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The document outlines the syllabus for an IT Tools for Business course. It includes 4 units covering Word Processing, Database Management Systems, Electronic Spreadsheets for Business, and On-Screen Presentation. The objectives are to develop skills in data management, documentation, data analysis, and professional presentation.

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IT Tools For Business

The document outlines the syllabus for an IT Tools for Business course. It includes 4 units covering Word Processing, Database Management Systems, Electronic Spreadsheets for Business, and On-Screen Presentation. The objectives are to develop skills in data management, documentation, data analysis, and professional presentation.

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Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata


Department of Management Studies

Semester: I
Course Name: IT Tools for Business
Course Type: Skill Enhancement Course Course Code:
Credit: 3 Full Marks: 50

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
 To develop clear understanding about application of computers in business.
 To enable students, have idea about data storage and how companies manage it.
 To instil the importance of data mining in industry.
 To understand the significant role played by cloud computing.
 To develop the skills so that students can perform data analysis.
 To develop the skills so that business documents, reports, mails etc. can be handled by students.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
 On successful completion of the course the learner will be able to:
 To have fundamental knowledge of data management.
 To equip a student to do documentation activities.
 To develop the knowledge for data analysis and representation.
 To make a student capable of presenting his work in a professional manner.
 To develop the skills to enable a student to store, manipulate and process data using Structured
Query Language (SQL).

DETAILED SYLLABUS:
Unit
Unit Name Topic Details
No
1 Word Processor  Features of Word Processor - Entering text, Formatting (Font, 4L
Paragraph & Page), editing & saving a document, finding, and
replacing text, creating hypertext links, Drop cap.
 Working with Tables - Inserting, filling, and formatting a table,
 Tools - Language Checking Tools, Mail Merge including linking with
Spreadsheet & Database, Autocorrect, Macro, Tracking.

2 Introduction to Designing business applications using Wizard & SQL (DDL & DML): 8L
Database  Table creation and modification (Create, Alter, Drop), Setting the
Management constraints (Primary Key & Foreign Key), Data manipulation (Select,
System Insert, Update, Delete). Report and Forms.

3 Electronic  Basics of electronic spreadsheet – Data presentation, Sorting, common 10L


Spreadsheet mathematical functions Designing simple invoice, Graphical
for Business representation of simple data, linking data through cell references,
Defining Name Feature
 Introduction to Financial and Logical functions – Calculation of Rate of
Return on Investment, Calculation of current investments / future
investments, EMI Calculation, calculations based on criteria.
 Designing Basic Financial Model Using electronic spreadsheet.
 Setting Criterion on Data - Data Validation, Conditional Formatting
 String Functions – Basic functions (Upper (), Lower(), Trim(), Right(),
Left(), Len(), Mid())
 Introduction to Statistical Functions – Basic Functions (Mean, Median,
Mode, Standard Deviation, Correlation, Regression)
 Advanced Financial Functions – Depreciation Calculation (SLN(),
DB()), Loan Amortization Table with ISPMT())
 Data analysis tools – Lookup functions, What-if analysis (Goal Seek,
Scenario).
 Advanced Features – Macro, Pivot Table, External data handling

4 On-Screen Application of Onscreen presentation – Creation, saving, addition and 2L


Presentation deletion of slides – Placing objects (graphs, images & links) on Slide - Use of
Templates – Setting Custom animation and slide transition features – Setting
up the Slide show.

SUGGESTED TEXT BOOKS/ READING MATERIALS:

1. Introduction to Information Technology, ITL Education, Pearson Education


2. Information Technology for Management, Ramesh Behl, McGraw Hill
3. Information Technology and Its Applications in Business, Reema Thareja, OUP
4. Management Information Systems, Girdhar Joshi, OUP

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