Finance Seminar Question Paper
Finance Seminar
Course:Master Of Business Administration
Institution: Kenyatta University question papers
Exam Year:2008
KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
INSTITUTIONAL BASED PROGRAMMES (IBP)
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2008/2009
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION/MASTER OF SCIENCE
BAC 602:
FINANCE SEMINAR
DATE: Monday, 29th December, 2008
TIME: 9.00 a.m. – 12.00 p.m.
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INSTRUCTIONS:
1.
Answer ALL questions
2.
Show your work in good form
3.
Time allowed is THREE hours
Q.1
You suspect that credit terms offered by your firm have resulted in your losing customers to your competitors.
Required:
Devise a research design to help you reach a conclusion. (15 marks)
Q.2
A target population N = 101 families has an unknown mean income. The standard deviation of these incomes S = Sh.1000. It is desired that the probability of a sampling error d be greater than or equal to sh.50 be less than 10 percent of the time.
Required:
If the desired confidence level of 90% is measured by the standard normal deviate
S
N ?n
K = 1.65, the standard error of estimate formula is K ?
?d
n
N ? l
a)
Determine the simple random sample size n of this research project.
b)
What is the total cost of interviewing the respondents at a rate of Sh.150 per interview?
c)
Explain the term Type Two Error.
(15 marks)
Q.3
In a research project, measurements may be unreliable and/or invalid because of defects in the questionnaire. Explain. (15 marks)
Q.4
A researcher has designed and executed an experiment to determine the effect of two factors, price and advertising at three and two levels, respectively on sales (units). The treatments and the responses are indicated below:
Price
P1 Sh.20
P2 Sh.30
P3 Sh.40
Plan A
400
360
300
Advertising
Plan B
380
340
280
Required:
a)
Evaluate the effect of price and advertising on sales and recommend.
b)
Is there indication of experimental error, interaction, non – linear demand function or exogenous variable problem? Shoe computations (15 marks)
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