: Strategic Financial Management (SFM) is concerned with taking three key financial decisions.
- Comment on the following: TOWS strategies are product of trade off between internal and external factors.
- Comment on the following: The first and foremost managerial function is 'planning'.
- Comment on the following: Business environment is aggregate of all conditions, events and influences that surround and affect the business.
- Comment on the following: The nature of business strategy is executive and governing, whereas the corporate strategy is deterministic and legislative.
- Comment on the following: Strategy formulation and strategy implementation are not supplanting each other but supplementing each other.
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