UGC NET Management Previous Year Solved Papers - December 2019
71. Which of the following is a correct description of attitude?
- Option : D
- Explanation : Blum and Naylor (1968) define attitude as: “The beliefs, feelings and action tendencies of an individual group of individuals towards objects, ideas, and people. Quite often persons and objects or ideas become associated with the minds individuals and as a result attitudes become multi-dimensional and complex”. Attitudes provide the ‘frame of reference for a person’s life, all that he thinks, feels, sees and does is consistent with the reference. Attitudes involve organization of motivational, emotional, perceptive and cognitive processes.
72. The net income approach to valuation is based on which of the following assumption?
- A
There are taxes and the cost of debt is less than the cost of equity
- B
There are taxes and use of debt does not change the risk perception of investors
- C
There are no taxes and use of debt changes the risk perception of investors
- D
There are no taxes and cost of debt is less than the cost of equity and the use of debt does not change the risk perception of investors.
73. Which of the following methods of capital budgeting is best suited for leveraged projects?
- Option : A
- Explanation : An organization has to take many decisions regarding the expansion of business and
investment. In such cases, the organization will take the help of the NPV method and base its decision on the same.
Net present value is used in Capital budgeting to analyze the profitability of a project or investment. It is calculated by taking the difference between the present value of cash inflows and present value of cash outflows over a period of time.
As the name suggests, net present value is nothing but net off of the present value of cash inflows and outflows by discounting the flows at a specified rate.
74. Homogenous subsets in the sampling are called
- Option : D
- Explanation : In stratified sampling, the population is divided into relatively homogeneous subsets called strata taken and then random samples are taken from each of the strata.
