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INVESTMENTS IN EQUITIES
INTROUDCTION
Investment management once seemed a simple process. Well-heeled investors would hold
portfolios composed of stocks and bonds of blue chip industrial companies, treasury bonds, notes
and bills. The choices available to less well-off investors were much more limited, confirmed
primarily to passbook savings accounts. If the investment environment can be thought of as an ice
cream parlor, then the customers of past decades were offered only chocolate and vanilla.
Investment means the sacrifice of current rupees for future rupees. Two different attributes
are involved – “time” and “risk”. The sacrifice takes place in the present and is certain. The reward
comes later and the magnitude is uncertain. In some cases, risk is the dominant attribute. These are
two types of investments. They are:
Real Investments
Financial Investments
Real investments involve some kind of tangible assets such as land, machinery, factories.
Financial investments involve contracts written on pieces of paper such as common stocks and
bonds.
Investment in securities such as shares, debentures and bonds is profitable as well as exciting,
but it involves great deal of risk. Investing in financial securities is considered to be one of the best
avenues for investing one’s savings while it is acknowledged to be one of the most risky avenues of
investment.
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The purpose of the study is to know about stock markets in India, how they work, fundamental
requirements before entering the stock market, how to enter the stock market, market design, stock
selection, when to buy or sell a stock, how to invest and knowing about market intermediaries.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The objective of the study is to look into the scientific approach for selecting a stock
where Fundamental Analysis and Technical Analysis are looked into.
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For that purpose the most happening software sector was taken for study and from that
sector, three stocks were picked up and analyzed.
The study deals with analysis of performance of the company, share price fluctuations
and comparing it with another company from same sector.
The purpose of the study is to locate a stock which gives good returns with minimum
risk.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Investment process
Investment process describes how an investor should go about making decisions.
Fundamental analysis
To determine the intrinsic value of an equity share
Technical analysis
The technical analyst assumes that it is 90 percent psychological and 10 percent logical. It
doesn’t evaluate a large number of fundamental factors relating to the company.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Project is totally based on analytical research. It is prepared on more structured way to find out
problem question. The data are collected from the secondary sources.
Tool: Dow Theory
EXPECTED OUTCOME
Economic liberalizations acceleration in the pace of development in the securities market.
The role of securities markets structural transformation with the introduction of
computerized online trading and interconnected market system.
Identification of profitability on investment on securities such as shares, debentures and
bonds.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
BOOKS
Security Analysis and Portfolio Management, Prasanna Chandra.
Investments, William, Sharpe
WEBSITES:
en.wikepidia.org
www.ventura1.com
www.about.stocks.com
www.nseindia.com
www.moneycontrol.com
TIME-ACTIVITY CHART
Activity Time-line
Understanding structure, culture and functioning of the organization. April 16th to 30th
Preparation of research instrument for data collection May 1st to 14th
Data Collection May 15th to 11th June
Analysis and finalization of report June 12th to 2nd July
Submission of report July 2nd to 9th
INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE SUBJECTFinance is regarded as the lifeblood of business enterprise. This is
because in the modern money oriented economy; finance is one the basic
foundation of all economic activities. It is the master key, which provides access
to all economic activities. A well knit financial system directly contributes to
the growth of the economy. An efficient financial system calls for the effective
performance of financial institution, financial instrument and financial markets.
Some consider that finance is concerned with acquiring funds on reasonable
terms and conditions to pay bills promptly and some other consider it as that
terms which is concerned with procurement of funds.
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NEED FOR FINANCE IN BUSINESS
Finance in business is needed to meet both long term and short term
objective of the organization. Following are some of the avenues where
business finance is developed to meet the firm’s objective.
Acquisition and management of current assets for managing day to
day operations.
Managing mergers, reorganization, expansion, and diversification.
To meet expectation of stake holders.
Acquisition of necessary assets for running the business.
According to Guttmann and Doughall, business finance can be broadly
defined as the activity concerned with planning, raising, controlling and
administrating of the funds used in the business. Finance is the process of
organizing the flow of funds so that a business can carry out in the most
efficient manner and its obligations as they fall due.
TYPES OF FINANCE
Finance can be classified into two types as follows:
1. Public finance
2. Private finance
Public finance deals with the requirement, receipts and disbursement of
funds in the government institution like states, local self- government and
central government.
Private finance is concerned with requirement, receipts and disbursement
of funds in case of individual, a profit seeking business organization and non-
profit organization.
FUNCTIONS OF FINANCE
Although it is difficult to separate finance functions from other functions,
yet their function can be readily identified. The function of raising funds,
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investing them in assets and distributing returns earned from assets to
shareholders are respectively known as financing, investment and dividend
decision. While performing these functions, the firms attempt to balance cash
inflow and outflow. This is called liquidity decision and it is taken as one of the
most important finance functions.
In short, finance is concerned with
1. Obtaining funds at the lowest cost.
2. Making the optimal use of these funds.
ISSUES IN FINANCING
Every firm has its own goals aiming at a certain extent of profit
generation. It is not necessary for a firm to have the goals or profit
maximization as the only objective in the short as well as long run. The
management might have its own limitations of efficiency and capacity, level of
satisfaction and appraisal of future, etc. The problems faced by an account
dealing with finance functions are:
1. Type of expenditure to which a firm should get it involved in a
commitment to spend.
2. The volume of funds that should be committed by a firm on various type
of expenditure.
3. The way and means by which the existing funds committed as well as
non-committed could be utilized for getting maximum benefits for the
firm.
4. The course of action to be taken whenever the expectation does not
materialize and a failure is to be averted.
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Financial management is the operational activity of a business that is
responsible for obtaining and effectively utilizing the funds necessary for
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efficient operation. Financial management is a subject which deals with
the tools and techniques through which a company’s balance sheet is
constructed. It offers ideas to the executives in building items in liabilities
and assets side of balance sheet. It clearly guides the financial manager to
select both long term and short term and its allocation to capital and
revenue expenditure, hence ultimately used as a communication too, to
convince the investors about the performance of a corporate entity.
SPECEFIC OBJECTIVE
1. Profit maximization.
2. Wealth maximization.
OTHER OBJECTIVES
1. Balanced asset structure
2. Judicious planning of funds
3. Financial discipline
4. Liquidity
5. Efficiency
FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
Financial analysis refers to an assessment of the viability, stability and
profitability of a business, sub-business or project.
It is performed by professionals who prepare using ratios that make use of
information taken from financial statement and other reports. These reports are
usually presented to top management as one of their bases in making business
decisions. Based on these reports management may:
1. Continue or discontinue its main operation or part of its business.
2. Make or purchase certain materials in the manufacture of its products;
Acquire or rent/ lease certain machineries and equipments in the
production of its goods.
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3. Issue stocks or negotiate for bank loan to increase its working capital.
4. Make decision regarding investing or lending capital; make other
decision that allows management to make an informed selection on
various alternatives in the conduct of its business.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
The financial are composed of data which are the result of a combination of
recorded facts concerning the business transaction, conventions adopted to
facilitate the accounting technique, postulates or assumptions made to and
personal judgment used in the application of the conventions & postulates. It is
prepared for the purpose of presenting a periodical view of reports on progress
by the management.
Two basic financial statements prepared for the purpose of external reporting
to owners, investors and creditors are
Balance sheet
Profit and loss account.
It is the most significant financial statement. It indicates the financial
conditions or the state of affairs of a business at a particular moment of
time; balance sheet contains information about resources and obligations
of a business entity and its owner’s interest in the business at a particular
point of time.
FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
It refers to the process of determining financial strengths and weakness of
the firm by establishing strategic relationship between the items of the balance
sheet, profit and loss account and other operative data. The term financial
analysis is also known as analysis and interpretation of financial statement. The
purpose of financial analysis is to diagnose the information contained in the
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financial statement so as to judge the profitability and financial soundness of the
firm.
DEVICES OF FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
1) COMPARATIVE STATEMENT
The comparative financial statements are statements of the financial
position at different periods of time. The elements of financial position are
shown in a comparative form so as to give an idea of financial positions at two
or more periods. Any statement prepared in a comparative form will be covered
in comparative statement. Comparative balance sheet analysis is the study of
the trend of the same items, groups of items and computed items in two or
more balance sheets of the sane business enterprise on different dates.
2) TREND ANALYSIS
The financial statements may be analyzed by computing trends of
series of information. This method determines the direction upwards or
downwards and involves the computation of the percentage relationship that
each items bears to the same in the base year.
3) COMMON SIZE STATEMENTS
The common size statements, balance sheet and income statement are
shown in analytical percentages. The figures are shown as percentage of total
assets, total liabilities, and total sales.
4) RATIO ANALYSIS
Ratio analysis is a technique of analysis and interpretation of financial
statement. It is the process of establishing and interpreting various ratios for
helping in making certain decisions.
5) FUND FLOW STATEMENT ANALYSIS
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The fund flow statement is a statement which shows the movement
of funds and is a report of financial operations of the business undertakings.
It indicates various means by which funds were obtained and employed
during a particular year.
6) CASH FLOW STATEMENT ANALYSISCash flow statement is a statement which describes the inflow
(source) and outflow (uses) of cash and cash equivalents in a enterprise
during a specified period of time.
Part-B
GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE BANKING
In the past, economic advancement was unknown. Consequently the use
of money for buying and selling was very much restricted. With the
development of communications, economic progress and the spread of science,
and the growth of economic and political institution, the use of money also
expanded. Along with the use of money, the use of credit instrument also
developed. The origin of modern financial institution can be traced to antiquity,
where the individuals used to accept money in the form of deposits and lend it
to people who needed for meeting their requirements which may be economic
or social. As times advanced, the character of economic transaction also
changed. Old order of borrowing and lending underwent metamorphic changes.
Finance became a powerful instrument for any change. In fact, the innovations
in the fields of transport and communication, development of energy and
manufacturing have resulted in innovations in the sphere of banking.
ABOUT BANKING SYSTEM
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The development of Banking is evolutionary in nature. There is no single
answer to the question of what is banking. Because a bank performs a multitude
of functions and services which cannot be comprehended into single definition,
for a common man, a bank means a storehouse of money for a business, it is an
institution of finance and for a worker it may be a depository for his savings.
EVOLUTION OF BANKING
Initially, the bankers, the Jews in Lombardy carried out their
business on benches in the market place resembled the banking counter.
If the banker failed, his banque (bench) was broken into pieces by the
people; hence the word bankrupt came into existence. In simple term
bankrupt means a person who has lost all his money, wealth, or financial
resources.
THE ORIGIN OF THE WORD ‘BANK’
Bank— German(joint stock fund)
Banco— Italian (heap of money)
Baucus/banque— French (bench/chest a place where valuables are kept)
Bank— English (common meaning prevalent today)
Meaning of banking
The term banking is defined as accepting for the purpose of lending
or investment of money from the public repayable on demand or
otherwise and withdrawal by cheques, drafts and orders.
Importance of Banks
The importance of bank cannot be denied at all. Banks play an important
and significant role in economic development of a country.
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The economic importance of bank is as follows:
1. Banks mobilizes the small scattered and idle saving of people.
2. Banks plays a vital role in development of a country.
3. Banks provides safety and security to surplus money and deposits.
4. Banks influence the rate of interest in the money market.
5. Banks direct the flow of the funds into productive channels.
6. It mobilizes funds from surplus to deficit places.
7. Banks serve as the best financial intermediary between savers and
investors.
8. Banks facilitates trade and commerce, industry and agriculture by
meeting their financial requirements.
9. Banks provide a convenient and economical means of payment.
10.They create credit by lending several times the cash deposits they
receive.
11.Banks influence employment, income and the general price level.
Banks are useful in several ways and can be concluded that a strong and
sound banking system is indispensable for economic development of any
country.
Traditional services of banks
The Goldsmith:
The goldsmiths by virtue of dealing in gold facilitates for the safe keeping
of valuables. A person largely because of the danger of theft started to leave
their precious bullion and coin in the custody of goldsmith. Goldsmith began
imposing charges for safe keeping.
The moneylender:
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The moneylenders were men of means and reputations. They used to lend
their surplus funds to the needy at high rates of interest and earned large
income. The moneylenders borrowed money at lower rates of interest and lent it
to the needy at higher rate of interest. The difference between the two interests
constituted the profits.
The merchant bankers:
These people are originally traders in commodities. They were engaged
in trade, internal as well as external. In course of time besides trading, they
undertook the financing trade, especially the foreign. Thus the merchant who
started as traders in goods slowly developed as financier of foreign trade or
banker.
It is clear that merchant bankers, money lenders and goldsmith were
largely responsible for the development of modern banks.
Modern banks possess the characteristics of all these ancestors like the
merchant bankers, modern banks finance foreign trade and use bills of exchange
in their financing of foreign trade. Like the money lenders, modern banks accept
deposits from those who have surplus money to spare and lend the same to the
needy for productive purposes.
Like the goldsmiths modern banks provide to the depositors and a
convenient means of payment in the form of cheques and create money.
History of banking in India:
Banking was existence in India from very early times. The writing Manu
and Kautilya contained references to banking. But, banking on western lines
started in India only from the beginning of the 19th century.
The Indian commercial banking system had to pass through a series of
financial crisis and reforms; its growth was slow during the first half of the 20th
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century. Further many banks during this period went through a series financial
crisis. It is only after independence the Indian banking system has made a
rapid progress. Today, the Indian banking system is one the sophisticated and
well developed commercial banking systems in the world.
Meaning of the term Bank:
The term ‘BANK’ is derived from the German word ‘PACKS’ which
means joint stock fund or a common fund that is a Heap of money raised from a
large number of the public.
They contended that the early European bankers raised a common fund or
heap of money from the public for the purpose of financing the need as, banks
deal in common funds or heaps of money raised from the public.
Definition of the term Bank:
The Indian Banking Companies Act of 1949 defines the term Banking
Company as “any company which transacts the business of banking in India, as
accepting foe the purpose of lending or investment of deposits of money from
the public repayable on demand or otherwise and withdraw able by cheques,
draft order or otherwise”.
Classification of banks
Banks are classified into several types based on the functions they perform.
Generally banks are classified into:
Commercial banks
Investment banks (or) Industrial banks
Exchange banks
Land mortgage bank
Central bank
Co- operative banks
Commercial banks:
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Commercial banks perform all the business transaction of a typical bank.
They accept three types of deposits viz current deposit, fixed deposits,
saving deposits which are re payable on demand.
Since commercial banks are expected to meet immediate requirements of
depositors, they cannot invest credit overdrafts. They provide cheque facility
and bank draft for transfer of funds, safeguarding the valuables, discounting the
bills of exchange, collecting customer’s stocks and shares etc.
Investment / Industrial banks
Investment banks are those banks which are mainly concerned with
underwriting new securities. They underwrite new issued shares and debentures
of industrial companies and also purchase entire issue of new securities and
later sell it to the public at higher price.
Industrial banks are those banks which are socialized in providing long
term loans to industries with a view to buy plant and machinery and other
capital assets that require huge capital outlay. These banks play major role in
economic development of a country.
Exchange bank:
Exchange banks are known as foreign banks or foreign exchange banks,
which provide foreign exchange for import trade. Their main function is to
make international payment through the purchase and sales of exchange bills.
They convert home currency into foreign currency and vice versa. They
discount foreign exchange bills, which are used in foreign trade. These banks
function like commercial banks accepting deposits and lending funds for
investment.