COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN
BUSINESS
Course Preface
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN
BUSINESS
Instructor in Charge
Md. Abdullah Al Mahmud
Senior Lecturer in MIS
Department of Business Administration
Manarat International University
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN
BUSINESS
Contact details:
emrul151@yahoo.com
emahmud@manarat.ac.bd
Cell: 01718150263
Introduction & Overview
Introduction of the Class
Course Introduction
Few Words on Lecture Notes
Introduction to Lecture Methodology
Introduce yourself
• Your name
• Academic background
• Where you are from, where you have studied
• Your target/ Goal/ Objective.
• Something unusual/unique/special/humorous
about yourself
The Course
Code and Title:
Bus-402 Computer Applications in
Business
 Prerequisites: Introduction to Computer.
Why bother?
Why should you, as a business student, care about
computer?
Course Objectives
• This course is designed to expose the students
of BBA to the use and applications of
computer in different functional areas of
business. Emphasis is placed on skill
development in using technology to perform
advanced information processing.
Course Objectives
Continued
To accomplish the objectives outlined above, the
course consists of the following three
components:
• Using Microsoft Excel 2007 in
Business(Spreadsheet Analysis);
• Using Microsoft Access 2007 in
Business(Database Management);
• Using SPSS
COURSE COMPONENTS
Microsoft Excel Component: Building upon the
skills attained in previous time, this component will
cover basic, intermediate and advanced,
spreadsheet concepts and skills using Microsoft
Excel, with particular emphasis on applying
spreadsheet techniques and skills in business
environment.
Microsoft Access Component: Building
upon the skills attained in previous time, this
component will cover basic, intermediate,
and advanced database management
system concepts and skills for use in
business, including the design of custom
reports, custom screen forms, queries, and
mailing labels.
SPSS Component: SPSS component will
cover basic & intermediate skills of statistical
tools using in business. This component
includes usual statistical tools that are used
for business research.
Technology Requirements
Grading & Marks Distribution
Grading will be measured according to the
guidelines of the MIU BBA program as outlined in
the BBA program bulletin. It will be based on
homework assignments, exams and class
participation. Though final grade will be calculated
according to MIU outlined standard, I will evaluate
your performance on the basis of following
distribution.
Grading & Marks Distribution
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Evaluation Procedures
Class Attendance
10%
Home work assignments
10%
Report & Viva
10%
Class Test & Class Participation
10%
Discussion & Presentation
10 %
Mid-Term
20%
Final
30%
Total
100%
The students will get 10 marks at the first class of
overall 24 classes. Each class contains
10/24=.417 mark. As 50% attendances is the
minimum requirement for the course that’s why
each absent will reduce student’s marks by
10/12=.833. That means if any student absent
50% of the class will get 0 marks, and the student
whose attendance is below 50% will get negative
marks. Besides the deduction policy, there is 2
bonus marks for the students who have above
90% attendance.
Home work assignments
There are10 homework assignments in total, with
more details about each assignment will be given
in the site address. All assignments are mandatory
and will count toward your final grade.
Report
The course contains a project work or report. The
guidelines about the project paper will be provided
to the Site address prior to the project paper
submission.
Each student has to select a topic from the site
http://www.inc.com/technology and present that
topic for class discussion. Beside this, students
have to present the project paper findings.
The students who will participate in the class
discussion will get bonus marks.
Class Test & Class Participation
The course entitles two class tests, contains 5
marks each. One class test will be held before the
midterm examination and the other one will be
held on before the final examination.
Exams
The course entitles one mid-term and one final
exam. The final exam will emphasize material
covered after the mid-term.
Absences from the final exam will be entertained
only in cases of emergencies. The instructor must
be notified before the exam if you will be unable to
take it and will require documented proof. In such
cases, a make-up exam will be rescheduled.
Few Words on Lecture Notes
The students have to registrar in the sitehttp://emrulmahmud.weebly.com
From the site students can download the lecture
notes.
Lesson……
To Educe means to bring out a potential existence.
Education, therefore, is a process of intellectual
growth.
A student must be curious, open-minded,
reflective, strategic, skeptical, and must learn for
deep understanding. It is therefore, my cardinal
duty as an educator to provide the conditions in
which my students can learn to become what they
want to be.
Lesson……
Formal education must teach you how to
think. The hard facts you learn are
secondary to that. Education is not how
much you have committed to memory, or
even how much you know. It is being able to
differentiate between what you know and
what you do not.
Lesson……
The big thing you take away from institution
is how to induct and deduct in a constructive
way. The object of education is to prepare
the students to educate themselves
throughout their lives.
Lesson……
Critical thinking, self-examination, and the
questioning of assumptions are all widely
genuflected to as part of any good education.
I do provide such an environment and strive to
make critical and protracted thinking plausible for
my students. This means that students are active
participants of creating knowledge and developing
skills rather than passive recipients of information.
Lesson……
Students appreciate a teacher who gives them
something to take home to think about besides
homework. One often forgets what one was
taught. However, one only can make use of what
one has learnt.
Lesson……
All the interest of education should come together
to make students responsible decision makers. My
highest endeavor must be to develop free human
beings who, of themselves, are able to give
purpose and direction to their lives. It is the ability
to decide for yourself and the responsibility for
making a self for yourself; the educator is merely a
mid-wife in this process.
• What do you think will happen?
• What do you think should happen?
• How will these things affect business?
Be mentally Prepared to climb our voyage
And Conquer the world