What are the functions of Financial Market?
Financial Market plays an important role in the allocation of scarce resources in an economy by performing four important functions:
Mobilization of saving and channelising them into the Most Productive Uses: A financial market facilitates the transfer of savings from savers to investors. Thus, it helps in Channelising surplus funds into the most productive uses.
Facilitating price discovery: Households represent the supply of funds and the business firms represent the demand. The interaction between the demand and supply helps in the price discovery of financial asset, which is being traded in a particular market.
Providing liquidity to financial assets: Financial market facilitates easy purchase and sale of financial assets. In doing so, they provide liquidity, which means that financial assets are easily converted into cash whenever required.
Reducing the cost of transactions: Financial markets provide a common platform where buyers and sellers meet. It helps in saving time, effort and money of the buyers and sellers at the time of trading in the market, by providing them valuable information.
India’s largest domestic investor Life Insurance Corporation of India has once again come to government’s rescue by subscribing 70% of Hindustan Aeronautics’ ₹4,200-crore initial public offering.
a. Which market is being reflected in the above case?
b. State which method of floatation in the above identified market is being highlighted in the case? (Primary Market)
c. Explain any two other methods of floatation. (Private Placement, Offer through prospectus, offer for sale).
Explain the objectives and functions of the SEBI.
What is the common name for Beneficiary Owner Account, which is to be opened by the investors for trading in securities?
State any two reasons why investing public can expect a safe and fair deal in the stock market. (Point w.r.t safety of Transactions – Functions of the Stock Exchange).
Explain the recent Capital Market reforms in India.
Lalita wants to buy shares of Akbar Enterprises, through her broker Kushvinder. She has a Demat Account and a bank account for cash transactions in the securities market. Discuss the subsequent steps involved in the screen-based trading for buying and selling of securities in this case.
Name the document prepared in the process of online trading of securities that is legally enforceable and helps to settle disputes/claims between the investor and the broker.
“Money Market is essentially a Market for short term funds.” Discuss.
State the objective of NSE?
Name any two details that need to be provided by the investor to the broker while filling a client registration form.
How does planning provide direction?
What is meant by staffing?
Identify the network of social relationships which arises spontaneously due to interaction at work.
What is informal communication?
State the meaning of controlling.
What is meant by capital structure?v
What is meant by management?
State any two advantages of branding to marketers of goods and services?
What makes principles of management flexible?
Under which consumer right does a business firm set up consumer grievance cell?
Describe the steps involved in developing a marketing strategy.
What is meant by recruitment? How is it different from selection?
What is the role of NGOs in Consumer Protection?
Explain the following Principles of management given by Fayol with examples:
a. Unity of direction
b. Equity
c. Espirit de corps
d. Order
e. Centralisation and decentralisation
f. Initiative
Can planning work in a changing environment? Give a reason to justify your answer.
What are the advantages of training to the individual and to the organisation?
Explain the elements of communication in directing.
Name the concept of financial management which increases the return to equity shareholders due to the presence of fixed financial charges.
An auto company C Ltd. is facing a problem of declining market share due to increased competition from other new and existing players in the market. Its competitors are introducing lower priced models for mass consumers who are price sensitive. C Ltd. realized that it needs to take steps immediately to improve its market standing in the future. For quality conscious consumers, C Limited plans to introduce new models with added features and new technological advancements. The company has formed a team with representatives from all the levels of management. This team will brainstorm and will determine the steps that will be adopted by the organisation for implementing the above strategy. Explain the features of Planning highlighted in the situation given below. (Hint: Planning is pervasive, Planning is futuristic and Planning is a mental exercise).
A major insurance company handled all recruiting, screening and training processes for data entry/customer service representatives. Their competitor was attracting most of the qualified, potential employees in their market. Recruiting was made even more difficult by the strong economy and the ‘jobseeker’s market.’ This resulted in the client having to choose from candidates who had the ‘soft’ skills needed for the job, but lacked the proper ‘hard’ skills and training.
Questions
a. As an HR manager what problems do you see in the company?
b. How do you think it can be resolved and what would be its impact on the company?