FINANCE FINALS

Participants are required to prepare a comprehensive business proposal. The proposal is divided into 2 parts.
1. The Executive summary
2. The body or subject analysis

1. Executive summary:
The executive summary should contain a description of the business idea. Contestants are reminded that they should not limit their scope to physical products only. The business plan may be centered around a product, service or even an inventive idea. It is imperative that the proposal is morally and ethically sound. The executive summary should not be limited to a mere description of the business idea but must also include a brief of how the entrepreneur intends to operationalize his idea.


2. Business Plan

THE PRODUCT:
• Feasibility of the project
• SWOT analysis
• Political involvement
• The present and future scenario of sector
• Competitors
• Challenges
• Worst case scenario and contingencies

HUMAN RESOURCE PLAN
• How many members or partners, Organisational Structure.
• Number of employees in each department- total headcount
• Training procedure and implementation

MARKETING PLAN:
• Target market
• Advertising/publicity
• Sales tactics
• Trade shows
• Competitive landscape- Michael Porters 5 force analysis
• Price


FINANCIAL PLAN:
• Balance sheet (projected for 3 years)
• Break even analysis
• Cost structure
-Start up costs
-Capital costs
-Operating costs
-Projected return on investment.

INITIAL CAPITAL INVESTMENT:
• Borrowed capital
• Owners fund

EXECUTION PLAN:
• Management team
• Implementation strategy
• Operational strategies-you are encouraged to build your own strategies.

RISK ANALYSIS:
• Inflationary risks
• Business risk
• Financial risk

MARKETING STRATEGY:

PRODUCT AND SERVICE DELIVERY SEGEMENT
• Location Analysis
• Facilities, Equipments, and Service delivery needs
• Suppliers and transportation factors

Note: Total Outlay Not To Exceed Rs. 10 Crores.


FORMAT:
• Times new roman- Font size 12, 14 for headings
• Spiral bound printed report.

Finance

Rule 1: Never lose money

Rule 2: Never forget the rule 1

Thus, realizing the importance of the art of management of money, the CUCA presents to you FINANCE. An event where the process of making money, sustaining it and investing it in order to make more of it.

The first round of the FINANCE event is going to be a case study based on finance, wherein the teams will be marked based on the financial and analytical abilities.

The teams will be required to submit a report, not exceeding 15 pages on the case by 2 p.m. on Monday, 24th November 2008.

The teams will be qualifying to the next round based on the hard copies. No presentation is required.

No reports will be accepted after the due time. All the succeeding rounds will be briefed henceforth.

Please follow the link below to access the case.

Finance Case Study

or visit the following link :

http://rapidshare.com/files/166178158/Finance_Case_Study.doc

(Please click on free user and then on download, in the next page). If there are any problems in downloading, please send a mail requesting for a copy of case to the.cuca@gmail.com

Wishing all the participants all the very best.

Regards,

The CUCA.

MES - Victory once again

Christ University, B.Com wins yet another all-India level fest conducted by MES - Chakravyu. This makes it straight 3 in a row for the business team.

Winning every fest organized till now has made Christ B.Com a very formidable team in the inter-college arena. We hope to keep this fantastic run going.

The following is the list of the winners of Chakravyu.

1st Product launch - Rahul Titus, Aiswarya, Laxmi, Neeraj

1st Marketing - Siddharth, Rahul Titus, Kushal, Mithun

2nd Finance - Aiswarya, Devendra, Mithun Solanki, Mithun

Congratulations to the winning team and all the people who had put their efforts in making this victory happen.

Regards,

THE CUCA.

JNC - Living the dream

Well, if winning Chanakya was about a dream coming true, then JNC was about further living the same dream. Once again defeating about 23 teams, including all the B.Com and BBM teams of Bangalore, was about realizing and re-affirming the fact that we deserve to win. It was one of the most fantastic and convincing victories that we have had in quite some.

Well, holding that cup on the stage certainly took some effort from all the team members but was worth it. Christ B.Com, a team which took competition to a whole new level once again at ARBITRIUM.

2nd place in Advertising - Mithun and Anna

1st place in Quiz - Ankit and Abhinav

1st place in HR - Esther and Mayo

1st in Organizing - Christ B.Com

These positions ensured our win and our claim on the trophy.

Cheers,

THE CUCA.

Winning CHANAKYA!!

Winning the national level fest of St. Josephs has been one of the greatest achievements of the Christ University B.Com team in the year 2008. Beating some of the top business teams of Bangalore, we made our way to the most difficult cup of Bangalore - CHANAKYA 2008. Congrats to the whole team and each and every person who has been instrumental in making this dream come true.

2nd place in Finance - S.S.Hussain, Kiran Rao, Pankaj

1st place quiz - S.S.Hussain, Kiran Rao, Pankaj

3rd place quiz - Abhinav Mouli, Bharani Prasad, Karthik

Best Manager - Moulik Doshi


Congrats once again!!

THE CUCA.

HR Round 2

To Whomsoever it may concern

Subject: URGENT - Call for a meet from the trade union.

I, B.S.Kiran Rao, on behalf of the trade union of Nittal Iron & Steel ltd., call you for a meet at the Assembly Hall at 11:45 a.m. on 6th August, 2008.

The agenda for the meet is as follows:

• Work environment
• Technologization
• Dearness Allowance
• Work Bonus
• Creche and Educational Facilities
• Health and Sanitation

Thanking you,

Regards.

A slight change in the HR Schedule!!!

A small note to all the participants, the schedules finals of the HR event has been advanced to 7th August.

Please make a note.

RULES FOR HR

Hello all,

As said before, the first round is going to be the case study, where all the participating teams will be required to submit a hard copy, based on which they will be selected for the intra-dept finals.

The rules of the event are as follows:

• The teams are required to submit the reports latest by 12:00 p.m. on 4th August.
• No reports will be accepted after the mentioned time.
• The reports can be submitted in any format, as the teams wish.
• The reports submitted can be a maximum of 2 A4 pages (2 sides).
• The font to be used in the report is Times New Roman, with a font size of 12 and line spacing of 1.5.
• Any report not adhering to any of the rules will be disqualified.

The intra-dept final is going to be held on 6th of August and the inter-dept finals on 8th August.

Good Luck.

HR Case Study

Takaishi Printing Company (TP) is a small printing company located in Ishii Town in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. TP which has been a family business since 1933 has an excellent reputation for doing quality work. While sales have increased by 50 percent in the past 6 years, profits have been invariable.

Tsunemi Takaishi is the third generation of his family to own and operate TP. (As is the custom in Japan, the ownership of the company is passed down to the eldest son). Tsunemi is 62 years old and has realized that he must be concerned with the management succession of his family business. None of his relatives or his sons seems interested in managing TP.

Tsunemi is also wondering if he should try to expand TP while running it himself for a few more years and then try to sell it when it would be more attractive to a potential buyer. He has realized that the large long-term debt TP has had for years, as a result of the depression and war years, would be detrimental in expanding or selling TP.

TP is a printing company that specializes in printing advertisements, greeting cards, forms, handouts, handbooks, business cards etc. More than 95 percent of the products printed have a variety of samples to be shown to the customers.

Sales persons visit customers and suggest what type of products would be suitable for their needs. Some customers place custom orders with their unique style. Service is the real product of TP. Tsunemi’s credo is ‘Be courteous, be helpful, be precise and make a long term relation with the customer’.

TP can print with one to four colors. About 95 % of TP’s printing is done in one color, typically black or green. Four color works is much more complicated to do and is usually subcontracted to another printer. Printing is done in Japanese and there is no demand for other languages.

The sales manager is Koichiro Takaishi, who is 45 years old and is the youngest brother of Tsunemi. He has three sales representatives reporting to him. Koichiro handles customers in Tokushima city and Komiyama, the next town from Ishii. He prices the orders himself at the customer’s place considering the importance of the customer to TP. Pricing is based on his experience and Tsunemi believes his brother does a good job and handles the sales representatives well.

Mr. Oshida, one of the sales representatives, is outgoing, active and hard-working. He is good at finding new customers by just calling or visiting them. His sales pricing is based on his experience and Tsunemi’s manual. He is the only one to pioneer new customers in the last few years. Another hard working sales representative, Mr. Saka has worked for printing companies for years and has good contacts. Tsunemi is planning to terminate him but unfortunately he has been unable to find a better sales representative and he does not want to lose the big customers found by him.

No commissions are paid to sales representatives. No one assigns them work on a daily basis. As a rule, big customers that make up 60 % of the volume stay as good and loyal customers. Ninety percent of the customers places repeat orders. Advertising is done for local and small/new customers in the local newspapers.

TP is not worried about losing customers to competitors because the customers like TP’s printing quality. However, they do expect a price discount. On the other hand, TP would like to raise prices because labor costs are increasing every year, but pricing is very competitive.

There are about 380 competitors in the Tokushima Prefecture. Of these about 80 belong to the Tokushima printing General commission. The largest competitor has 300 employees and the smallest – 1 employee. TP is a middle sized company.

There is only one small competitor in Ishii town. He believes printing business is not popular among the new graduates. Ishii is small in size and market. Tsunemi tries to be a watchdog over his employees but is not able to find time.

Shundo, Tsunemi’s eldest son, who was working in the computer part of TP, sabotaged the computer records while Tsunemi was in the United States visiting his youngest son who is finishing his MBA degree. Shundo did it because of resentment for Koichiro, who had been left in charge.

Kiyohita, his youngest son, is pursuing his MBA degree. Tsunemi wants him to join the family business, but Kiyohita himself, wishes to start a Business consultancy firm. In any event, Tsunemi believed that it would take 10 years to train someone who is not experienced in the training business. Although Koichiro mentally considers himself the successor to his elder brother, Tsunemi does not consider him so because of his lack of human relations skills and inexperience in managing. Theoretically, a manager could be hired to operate the business but such a person would be extremely hard to find.

Recently, Tsunemi has taken a lot of pain to revamp the company. After all of this turmoil, TP has begun to make some progress.

Thus, he continues to contemplate the strategy that he and TP should pursue in the future.

QUESTION:

1. Who is the best successor after Tsunemi for TP? Why?

HR

The next big thing in the CCCA... HR..

HR is an event where your Human resource skills will be put to test in every round. The event is going to be held in 3 rounds - the hard copy, the intra-dept finals and then finally the inter-dept finals.

You are required to make teams of three and register with your respective class CCCA representatives before 12 p.m., 31st July, 2008.

The rounds will be briefed hence forth.

Good Luck.

MOCK COURT

The only word that can be used with regard to the quizzing event is 'Ecstatic'. And immediately, it was followed by Product Launch, where people showed how a product is meant to be, and how it is meant to be launched.

After such events, where you used your creativity, now CCCA brings to you MOCK COURT. Here, we will be witnessing a whole new shift, seeing the teams fight it out on the stage for their clients.

Rules of the event are as follows:

• The teams are required to consist of 4 memebers.
• The teams case is attached in this mail itself, and the team is suppossed to prepare arguments, both for the plaintiff and the defendant.
• The teams can submit their hard copies latest by 24th 10:00 a.m.
• No reports will be accepted after the given time.
• The teams for the finals will be selected on the basis of the hard copies, so please make clear all the points and arguments in the hard copy.
• It is also important for the teams to note that if they are creating any evidence, it should be compulsorily attached to the hard copy.
• The teams cannot create evidence which shall directly put an end to all the arguments about the given case.

Hope this will provide the teams with an insight in the working of the laws and acts in the Indian Law.

Good Luck.

Welcome to the CUCA

Its a new year, a new beginning.

With that we also hope that we will be able to come out with new and innovative ideas, in order to make sure that B.Com in Christ University is not limited only to your accounts and management books.

Thus, we look forward to a more exhilarating year, where we will, together, be able to create an environment where we learn while using the right mix of education, experience, talent and creativity.

Good Luck.