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TAMIL NADU OPEN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES

BBA (COMPUTER APPLICATIONS) PROGRAMME

SYLLABUS

COURSE CODE COURSE TITLE CREDIT

I Year

BFTM 11 Tamil 6

BBAEG Business English 6

BBAC 11 Principles of Management 6

BBAC 12 Business Maths & Statistics 6

BBAC 13 Fundamentals of Computers 4

BBAC P1 LAB1 – Office Automation Package 4

II Year

BBAC 21 Financial & Management Accounting 8

BBAC 22 Managerial Economics 4

BBAC 23 Marketing Management 6

BBAC 24 E-Commerce 6

BBAC 25 Internet & Web Designing 4

BBAC P2 LAB – 2 Internet & Web Designing 4

CCE Environmental Studies 6

III Year

BBAC 31 Production Management 6

BBAC 32 Personnel Management 6

BBAC 33 Financial Management 6

BBAC 34 Business Information Systems 6


BBAC 35 Business Accounting Software 4

BBAC P3 LAB – 3 – Business Accounting Software 4


TAMILNADU OPEN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES

BBA (COMPUTER APPLICATIONS) PROGRAMME

BBA (Computer Applications) imparts knowledge both in Management and Computer

Applications through Distance Mode. The Programme has an evolving course

content which has been updated to be in-tune with the emerging trends.

The Programme has been designed to enable the learners to

Acquire knowledge and skills in the basic disciplines and functional areas of

Management.

Impart computer skills to the young students of management community.

Provide hands on training experience in emerging areas like internet and web

design and accounting packages like Tally.

REGULATIONS

DURATION STREAM ELIGIBILITY AGE Min Max

Formal 10+2 or Equivalent -- 3 Years 8 Years

Non formal BPP from any open University or BPP of TNOU to be completed along with other courses.

Minimum

18 years 3 Years 8 Years

MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION ENGLISH

Formal Non Formal ANNUAL PROGRAMME FEE Rs. 2500/- Rs.3000/-

ATTENDANCE Students should obtained alteast 75% of attendance in the practical session to appear for the Practical Examination

SCHEME OF EVALUATION Continuous Assessment 25 Marks

Term End Examinations. 75 Marks

Total 100 Marks PASSING MINIMUM

A candidate who obtains not less than 26 marks out of 75 marks in each course in the Term

End Examination and 40% marks in the aggregate of both Term End Examination and

Continuous Assessment shall be declared to have passed.


CLASSIFICATION OF CANDIDATES Candidates who pass all the major subjects shall be classified as follows:

FIRST CLASS Candidates securing 60 percent and above of the marks in the aggregate

shall be placed in the First Class.

SECOND CLASS

Those who have obtained less than 60 percent but not less than 50

percent of the marks in the aggregate shall be placed in the Second

Class.

THIRD CLASS Those who obtain less than 50 percent but not less than 40 percent of the

marks in the aggregate shall be placed in the Third Class.

Candidates who have obtained not less than 75 marks in the aggregate shall be declared to

have passed with Distinction

PATTERN OF QUESTION PAPER

The pattern of the University Examinations Question Paper for all the courses will be

as follows:

For all theory papers the University Examinations is for 75 marks, with a break up

of 15 marks for Section A and 60 marks for Section B.

Details as follows.:

a) Section A shall consist of short answer questions (answer for each question not

to exceed one page), carrying five marks each. The candidates have to answer

any three out of five questions from Section-A.

b) Section B shall consist of Essay type questions/problems carrying fifteen marks

each. The candidates have to answer any four out of seven questions from

Section – B.


BBAEG BUSINESS ENGLISH BLOCK I Communication – Meaning – Objective and scope – Methods of communication –

Types – Barriers – Principles of communication – communication process.

BLOCK II Layout of a letter – Business Inquiries and Replies – Quotations – Order – Execution

of orders – Cancellation of orders – Claims – Adjustments and settlement of

accounts – Sales letters – Circular letters.

BLOCK III Collection letters – Application letters – Import Export correspondence – Bank

Correspondence – Insurance correspondence.

BLOCK IV Report writing – Reports by Individual – Committees – Annual Report – Press report

– Speeches – Preparation of Agenda – Minutes.

BLOCK V Internal communication: Short speeches – Memo – Circulars – Notices – Explanation

to superiors Modern means of communication : Intercom - Telex - Fax – Tele

conferencing – Internet – E mail.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED

Essentials of Business Communication - Rajendra Paul & J.S. Korlahalli

Effective Business English & - M.S. Ramesh & Patsan Shetty

Correspondence

Business Correspondence and Office - R.S.N.Pillai & Bhagavathy

Management

Business Communication - R.C. Sharma, Krishnamohan

Effective Letters in Business Law - Shurter


BBAC 11 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT

BLOCK I

Management – Features, functions – Management as an art, science, profession –

Evolution of management thoughts.

BLOCK II

Planning – Process, importance, nature and scope, types, steps in Planning.

Objectives, Policies, Procedures, Strategy.

Decision making – Types of decisions, difficulties in decision making – Management

by Objectives.

BLOCK III

Organising – Features, importance – Principles of organizations – types –

Organisation structure – Delegation – Span of control – Line and staff relationship –

Use of staff units and committees.

BLOCK IV

Staffing – Sources of recruitment – Selection process – Training. Directing – Nature

and purpose – Communication process.

BLOCK V

Need for Coordination – Controlling – Importance and functions of control – Control

process – Budgetary and non- budgetary control.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED

Management Process - Rustom Davar

Principles of Management - L.M. Prasad

Business Management - Dinkar & Pagare

Essentials of Management - Koontz & O Donnell

Principles of Management - Sherlekar


BBAC 12 BUSINESS MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS

BLOCK I

Nature and Scope of statistics; Use of statistics in business – Primary data and

secondary data – Frequency distribution – Histogram; Graphs and diagrams

BLOCK II

Sets and set operations – Venn diagrams – Matrices; Fundamental ideas about

matrices and their operational rules – Matrix multiplication – Inversion of square

matrices of not more than third order – Business application

BLOCK III

Mathematics of finance; simple and compound interest – discounts, annuities and

present values

Elements of differential calculus – Maxima and minima applications of these

concepts to business

BLOCK IV

Measures of central tendency – Arithmetic mean, mode, median, geometric and

harmonic mean, measures of dispersion – range, quartile deviation, mean deviation

and standard deviation – coefficient of variation

BLOCK V Simple correlation and regression – time series – components – measuring trend

(measuring other components are not included); index numbers, weighted and

unweighted cost of living index.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED

An Introduction to Business Mathematics

and Statistical Methods - Sundaresan & Jeyaseelan

Statistical Methods - S.P. Gupta

Business Mathematics - Navaneethan

Business Statistics - R.S.N. Pillai

Statistics - Elhans


BBAC 13 FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTERS BLOCK I Block Diagram of a computer – Types of computers Hardware and software – system

software and Application software.

BLOCK II Operating System-Function - Disk operating system MS-DOS – Internal commands -

External commands.

Introduction to Windows – GUI – Working with a Window (open, Scroll bars, Moving)

Copying and Moving information between Windows.

BLOCK III MS-Office: Introduction to WORD, POWERPOINT & EXCEL WORD – Creating a

new document – Opening /Modifying a saved document – Formatting text – Adjusting

Margins, Line spacing – Character Space changing font Type, Size -

Adding, Editing and deleting tables – working within tables – Adding, Deleting,

Modifying rows and columns.

BLOCK IV Excel: Working with Worksheet – Inserting and deleting of cells, Rows and columns –

switching between worksheet – Moving, Copying, inserting and deleting Worksheet –

using formula for quick calculation – working and entering a Formula – Formatting a

Worksheet – creating and editing charts – Elements of an Excel chart.

BLOCK V PowerPoint: Creating new presentation _ Auto content Wizards – Using templates –

Black Presentation Opening existing presentation _ Adding, editing, deleting copying

an hiding slides- presentation – Adding graphics – Using headers and footers –

Animating text – Special effects.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED

Office 2000 complete reference - Stephen L. Nelson

P.C. Software for Windows made simple - R.K. Taxali

Quick course in Micro-soft office - Joyce Cox, Polly Orban

Mastering Office 2000 - Gimi Couster


BBAC P1 LAB 1 – OFFICE AUTOMATION PACKAGE MSWORD

1. Preparing a neat aligned, error free document, add header and footer, also perform find replace operation and define bookmarks.

2. Preparing documents with special effects and adding new Symbols and frames.

3. Preparing documents with inserts pictures objects and database. 4. Preparing lables 5. Preparing the document in newspaper column layout 6. Perform mail merger operation and preparing labels. 7. Type the text, change the font size at 20, Align the text to left, right and justify

& centre and underline the text. 8. Prepare a job application letter enclosing your bio-data 9. Demonstrate OLE concept by linking an excel worksheet into a work

document 10. Type the text, check spelling and grammar, bullets and numbering list items.

MSEXCEL

11. Entering and printing worksheet 12. Worksheet Using formulas 13. Worksheet Manipulation for electricity bill preparation 14. Drawing graphs to illustrate class performance 15. An excel worksheet contains monthly Sales Details of five companies.

MSACCESS

16. Simple commands perform sorting on name, place and pincode of students database and Address printing using label format

17. Pay roll processing 18. Mark sheet Preparation 19. Inventory control 20. Screen designing for data entry 21. Report reparation

MS POWER POINT

22. Prepare a power point presentation with at least three slides for department inaugural function.

23. Draw an organization chart with minimum three hierarchical levels. 24. Design an advertisement campaign with minimum three slides 25. Insert an excel chart into a power point slide.


II YEAR



BBAC 21 FINANCIAL AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING BLOCK I Financial Accounting – meaning –objectives - scope of financial accounting. Basic

Accounting concepts –

Double Entry Book-Keeping -Journal - Ledger and Subsidiary books – cash book-

purchase book –sales book- sales returns book - purchase returns book.

BLOCK II

Preparation of Trial Balance - Rectification of errors – Manufacturing - Trading –

Profit and loss account – Balance sheet

BLOCK III

Management accounting – Meaning and scope.

Ratio analysis – Nature of analysis – Classification of ratios – Liquidity, Profitability,

Turnover and Capital structure ratio – Interpretations

BLOCK IV Fund flow analysis – Concept of funds – Schedule of changes in working capital -

Sources and Application of funds – Preparation of funds flow statements.

Cash flow analysis - Cash from operations – Cash flow statements.

BLOCK V Marginal cost – Contribution – Cost-volume-Profit (CVP) relationship – Break-even

analysis.

Budget and budgetary control – advantages and limitations – Classification and

preparation of budgets.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED Principles of Accounting - Finnery H.A. & Miller. H.E. Advanced Accounts - M.C. Shukla & T.S.Grewal Advanced Accountancy - Jain. S.P. & Narang. K.L. Management Accounting - S.N. Maheswari

Management Accounting - R.K.Sharma & Sasi Gupta


BBAC 22 MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS BLOCK I Definition and Scope of Economics – Role of Economics in business decisions –

Demand Analysis – Law of diminishing marginal utility – Law of Equimarginal utility –

Law of demand – Price, Income and Cross Elasticity of demand.

BLOCK II

Factors of Production – Law of diminishing returns – Law of increasing returns – Law

of constant returns – Least combination – Economics of Scale.

BLOCK III Supply – Law of Supply - Supply determinants – Elasticity of supply – Cost and

revenue curves, Money, real and opportunity costs – Fixed and Variable costs –

Average and Marginal costs – Average revenue and marginal revenue. – Break even

analysis – Cost control and cost reduction.

BLOCK IV

Market Structure and prices – Pricing under perfect competition – Pricing under

monopoly – Comparison of perfect competition and monopoly – Features of

Monopolistic Competition – Pricing under Monopolistic competition – Oligopoly

BLOCK V Government and business – Industrial Policy – Concepts of National Income –

Computation of National Income – Gross Domestic product – Use of National Income

data – Business cycle – Phases – Theories of Trade cycle.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED Business Economics - Sankaran

Managerial Economics - R.L. Varshney & K.L. Maheswari

Business Economics - K.P.Sundaram, E. Sundaram

Modern Economic Theory - Dewett

Managerial Economics - Mofe, Paul & Gupta


BBAC 23 MARKETING MANAGEMENT BLOCK I

Nature and Scope of Marketing – Concepts of Marketing – Marketing Management –

Functions of Marketing – Various Environmental Factors affecting Marketing

Function.

BLOCK II

Buyer behaviour – Factors influencing buyer behaviour – Buying Motives – Stages of

buying decision process.

Market segmentation – Need and basis of Segmentation – Concept of Marketing Mix

– Marketing Strategy.

BLOCK III

Product – Definition – Classification – Consumer Goods – Industrial goods – Product

Life Cycle – Product Mix – Product Planning – Branding – Packaging – Developing

new Products.

BLOCK IV

Pricing – Objectives – Pricing Policies and Procedures – Factors influencing pricing

decisions – New product pricing – Psychological aspects in pricing.

Physical distribution – Channels of distribution – Types of Channel – Channel Policy

– Wholesalers, Retailers and Middle men and their functions.

BLOCK V

Promotion – Advertising – Personal Selling – Sales Promotion – Publicity. Sales

forecasting and Marketing Information system.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED Marketing - Rajan Nair

Marketing Management - V.S.Ramasamy & S.

Namakumari

Marketing Management - Philip Kotler

Principles of Marketing - S.A. Sherlekhar

Modern Marketing Management - Dawar


BBAC 24 E – COMMERCE

BLOCK 1: DOING BUSINESS ONLINE The Internet revolution and its implications for the business world – History of Internet

– How the Internet changes the rule of business – The concept of E-Commerce – E-

Commerce worldwide: Past, present and future – The different kinds of E-Commerce

activities – The world leaders of E-Commerce.

BLOCK 2: BUSINESS STRATEGY IN NEW ECONOMY

Key features of Internet economy – Redefining the boarders of the firm – Building a

successful e-business – Adopting the Internet in an established business – E-

retailing – The elements of business to consumer (B2C) strategy – Marketing on the

internet – Emerging trends in e-commerce.

BLOCK 3: BUSINESS – TO – BUSINESS E-COMMERCE An introduction to Business – to – Business (B2B) e-commerce – Organization of

B2B marketplace – B2B marketing and the internet – Opportunities and challenges in

B2B – Economics of online advertising: portals and search engine – Concept of M-

Commerce

BLOCK 4: MONEY ON THE NET Overview of the electronic payment systems – Using credit cards on line – Smart

cards, electronic cash and other payment systems – Implications of innovative online

payment systems – Rights and obligations in the world of e-commerce – Taxation on

the internet – The rise and fail of internet stock prices – Valuing internet stocks

BLOCK 5: ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE AND ELECTRONIC FUNDS

TRANSFER

Introduction to EDI – Problems with traditional information interchange – Solution

through EDI – EDI standards – The ANSI X12 Standard – United Nations EDIFACT

Standards – Workings of EDI – Benefits of EDI – Future of EDI – Electronic Funds

Transfer (EFT) – Workings of EFT – Benefits of EFT

BOOKS RECOMMENDED: 1. The Asian Manager’s Handbook of E-Commerce, Rajesh Chakrabarti &

Vikas Kardile, Tata McGraw – Hill Publishing Company Limited, New

Delhi, 2002.

2. Every Manager’s Guide to Information Technology, Peter G W Keen,

Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1995.

3. Introduction to Information Systems, Alexi Leon, Mathews Leon, Vijay

Nicole imprints private Limited, Chennai, 2004.


BBAC 25 INTERNET AND WEB DESIGNING BLOCK I

Internet basics - Internet Address - Domain names - Browsers search Engines -

Connecting to the Internet - Installing and configuring a modem - Creating a·

connection profile - Changing the default connection.

BLOCK II

Working with E-mail- Running on email program - Sending, reading, replying deleting

and exiting mail - Sending files via email Attaching a signature - Managing an

address book.

BLOCK III

Introduction to HTML - Information file creation - Web server Web client I browser -

HTML - Commands - Title - Footer - Paragraph breaks - Line breaks - Heading style -

Text style - Spacing - Centering font size and color.

BLOCK IV

List - Types of list - Adding graphics to HTML document - Using width, height,

alignment and alternative attributes - Tables - Header rows - data rows - Caption

tags - Cells spacing - BG color - Rows span - Cols pan attributes - Links - Internal

and external document reference - Images as hyper links.

BLOCK V

Introduction to DHTML - Cascading style - Color and background attributes - Text

attributes - Border attributes - Marginal related attributes - List attributes - Class;..

External style sheet.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED: 1. (Unit 1,2) - Internet complete

- Maureen Adams, Sherry Bonelli

- BPB publications – 1998.

2. (Unit 3,4,5) - Web enabled commercial application development

using

HTML, DHTML, Java script, Perl CGI.

- Ivan Bayross.

- BPB Publications – 2000.


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BBAC P2 LAB – 2 INTERNET & WEB DESIGNING

1. Install a modem in your system.

1. Install a modem in your system. 2. Connect internet using an account in your system. 3. Search a particular topic in using internet search engines. 4. Create a new email id using any available service providers. 5. Send and

email to another person's email id. 6. Send an email to more than one users at the same time. 7. Send an email to a person with an attachment. 8. Send a greeting to a person using internet. 9. Develop a HTML page to check username and password. 10. Develop a HTML page to add and remove item from list box. 11. Develop a HTML page to link other web page. 12. Develop a HTML page to scroll text from left to right. 13. Develop a HTML page to display an advertisement. 14. Develop a static HTML page for a college information. 15. Develop a HTML page to input information to create a mail id. 16. Develop a HTML page to conduct auction.

The following programs based on databases:

17. Develop a HTML page to input student information. 18. Develop a HTML page to display student results for a given roll number. 19. Develop a DHTML page to sale a product to users. 20. Develop a DHTML page to display product information for a given product id .


CCE ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

BLOCK I

The Multi disciplinary nature of environmental studies - Definition, scope and importance - Need for public awareness.

BLOCK II

Natural Resources - Renewable and non- renewable resources - Natural resources and associated problems.

a. Forest resources : Use and over-exploitation, deforestation, case studies. Timber extraction, mining, dams and their effects on forests and tribal people.

b. Water resources : Use and over – utilization of surface and ground water, floods, drought, conflicts over water, dams – benefits and problems.

c. Mineral resources : Use and exploitation, environmental effects of extracting and using mineral resources, case studies.

d. Food resources : World food problems, changes caused by agriculture and overgrazing, effects of modern agriculture, fertilizer-pesticide problems, water logging, salinity case studies.

e. Energy resources : Growing energy needs, renewable and non renewable energy sources, use of alternate energy sources. Case studies.

f. Land resources : Land as a resource, land degradation, man induced landslides, soil erosion and desertification.

Role of an individual in conservation of natural resources - Equitable use of resources for sustainable lifestyles.

BLOCK III

Ecosystems - Concept of an ecosystem - Structure and function of an ecosystem - Producers, consumers and decomposers - Energy flow in the ecosystem - Ecological succession - Food chains, food webs and ecological pyramids - Introduction, types, characteristic features, structure and function of the following ecosystem:-

a. Forest ecosystem b. Grassland ecosystem c. Desert ecosystem d. Aquatic ecosystems (ponds, streams, lakes, rivers, oceans, estuaries)

BLOCK IV

Biodiversity and its conservation - Introduction – Definition : genetic, species and

ecosystem diversity - Biogeographical classification of India - Value of biodiversity :

consumptive use, productive use, social, ethical, aesthetic and option values -


Biodiversity at global, National and local levels - India as a mega – diversity nation -

Hot-spots of biodiversity - Threats to biodiversity : habitat loss, poaching of wildlife,

man wildlife conflicts - Endangered and endemic species of India - Conservation of

biodiversity : In-situ and Ex-situ conservation of biodiversity.

BLOCK V

Environmental Pollution - Definition - Causes, effects and control measures of : Air

pollution, Water pollution, Soil pollution, Marine pollution, Noise pollution, Thermal

pollution, Nuclear hazards - Solid waste Management - Causes, effects and control

measures of urban and industrial wastes. - Role of an individual in prevention of

pollution - Pollution case studies - Diaster management : floods, earthquake, cyclone

and landslides.

BLOCK VI

Social issues and the Environment - From Unsustainable to Sustainable

development - Urban problems related to energy - Water conservation, rain water

harvesting, watershed management - Resettlement and rehabilitation of people; its

problems and concerns. Case studies - Environmental ethics: Issues and possible

solutions - Climate change, global warming, acid rain, ozone layer depletion, nuclear

accidents and holocaust. Case studies - Wasteland reclamation - Consumerism and

waste products - Environment Protection Act - Air (Prevention and Control of

Pollution) Act - Water (Prevention and control of Pollution) Act - Wildlife Protection

Act - Forest Conservation Act - Issues involved in enforcement of environmental

legislation - Public awareness.

BLOCK VII

Human Population and the Environment - Population growth, variation among

nations - Population explosion - Family Welfare Programme - Environment and

human health - Human Rights - Value Education - HIV / AIDS - Women and Child

Welfare - Role of Information Technology in Environment and human health - Case

Studies.



III YEAR


BBAC 31 PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT BLOCK I Production Management – Scope and Functions – Plant location – Factors – Plant

Layout – Principles – Product Layout –Process layout – Fixed layout –Cellular

Layout.

BLOCK II Production planning and control – Routing – Scheduling – Maintenance – Types –

Break down & Preventive maintenance.

BLOCK III Methods study - Charts and Diagrams – Time Study – Motion Study – Work

Measurement.

BLOCK IV Inventory control – Functions of Inventory – Tools – ABC, VED, FSN analysis – EOQ

– Re-order point – Safety Stock – Models of EOQ – JIT (Elementary level)

BLOCK V Quality control – Types of Inspection – Centralised and decentralized – P chart – X

and R chart – TQM.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED Production Management - Banga and Sharma

Industrial Engineering and Management - O.P. Khanna

Production Management - Elwood Buffa

Production Management - Goel

Materials Management - M.V.Varma


BBAC 32 PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT BLOCK I Personnel management – meaning Nature, Scope and Objectives – Personnel

Department structure, Personnel policies, procedure and Programmes -Functions of

Personnel Manager- Characters and Qualities of a Personnel Manager.

BLOCK II Man power planning – Job analysis, Job description, job specification – Recruitment -

Sources of recruitment – Methods of recruitment – Selection-Selection policy,

Selection process, Selection procedure – Training and Development – Methods of

Training – Evaluation-Management development – Objectives – Distinction between

Training and development.

BLOCK III Performance appraisal – Job evaluation – Methods, Advantages and Limitation –

Promotion, Transfer and Demotion – Wage and Salary Administration Rewards and

Incentives Monetary and Non-Monetary – Employee benefits –Fringe benefits.

BLOCK IV Human Relations – Factors responsible for the growth of human Relations – Human

Needs – Maslow’s Need Hierarchy – Motivation – Job satisfaction – Employee

Morale and Productivity – Labour turn over.

BLOCK V Industrial relations – Trade Union – Management of Grievances – Collective

bargaining – Worker’s Participation in India.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED Personnel Management and Industrial Relations - P.C. Tripathi

Personnel Management - Memoria

Personnel Management - Ahuja

Personnel Management - Flippo

Personnel Management & Industrial Relations - Bhagoiwal


BBAC 33 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

BLOCK I Meaning and scope of finance functions – Objectives of financial management –

Profit maximization Vs Wealth maximization

Sources of finance – Short-Term – Bank sources - Long-Term – Shares, preferred

stock debentures, Term-loans.

BLOCK II Cost of capital – Cost of Equity – Cost of preferred Stock – Cost of debt – Cost of

retained earnings – Weighted average cost of capital

Operating and financial leverages – Combined leverages

BLOCK III

Capital structure – Meaning – Factors affecting capital structure – Optimal capital

structure

Dividend and Dividend policy – Forms of dividends – Determinants of dividend policy.

BLOCK IV

Capital Budgeting – Capital Budgeting process – Methods of Ranking investment

proposals – Payback method – Internal Rate of Return method – Net present value

method.

BLOCK V

Working capital Management – Concepts – Determinants of working capital.

Cash Management – Motives for holding cash – Cash budgeting – Monitoring

collections & Disbursements.

Receivables Management – Optimal Credit policy – Credit standards and analysis –

Credit Terms – Collection policies.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED Financial Management - I.M. Pandey Financial Management - Khan & Jain Financial Management - Prasanna Chandra Financial Theory & Practice Financial Management - Kuchal Financial Management - Van Horne


BBAC 34 BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS BLOCK 1:: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN BUSINESS Business pressures – Global competition – Real-time Operations – Work force –

Customer Behaviour – Technological innovation and Obsolescene – Organizational

response – Strategic Alliances – Office Automation Technologies – Overview of

Information Systems – IT support at different organizational levels – Managing

Information systems in Organizations.

BLOCK 2:: DATA, INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE Definition of Information – History of Information – Quality of Information –

Information processing – Management decision making – IT support for management

decision making – Data transformation and management – Decision Support

Systems (DSS) – Characteristics and capabilities of DSS – Components and

structures of DSS – Data and Information analysis.

BLOCK 3 :: INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR ENTERPRISE Information and enterprises – Information systems to support business functions –

Functional information systems – Management information systems – Transaction

processing information systems – Integrated information systems – Enterprise

Resource Planning (ERP) – Advantages of ERP – Benefits of an ERP System – Inter

– Organizational information system – Global information systems – Information as a

competitive weapon.

BLOCK 4 :: MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL DATA AND INFORMATION

Definition – Necessity of a database – Characteristics of database – Database

management systems – Types of database management systems – Logical data

models – Hierarchical model – Network model – Relational model – Object –

Oriented model – Object – relational model – Deductive / inference model –

Comparison between various database models.

BLOCK 5 :: COMPUTER SOFTWARE Definition – Hardware / Software interaction – Software categories – Retail software

– Public domain software – Shareware – Freeware – Crippleware – Classification of

software – Operating Systems – Utilities – Compliers and Interpreters – Word

processors – Spreadsheets – Presentation software – Database management

systems – Image processors – Enterprise Software.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED:

1. Introduction to Information Systems, Alexis Leon, Mathews Leon, Vijay

Nicole imprints private Limited, Chennai, 2004.

2. Management Information Systems, Uma G Gupta, Galgotia Publications

Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, 1998.

3. Soft ware Project Management, Third Edition, Bob Hughes and Mike

Cotterell, Tata McGraw – Hill Publishing Company Limited, New Delhi,

2004.


BBAC 35 BUSINESS ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE BLOCK I

Introduction to Accountancy – Introduction to Tally fundamentals – Maintenance of

company Data – Concept of Ledger – Configuration of chart of Accounts –

Maintaining Stock Details - How to make entries in Cash book – Purchase book –

Sales book – Invoice – Purchase return book – Sales return book – Petty cash book

– Configuration in tally

BLOCK II

Introduction to Bills – Details of bills – Description of: Accounting vouchers –

Inventory vouchers – Cost centres and Cost categories – Entries in Trail balance –

How to create new groups – master configuration – Accounts masters – ready made

creation – List of groups – How to alter groups – creation of primary groups –

Secondary group creation

BLOCK III

Introduction to VAT – VAT activation and classification – Creating of ledger –

Stationary ledger – Display the created ledger – concepts of voucher – Creation of

receipt voucher – Payment voucher – Credit note – Remove the voucher – Print the

voucher – Accounting input credit on opening stock – Accounting of inter state

branch transfer – VAT computation – VAT Form – CST introduction – Ledger

Creation – Creating vouchers – CST reports

BLOCK IV

TDS Introduction – Configuration of Tally for TDS - Creation of balance sheets –

concept of trial balance in tally – balance sheet – sales registers – Purchase registers

– Sales vouchers – concept of ageing – receivable ageing – receivable ageing – TDS

Report – Configuring Tally for Service Tax – Master Creation – Service Tax Reports

BLOCK V

Bank reconciliation – Concept of inventory – Inventory in tally – creation of stock

category – stock groups – creation of multi stock item – inventory vouchers –

Inventory reports – Printing Reports – Consolidation of Accounts and other reports –

Security control

BOOKS RECOMMENDED:

1. TALLY, Sridharan, Narmadha publications, May 2003.

2. E-Commerce, a guidance, Rajamalar, Narmadha publications, May 2003.


BBAC P3 LAB – 3 BUSINESS ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE

1. Create a group in Tally

2. How to create a primary group? Explain with your own example

3. Create Ledger with your own entries from the books already available

4. Explain how to create Voucher entries

5. Explain how to remove voucher entries

6. Print the Voucher you have created with all necessary entries

7. Explain how to create stock category.

8. Explain how to create groups with your own entries.

9. Explain – Multi Stock Item

10. Creation of Delivery Note – Explain with your entries.

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TAMIL NADU OPEN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF … BBAC 11 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT BLOCK I Management – Features, functions – Management as an art, science, profession –