P Ltd sets the target to produce 1000 tones of steel during the next six months to recover the cost but there is a possibility that due to strikes and lockouts the targeted output may not be archived. What type of risk is associated with the production process?
Which of the following feature differentiates a commodity futures contract from a financial futures contract?
A situation in which an owner of more than 50% of voting shares can elect the entire board of directors is known as
Your client Mr. Singhania expressed his intention to write his will in his own handwriting such a will which is wholly in the handwriting of the testator is renown as:
Which of the following is/are not the statutory objectives of Financial Service Authority(FSA) of UK?
A trust which is established by expressions of confidence ,request or desire that property
will be applied for the benefit of a definite person or object is termed as:
The registration of a charitable trust can be cancelled under Section 12AA of the Income-tax Act, 1961 by —’
Which of the following is / are RBI conditions applicable for banks declaring dividends?
A borrower defaults on a secured loan of Rs. 50,000. The underlying security is worth Rs. 60,000. Which of the following is true? "
You buy a new computer for your business costing approximately Rs. 5,000. You expect a salvage value of Rs. 1000 selling parts when you dispose of it. Your business has upgraded its hardware every four years, so you think this is a more realistic estimate of useful life, since you are apt to dispose of the computer at that time. Calculate the amount of depreciation using straight line method?
Pension received from a former employer is classified under the head _________.
What is the exemption criteria U/S 10(10) (ii) of the IT Act, 1961 for any gratuity received by a seasonal employee?
Movement through phases of the business cycle is initiated by shifts in aggregate demand which create fluctuations in GDP. Which combination of the following statement would be the most significant contributor to the upward shift in aggregate demand?
Spot Nifty is at 5000. One month Nifty call with strike price of Rs. 4800 is trading at Rs. 250 per call. An investor buys 100 Nifty calls. At expiry Nifty closes at 5500. Net profit / loss of the investor is Rs. ___.
Security A has a standard deviation of 23% and the market has a standard deviation of 18%. The correlation coefficient r between Security A and the market is 0.80. What is the % of the change in Security A can be explained by changes in the market?
Stock A & B are positively correlated with a correlation co efficient of .75. When stock A moves up by 12%, how will stock B perform?
Where a coparcener with only his widow as legal heir dies, Can a partition be deemed as between the surviving coparcener and the widow on his death?
Compute Gross Total income and amount of loss allowed to be carried forward to next year:
Domiciliary Hospitalization Benefit is provided if treatment is taken for a period exceeding 3 days at home in India, provided _______________.
What is the future value of Rs. 5000 at the end of 5 years at 8% compounded annually?
An investment having market value of Rs. 100 lakhs in the beginning of 2007, a Rs. 200 lakhs value at the end of 2007, and a Rs. 100 lakhs value at the at the end of 2008. Calculate the arithmetic return and time-weighted return?
What is the present value of the following cash flows, if the Interest rate is 8%?
Mr. Kishan owns a factory producing some small spare parts.Under which policy he can get cover against the claim for paying damages and legal costs arising from any bodily injury or damage in the premises of his property ?
The gap between Government’s total expenditure and its total receipts (excluding borrowing) is known as:
What is the prudent practice for parking emergency fund for a working young couple?
Under a Personal Accident policy Mr. Ajay has taken, what percentage of sum assured he can get if he losses his one eye and one limb in an accident and under which type of benefit?
Calculate current liability from the following information.
Current ratio is 1.5 and current assets are worth Rs.250
_______________ and _______________ mandates are two kinds of service level contracts
Dinesh took a housing loan of Rs. 25,00,000/- for 15 years in 2010 at a ROI of 11.75% per annum compounded monthly. Calculate the total interest and principle paid by him in the 2014 and 2016.
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Puspinder Singh Ahluwalia took a housing loan on 1st. of June 2009 (EMI in arrear) of Rs. 50 lacs at a ROI of 10.75% p.a. compounded monthly for 12 years. He wants to know the deduction in taxable income he can claim u/s 24 of the IT act for the FY 2011 -12
Mr. M is an area manager of M/s Allwin Ltd. During the financial year 2007-08, he gets the following emoluments from his employer:
Compute taxable salary of Mr. M for the Assessment year 2008-09.
Mr. Patel has analyzed a stock for a one-year holding period. The stock is currently quoting at Rs 80/- and is paying no dividends. There is a 50-50 chance that the stock may quote Rs 90 or Rs 110 by year-end. What is the expected return on the stock?
You bought a stock for Rs. 20 and sold it for Rs. 59.72 after six years. What was the annual rate of return?
Broadly, world over the minimum investable assets for MULTI FAMILY OFFICE SEGMENT is :
Case: The returns of 2 shares are as follows
Calculate the covariance of returns.
Find out the effective quarterly rate for 18% per annum compounded half yearly.
Vinod opened the PPF account on 19/11/2000, Calculate the amount he can avail as the first loan facility from the details below?
In ULIP plans, the returns are dependent on in which the investments are done by the insurance company
Indian Inherihence Law permits a married woman to acquire jewellery to worth of?
If an investor is bearish on a share, buying a put is usually better then selling short because:
Whom should an individual apply intending to be appointed as director of a company?
A 12 year annual annuity of Rs. 10000 will begin 8 years hence (the first payment occurs at the end of 8 years). What is the present value of this annuity if the discount rate is 14 percent?
Vinod had taken a housing loan of Rs. 15 Lakh disbursed on 1st April 2006. They are presently paying an EMI of Rs. 17,285 at the end of every month beginning from the month of disbursement. The loan is at fixed rate of interest of 11.25% p.a. (reducing monthly balance basis) with tenure of 15 years. He wants to know what amount is eligible for deductible u/s 24 of Income Tax for housing loan repayments in computation of his Income tax liability for AY 2011-12.
Mr. M by a Gift deed transferred certain property to her daughter, with a direction that daughter should pay an annuity to Mr. M ' s brother, as had been done by Mr. M. On the same day, the daughter executed a deed in writing in favour of Mr. M ' s brother, agreeing to pay annuity. Afterwards, she declined to fulfil her promise saying that no consideration had moved from her uncle. Which of the following statements is correct ' ?
Which of the following is an inferential data (i.e. data which may not be correctly obtained by simply asking a direct question)?
Investment made in a stock 2 years ago is Rs. 175; the current value is Rs. 250. The dividend received at the end of 2nd year is Rs. 40. What is the CAGR?
You bought a stock for Rs. 28.29 that paid the following dividends
After the third year, you sold the stock for Rs. 35. What was the annual rate of return?
In ________, the values exchanged by the contracting parties may not necessarily be equal
Ms. Shweta wants to achieve the goal of higher education of her daughter after 15 years. She estimates that the funds required would be 30 lacs at then costs. She wants to invest monthly for this goal. You as a Wealth Manager suggest an asset allocation of 80% in Equity and 20% in Debt for 14 years and shifting the entire amount to liquid funds in the last year where the expected returns would be 6% p.a. If the returns in equity and debt funds are 14% and 8.50% respectively calculate the amount that needs to be invested in Equity and Debt Each Month.
A ………………… mortgage is a mortgage which does not fully amortize over the term of the note thus leaving a balance due at ……………..
Balance on current account + balance of capital account + balance on reserves account is equal to ___________
Rishi wants to purchase a car 5 years from now. His investments are presently worth Rs. 48,000/-. He puts them into an account today at a ROI of 10% per annum and he would be contributing Rs. 5,000/- from end of this month, every month for 5 years. What would be his accumulated savings in this account after end of 5 years?
Which of the following is true for written down value method of calculating depreciation?
The difference between aggregate disbursements net of debt repayments and recovery of loans and revenue receipts and non debt capital receipts is called:
Mr. Sahil has two daughters and is in receipt of education allowance of Rs 200pm for each of them. What would be the taxable allowance in the hands of Mr. Sahil for the full FY.
The minimum amount for secured lenders to take the benefit of SARFAESI is _______.
Binoy aged 30 years with a total income is 6,00,000 p.a pays Rs.25000 as LIC premium for a policy of 3 lakhs on his life. He also pays income tax of Rs. 30,000. His retirement age is 65. The self maintenance expenses are 1 lakh p.a. & rate of interest is 6% p.a. Calculate the total amount of insurance requirement under HLV method?
Yash pays health insurance premiums for himself, his wife and his two children aged 13 and 8. Premiums for which of these individuals will qualify as deductible from Yash’s taxable income?
Returns on a security held for 5 years by Praveen are:
Find the standard deviation of the security.
Tushar owns a piece of land situated in Patna (Date of acquisition: March 1, 1983, Cost of acquisition Rs. 20,000/- value adopted by Stamp duty authority at the time of purchase Rs. 45,000/-) On March 30, 2012 the piece of land is transferred for 4 lakh. Find out the capital gains chargeable to tax if the value adopted by the Stamp duty authority is 5.60 lakh. And X does not challenges it under the Stamp Act. However, he claims before the Assessing Officer that Rs. 5.60 lakh is more than the fair market value of the land. The assessing Officer refers it to the valuation Officer who determines Rs. 6.10 lakh as fair market value. [CII-12-13: 852,11-12: 785,10-11:711]
Intermediaries who are agents of investors and match buyers with sellers of securities are called
The shares of Alpha were bought on Jan 1 for Rs 110/-. During the year Alpha paid a dividend of Rs 2/- per share. At the end of the year, share of Alpha was sold for Rs 115/- What is the total return on Alpha?
If you have deposited Rs.4000 with a company and the company wishes to prepay the deposit at the contracted rate of interest after a period of 3.5 years and offers you Rs.4985, what is the effective rate of interest if it is accounted half yearly?
Vikrant Juneja gifted his house property to his wife in year 2007. Mrs. Juneja then lets out this house @ Rs. 5000 per month. The income from such house property will be taxable in the hands of:
Mukesh a 35 years old man is a self employed businessman, engaged in the business of selling medical equipments and plans to retire from his business and hand it over to his children at age of 55, after which he wants to relax and enjoy his retired life. He is now earning around Rs. 4,00,000/- p.a. His life expectancy is another 15 years after retirement. After paying for his expenses he is able to save Rs. 85,000 /- p.a., and regularly invest it in a 6% p.a. investment plan.
Calculate what will be the Mukesh’s total accumulation at his retirement? And if he wants to spend 4,00,000/- per year at beginning and dies at the age of 70 and assuming that he leaves behind Rs. 1,00,000/- as estate, what will be the short-fall in corpus?
Mr. Gupta has got his stock insured against fire for Rs5,00,000/- ,during the year he lost the stock in his ware house for Rs. 4,00,000/-. The surveyor from insurance company gave his report that at the time of fire the stock in the ware house had value 6,00,000/-
Calculate what amount Mr. Gupta will receive from the insurance company.
Choose the amount of final tax liability of R for the assessment year 2007-08:
The main purpose of the guaranteed insurability rider benefit is to give the policyholder the right to
A doctor has taken a professional indemnity Policy on 01/06/2003 and has been continuously renewing it. In August, 2006 he operated on an infant child. But that operation failed. The parent of child filed a law suit against doctor in Sept, 2006. Which of the following statement is true in respect of the claim?
Dividend per share of Books Ltd. is 2 and required rate of return is 10%. Calculate the value of share of Books Ltd.
Vishwajeet wishes to have a lump sum Retirement Fund of Rs. 25,00,000/- in 30 years time. Assuming that he can get 12% returns per annum, compounded annually, what amount he should save every year to reach his target?
If a typical market basket of goods and services cost Rs 120 in 1975, the base year, and Rs 180 in 1985, the price index in 1985 would be__________
What is the Relationship of Banker with the payee of a draft issued by the Bank?
Which one of the following Sections of the Transfer of Property Act defines “Transfer of Property”?
What would be the tax liability if tea and snacks are provided in the office after office hours?
As per presumptive income scheme under section 44AE, the presumed income shall be:
Performance measurement by benchmarking normally refers to comparing performance of a fund to
Mr. Bose runs his Handicrafts business. His net proceeds after deducting both the business expenses and living expenses are Rs. 6,00,000 p.a, which will increase at the rate of 5%. He is a bachelor and don’t intend to start any family in future either. Since he don’t have any family obligations, he wants to sell off his business after ten years and buy a home in foothills of Himachal.
He expects to sell the business for a good amount and put 40% of the proceeds in buying the house and setting up a retirement corpus with the rest of amount to pay off his post retirement expenses. He is philanthropic by nature and thus want to save the net revenues from his business to form a charitable hospital for poor people living in Himachal. His current living expenses are Rs. 4,00,000 p.a which will increase in line with inflation. Inflation rate is 3% and interest rate prevailing is 6%.
As a CWM you are required to calculate:
Sudesh Haldia is employed at Delhi as Store Manager in one of the Retail Companies. The particulars of his salary for the previous year 2006-07 are as under:

The actual rent paid by him is Rs. 2,000 p.m. for an accommodation at Noida till 31-12-2006.From 1-1-2007 the rent was increased to Rs. 4000 p.m. Compute the taxable HRA?
Manmeet a 29 years old person has joined Met Life on 1/07/2011. His monthly salary (net salary) after deduction is Rs. 45000/. His monthly expenses details are as follows:

Assume Manmeet has taken his flat on rent from 01/07/ 2011. On 01/07/2011 he has cash in hand Rs.15000. What will be his cash in hand on 31/03/2012?
Mr. Pramod Jain (age 40 years) has life interest in a Trust property. The annual income from Trust property for last three years is as under:
The Trust has spent Rs. 5,000/- per year for collection of the income. The value of life interest of Re 1/- at the age of 40 is Rs. 10.093/-. The value of the property on the valuation date is Rs. 5 lakh. Find the value of life interest.
Calculate expected rate of return on the following portfolio?
Weight of X and Y in the portfolio is 50% and 50% respectively.
The current dividend on an equity share of MAGADH Limited is Rs.8.00 on earnings per share of Rs. 30.00. Assume that the growth rate of 20 percent will decline linearly over a five year period and then stabilize at 12 percent. What is the intrinsic value of MAGADH ’s share if the investors’ required rate of return is 15 percent?
Suresh is an employee of a private company in Mumbai. He draws an amount of Rs 36,000pm as basic salary. He also receives Rs 8000 as HRA. He has taken a house on rent from 1st October and pays Rs 10,000pm as rent for his house accomodation. What would be the taxable HRA?
The information about 3 stocks is provided below:
Assuming that the required rate of return on investment is 14%, what maximum price an investor should be willing to pay and Which Stock should he buy?
Mahesh earns 1,20,000 pa. He has total debt of Rs. 2,00,000 and have two dependants. Interest rate is 7%, and assumes 80% of his pre-death salary is the estimated requirement to maintain his family after paying the loan. Calculate the life insurance cover needed under multiple approach method.
Vinod joined on 01/01/90 in ABC Ltd. and retired on 01/01/2007.Employee paid leave encashment of Rs. 4,00,000/-. His last drawn salary is Rs. 25000/-. His last 10 months average salary is 23500/-. He availed 150 days leave during the service. What will be his taxable leave salary amount?
The probability distribution of the rate of return on a stock is given below:

What is the standard deviation of return?
Amit an industrialist wants to buy a flat in a housing society presently costing Rs. 35,00,000/- after 6 years. The cost of the house is expected to increase by 15% pea for the first 3 years and by 10% in the remaining years. Amit wants to start a SIP with monthly contributions in Birla Front Line Equity Mutual Fund to pay for the down payment of the house which would be 25% of the house value at that time. You as a CWM expect that the fund would give ROI of 14% p.a. compounded monthly in the next 10 years. Please advise Amit the monthly SIP amount starting at the beginning of every month for the next 6 years to fulfill his goal of buying the Flat he desires.
Yogesh Jain is a Chartered Accountant by profession and a very disciplined investor he has started investing from today in an account Rs. 1,00,000 every year (beginning of year) and plans to increase his contribution by 10% every year. If the ROI he gets is 15% per annum compounded half yearly calculate the corpus he would be able to accumulate in 25 years.?
Vishal is working with Amex Ltd since October 1, 1997. He is entitled to a basic salary of Rs. 6,000 pm.Dearness Allowance is 40% of Basic Salary for retirement benefits. He retired from his job on December 1,2010 (4 months before the end of F.Y 2010-11) and shifted to his village. He is entitled to the following benefits at the time of retirement. Gratuity = Rs. 98,000. Pension from December 1, 2008 = Rs. 2,000 per month. Payment from recognized PF = Rs. 3,00,000. Encashment of earned leave for 150 days = Rs. 36,000. He was entitled to 40 days leave for every completed year of service. He got 50% of his pension commuted in lump sum w.e.f March 1, 2011 and received Rs. 1,20,000 as commuted pension. Vishal contributes Rs. 900 per month to RPF to which his employer contributes an equal amount. What will be the amount of un-commuted pension for Vishal that will form part of his total income for the A.Y. 2011-12?
Case: Read the data given below & answer the following questions:
Market sensitive index will be:
Shri Ganjarwala Charitable Trust (Regd.) submits the particulars of its income/outgoing for the previous year 2009-2010 as below:
The trust spends Rs 2,77,500 during the previous year 2009-2010 for charitable purposes. In respect of Rs 5,20,000, it has exercised its option to spend it within the permissible time-limit in the year of receipt or in the year, immediately following the year of receipt.
The trust spends Rs 2,00,000 during the previous year 2009-2010 and Rs 1,00,000 during the previous year 2010-2011.
Compute the tax payable on the income of the trust.
A property has 120 rooms and each room has a monthly rent of Rs.750. The occupancy rate throughout the year is 80% and maintenance expenses per year works out to be Rs.3,00,000. Capitalization rate is 12%. Calculate the value of the property?
R purchased a house property for Rs. 26,000 on 10-5-1962. He gets the first floor of the house constructed in 1967-68 by spending Rs. 40,000. He died on 12-9-1978. The property is transferred to Mrs. R by his will. Mrs. R spends Rs. 30,000 and Rs. 26,700 during 1979-80 and 1985-86 respectively for renewals/reconstruction of the property. Mrs. R sells the house property for Rs. 11,50,000 on 15-3-2007, brokerage paid by Mrs. R is Rs. 11,500. The fair market value of the house on 1-4-1981 was Rs. 1,60,000. Find out the amount of capital gain chargeable to tax for the assessment year 2007-08.
What is the surrender value, if the sum assured is Rs. 100,000/-, DOC is 01/01/1997, endowment with profit 25 years, due date of last premium paid 01/01/2010. Premium to be paid semi-annually. Accrued bonus is 500 per thousand of SA. Surrender value factor is 19% ?
The correlation coefficient between returns on stock of M/s X Ltd and the market returns is 0.3. The variance of returns on M/s X Ltd. is 225(%)2 and that for the market returns is 100(%)2 . The risk-free rate of return is 5% and the market return is 15%. The last paid dividend is Rs. 2 and the current purchase price is Rs. 30. The growth rate for the company is 10%. The required rate of return on the security as per the Capital Asset Pricing Model is:
A zero coupon bond of Rs 10,000 has a term to maturity of seven years and a market yield of 9 percent at the time of issue. What is the issue price? What is the duration of the bond? What is the modified duration of the bond?
Dhruv contributes Rs. 25,000 every year starting from the beginning of the 4th year from today till the begning of 12th year in the account that gives a ROI of 11.40% p.a. compounded half yearly. Calculate the Present Value of his contribution today.
The Portfolio consists of two securities, X and Y in the ratio of 70:30. Given that
and covariance between them is 16%, what is the portfolio risk?
Calculate the death claim amount if the assured dies in the 25th year of the policy. Money back policy with SA of Rs. 50000. Term is 25 years. Survival benefits of 10% each paid at the end of 5th , 10th, 15th, and 20th years. Accrued bonus of Rs. 500 per thousand of SA.Interim bonus of Rs. 75 per 1000 of SA.
Mr. Pradip completed construction of a residential house on 1.4.2011.
Interest paid on loans borrowed for purpose of construction during the 2 years prior to completion was Rs. 40,000. The house was let-out on a monthly rent of Rs. 4,000.
Property was vacant for 3 months.
Compute the income under the head “Income from House Property” for the A.Y. 2012-13.
Pankaj is an employee of a private company in Jabalpur. He draws an amount of Rs 36,000pm as basic salary. He also receives Rs 8000 as HRA. He has taken a house on rent from 1st October and pays Rs 10,000pm as rent for his house accomodation. What would be the taxable HRA?
Mr. Kumar is a 40 year old NRI working abroad for past 5years. He invests Rs. 50, 000/- p.a. for past 5 years and wants to continue until his return to India. He plans to return to India after 10 years from now and enjoy his life back home. Inflation is expected to be 4% for next 30 years and his investment earns 6% interest. His expected life expectancy is 70 years. What would be his corpus at the time of return to India, and what amount he can with draw per month for his household expenses?
Mr. Malhotra and Mrs.Malhotra aged 50 and 45 years respectively, both have a life expectancy of 35 years.
You have following information
Calculate the adequate insurance required based on need based approach.
Consider the following information for three mutual funds:
Market Return 10%
Risk free return is 6%.
Calculate the Risk Adjusted Return on the basis of Jensen measure (%)?
How much amount should be invested by Mr. Batra today to get a maturity value of Rs. 90,368.50 after 6 years, if available ROI is 10% and compounding is Quarterly for first 2 years, Half Yearly for next 2 years and Monthly for last 2 years?
Omar wants to make a gift of Rs. 10000 in today’s terms to his parents at the end of each of next 10 years. If the annual rate of return is 8% and inflation is 3%, what is the value of funds he must have in hand today to meet this need for the 10 year period?
Ram purchased a house in Mumbai in March 2004 for Rs.12,50,000. In April, 2011 entered into an agreement to sell the property to Shyam for a consideration of Rs.19,75,000 and received earnest money of Rs.50,000. As per the terms of the agreement, the balance payment was to be made within 30 days of the agreement. If the intending purchaser does not make the payment within 30 days, the earnest money would be forfeited. As Shyam could not make the payment within the stipulated time the amount of Rs.50,000 was forfeited by Ram. Subsequently Ram sold the house in June,2012 for Rs. 21,30,000. He paid 2% brokerage on sale of the house. Calculate the capital gains chargeable to tax for the assessment year 2012-13. [CII-12-13: 852,11-12: 785,10-11:711,03-04:463]
Rate of 15% pea compounded annually will be equal to ---------------- % per month.
Rs. 1.50 lakh settled on a trust for the benefit of Akash and Bina for life. They share the income in proportion of 3:2.Their ages on valuation date are 20 years and 16 years. The average annual income for the last three years on the valuation date is Rs. 15,000/-. Find out the value of life interest of Akash and Bina if the value of life interest of Re 1/- at the age of 20 years is 12.273 and at the age of 16 years is 12.534.
What is the present value of the following cash flows,if the Interest rate is 8%
Mr.Rajesh ,35 years old sole business consultant of “Oriental Décor Import”California , USA. He arranges Indian Handicraft Products in India as per “Oriental Décor Import” orders. He earns 5% commission on goods purchased by “Oriental Décor Import”. The “Oriental Décor Import” has invited him in USA for inauguration of their 21 chain stores In USA and Europe and he has to expect to say long for providing Indian Handicraft Product Training to all staffs of the Company working in different chain stores. As a Chartered Wealth Manager he comes to you to plan his journey in such a manner so that he can get maximum tax benefits in the assessment Year 2010–11 from the residential status point of view. In the year 2008–09 was present in India only 80 days. What is the latest date when he can afford to leave India to get maximum tax benefits in the said assessment year?
Calculate the total return on the mutual fund investment with the below mentioned information:
Which of the following transaction /transactions is/are an example of the Layering Stage of Money Laundering?
Mr. Shyam has a portfolio consisting of two stocks A & B. Stock A has a standard deviation of 5 % while stock B has a standard deviation of 15%. Stock A comprises 40% of the portfolio and Stock B consists of 60%. If the correlation of returns of A & B is .5, the variance of return on the portfolio is _________.
Smt. Rajalakshmi owns a house property at Adyar in Chennai. The municipal value of the property is Rs. 5,00,000, fair rent is Rs. 4,20,000 and standard rent is Rs. 4,80,000. The property was let-out for Rs. 50,000 p.m. up to December 2010. Thereafter, the tenant vacated the property and Smt. Rajalakshmi used the house for self-occupation. Rent for the months of November and December 2010 could not be realized in spite of the owner ' s efforts. She paid municipal Texas @12% during the year. She had paid interest of Rs.25,000 during the year for amount borrowed for repairs for the house property. Compute her income from house property for the A.Y. 2012-13.
Roger deposits Rs. 10,00,000 in a bank account on 1st March 2005 and another Rs. 5,00,000 on 1st March 2011. He wants to withdraw all of this money with interest on 1st March 2015. If the account pays ROI of 11% P.A. compounded quarterly what amount can he withdraw from this account?
Find out the taxable value of perquisite from the following particulars in case of an employee to whom the following assets held by the company were sold on 1.8.2012.
The assets were put to use by the company from the day they were purchased.
Mr. Ajay and Vijay both are 30 years old. And both are 30 years away from their retirements. Ajay saves Rs. 10,000/- p.a. for 8 years and stops. Vijay starts investing after Ajay stops and saves Rs. 10,000/- p.a. till he retires. Their savings earn 10% p.a. compounded yearly. At the retirement what is true?
A salaried individual, aged 45 years, was awarded a car of market value Rs. 6,50,000 by his credit card company in a draw on 20th December 2012. There was no TDS by the company. He has total income from salary of Rs. 8,45,000 in the previous year 2012-13. He saved a total of Rs. 1,80,000 under different investment instruments eligible for exemption u/s 80C and Rs. 25,000 was paid by him on 5th January, 2013 towards his health insurance policy. Find his tax liability for AY2013-14.
Mr. Raja Ram is working as a regional head in a Pharmaceutical Company. He has a annual income of Rs. 10,00,000. He will be retiring in next ten years. His current expenses are Rs. 5,00,000. The inflation rate for the foreseeable future is expected to be 5%. He assumes that his post retirement expenses will be 70% of his last year expenses of his service and they will increase at inflation rate and paid at the beginning of each year. On his retirement He plans to leave his current rented apartment and shift into a spacious and airy bungalow located on the suburbs of the city (his long cherished dream). The current price of the bungalow is Rs. 24 lakh which is estimated to increase in line with inflation rate. A ten year government security paper fetches 10% interest rate, which will remain constant for the forthcoming period. He is in good health and expects to live for twenty years after retirement.
As a CWM® you are required to calculate the amount he needs to save at the end of ten years on an annual basis so that he can pay his post retirement expenses as well as buy his dream house.
From the following information of assets assets and liabilities, the taxable wealth for:
Mr. Rajesh Rawat deposits Rs. 15,000 per month at the end of the month for 6.50 years in an account that pays a ROI of 8.80% per annum compounded quarterly. What will be the amount in the account after 6.50 years.?
Mr. Munjal has got her daughters son admitted to a dental college today, where he has to pay a fee of Rs. 1.5 Lac today i.e. at the time of admission. Then Rs. 1.75 lacs after 1 year, Rs. 2.5 lacs after 2 years and Rs. 3.25 lacs after 3 years. He wants to set aside the amount required today itself in the form of a Bank FDR.So how much he needs to put aside today if ROI is 8% for 1 year, 8.5% for 2 years and 9% for 3 years, all compounded Quarterly?
The management of Pearls India Shopping Ltd has recently announced that expected dividends for the next three years will be as follows:
For the remaining years, the management expects the dividend to grow at 5% annually. If the risk-free rate is 4.30%, the return on the market is 10.30% and the firm’s beta is 1.40. What is the maximum price that you should pay for this stock?
A portfolio manager is considering buying Rs. 1,00,000 worth of Treasury bills for Rs. 96,211 versus Rs. 100,000 worth of commercial paper for Rs. 95,897. Both securities will mature in nine months. How much additional return will the commercial paper generate over the Treasury bills?
Mr. Neeraj Gupta wants to withdraw Rs. 50,000 per quarter form an account after 3 years for 6 years. How much should he deposit in this account today if the ROI is 12% p.a. compounded quarterly.?
Mr. M is an employee of Z Ltd. His basic pay is Rs.24,000 p.a., Dearness Allowance Rs.12,000 p.a; Medical Allowance (fixed) Rs.10,000 p.a.; Conveyance Allowance Rs.6,000 p.a.; Professional Tax deducted from his salary Rs.1,000 p.a.; Free lunch provided during office hours valued at Rs.12,000 for a 300-working day year; free education for two children in a school owned and maintained by the employer – school tuition fee for both the children is estimated at Rs.18,000 p.a.
What is Net Income of Mr. M and examine whether he is a specified or non-specified employee?
Akash owns a piece of land situated in Kolkata ( Date of acquisition : March 1, 1983, Cost of acquisition Rs. 20,000/- value adopted by Stamp duty authority at the time of purchase Rs. 45,000/-) On March 30, 2012 the piece of land is transferred for 4 lakh. Find out the capital gains chargeable to tax if the value adopted by the Stamp duty authority is 5.75 lakh. And X files an appeal under the Stamp Act and Stamp duty valuation has been reduced to Rs. 4.90 lakh by the Kolkata High Cout. [CII-12-13: 852,11-12: 785,10-11:711]
Mohan is a manager in ABC Co. Ltd. His family consists of his wife and child. It is assumed that his family needs a minimum of Rs. 10,000 per month to maintain current standard of life in unfortunate case of demise of Mohan. The interest rate is 6% pa. Calculate how much insurance is required under income replacement method?
Mr. Reddy is 58 years old and has just retired from his company,and have a total retirement benefits of Rs. 29,37,500/-. His life expectancy is 75 years. He has a dream to take a world-trip after 2 years from now with an estimated current price of Rs. 4,00,000/-. He has finalized a flat of Rs. 15,00,000/- for immediate purchase. Calculate how long his corpus will run if his post retirement living expenses in the beginning of every year is Rs. 1,35,000/- considering inflation @ 4% and rate of return is 6% p.a.?
Find the Human Life Value for a person who is 30 years old.He wishes to retire at age of 60. Interest rate is expected to be 12%. He spends Rs. 60000 on his personal clothing and Rs. 40,000 on his conveyance. He has paid Rs. 65000 as tax for the year. His gross annual income is Rs. 5 lakhs.
Savitri is 30 years old. She saves Rs. 14,000/- p.a. (year end) in FD 8.75% p.a. compounded annually until she retires at age 58. Her life expectancy is 80 years. What would be her corpus at the time of retirement? What is the fixed amount she can withdraw at the beginning of each year, until age 80, in case she wishes to exhaust the whole corpus? Inflation is 5%.
Risk free rate = 6%
Rank the funds based on Jenson Measure in order of best to worst.
Mahesh has invested Rs. 72,000/- @ 5% p.a. in a bank deposit. After 7 years ROI changes 5% p.a. computed half yearly. After further period of 3 years rate again changes to 6% p.a. compounded quarterly. What will he get after 15 years of commencement?
A Post Office Recurring Deposit account can be prematurely closed after _______ years and ________ interest would be payable on prematurely closed account.
In case of self occupied property, higher deduction u/s24(b) for interest on loan for construction can be claimed if borrowing was made
Compulsory audit of account is required u/s 44AB of IT, if the total sales/ turnover exceed _______
Dharampal has let out his house property at monthly rate of Rs. 12000. He has paid Rs.3500 as annual municipal tax. He wants to know the Net Annual value of his house at Bhuj for AY 2011-12. The Municipal value of the house is Rs. 90,000, Fair rent Rs. 1,40,000, Standard rent Rs. 1,20,000. The house was vacant for one month during the previous year 2010-11 and the rent has not changed since then.
Ranbir deposits Rs. 80000 as a lump sum amount in a immediate annuity. He will receive annuity on a monthly basis for next one year. Determine the monthly amount he is entitled to receive. The rate of interest is 15%
Portfolio A had a return of 12% in the previous year, while the market had an average return of 10%. The standard deviation of the portfolio was calculated to be 20%, while the standard deviation of the market was 15% over the same time period. If the correlation between the portfolio and the market is 0.8, what is the Beta of the portfolio A?
" A borrower who has been given notice of enforcement of security interest, replies with his objections.
What is expected of the secured creditor?
Once the child reaches the vesting age, i.e. the age when the life assurance commences, he or she can claim cash option i.e. he can opt to receive the premium amount paid so far under the policy in case the policy is discontinued. This is possible under:
The relevant banking ombudsman for filing a complain regarding credit card with central processing is the one under whose jurisdiction __________.
A Family consists of karta, his wife four sons and their wires and children and its income is Rs. 1000000 if by family arrangement income yield property is settled on karta his wife and sons & daughter in law than tax liability would be
In case of a defined benefit plan where the benefit payable is based on the terminal salary, an increase in of 10% of the wages of the employees would increase the contribution to be made by the employer for the benefit by
Manjeet, aged 33 years, is having a policy of Rs. 1 Lac sum assured and is paying premium of Rs. 1,800/- for the last 10 years. The cash surrender value of this policy is at the end of previous year was Rs. 20,000. It is estimated that by this year end, the cash surrender value of this policy would be Rs. 22,900. New term insurance of sum assured of Rs. 80,000 costs Rs. 300/- per annum today as per Manjeet’s age. If rate of interest is 6% then please advise Manjeet if it is better to continue this policy or to discontinue it?
You are given the following set of data:
Historical Rate of Return
Determine the arithmetic average rates of return and standard deviation of returns of the NSE over the period given.
Rahul and Priyanka went to a wealth manager. Both of them have just got married. Their funds are limited and their needs are many.
Some of their needs are:
Kindly suggest the order in which they should start providing for their above needs:
Possession of the mortgaged property is not delivered to the mortgage in ……………
Urban land means land situated in area not being more than ………………from local list of local authority as notification in official Gazette
If a testator makes a will ‘to induce another person to make him comply with his (testators) wish’ but does not have any testamentary operation or intention, then this will is called as
The client behavior is influenced by which of following motivators in order to regulate his needs and wants?
Aakash a trustee for Mahesh allows the trust to be executed solely by his co-trustee, Suresh. Suresh misapplies the trust property. Is Aakash personally answerable to the loss?
In the context of Organizational Models of banks in Wealth Management, a model in which Private Banking acts as a peripheral add-on to the core investment banking business is termed as:
Surender the driver causes injuries to a pedestrian by rash driving of car. The injured victim had to spend Rs.1000 in treating his injuries. Surender ‘s act has created liabilities under
All stock market indexes are most accurately characterized by which of the following statements about the degree to which they co-vary together?
At which of the three stages of money laundering is it generally easiest to detect money laundering activity?
In case where amount of wealth tax exceeds one hundred thousand rupees rigorous imprison-ment for a term not be less than …………
Which one of the following Provisions of the Transfer of Property Act relates to ’usufructuary mortgage’
Which of the following term means joint venture in Islamic Banking terminology?
Tax exemption limit for the lump sum received towards Leave encashment on retirement is at _______________
X Ltd. has failed to remit the tax deducted at source from annual rent of Rs. 6,60,000 paid to Mr. A for its office building. Said rent is —
A ____________ mortgage binds himself to repay the mortgage money on a certain data transfer the mortgaged property absolutely to the mortgager.
X, a shopkeeper says to Y, who manages his business – “Sell nothing to Z unless he pays you ready money, for I have no opinion of his honesty”. Can Z claim against X for defamation?
A person is said to be Cognate of another if the two of them are related by blood or adoption entirely or wholly through males.
Markets in which funds are transferred from those who have excess funds available to those who have a shortage of available funds are called
" When a customer deposits cheque with a bank for clearing, the customer becomes a _______. "
Loss of a closely held company cannot be carried and set off unless on the last day of the previous year in which the loss was incurred and as on the last day of the previous year in which such loss is set off, at least:
The principle of _____________ ensures that an insured does not profit by insuring with multiple insurers
In case of non-resident, who is carrying on shipping business, his Indian income shall be presumed to be:
Solvency ratio is usually __________ in the case of young couples as compared to senior citizens
Often burdened with loan and generally both of the spouses work to earn their living. Under which category this type of family falls?
Mr. Kashyap took a business premise on lease with the provision that he himself had to pay the insurance premium for fire and other perils on the premises and not the owner of the premises. This would be an instance of_______________ on the part of owner of the premises.
Which of the following statements with regard to Human Capital is/are correct?
Foreign currency borrowings raised by Indian corporate from outside India are called
Mathematically the Efficient Frontier is the intersection of the Set of Portfolios with ....…. Variance and the Set of Portfolios with ……. Return.
For calculation of liability of payment of gratuity to an employee on leaving service, the wage to be taken into account is
Mr. L Singh used machinery in his business. This is the only asset in the block. 20% of the usage is for personal purposes. The WDV of the block as on 31.3.2011 is —
You are given the following set of data on security ABC:
Calculate the expected return on security ABC?
A hired a bicycle from B. The written contract contained a clause which read “Nothing in this agreement shall render the owner liable for any personal injuries to the rider of the machine hired”. Owing to a defect in the brakes of the cycle, A met with an accident and got injured. Can A recover Damages?
Sunil insured the building of his house for a sum of Rs.500000 against fire insurance. One day the house is totally gutted in a devastating fire. The insurance surveyors certified that the building is a total loss with no salvage value and that the insurable value of the building just prior to the loss was Rs.1000000. The insurer will pay to Sunil:
The Portfolio consists of two securities, X and Y in the ratio of 70:30. Given that
What is the portfolio risk?
Rakesh owes Rs. 10000 to Haresh who transfers the debt amount to Chirag. Haresh then demands the same from Rakesh, who does not have a notice of the transfer as per section 131 but still pays to Haresh. This payment is invalid & Chirag can sue Rakesh for the debt
Initial issue expense in respect of the scheme should not exceed ______ of the funds raised during that scheme
Mr. Dinesh is aged 35 years and has a wife aged 30 years old and two small children. His parents are also dependent on him and has a house against which he has taken a housing loan. What is the most important insurance cover required by him at this stage?
Calculate the total maturity amount payable in a policy of Rs. 4,00,000/-, if the term of the policy was 17 years and bonus was Rs. 52 per thousand per annum and a final bonus of Rs. 125/- per thousand was payable?
Which of the following is an aspect of the first principle underlying Supervisory Review Process in Basel framework?
As a CWM you are considering the following bond for inclusion in the fixed income portfolio of your client:
What will be the duration of this bond? and What will be the effect of the changes on the duration of the bond if the coupon rate is 6% rather than 9%?
Which of the following Mutual Funds was not set up within the Phase 2: 1987-1993 ?
" To be sure to receive same day credit on a Saturday, NEFT instruction has to be given by _______. "
Which of the following statement best describes the Cash Flow Planning Process?
A person is on the verge of retirement. He has sufficient funds to meet his daily regular expenses and even he has sufficient insurance coverage. He owns a house property. His family consists of him and his wife only. As a Chartered Wealth manager, which insurance policy would you suggest him?
An employee benefit plan can generally help in accomplishing all of the following items except:
Which of the following is/are the key issues in retirement planning of self employed/ business class?
A portfolio consists of 50% of investment ‘R’ that earned 10%, 25% of investment ‘S’ that earned 6% and 25% of investment ‘T’ that earned 9%. Compute the weighted average return?
Sudhir has invested Rs. 60,000, 30% of which is invested in Company A, which has an expected rate of return of 15%, and 70% of which is invested in Company B, with an expected return of 12%. What is the return on Sudhir’s portfolio?