Finance can be defined as the art and science of managing money. Virtually, all individuals and organizations earn or raise money and spend or invest money. Finance is concerned with the process, institutions, markets and instruments involved in the transfer of money among individuals, business and governments.

As part of long range planning process decision is taken on the program, the organization will undertake and the appropriate resources that will be allocated to each program over the next few years.

HRM is concerned with managing the people resources of an organization. In fact, managing human resources is the most crucial and challenging task that management has to perform, crucial because it is the key to sustainability in the present competitive world and challenging because no two individuals are same (they have different set of needs, ambitions, aspirations, mental make-up, backgrounds. Can you recall more differences!!). Now imagine the task of the human resource manager who has to satisfy not only the different set of needs of its people but also meet the overall organizational objective.

Management is a vital aspect of the economic life of man, which is an organised group activity. A central directing and controlling agency is indispensable for a business concern.

Countless firms have used the well-established principles of managerial economics to improve their profitability. Managerial economics draws on economic analysis for such concepts as cost, demand, profit and competition

Marketing is as old as civilization. Though marketing is talked and discussed in business terms today, its origin goes back to the ancient civilization when man used symbols, signs and material artifacts to transact and communicate with others. Modern marketing revolves around the concepts, which are age old. The first signs that man made to communicate with others gave birth to the idea of marketing. The evolution of marketing has made it a structured discipline to study; otherwise marketing did exist in the ancient past.

Man started engaging in the activity of production soon after its existence. Agriculture was the first production activity

Research means technical and organized search for relevant information on a particular topic. It is defined as an academic activity that involves identifying the research problem, formulating a hypothesis, collecting and analyzing data and reaching specific conclusions in the form of solutions or general theories.

Once best estimates are chosen, both from a statistical and epidemiologic perspective, hypotheses about the estimated association between a single mean, proportion, or rate and a fixed value, typically standard or goal, or about the estimated association between two or more means, proportions, or rates can be tested.

Objectives: Development and reinforcement of a general management point of view-the capacity to view the firm from an overall perspective, in the context of its environment. Development of an understanding of fundamental concepts in strategic management: the role of the general manager, the levels and components of strategy, competitive analysis, and organizational evolution. Development of those skills and knowledge peculiar to general management and the general manager's job that have not been covered in previous functional courses. Synthesis of the knowledge gained in previous courses and understanding what part of that knowledge is useful to general managers.