MIS142 IT Application Tools in Business B4/B5-C1-AP3

This course provides an introduction to information technology and applications. The course addresses the computer proficiency requirement for future accounting professionals. Topics to be covered include word processing, spreadsheet analysis and data management, business graphics, and presentation techniques. The course provides hands-on training using Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint) to expose students to different business applications. It also seeks to expose students in understanding the business processes of a business enterprise from the start of the business transactions down to the end process where they are exposed to a multi-tiered level of user, application processing and data management. Exposure on how data is collected, stored and used by each student to understand the appetite of the business enterprise on the level of information system it would like to adapt.