Saturday, December 13, 2008

Financial services

NBFC

Meaning

Different categories of NBFC

legislation on NBFCs

Regulation of NBFCs

     Two compulsory prerequisites

      Computation of NOF

Procedure for obtaining registration

Processing of application by RBI

Cancellation of registration

Procedure for cancellation of registration

Appellate remedy

NBFCs exempted from registration

Lease

Meaning

Parties

Types

Salient features of Financial lease

Salient features of Operating lease

Hire purchase

Meaning

Condition

Modus operandi of HP system

Operating Lease & Financing lease

Basis Financing Operating
Life of contract    
Maintenance    
Cancellation    
Duration    
Risk of obsolescence    
cost of Assets    

HP & lease

Basis HP Lease
Ownership    
Down payment    
Depreciation    
Maintenance    
Capitalization    
Tax Benefit    
Risk of obsolescence    
Reporting    

HP & Installment Payment

Basis HP Installment
Ownership    
Call option    

Factoring

Types

  • Recourse and non-recourse factoring
  • Advance and maturity factoring
  • Disclosed and undisclosed factoring
  • domestic and export/cross border factoring

Function of factor

  • Maintenance/administration of sales ledger
  • collection of facility
  • financing trade debts
  • credit control and credit protection
  • Advisory services

Advantage of factoring

  • convertibility
  • definite pattern of cash inflows
  • Reduction in collection & administration costs
  • Compensating balance are not required

Factoring and forfaiting

Functions of merchant banker

Portfolio Management

Diversification

Systematic & unsystematic risk

CAPM

Functions of portfolio management

Objective of Portfolio management

Activities for an efficient management

Principal for effective management

Factors effecting investment decision in portfolio management

Fundamental analysis for identifying industries with growth potential

Portfolio theory

Traditional approach to portfolio management

Modern approach to portfolio management

Dow Jones theory to portfolio management

Formula plan

Fundamental analysis

Random walk theory to portfolio management

Technical analysis

Technical analysis Vs fundamental analysis

Use of matrix approach in investment decision

Types of risk involved with G-Sec

Qualified institutional buyers

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Types of financing

Term Loan

  1. Duration
  2. Purpose of term loan
  3. Special features

Bridge finance/Loan

  1. Meaning
  2. Purpose
  3. Terms

Venture capital financing

  1. meaning
  2. methods
    1. Equity financing
    2. conditional loan
    3. income note
    4. participating debenture
  3. benefit
  4. limitation

 

Debt securitisation

  1. Meaning
  2. Process
  3. Steps involved in a securitisation process
  4. Parties involved in securitisation process
  5. instruments of securitisation
  6. benefit of originator
  7. Benefit to investors
  8. Recent scenarios

Promoters contribution is one of the principal means of financing the projects

Joint Ventures

Principal reasons

  1. Economic of scale
  2. Risk sharing
  3. Technology access
  4. market access

Objective of undertaking Joint ventures abroad

  1. Sharing of experience and expertise
  2. setting up enterprise
  3. safeguarding of market
  4. expectation of a reasonable return
  5. Participation
  6. Assured supply of raw material
  7. Diversification of business risks

Important financial issues for foreign technical collaboration

  1. Tax aspect
  2. Cash flow aspect
  3. Risk aspects

Financial consideration while buying foreign technology

  1. Lump sum vs Royalty
  2. Tax issues
  3. Government clearance

Dividend

Walter's Approach to dividend policy

  1. Symbolically
  2. Optimum dividend
  3. assumption
  4. criticism

Factors for determining dividend

  1. Legal consideration
  2. Stability of earning
  3. Opportunities for reinvestment and growth
  4. Cash flow
  5. Level of inflation in the economy
  6. Effect on market prices
  7. Tax consideration
  8. Other factors

Business valuation

principal of valuation theory

  1. Principles of alternatives
  2. Principle of replacement
  3. principle of substitution
  4. principle of future benefit

Pricing value vs Reporting value

Monday, December 8, 2008

Consumer finance

  1. Consumer credit in India
  2. Sources of providing consumer credit

Credit Rating

Meaning and importance of credit rating

  • Meaning
  • Credit rating in India
  • Ned for credit rating
  • how credit rating are expressed
  • usefulness of credit rating
  • Steps or functions involved in credit rating

Social cost benefit analysis

Social benefit cost benefit analysis (SCBA)

  1. Meaning
  2. current scenario
  3. Need of social coast benefit analysis

Indicators of social desirability of a project

Inflation

Inflation & financial management

project appraisal under inflationary conditions

Effect of inflation on inventory management

Project Reports

Project report

  1. meaning
  2. Aspects to be considered for new projects

Advantage of project report

Contents of project report

Capital Budgeting

Capital Rationing

  1. Meaning:
  2. Reasons for capital rationing:
  3. Different situation of capital Rationing:
  4. Ways of resorting capital:

Sensitivity analysis or scenario analysis

  1. meaning
  2. steps
  3. importance
  4. only a tool
  5. assumptions

Re-financing

Shareholder value analysis

  1. Meaning
  2. value drivers
  3. Benefits