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ZAMBIA CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Business Management and Finance


Information and Communication Technology Department

BIT 130 Business Application Packages


This course is for banking and finance students.

The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of Microsoft Excel environment for
quantitative data analysis within the context of a business and management research project.
As a spreadsheet, Excel can be used for data entry, manipulation and presentation but it also
offers a suite of statistical analysis functions and other tools that can be used to run descriptive
statistics and to perform several different and useful inferential statistical tests that are widely
used in business and management research. In addition, it provides all of the standard
spreadsheet functionality, which makes it useful for other analysis and data manipulation tasks,
including generating graphical and other presentation formats. Finally, Excel can be helpful
when preparing data for analysis in some Business packages.

Course Objectives
On course completion students should be able:-
 To develop an appreciation how tools embedded in office applications are employed to aid
decision making process.
 To understand the fundamental concepts essential in operating office application software.
 To develop knowledge necessary to efficiently work, manage workflow and conduct basic
troubleshooting of the application.
 To explore the various enhanced application features aimed at improving work efficiency.
 To acquire computing knowledge and skills required to perform detailed analysis and
computation by applying techniques supported by word processing and spreadsheet
applications.
Course content:
1. MICROSOFT EXCEL
1. Introduction to Spreadsheet
1.1 Features of a spreadsheet
1.2 Spreadsheet environment
2. Working with worksheet
2.1 Create, save and open files and worksheets
2.2 Cell manipulation
2.3 Work with worksheet columns and rows.
2.4 Sort and filter data
2.5 Page format
2.6 Printing
3. Working with worksheets
3.1 Link worksheet contents
4. Working with graphics
4.1 Edit pictures, clip arts and smart arts
5. Working with graphics
5.1 Add shapes
6. Charts
6.1 Creating and editing charts
6.2 Pivot tables/Frequency distribution.
7. Calculations
7.1 Excel formulas (elements of an excel formula)
7.2 Using functions (the function library)
7.3 Relative, absolute and mixed references
7.4 Linking worksheets
8. Tasks automation
8.1 Recording macros
8.2 Running macros
9. Pivot tables and pivot charts
9.1 Creating data for pivot table reports
9.2 Creating pivot table reports
9.3 Creating pivot table charts
10. LOOKUP TABLES

10.1 Creating the VLOOKUP Function

11. IF FUNCTION
11.1 Creating the IF Function

11.2 AND, OR AND NOT FUNCTIONS

12. Financial Statement Analysis

11.1 Pie Charts

12.1 Ratio Analysis

13. Depreciation
13.1 Creating a Depreciation Summary

13.2 Calculating Depreciation Using Other Methods

13.3 Charting Depreciation Expense

14. Loan and Bond Amortization

14.1 Loan Calculations

14.2 Loan Amortization Schedule

15. Cash Budgeting

15.1 Operating Activities Budget

15.2 Sales Budget

15.3 Operating Cash Receipts Budget


15.4 Purchases Budget

15.5 Operating Cash Payments Budget

2. ACCESS FOR ACCOUNTING

2.1 Starting, Navigating, and Working with Access Files

2.2 Examples of How Access Is Used in Accounting

2.3 Understanding Access’s Capabilities and New Features


3. MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

3.1 Introduction to PowerPoint


3.1.1 Opening a Presentation
3.1.2 Managing files and folders
3.1.3 Saving and closing presentation
3.2 Customizing presentations
3.2.1 Using Templates
3.2.2 Changing a slide layout
3.2.3 Adding shapes, pictures, chart, table
3.2.4 Adding transition and animation effects

3.3 Delivering the presentation


3.3.1 Creating a custom show
3.3.2 Rehearsing a slide show
3.3.3 Running a slide show

4. Revisions and Examinations


Assessment
Continuous assessment 40%
Final Examinations 60%
Total 100%

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