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.