CHRIST UNIVERSITY, Bangalore

Department of Management Studies

MASTER OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME GUIDELINES FOR MFM PROJECT WORK

Guidelines to facilitate writing of project.

1. The purpose of writing project report is to communicate the findings of the

project study undertaken on a particular topic by a student in business organization in a systematic way, in partial fulfillment of MFM program. It is a time-bound and independent study guided by a faculty member. 2. Students are advised to carryout their projects work in the areas which are current and needs immediate attention of research. For example, students can select a topic in the functional areas of finance, Banking, Insurance, Capital market Markets, etc., 3. Choose any medium or large-scale organization for your project data collection may or may not be internship companies. 4. Once the guide is allotted you are required to meet the guide as per their schedule. 5. The project report must be selective and intensive study on a particular topic, presented in a simple and systematic manner. 6. Project writing should exhibit originality. Copying of others work is strictly prohibited. But one can refer previous good project reports to gain an insight or to understand. 7. Report must be printed in standard A4 size paper with a font size of 14 for headings and 12 for the contents, written with double line spacing. 8. The project report must contain between 100-120 pages, typed on one side of the page (no back to back printing) in Times New Roman format). 9. The contents page must show the page numbers against the topics / chapters. These must be serially numbered starting from Introduction (i.e., from Chapter 1). 10.The concerned faculty guide must duly approve topic of the project before one starts working on it. 11. There shall be two certificates from university (As per standard format). One by Head of the Department and another one by faculty guide in charge. 12. The students must submit to the faculty guide on or before the prescribed date, Two copies project reports (one for university and another for guide) and the third copy (original) must be collected and kept by the student with himself/herself after getting signed from HOD and faculty guide. All three

copies must be submitted together. The two copies of Project report should be submitted in the hard bound form only.
13. The original certificates issued by Company (where project training is

undertaken), HOD, and Faculty Guide have to be included only in Original project report meant for the student after taking color photocopy for the other two projects meant for University. 14.There must be order of certificates to be included and declarations to be made in the project. Must keep it in the following order: Cover page,[As per format enclosed], Certificate[by Company], Certificate[by HOD, in standard format], Certificate[by faculty guide,in standard format], Declaration[signed by student,in std. format], Acknowledgement [by student],and Table of Contents . Table of graphs and diagrams. (These must not contain page numbers) Let your findings /conclusions and also your recommendations /suggestions be in the form of points each within the range of 8-12 points. 15.The table of contents must cover the following items. Chapter1.Introduction. Chapter 2. Industry and Company Profile Chapter 3.Research Design and Literature Review Chapter 4.Data Analysis and Interpretation. Chapter 5.Findings and Conclusions. Chapter 6.Recommendations & suggestions. Annextures. [No chapterization]. Bibliography [No chapterization]

Chapter 1:
Introduction to the topic: The Introduction chapter should broadly cover the following topics a) Introduction to the functional area i.e., finance, Banking, Insurance, Capital market Markets, etc., and the relationship between of one functional area to other functional areas of management. b) Importance of the topic from macro and micro perspective and title chosen for study.

c) Study of the organization with reference to the topic. (if Necessary)

Chapter 2:
Industry Profile: The Industry and Company Profile chapter should broadly cover the following topics a. Introduction to Industry/area of business b. Total size/annual turn over of the industry c. Key players in the industry & their market share. [Amount of turn over].Annual Industry Growth Rate Government policies/regulations influencing the industry(with reference to foreign competition or FDI limit). Company profile: a. A brief history of the company/business group. b. Year of establishment. initial investment, founders profile, place(s) of business , nature of initial business(es) of the group , & past business performance c. Present position of the company/business group in terms of total investment, type/nature of businesses, total turnover, total number of employees, product profile, competitor profile, rate of growth of investment, sales, profits, clients or customers, present product/segment wise market share of the company, subsidiary companies [if any] under the same management, collaboration/joint ventures [if any],performance of its stocks for the past few years, export earnings[if exporting], and certifications/achievements/awards won[if any] and SWOT analysis. d)

Chapter 3:Research Design.

A). The research design chapter must contain the information under the following headings; 1. Title/Statement of the problem 2. Objectives of the study 3. Scope of the study 4. Hypothesis 5. Sample size and sampling techniques 6. Data collection methods 7. statistical tools for analysis 8. Limitations of the study

9. Key concepts/Glossary of the terms.

B) Literature review
A literature review is a body of text that aims to review the critical points of current knowledge on a particular topic. Literature reviews are secondary sources, and as such, do not report any new or original experimental work. Literature review seeks to describe, summarize, evaluate, clarify and/or integrate the content of primary reports". Students are required to review at least 10 latest literatures on their topics for the research work.

Specimen of certificates

Format of Declaration
DECLARATION
I, __________ (Reg.No.), hereby declare that this project titled ____________________, is an original project study, conducted under the guidance of Prof. ________, Department of Management Studies, Christ University. I further declare that this has not been previously formed the basis of the award of any degree, diploma or other similar title of recognition

Place: Date:

Name of student: Registered No. Signature

Format of Certificate by HOD

This is to certify that Student Name, Register No. ____________ is a bonafide student of MFM Programme studying in this UNIVERSITY. He has prepared and submitted a project titled

___________________, in partial fulfilment for the requirement of Master of Financial Management (MFM) Programme of Christ University, for the academic year 2009-2010. Place: Bangalore Date : Dr. Jain Mathew HOD Department of Management Studies

Format of Certificate by Guide.

This is to certify that this project titled _____________________, submitted to Christ University in partial fulfilment for the requirement of Master of Financial Management, and is an original and independent work carried out by Students Name (Reg No.) under my guidance and supervision. This has not been previously formed the basis of the award of any degree, diploma or other similar title of recognition. Place: Bengaluru Date: Faculty Guide Department of Management Studies

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