Browsing by Author "Adhikari, Dinesh"

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    Capital Budgeting Practices in Nepalese Manufacturing Companies
    (Department of Management, 2021) Adhikari, Dinesh
    Capital budgeting is the process of planning and controlling the strategic (long term) and tactical (short term) expenditure for expansion and contraction of investment in operating (fixed) assets. Capital budgeting decisions are involved with the use of cash now and get back the investment over a period longer than a year. Evaluating such decisions requires determining the investment and its resulting cash flows. Investments provide future cash flows through additional revenues and costs, and through cost saving critical to capital budgeting is that most, if not all, of the numbers used in the analyses are estimates. Capital investment decisions play vital role for the achievement of strategic plan of organizations. The main objective of this study is to investigate the capital budgeting practice of manufacturing companies in Nepal. To achieve this objective, primary data was collected using self-administered questionnaire from ten manufacturing companies. The finding of the study showed that the Nepalese manufacturing companies have been practicing capital budgeting for the long term investment project. Most of the Nepalese manufacturing companies are making investment plan through executive decision and some of the companies are practicing both financial analysis and executive decision. Most of the Nepalese manufacturing companies are facing time consuming difficulty in using capital budgeting followed by unavailability of data and lack of manpower. Capital budgeting in Nepalese manufacturing companies is still evolving and will continue to do so in the future. So far, they are trying to adopt various tools and techniques to cope with the future expected opportunities and challenges to be faced due to the accession of globalization. Key Words: Cash Forecasting, Capital Investment, and Project Identification, Strategic Planning.
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    Challenges of teaching speaking skill in a large classroom
    (Department of English Education, 2017) Adhikari, Dinesh
    The present thesis entitled Challenges of teaching speaking skill in a large classroom aimed to find out the major difficulties that the teachers and students face while teaching and learning speaking skill in a large classroom, analyze factors affecting teaching speaking skill in a large classroom and assess the strategies that teachers and students employ to promote the speaking ability. Keeping the objectives in consideration, 6 English teachers and 30 students from 6 different schools of Nawalparsi district were sampled through non-random purposive sampling procedure. A set of structured questionnaire was the tool of data collection. After analysis and interpretation of data, it has been found that the ELT teachers of Nawalparasi face several difficulties such as mother tongue influence, low weightage to speaking skill in the curriculum, large classroom, lack of time and resources etc. in course of teaching speaking skill in a large classroom. Various factors such as curriculum factor, students’ inhibition, lack of vocabulary and its pronunciation, less exposure in the target language are affecting teaching speaking skill in a large classroom. Teachers prefer to apply teacher centered activities in comparison to learner centered activities. It has also been found that teaching speaking skill is less emphasized in comparison to other skills. Teachers are found using mother tongue and students are also found following them which is the main obstacle of developing speaking skill. Teachers are not found using the effective strategies to teach speaking skill to make it interesting and students are found that they are neglecting this skill because of various reasons such as shy nature, mother tongue influence, lack of vocabularies and grammatical competence. This thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter one is an introductory part which includes background of the study, statement of the problems, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study, and operational definitions of the key terms. Similarly, chapter two includes the review of the related theoretical literature, review of related empirical literature, implications of the review of the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with methods and procedures of the study under which design and method of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, study area, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures, analysis and interpretation procedures are mentioned. Likewise, chapter four includes analysis and interpretation of results and summary of findings. Chapter five includes conclusions and recommendations at three different areas i.e., policy related, practice related and further research related. Finally, the references and appendices are included.