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CASE STUDY (20 Marks)
You
manage a hotel resort located on the South Beach on the Island of Kovai in
Hawaii. You are shifting the focus of your resort from a traditional fan-in the
sun destination to ecotourism. Eco tourism focuses on environmental awareness
and education. a) Convert the pool heating system from electric to solar
system. b) Build a 4 mile nature biking trail. c) Renovate the horse bran. d) Replace
the golf shop that accidently burned down after being struck by lightening. e)
Launch a new promotional campaign with Hawaii airlines. f) Convert 12 adjacent
acres into a wildlife preserve. g) Update all the bathrooms in condos that are
10 years old or older. h) Change hotel broachers to reflect ecotourism image.
i) Test & revise disaster response plan. j) Introduce wireless internet
Services
in café and lounge areas.
Answer the following question.
Q1. How
would you classify the above projects in terms of compliance, strategic and
operational?
Q2. How
easy was it to classify these projects?
Q3.
What made same above projects more difficult than others?
Q4.
What do you think you now know that would be useful for managing projects at
the hotel?
CASE
STUDY (20 Marks)
You
have been assigned to a project risk team of 5 members. Because this is a first
time your organization has formally set up a risk team for a project, it is
hoped that your team will develop a process that can be used on all future
projects. Your first team meeting is next Monday morning. Each team member has
been asked to prepare for the meeting by developing, in as much detail as
possible, an outline that describes how you believe the team should proceed in
handling project risks. Each team member will hand out their proposed outline
at the beginning of the meeting. Your outline should include but not be
handling
risk events, Team activities, Team outputs.
Answer the following question.
Q1.
Project risks can be eliminated if the project is carefully planned, Explain?
Q2.
What is the difference between avoiding a risk and accepting a risk?
Q3. How
you face the Schedule risk?
Q4.
Explain the term RBS?
CASE STUDY (20 Marks)
Anand
Enterprises is broadly diversified company with presence in a variety of
sectors such as cement, textile, chemicals. After a thorough review of various
capital projects undertaken in the last 5 years the executive committee of
Anand Enterprises felt that the
quality
of market and demand analysis of most of the projects was somewhat patchy. As a
marketing analyst you have been invited by Arvind Swami, the managing director
of Anand Enterprise, to do a seminar on market and demand analysis for the
business heads of the company. Among other things, he wants you to address the
following issues.
Answer the following question.
Q1. How
should one evaluate secondary information?
Q2.
What are the sources of uncertainties in demand?
Q3.
Discuss the steps in a sample survey?
Q4.
Briefly describe the various methods of demand forecasting?
CASE STUDY (20 Marks)
Microelectronics
Corporation is currently at its target debt equity ratio of 5:1. It is
considering a proposal to expand capacity, which is expected to cost Rs 500
million and generate after tax cash flows of Rs 130 million per year for the
next 8 years. The tax rate for the firm is 30 percent. Mahesh the CEO of the
company, has considered two financing options. a) Issue of equity stock. The
required return on the company’s new equity is 20 per cent and the issuance
cost will be 12 per cent. b) Issue of debentures at a yield of 13 percent. The
issuance cost will be 3 per cent.
Answer the following question.
Q1.
What is the WACC for Microelectronics?
Q2.
What is Microelectronic’s weighted average flotation cost?
Q3.
What is the NPV of the proposal after taking into account the flotation costs?
Q4. Do
you have any suggestion to Mahesh?
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