SENIOR FINANCE STUDENTS DISSERTATION PROCESS,

TIME SCHEDULE AND EVALUATION GUIDELINES – 2010-

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STAGE 1
1. Identify your area of interest.

Example: Equity market, Commodities, Derivatives, Banking,

Micro Finance, Behavioural Finance, Capital Structure, Cost of
Capital, Risk Management, Portfolio Management, Financial
Instruments, Mutual Funds, Insurance, Taxes, Accounting etc.

2. Choose the area depending upon your inherent interest and also
from career perspective, though not necessarily.

3. Once the area is more or less clear, look for research works already
done in that areas from JSTOR or SSRN or NSEINDIA like sites. More
often you would get good research works done abroad and only
some done domestically. Some of the research reports you may look
at may not give you the necessary perspective. In which case, look
for more research reports until you are satisfied about its relevance
to your likely area of dissertation.

4. Go through the research work broadly to see the appropriateness,

suitability, practicality of doing here in India, feasibility of adopting
the research methods and tools and more importantly the data
collection feasibility.

5. The references at the end of the research report chosen will give
you more leads into other research reports.

Take print out of three such research reports you would like to bank upon
for your approach, research methods and tools and discuss with your
mentor.

STAGE 1 ENDS

STAGE 2
6. Once you are convinced about taking the dissertation forward, try to
frame your title the hypotheses and the variables.
 7. Prepare a synopsis based on the above work and show it to your
mentor. The synopsis should essentially contain the problem
statement, your research interests, methods and tools.

8. Build chapters 1 to 3 which are introduction (chapter-1) and review

of literature (chapter-2) and Design and Method of study (chapter-3)
for your dissertation.

9. While doing the above step, prepare the draft questionnaire and get
it vetted for the variables, research tools and its appropriateness to
the hypotheses you are trying to test, with your mentor.

10. Do a pilot study for the questionnaire and see whether you need any
revision taking into account the feed-back from the respondents.

11. Make the necessary changes to the questionnaire and proceed

for primary data collection.

STAGE 2 ENDS

STAGE 3
12. Complete the data collection.

13. Do the analysis on the data collected and arrive at conclusions

on the hypotheses.

14. Build chapter 4 which is ‘Analysis’

15. Build chapter 5 which is ‘Summary and Conclusions’

STAGE 3 ENDS

OTHER GUIDELINES
Get your process vetted by your mentor at the end of each stage namely
Stage1, 2 and 3.

As a matter of rule, the dissertation should be Primary Data based.

If any student is interested in Secondary Data based dissertation mainly

with the prices from equity or commodity or currency or debt or
derivatives markets, then the work should result in financial modelling,
multiple regression and / or forecasting and should not stop with simple
correlation, regression and ANOVA.

Working with secondary data in the area of banking, micro finance or such
other areas is not permitted.
Specific prior approval for working with secondary data from your
respective mentor’s is compulsory.

Time schedule:
Stage 1 : To be completed on or before November 15th 2010. Immediately
after coming back from Diwali holidays.

Stage 2: To be completed on or before going for Christmas holidays

Stage 3: To be completed on or before 31st Jan 2011

Submission of hard copy of your dissertation : To be completed on or

before 15th February 2011

Viva : To be completed on or before 28th February 2011.

Evaluation :
Each stage shall carry 50 marks (Stage1, Stage2, Stage3 and Viva).

Stage 1 and Stage 2 will fall under Trimester 5 and stage 3 and stage 4
under Trim 6.

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Please find the overall structure of your dissertation, which is

indicative:
TABLE OF CONTENTS

DECLARATION

CERTIFICATE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

LIST OF TABLES

LIST OF GRAPHS

CHAPTER – 1 INTRODUCTION

1.2 Genesis of the problem

1.3 Major concepts

1.4 Need for the study

1.5 Overview of the study

CHAPTER – 2 REVIEW OF LITERATURE

2.1 Importance of review of related literature

2.2 How review has been done

2.3 Studies conducted abroad

2.4 Studies conducted in India

2.5 Arrangement of studies in chronological order – variables wise

Author (Year) Title

2.6 How the review was useful

CHAPTER – 3 – DESIGN AND METHOD OF STUDY

3.1 Statement of the problem

3.2 Operational definition

3.3 Variables of the study

3.4 Objectives of the study

3.5 Hypothesis

3.6 Design of the study

3.7 Sampling procedure

3.8 Explanation about the input

3.9 Tools used in the study

3.10 Statistical Analysis

CHAPTER – 4 ANALYSIS

4.1 Explanation regarding the type of data and analysis-

quantitative and qualitative

4.2 Analysis based on using the relevant test

(Hypothesis, Table heading, Tabular column, Interpretations)

Graphs

CHAPTER -5 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

 5.1 Major findings

5.2 Conclusions

5.3 Educational implications

5.4 Limitations of the study

5.5 Suggestions for further study

Bibliography

Appendices

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