When should a firm be shut down?
What constitutes insider trading and why is it wrong?
What are the principles of accounts? What does dy/dx mean? What is a point of influx?
What is capital account convertibility?
What are 'double entry accounts'? Give a definition that your grandmother would understand?
What is 'single entry' ?
Explain the entry for unpaid/accrued interest. Where is the double entry?
What are the principles of costing? If I had a factory and wanted to undertake a costing exercise, how would I go about it?
What is break-even analysis?
Give examples of fixed, variable and semi-variable costs?
What is net present value?
What is internal rate of return?
What is sunk cost?
What is the difference between accounts and finance?
What is working capital ratio? Acid test ratio? Proprietary ratio? What is the ideal acid test ratio?
Is a bank loan a current liability ?
What are the things you would look for in a balance sheet if you are analysing the performance of a company?
What is the difference between owned and borrowed capital? For a company with a long gestation period, which kind is better?
What is capital gearing ratio?
What is costing?
What is marginal costing? What are its applications?
After an asset has been fully depreciated, how should its cost be allocated to the product?
Draw the various cost curves. Is the fixed cost curve always downward sloping?
What is the difference between preference shares and equity shares?
What is working capital?
What are direct and indirect taxes? When was excise started?
What is a presumptive tax ?
What is discounted cash flow? How is it used? Why is depreciation not deducted from profit after tax for the purposes of discounting?
What is transfer pricing?
What is SLR ? CRR ? What is the difference between the two?
What are the other ways to raise funds from public other than shares and debentures?
What is a brand? Do you think you can have brands in the service sector? Name three product categories which have better sales in the rural areas than the urban areas.
What do you understand by ‘Value for Money’? What is India’s BOP figure for the last quarter?
What is Gold Bond Scheme? Why was it introduced?
What is MODVAT? Professional tax? Corporation tax?
Differentiate between excise and customs duty?
What is to be done to improve the BOP situation?
What is the difference between growth and development?
Where does India figure in world trade?
What is the difference between IMF and the Word Bank? Name some projects that the World Bank has taken up in India?
Which is the largest company in the world? In India? Which do you think is a better index of measuring size profits, sales, assets?
Difference between cash and funds. Break even point definition and plotting.
What does a chartered accountant do?
What is meant by legal entity of a company? Can a shareholder be an employee/creditor of a company?
What is the maximum number of companies a chartered accountant can audit? In a CA firm, if there are 20 partners, how many companies can be audited?
What is full convertibility? Who will gain from it? Exporters or importers?
What is the difference between finance and accounts, shares and debentures?
What does the ISI mark stand for?
What is rupee convertibility?
What is black money? Who has worked on it?
What are transfer earnings?
What do you mean by trade account?
What is the effect of depreciation on the balance sheet and a P & L a/c (cash flow)? What is working capital? How do you control the flow of stocks?
Different tools used in capital budgeting. Which is the best? When can IRR and NPV methods contradict? What is a cash flow? What is NPV, IRR? Can there be more than one IRR ?
Differentiate between fiscal, revenue and budgetary deficits?
What do you mean by double entry accounts? How does it differ from single entry? What is a balance sheet? How is it related to a P&L a/c? What is an accrued expenditure?
What is Break-even analysis? Explain as if I were a layman by drawing a graph.
What is the MRTP Act? How do you define monopolistic trade practices and restrictive trade practices?
Draw the demand curve for petroleum products considering that their demand has been continuously growing inspite of a high rate of rise in their prices.
When will deficits not be harmful (budget deficits, fiscal deficits)?
What is budget deficit? How is deficit met? Is budget deficit a boon or curse for commerce?
What is annuity? When is present value more than future value?
What are the various items of information required for calculation under the net present value method of capital budgeting?
How do economic theories help in creating value in real world?
Define economics of scale?
Define economics of scope?
Make a break-even point diagram?
What is GDP of India?
Give the equation of straight curve?
What is Linear programming?
How will economics help in becoming a good manager?
Derive the consumer's demand curve from his preferences?
DIfferentiate between Normal goods and Giffin' goods?
What subjects do you have in 3rd year economics?
Discuss the theory of money?
What are determinants of money multiplier?
What is elasticity of demand? What is marginal utility?
How will you link call money rates and exchange rates?
Compare monetary and fiscal policy. How are they related?
What does RBI do?
What is shadow pricing?
Draw the Hicks-Allen price-substitution effect?
How is the interest rate determined in a free market?
What is opportunity cost?
What is the parallel economy?
What is classical economics?
What do you think went wrong with the Mahalanobis strategy of planning?
What is Giffen's Paradox?
What is perfect competition? How is price determined under perfect competition?
Explain the accounts payable cycle?
What is the difference between the accrual accounting and cash accounting?
What is the distinction between cost accounting and management accounting?
What is the difference between financial accounting and management accounting?
What constitutes insider trading and why is it wrong?
What are the principles of accounts? What does dy/dx mean? What is a point of influx?
What is capital account convertibility?
What are 'double entry accounts'? Give a definition that your grandmother would understand?
What is 'single entry' ?
Explain the entry for unpaid/accrued interest. Where is the double entry?
What are the principles of costing? If I had a factory and wanted to undertake a costing exercise, how would I go about it?
What is break-even analysis?
Give examples of fixed, variable and semi-variable costs?
What is net present value?
What is internal rate of return?
What is sunk cost?
What is the difference between accounts and finance?
What is working capital ratio? Acid test ratio? Proprietary ratio? What is the ideal acid test ratio?
Is a bank loan a current liability ?
What are the things you would look for in a balance sheet if you are analysing the performance of a company?
What is the difference between owned and borrowed capital? For a company with a long gestation period, which kind is better?
What is capital gearing ratio?
What is costing?
What is marginal costing? What are its applications?
After an asset has been fully depreciated, how should its cost be allocated to the product?
Draw the various cost curves. Is the fixed cost curve always downward sloping?
What is the difference between preference shares and equity shares?
What is working capital?
What are direct and indirect taxes? When was excise started?
What is a presumptive tax ?
What is discounted cash flow? How is it used? Why is depreciation not deducted from profit after tax for the purposes of discounting?
What is transfer pricing?
What is SLR ? CRR ? What is the difference between the two?
What are the other ways to raise funds from public other than shares and debentures?
What is a brand? Do you think you can have brands in the service sector? Name three product categories which have better sales in the rural areas than the urban areas.
What do you understand by ‘Value for Money’? What is India’s BOP figure for the last quarter?
What is Gold Bond Scheme? Why was it introduced?
What is MODVAT? Professional tax? Corporation tax?
Differentiate between excise and customs duty?
What is to be done to improve the BOP situation?
What is the difference between growth and development?
Where does India figure in world trade?
What is the difference between IMF and the Word Bank? Name some projects that the World Bank has taken up in India?
Which is the largest company in the world? In India? Which do you think is a better index of measuring size profits, sales, assets?
Difference between cash and funds. Break even point definition and plotting.
What does a chartered accountant do?
What is meant by legal entity of a company? Can a shareholder be an employee/creditor of a company?
What is the maximum number of companies a chartered accountant can audit? In a CA firm, if there are 20 partners, how many companies can be audited?
What is full convertibility? Who will gain from it? Exporters or importers?
What is the difference between finance and accounts, shares and debentures?
What does the ISI mark stand for?
What is rupee convertibility?
What is black money? Who has worked on it?
What are transfer earnings?
What do you mean by trade account?
What is the effect of depreciation on the balance sheet and a P & L a/c (cash flow)? What is working capital? How do you control the flow of stocks?
Different tools used in capital budgeting. Which is the best? When can IRR and NPV methods contradict? What is a cash flow? What is NPV, IRR? Can there be more than one IRR ?
Differentiate between fiscal, revenue and budgetary deficits?
What do you mean by double entry accounts? How does it differ from single entry? What is a balance sheet? How is it related to a P&L a/c? What is an accrued expenditure?
What is Break-even analysis? Explain as if I were a layman by drawing a graph.
What is the MRTP Act? How do you define monopolistic trade practices and restrictive trade practices?
Draw the demand curve for petroleum products considering that their demand has been continuously growing inspite of a high rate of rise in their prices.
When will deficits not be harmful (budget deficits, fiscal deficits)?
What is budget deficit? How is deficit met? Is budget deficit a boon or curse for commerce?
What is annuity? When is present value more than future value?
What are the various items of information required for calculation under the net present value method of capital budgeting?
How do economic theories help in creating value in real world?
Define economics of scale?
Define economics of scope?
Make a break-even point diagram?
What is GDP of India?
Give the equation of straight curve?
What is Linear programming?
How will economics help in becoming a good manager?
Derive the consumer's demand curve from his preferences?
DIfferentiate between Normal goods and Giffin' goods?
What subjects do you have in 3rd year economics?
Discuss the theory of money?
What are determinants of money multiplier?
What is elasticity of demand? What is marginal utility?
How will you link call money rates and exchange rates?
Compare monetary and fiscal policy. How are they related?
What does RBI do?
What is shadow pricing?
Draw the Hicks-Allen price-substitution effect?
How is the interest rate determined in a free market?
What is opportunity cost?
What is the parallel economy?
What is classical economics?
What do you think went wrong with the Mahalanobis strategy of planning?
What is Giffen's Paradox?
What is perfect competition? How is price determined under perfect competition?
Explain the accounts payable cycle?
What is the difference between the accrual accounting and cash accounting?
What is the distinction between cost accounting and management accounting?
What is the difference between financial accounting and management accounting?
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