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PART A
Q1. What is the purpose of a formula bar in a spread-sheet
program?
Ans spreadsheet is to automate calculations, which means using cells to perform
operations based on values in other cells. The spreadsheet recalculates all the values
each time a change is made to the value of a cell.
A formula is used to represent an expression, which, one entered into the cell, allows
the spreadsheet to perform automatic calculations based on values in other cells and to
display the result.
Formulas may also contain references to other cells, expressions, or functions.
Entering a formula is done by selecting a cell and by using the formula bar.
To enter a formula, start by entering the equal sign (=) and then enter the cell references
of the cells to be used and the operators and/or functions.
It is also possible to click on the button Formula on the formula bar. The example below
demonstrates the use of a formula in cell C15 to calculate the sum of cells D11 and D13.
When the Enter is pushed, the spreadsheet calculates the value of cell C15 and displays
the result:
Practical Example
In the example below, the use of formulas to automatically calculate the price with tax
included (Tax included) of a list of articles for which the "Before Tax" (BT) price is given,
and then to calculate the total price of these articles is shown.
To obtain the Tax Included price for article 34FR453, add the value of the tax to the pretax value, meaning the pre-tax value multiplied by the VAT (19.6% in this case):
Amount_TI = Amount_BT + Amount_BT*VAT
In the above example,
In the second example, clicking on cell D6 will automatically add its name to the formula
bar. Another click on this cell will display D6+D6 because addition is the default
operation in the spreadsheet. Push the * button to choose multiplication, and then select
cell D11.
To finish entering the formula, push the Enter button on the keyboard or use
theEnter button on the formula bar. The spreadsheet will display the result of the
calculation in cell E6:
Copying Formulas
Imagine that we want to copy this formula and use it for the other articles. Select the
formula in (cell E6), copy it, and select the block of cells from E7 toE9 (written E7:E9)
and paste the previously copied formula. Here is the result:
Note that the copied formula does not produce the correct amounts:
In effect, when clicking on one of these cells, it can be noticed that the spreasheet
references the correct price before tax, but that the reference to the cell with the VAT
value is wrong (D13 instead of D11).
This is because the previously entered references were relative references. The
spreadsheet therefore performs an automatic offset on cell references when copying the
formula. Thus, to avoid the spreadsheet offsetting the cell with the VAT value, use
an absolute reference ($D$11). Let's redo the formula:
by using the function button that allows the function to be chosen from a list:
Whatever method chosen, the two arguments of the Sum() function must be specified,
which means specifying the cells for which the sum is to be calculated. There are two
further possibilities for the user:
Q3. List five business applications for which one can use Excel.
Ans
Q4. How database is more reliable than file management
Systems?
Ans file system (or filesystem) is used to control how information is stored and
retrieved. Without a file system, information placed in a storage area would be one large
body of information with no way to tell where one piece of information stops and the next
begins.
By separating the information into individual pieces, and giving each piece a name, the
information is easily separated and identified. Taking its name from the way paper based
information systems are named, each piece of information is called a "file". The structure
and logic rules used to manage the groups of information and their names is called a
"file system".
There are many different kinds of file systems. Each one has different structure and
logic. Each one has different properties of speed, flexibility, security, size and more.
Some file systems have been designed to be used for specific applications. For example
the ISO 9660 file system is designed specifically for optical disks.
File systems can be used on many different kinds of storage devices. Each storage
device uses a different kind of media. The most common storage device in use today is
a hard drive whose media is a disc that has been coated with a magnetic film. The film
has ones and zeros 'written' on it sending electrical pulses to a magnetic "read-write"
head. Other media that are used aremagnetic tape, optical disc, and flash memory. In
some cases, the computer's main memory (RAM) is used to create a temporary file
system for short term use.
File systems are used to implement type of data store to store, retrieve and update a set
of files. "File system" refers to either the abstract data structures used to define files, or
the actualsoftware or firmware components that implement the abstract ideas.
Some file systems are used on local data storage devices; others provide file access via
a network protocol (e.g. NFS, SMB, or 9P clients). Some file systems are "virtual", in that
the "files" supplied are computed on request (e.g. procfs) or are merely a mapping into a
different file system used as a backing store. The file system manages access to both
the content of files and themetadata about those files. It is responsible for arranging
storage space; reliability, efficiency, and tuning with regard to the physical storage
medium a Space management
Example of slack space, demonstrated with 4,096-byte NTFS clusters: 100,000 files, each 5 bytes per file,
equals 500,000 bytes of actual data, but requires 409,600,000 bytes of disk space to store
File systems allocate space in a granular manner, usually multiple physical units on the
device. The file system is responsible for organizing files and directories, and keeping
track of which areas of the media belong to which file and which are not being used. For
example, in Apple DOS of the early 1980s, 256-byte sectors on 140 kilobyte floppy disk
used atrack/sector map.[citation needed]
This results in unused space when a file is not an exact multiple of the allocation unit,
sometimes referred to as slack space. For a 512-byte allocation, the average unused
space is 256 bytes. For a 64 KB clusters, the average unused space is 32KB. The size
of the allocation unit is chosen when the file system is created. Choosing the allocation
size based on the average size of the files expected to be in the file system can
minimize the amount of unusable space. Frequently the default allocation may provide
reasonable usage. Choosing an allocation size that is too small results in excessive
overhead if the file system will contain mostly very large files.
File system fragmentation occurs when unused space or single files are not contiguous.
As a file system is used, files are created, modified and deleted. When a file is created
the file system allocates space for the data. Some file systems permit or require
specifying an initial space allocation and subsequent incremental allocations as the file
grows. As files are deleted the space they were allocated eventually is considered
available for use by other files. This creates alternating used and unused areas of
various sizes. This is free space fragmentation. When a file is created and there is not
an area of contiguous space available for its initial allocation the space must be
assigned in fragments. When a file is modified such that it becomes larger it may exceed
the space initially allocated to it, another allocation must be assigned elsewhere and the
file becomes fragmented.
Filenames
A filename (or file name) is used to identify a storage location in the file system. Most file
systems have restrictions on the length of filenames. In some file systems, filenames are
not case sensitive (i.e., filenames such as FOO and foo refer to the same file); in others,
filenames are case sensitive (i.e., the names FOO and foo refer to two separate files).
Most modern file systems allow filenames to contain a wide range of characters from
the Unicode character set. Most file system interface utilities, however, have restrictions
on the use of certain special characters, disallowing them within filenames (the file
system may use these special characters to indicate a device, device type, directory
prefix, or file type). However, these special characters might be allowed by, for example,
enclosing the filename with double quotes ("). For simplicity, special characters are
generally discouraged within filenames.
Directories
File systems typically have directories (also called folders) which allow the user to group
files into separate collections. This may be implemented by associating the file name
with an index in atable of contents or an inode in a Unix-like file system. Directory
structures may be flat (i.e. linear), or allow hierarchies where directories may contain
subdirectories. The first file system to support arbitrary hierarchies of directories was
used in the Multics operating system.[1] The native file systems of Unix-like systems also
support arbitrary directory hierarchies, as do, for example,Apple's Hierarchical File
System, and its successor HFS+ in classic Mac OS (HFS+ is still used in Mac OS X),
the FAT file system in MS-DOS 2.0 and later and Microsoft Windows, the NTFSfile
system in the Windows NT family of operating systems, and the ODS-2 (On-Disk
Structure-2) and higher levels of the Files-11 file system in OpenVMS.
Metadata
Other bookkeeping information is typically associated with each file within a file system.
The length of the data contained in a file may be stored as the number of blocks
allocated for the file or as a byte count. The time that the file was last modified may be
stored as the file's timestamp. File systems might store the file creation time, the time it
was last accessed, the time the file'smetadata was changed, or the time the file was last
backed up. Other information can include the file's device
type (e.g. block, character, socket, subdirectory, etc.), its owner user ID and group ID,
its access permissions and other file attributes (e.g. whether the file is readonly, executable, etc.).
A file system stores all the metadata associated with the fileincluding the file name, the
length of the contents of a file, and the location of the file in the folder hierarchy
separate from the contents of the file.
Q5. List some of the procedures using which one can calculate
Measures of Central
Tendency.
Ans The three most commonly-used measures of central tendency are the
following.
mean
The sum of the values divided by the number of values--often called the
"average."
Add all of the values together.
Divide by the number of values to obtain the mean.
Example: The mean of 7, 12, 24, 20, 19 is (7 + 12 + 24 + 20 + 19) / 5 = 16.4.
median
The value which divides the values into two equal halves, with half of the
values being lower than the median and half higher than the median.
Sort the values into ascending order.
If you have an odd number of values, the median is the middle value.
If you have an even number of values, the median is the arithmetic mean
(see above) of the two middle values.
Example: The median of the same five numbers (7, 12, 24, 20, 19) is 19.
mode
The most frequently-occurring value (or values).
Calculate the frequencies for all of the values in the data.
The mode is the value (or values) with the highest frequency.
Example: For individuals having the following ages -- 18, 18, 19, 20, 20, 20, 21,
and 23, the mode is 20.
PART B
Q1. What are the benefits of the following facilities in MS Word:
Mail Merge, Header
and Footer, AutoCorrect, AutoFormat, AutoText?
Ans Mail merge in Microsoft Word 2007 is a great facility you can use to create mass
documents in very efficient and quickest way. You want to creat invitation labels or mass
letters? Use the mail merge. It is very simple to use with great advantages.
When I create a mail merge, I usually create my database first using Excel 2007. It is
because in Excel it is easier to enter the data. That is me.
But, that is not really important whether you first create your database and then your
document or the other way around. Of course, you can create your Word 2007
document first and then your database.
So here how to create your database with Excel 2007;
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In the appearing windows, select your Excel worksheet that you have created
before as your data source;
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3.
In the Spelling area, check (on) or uncheck (off) the Check spelling as you
typecheckbox.
2.
In the AutoCorrect: English (Australia) dialog, go to the Replace field and enter the
incorrect word or acronym/initialism (eg. organize, ATO).
3.
In the With field, enter the correct word or full text of the acronym/initialism (eg.
organise, Australian Taxation Office).
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5.
Toolbar
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2.
Click Customize.
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5.
Stick with standard layouts. I've seen some pages that use 6 or 8 frames
on one page. Another site used a layout where you had to scroll to the right to
read everything on the page (but you never had to scroll down). These layouts
are cute, and you might find them fun to build, but they will drive your readers
nuts. The reason that the 3-column layout is so popular on Web sites and
newspapers is because it works. You might think it's boring, but you'll keep
more readers if you stick with something simple that they can understand.
4.
Whitespace is more than the CSS property, it is a function of your layout. You
should be aware of the whitespace on your pages and how it affects how the
content is viewed.Whitespace is just as important in a Web layout as it is
in a paper layout.
5.
Use your graphics as elements in your layouts. Graphics can be more
than just graphics when you use them as actual elements in your layouts. An
extreme example is when youwrap text around an image, but any image you
have on your site is a layout element and should be treated as such.
Fonts
6.
Serif for headlines and Sans-Serif for text. If you've taken any type of
print design, this might be exactly the opposite of what you were taught. But
the Web is not print. Sans-serif fonts are much easier to read on computer
monitors because the screen resolution is not as high as in print. If you use serif
fonts for normal text, the serifs can blur together on the screen making them
hard to read. Your printer friendly page should use the opposite fonts (serif for
headlines and sans-serif for text).
7.
Limit the number of different fonts. One of the best ways to make your
Web site look amateurish is to change the font over and over. Sure, it's possible
to do, but limiting your page and site to 2 or possibly 3 standard font families is
easier to read and looks more professional.
8.
Use standard font families. Yes, you can choose to use "Rockwood LT
Standard" as your font on your page, but the chances that one of your readers
will have that font as well is pretty low. Sticking with fonts like Verdana, Geneva,
Arial, and Helvetica may seem boring, but your pages will look better and the
designs look correct on more browsers.
Advertising
9.
Don't be greedy. If you have any control over the number of ads on your
site, be aware that your readers are not coming to read the ads, they are
coming for the content. If the ads overwhelm the page content, many readers
won't stick around long enough to read your purple prose. Yes, it's important
to make money from your Web site, but if your ads drive people away, you'll
ultimately lose money.
10. Treat ads as you would any other image. Keep them small, avoid
blinking/flashing, and keep them relevant. Just because you can have an ad on
your site, doesn't mean that you should. If the content is relevant to your
readers, they're more likely to click on the ad.
Test your pages in multiple browsers. Writing Web pages that work only
on the most modern browser is both stupid and annoying. Unless you are
writing a Web site for a corporate intranet or a kiosk where the browser version
is completely fixed, you'll have problems with people not being able to view
your pages.
12. The same is true for operating systems. You can't assume that just
because your page works in IE5.0 for Windows it will work in IE5.0 for
Macintosh.
13. Write content that they want. Unless you're writing a site purely for
yourself (and if you are, why is it posted to the Web?), make sure that your
content covers topics that your readers want to read.
The URL of the page that the Web bug is located on.
of the purchasing power they have from their incomes, adding that if
high unemployment continues to place pressure on wages, then they will
lose half of their purchasing power in 2014
It will take 20 years to create one million jobs the number of
positions lost since the start of the crisis - and bring the unemployment
rate down below the pre-crisis level of 10%, a study to be published later
this month will claim.
The annual report from the Labour Institute of the General Confederation
of Greek Workers (GSEE), which represents private-sector employees,
will say that as the expected investments in the intervening two decades
will not be labour intensive or high-tech, this will produce so-called
jobless growth.
For the second month running, unemployment rose to a new record
high of 27.6% in May, the most recent month for which figures are
available. That month, 1,381,088 people were registered as out of work,
compared to 452,465 in the same month in 2009.
The full report is expected to be published ahead of the Thessaloniki
Trade Fair, an occasion usually used by the government to set out its
economic agenda for the coming year.The report also finds that since
2009, employees have lost about one quarter of the purchasing power
they have from their incomes, adding that if high unemployment
continues to place pressure on wages, then they will lose half of their
purchasing power in 2014.
The institute says that the earnings of salaried employees and the selfemployed had fallen by 41bn in the last three years.In addition,
domestic demand has slumped to 1999 levels, while in from 2011 to
2013, the stock of fixed capital has fallen for the first time since the end
of the Greek civil war (1949).
PART C
Q1. What is the relevance of Auditing Tools in Excel?
Ans The Auditing Tools for Excel were developed to help Microsoft Excel users audit
and check spreadsheets models. Many studies report that spreadsheet errors are the
rule and, for many spreadsheet models, Microsoft Excel Audit tools are not enough.
Auditing a spreadsheet can be made on a Cell-by-Cell basis or Group-by-Group
Basis. The first requires users to check every cell, a lengthy and fault process. The
later requires users to analyze a group of colored cells indicating different type of
data. Microsoft Excel Audit tools works on a cell-by-cell basis. Excel Smart Tools
Auditor works either on a cell-by-cell basis or group-by-group basis; thereby
significantly improving the efficiency of spreadsheet auditing processes.
Key Features of Auditing Tools for Excel include:
Auditor Check Errors command can locate some problematic and difficult
errors, like numbers and formulas formatted as text and formulas that omit adjacent
cells.
Iterative Auditing: automatically draws precedents and dependents arrows for
selected cell. Each time you select another cell, new arrows are designed.
Mark Blocks of Data : this set of commands colors worksheet cells according
different options, providing users a simple way to detect potential errors.
Select cells by set of commands allows users to select or scroll cells and
analyze formula, precedents and dependents cells to check if there are no errors.
Reports provide user information about Workbook size, worksheet cells, its
formats, comments and dependency references in a new formatted worksheet.
Compare Worksheet command lets users compare the differences between
two worksheets, even on different workbooks. This command is normally used to
compare worksheets updated on various time periods, or to compare worksheets
saved on different locations (e.g. worksheets saved on Hard Disk and Server
locations).
he user can enter the TallyVault password while creating the company or execute the
following steps to provide the TallyVault password for existing companies.
1. Load the Company that has to be secured using TallyVault.
2. Go to Gateway of Tally press F3 : Company Info > Change TallyVault
3. In the Change TallyVault screen select the required company from the List of
Companies.
3. Enter the Password in the New Password field. Tally.ERP 9 displays the strength of the
password entered depending on the combination - Alphabets, Numbers and Special
Characters.
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10. Select the encrypted company, Tally.ERP 9 will prompt the user to provide the
TallyVault password.
11. Provide the required password and the company data is available for use in a readable
format.
The above procedure will ensure that the data/information is available only to authorised
users.
To enable TallyVault while creating a new company, you must provide the TallyVault password
and repeat the password, the new company created will be secured using TallyVault.
(c) he basic on-screen keyboard lets you easily type text. You can also use
these on-screen keyboard options:
thumbs while you hold the Surface in two hands. It also has a numeric
keypad in the center of the screen when youre in landscape mode.
Do this
To
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Type a period
standard keyboard
standard keyboard
mark, like
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Whenever you create a new Excel document, you are opening what is called
a workbook. Each workbook can have multiple worksheets. If your small
business sells fruit, you might have an Excel workbook devoted to keeping
track of current fruit inventory. Within that workbook, you might have two
worksheets one listing your current inventory of apples and the other listing
oranges. To easily view a summary of all fruit inventory, you can create a
third worksheet that joins together data from the two worksheets. Joining
information from different Excel worksheets is a process called
"consolidation."
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Step 1
Open the two Excel worksheets containing the data you want to consolidate.
They might or might not be part of the same workbook. Make sure that both
worksheets use the same formatting. If you are going to gather all of the data
from the first row of both sheets, for instance, ensure that there are no blank
spaces in that row on either sheet.
Step 2
Step 3
Select a cell on your master worksheet. The data you are about to join will fill
columns downward and to the right from the cell you select, so its usually
best to select the uppermost left cell on your worksheet.
Step 4
Click Consolidate from the Data Tools group, which is found within the Data
tab. A Function box pops up.
Step 5
Select the "Sum" function from the menu in the Function box. In Excel, you
use the sum function when you want to add data together, which is what you
are doing when you join two worksheets.
Step 6
Select the data you want to join. Start by clicking your mouse in the
Reference field within the Function box. Then navigate to the first of the
two worksheets containing data you want to consolidate. When you are on
that sheet, use your mouse to highlight the desired cells. Click Add in the
Function box on your master worksheet.
Q5. While using NPV, in what scenario one can say the project is
viable?
Ans The Net Present Value shows the difference between the projects financial benefits and
costs. NPV is expressed in current money terms. It has the benefit of summarising a lifetime of
cash flow values into a single figure and allowing easy comparison of value between different
projects. Comparisons of the NPVs of different projects must be assessed using the same
discount rate.
Only projects with positive NPV should be developed further. If a project has a negative NPV it
means the costs are greater than the benefits. Such a project should not be continued in its
current form, but it may be possible to redesign it to reduce costs or increase benefits so that the
NPV is positive.
The Internal Rate of Return is related to the NPV but it is expressed as a percentage. The IRR
shows what interest rate would lead to an NPV of zero. It should be compared with the investors
required rate of return. If the investor has a required return that is lower than the IRR, it means
the project is attractive to that investor (since the project offers a higher return). If the investors
required return is higher than the IRR it means that the investor would not be interested in
pursuing the project.
By allowing an investment to be compared against a required rate of return the IRR gives a yes
or no answer about whether the investment is financially viable. This means the IRR is useful for
testing whether a project is financially viable or not.
However, the IRR alone does not give enough information to say whether one project should be
pursued ahead of another. Instead, the NPV should be used to compare different projects.
CASE STUDY - I
Use the student database available online
( http://www.mhhe.com/behl2e) to answer
following queries using Access:
(a) List the MBA graduates
(b) Student with first name as JOY
(c) Students with first name as JOY or JOE
(d) Name of IT students.
(e) List of all electives.
Ans List of United States business school rankings is a tabular listing of all business
schools and their affiliated universities located in the United States that are included in one
or more of the major public rankings of full-time Master of Business Administration programs.
This is not a comprehensive list of business schools in the United States. These rankings
are a subset of college and university rankings. Business schools are university-level
institutions generally affiliated with a university or college that produces students who
attain business administration degrees. Most of the schools listed in the rankings below
are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Some of the
publications shown here have related rankings for undergraduate, part-time and executive
curricula.
CASE STUDY-II
(II) o for example you could have some products and see what the effect is of
changing the price, or changing the amount of supplies you get, or changing the
amount of staff you are using. Will you make more money by getting staff that must
be paid higher wages but can produce more goods, or staff that are cheaper but
don't produce as much? These things can be tested by entering in the values to be
used in the formulas and calculate the profits. Companies can then make decisions
based on these kinds of analysis.
Excel and other spreadsheet packages provide different ways to do these things.
There is the IF function. There is the Input Tables facility. There is the Scenarios
facility. By using these and other facilities in a spreadsheet you can do What-If
Analysis.
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