B.Com (Programme), Semester III, DSC-3.2
Financial Management
190 answers across 3 recent sittings and 9 older papers.
- answers
- 190
- papers
- 12
- topics ranked
- 10
Current syllabus UGCF, 2022 onwards
Older papers CBCS syllabus, 128 answers; not counted in Where the marks are
- 2025CBCS2025 paper
17 question parts, paper 251617 solved - 2024CBCS2024 paper
17 question parts, paper 501516 solved1 being checked - 2023CBCS2023 paper
18 question parts, paper 306618 solved - 2022CBCS2022 paper
17 question parts, paper 31817 solved - 2021CBCS2021 paper
6 question parts, paper number not printed6 solved - 2020CBCS2020 paper
6 question parts, paper number not printed6 solved - 2019CBCS2019 paper
16 question parts, paper 703516 solved - 2018CBCS2018 paper
17 question parts, paper 125117 solved - 2017CBCS2017 paper
15 question parts, paper 786715 solved
Every topic, every paper
11 papers from 2017 to 2025, older syllabus included. Open a topic for its marks paper by paper.
- Dividend theories and dividend policy11/11
- Capital budgeting techniques11/111 as OR
- Working capital11/111 as OR
- Cost of capital11/114 as OR
- Theories of capital structure10/111 as OR
- Time value of money10/112 as OR
- Nature, scope and objectives of financial management9/11
- Leverage and EBIT-EPS analysis8/11
- Capital budgeting process and cash flow estimation6/112 as OR
- Receivables management6/115 as OR
- Risk and return1/111 as OR
AskedOnly as an OR choiceNot askedCurrent-syllabus paper
Study order
Learn the topics in this order. Each one shows the marks it adds to a 90-mark paper on top of the topics above it, from the 3 current-syllabus papers (January 2024 to December 2025). An OR choice counts once.
Learn firsteach adds 9 marks or more
- 1adds +1818
- 2adds +1836
- 3adds +1652
- 4adds +1264
- 5adds +973
Subtotal, 5 topics73 of 90 marks
Then these3 to 9 marks each
- 6adds +7.380.3
- 7adds +686.3
Subtotal, 7 topics86.3 of 90 marks
If time allowsunder 3 marks each
- 8adds +288.3
- 9adds +1.790
Total, 9 topics90 of 90 marks
Pick one of each pair
The first topic only comes up as the OR choice against the second, so one of the two is enough.
Doing every question in the order once, at exam pace, takes about 25 h 21 m. Averages over past papers, not promises.
Turn it into a day-by-day planNot on the ladder asked only under the older CBCS syllabus, so they add nothing to a current paper
- Risk and returnasked only in 1 older paper
- Cash managementoutside the current (UGCF) units
Question by question
The topics each question has asked in the 3 current-syllabus papers (January 2024 to December 2025). The faded squares are the 8 old-syllabus papers (2017–25): their questions were numbered differently, so they show only whether a topic came up.
Question 1
- Nature, scope and objectives of financial management, asked in 3 of the 3 papers; came up in 6 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Time value of money, asked in 3 of the 3 papers; came up in 7 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Leverage and EBIT-EPS analysis, asked in 1 of the 3 papers; came up in 5 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
Question 2
- Capital budgeting process and cash flow estimation, asked in 3 of the 3 papers; came up in 3 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Capital budgeting techniques, asked in 3 of the 3 papers; came up in 8 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
Question 3
- Cost of capital, asked in 3 of the 3 papers; came up in 8 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Theories of capital structure, asked in 3 of the 3 papers; came up in 7 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Leverage and EBIT-EPS analysis, asked in 2 of the 3 papers; came up in 5 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
Question 4
- Dividend theories and dividend policy, asked in 3 of the 3 papers; came up in 8 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
Question 5
- Receivables management, asked in 3 of the 3 papers; came up in 3 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Working capital, asked in 3 of the 3 papers; came up in 8 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
AskedOnly as the OR choiceNot askedCame up in an old-syllabus paper