BBA FAA Sem 3 Syllabus

BL,MIS-T,MIS-L,RM,MA,FS,EVS,German,OM,IAPM
Business Law
SECTION A

Indian Contract Act, 1872 (Fundamental Knowledge) Essentials of valid contract, discharge of contract,
remedies for breach of contract.

SECTION B

Contracts of Indemnity, Guarantee, Bailment, Pledge and Agency

SECTION C

Sale of Goods Act 1930 Meaning of Sale and Goods, Conditions and Warranties, Transfer of Property,
Rights of an unpaid seller.

The Negotiable Instruments Act 1881 – Essentials of Negotiable instruments, Kinds of N.I. Holder and
Holder in Due Course, Negotiation by endorsements, crossing of a cheque and Dishonor of a cheque.

SECTION D

The Companies Act 2013 (Basic elementary knowledge) essential characteristics of a company, types of
companies, memorandum and articles of association prospectus, shares – kinds, allotment and transfer,
debentures, essential conditions for a valid meeting, kinds of meetings and resolutions.

Directors, Managing Directors, their appointment, qualifications, powers and limits on their
remuneration, prevention of oppression and mismanagement

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM- Theory

Section A

Unit 1: Concept, Role and Importance of MIS, MIS and Decision Making Concepts, Herbert Simon Model
of Decision Making

Concept of Information, Classification of Information, Value of Information, MIS and Information

Concepts

Section B

Unit 2: Concept of Systems Analysis and Design (SAD), Need for Systems Analysis, the Process of SAD,
MIS and System Analysis Planning, Designing, and Implementation of MIS, Testing

Section C
Unit 3: Decision Support Systems: Concept of Philosophy of DSS, Decision Support Systems - Overview,
Components and Classification, Steps in constructing a DSS, Enterprise Management System:
Introduction, Structure of ERP, Supply Chain Management

Section D

Unit 4: The Concept of DBMS and RDBMS, Role of DBA, Layered architecture, Key concept, ER Modeling,
Case study

MIS Lab
USING MS-ACCESS

1. Getting Familiar with Access Objects: Tables, Queries, Forms, Reports, and Modules.

2. Creating Database: Creating database using wizards, documenting the database, creating own

databases.

3. Creating Tables: Working with tables in design view, setting field properties, naming fields, setting

data types, setting primary key, multiple field primary keys, creating indexes, using table wizard.

4. Creating Queries: Working with query design grid, adding tables, adding fields, sorting records,

setting field criteria, planning for null values, using simple query wizard – summarizing your records.

5. Creating forms: Working in design view, components of a form in design view, sections of a form,

assigning form properties, modifying form properties to create a dialog box, using form templates,

creating forms with a wizard, auto forms.

6. Creating Reports: Using Report Wizards, Working with auto report, creating a report template,

inserting a chart into a report with the chart wizard, printing report.

7. Creating Labels and Mail-Merge Documents: Using the Label wizard, using custom labels, printing

multiple labels, merging access data with word document

Research Methodology
SECTION-A

Business Research – Meaning, types, managerial value of business research; theory and research –
components, concept, constructs definition, variables and hypothesis; Research process; Process &
Importance of problem definition, purpose and types of research proposal, ingredients of research
proposal.
SECTION-B

Research Design – Meaning, classification and elements of research design, Sampling Methods and
Techniques: Basic Concepts, Characteristics of a good sample, Sampling Frame, Sampling errors, Non
Sampling errors, Types of sampling: Probability Sample, Non Probability sampling. Concept of
Measurement: what is measured, Problems in measurement in management research - Validity and
Reliability. Levels of measurement - Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, Ratio scales

SECTION-C

Attitude Measurement Scales: Selecting a measurement scale, Rating and Ranking Scales Types of Data;
Primary Data, secondary data, Methods of Data collections; Questionnaire/schedule; questionnaire
designing, interview and observational methods, Data analysis and interpretation; editing, coding,
content analysis, and tabulation; Hypothesis testing – an overview of parametric and non-parametric
tests

SECTION-D

An overview of dependent and interdependent methods (Multiple regression, Discriminant analysis,

Conjoint analysis, Cluster analysis), Presentation of Results: Report writing: Purpose of a Report;
Essentials of a Good Report; Format of a Report; Types of Report Presentation, procedure of preparation
of reference and bibliography (APA model).

Management Accounting
Section-A

Introduction: Nature, Scope and Importance of Management Accounting: Difference between Financial
Accounting and Management Accounting: Difference between Cost Accounting and Management
Accounting: Cost Control, Cost Reduction, and Cost Management.

Financial statement Analysis: Common size financial statements, trend percentage analysis, Ratio
Analysis: Financial analysis of Companies.

Section B

Budgeting and Budgetary Control, Concept of Budget and Budgetary Control: Objectives, Merits and
Limitations of Budget Administration, Types of Budget: Fixed and Flexible Budgets. Zero-Base Budget,
Program and Performance Budget

Section-C

Standard Costing, Concept of Standard Cost and Standard Costing: Advantages, Limitations, and
Application: Variance Analysis: Calculation of Material Variances, Labor Variances, and overhead
Variances, Disposition of Variances.

Section D
Marginal Costing and Decision-Making-Concept of Marginal Costing, Differential Costing and Absorption
Costing, Break-Even Analysis, Use of above Costs in Decision-Making: Make or Buy, Change of Product-
Mix. Pricing and Determination of Shut-Down Point. Responsibility Accounting- Concept and Approaches
to Responsibility Accounting

Financial Services
SECTION – A

Functions of Financial System, Financial Assets, Financial Intermediaries, Financial Markets, Money
Market, Hire Purchase and Leasing, Venture Capital & its Features, Difference between Discounting

SECTION – B

New Issue Market (I.P.O ), Functions of new issue market, Method of floating issues,

Secondary market, B.S.E, N.S.E. Listing, Dematerialization of Shares, Listing of Securities, Share pricing

SECTION - C

Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Depositing system, Objectives of Depositors, Listing of
Securities

SECTION - D

Factoring, Forfeiting, Credit rating in India, Functions of credit rating Agencies, Mutual Funds,
Management and Products, Micro Finance

Environmental Science
1. Environmental Studies: Scope and Importance

Environment and Ecology

Weather and Climate
Habitat Environmental Science
Need for Public Awareness: Personal Involvement
Environmental Ethics Goals of Environmental Education
Objectives of Environmental Education
Scope and Importance of Environment Education

2. Natural Resources

What are Natural Resources?

Classification of Natural Resources -

a) Forest Resources
 b) Water Resources
c) Mineral Resources
d) Food Resources
e) Energy Resources
f) Land Resources
3. Ecosystem

What is ecosystem?

Ecosystem Characteristics

a) Structural Features
b) Functional Features

Food Chains in Ecosystem

a) Grazing Food Chain

b) Detritus Food Chain

Food Webs - Inter Locking Pattern of Organisms

Ecological Pyramids

Energy Flow in Ecosystem

Nutrient Cycling-

a) Hydrological Cycle
b) Carbon cycle
c) Nitrogen cycle
d) Phosphorous cycle
e) Integration of Natural cycles

Ecological Succession-

a) Parameters of Eco-Succession
b) Causes of Succession
c) Basic Types of Succession
d) Process of Succession

Major Ecosystem-

a) Marine Ecosystem
b) Grassland Ecosystem
c) Forest Ecosystem
d) Desert Ecosystem
 German- Foreign Language

Operational Management
SECTION A

What is operations management? Operations management is important in all types of organization, The
input-transformation-output process, The process hierarchy, Operations processes have different
characteristics, The activities of operations management, The quality objective, The speed objective, The
dependability objective, The flexibility objective, The cost objective, Trade-offs between performance
objectives, What is strategy and what is operations strategy?

SECTION B

What is layout? The basic layout types, what type of layout should an operation choose? Detailed design
of the layout, what is process technology? Understanding process technologies, evaluating process
technologies, implementing process technologies, what is capacity management, Measuring demand
and capacity, the alternative capacity plans, choosing a capacity planning and control approach, Capacity
planning as a queuing problem

SECTION C

What is inventory? Why is inventory necessary? Some disadvantages of holding inventory, the volume
decision - how much to order, the timing decision when to place an order, Inventory analysis and control
systems, what is supply chain management? The activities of supply chain management, Types of
relationships in supply chains

SECTION D

What is ERP? How did ERP develop? Implementation of ERP systems, Master production schedule, The
bill of materials (BOM), Inventory records, What is lean synchronization? Eliminate waste, Lean
synchronization and other approaches, what is quality and why is it so important? Diagnosing quality
problems, Conformance to specification. Total Quality Management (TQM)

Investment and Portfolio Management

SECTION A

INTRODUCTION: A quick review of basic concepts, Financial Assets, Financial Markets Financial Market:
Primary Markets and interrelationship with secondary markets;

Overview of Investments: Investment objectives; Investment Environment; Investment Alternatives,

Risk and Return in the Context of Portfolio.

SECTION B

ANALYSIS OF PORTFOLIO: Fundamental Analysis – (a) Economic Analysis (b) Industry Analysis (c)
Company Analysis; Technical Analysis – use of charts, types

SECTION C

PORTFOLIO SELECTION: Portfolio Models – Efficient Market Hypothesis, Random Walk Theory, Portfolio
risk & return, Traditional Portfolio Selection, Markowitz Portfolio Selection, Sharpe’s Portfolio Selection,
Capital Asset Pricing Model.

SECTION D

PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT: Growth Investing, Value Investing, Sharpe’s, Treynor’s, Jensen’s and Fama’s
Performance Measures; Portfolio Revision: Portfolio Re-balancing and Upgrading
Date Sheet-

RM Important Topics-

Hypothesis, Types of hypothesis, objectives of research study, longitudinal and cross sectional studies,
types of research, sampling and non-sampling, meaning of population and sample, all types of research
with examples, Four levels of measurement scales in detail with examples (Types of measurement and
scale), variable, constructs, types of variables, variables and constructs, concept of validity and
reliability, steps in research process, probability sampling design and non-probability sampling design,
Research Design, Sampling and Non sampling Error