Quantitative Methods – Part II – Revised FYBBI Syllabus 2016
Modules at a Glance
| Sr. No. | Modules | No. of Lectures |
| 1 | Testing of Hypothesis | 10 |
| 2 | Linear Programming Techniques | 10 |
| 3 | Matrices & Determinants (Application in Business and Economics) | 10 |
| 4 | Ratio, Proportion & Percentage | 10 |
| 5 | Statistical Applications In Investment Management | 15 |
| 6 | Economic indicators | 05 |
| Total | 60 | |
Quantitative Methods – Part II – Syllabus Overview
| Sr. No. | Modules / Units |
| 1 | Testing of Hypothesis |
| Testing of hypotheses: Null Hypothesis, Alternative Hypothesis, Decision Criterion, Critical Region, Type I and Type II Error, level of significance, Test based on large Sample for Means and Proportion/s | |
| 2 | Linear Programming Techniques |
| Meaning, Advantages, limitations, business applications, basic terminology, formulation of linear Programming ProbIems, Graphical Method of solving Linear Programming Problems, Simplex method (upto 3 variables) with Maximisation and Minimisation. Duality in Linear Programming (concept only) | |
| 3 | Matrices & Determinants (Application in Business and Economics) |
| Matrices, Types of Matrices, Transpose, Addition, MultIplication, Subtraction of a Matrix, Determinants, Type of Determinants, inverse of a matrix by Pivotal Reduction Method, Adjoint Method and Row / Column Transformation. Application of Matrices and Determinants to Business and Economics. (Please concentrate on application of Matrices and Determinants to Business & Economics) | |
| 4 | Ratio, Proportion & Percentage |
| Ratio Definition, Continued Ratio, Inverse Ratio, Proportion, Continued Proportion, Direct Proportion, Inverse proportion, Variation, Inverse Variation, Joint Variation, Percentage: Meaning & Computation of Percentage. | |
| 5 | Statistical Applications In Investment Management |
| Expected return from shares (using probability) Measuring total risk from investigator shares (using standard deviations) Partitioning risk into systematic and unsystematic component (using co-variance) Measuring risks of portfolio (using co-relation) to draw conclusions regarding share prices (using testing of hypothesis). | |
| 6 | Economic indicators |
| GDP, Real growth in GDP price level Inflation rate, Money supply, Index for agricultural production Index for industrial production, Electrical |
Reference books for subject: Quantitative Methods – Part II
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