BCOS-183: Computer Application in Business

By Dr. Subodh Kesharwani | Indira Gandhi National Open University

Learners enrolled: 4946

This is one of the skill enhancement (4 credits) elective courses in 3rd Semester B.Com programme under CBCS scheme. The main objective of this course is to familiarize the students with the application of computer in business and how it facilitates in business decision making. The entire 20 units have been bifurcated into two parts, Part-A and Part-B. This Part-A consists of three blocks 1, 2 & 3 and in total have 12 units. Part-B consists of two blocks 4 & 5 and has 8 units in total.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Not Applicable
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Commerce
Credit Points :	4
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	15 Feb 2021
End Date :
Enrollment Ends :	30 Jun 2021
Exam Date :

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Course layout

Weeks	Video No.	Videos Title	Units
Week-1	Video-1	Introduction to Computers	Unit-1
	Video-2	Application in Computers	Unit-2
	Video-3	Web Application	Unit-3
	Video-4	Basic of Computer Software	Unit-4
Week-2	Video-5	Business Information System-	Unit-5
	Video-6	Database Management System	Unit-5
	Video-7	Business Process & Enterprises Application	Unit-5
	Video-8	GDPR	Unit-5
Week-3	Video-9	IT Securities Measures in Business	Unit-6
	Video-10	Internet Services and Email	Unit-7
	Video-11	Plastic Money, E-Wallet and Online Pay	Unit-8
Week-4	Video-12	Basics of Word Processing	Unit-9 & Unit-10
	Video-13	Tools using Word	Unit-11
	Video-14	Advance Tool using Word Processing	Unit-11
	Video-15	Making Business Documentation using word	Unit-12
Week-5	Video-16	Working with PowerPoint	Unit-13
Week-5	Video-17	PPT usages in Business and Corporate	Unit-13
Week-6	Video-18	Meaning of Multimedia	Unit-14
	Video-19	Animation & Presentation	Unit-14
	Video-20	Implementing multimedia tool in business	Unit-14
	Video-21	Meaning and Role of You Tube in Business	Unit-15
	Video-22	Video Impact in Excelling Business	Unit-15
Week-7	Video-23	Curtain raiser to Spreadsheet & its Utility in Business World	Unit-16
	Video-24	Spreadsheet concepts-1	Unit-16
	Video-25	Spreadsheet concepts-II	Unit-16
Week-8	Video-26	Formulas & Functions-I	Unit-17
	Video-27	Formulas & Functions-II	Unit-17
	Video-28	Formulas & Functions-III	Unit-17
	Video-29	Formulas & Functions-IV	Unit-17
	Video-30	Formulas & Functions-V	Unit-17
Week-9	Video-31	Graphical Presentation of Data Meaning and Intro	Unit-18
Week-9	Video-32	Graphical Presentation of Data using Spreadsheet	Unit-18
Week-10	Video-33	Advance Option in Spreadsheet-I	Unit-19
	Video-34	Advance Option in Spreadsheet-II	Unit-19
	Video-35	Advance Option in Spreadsheet-III	Unit-19
Week-11	Video-36	Google Workspace and Cloud	All Blocks (Unit 1-20)
Week-11	Video-37	Burgeoning & Contemporary Thought In business and Computers	All Blocks (Unit 1-20)
Week-12	Video-38	FAQ-I Computer application	All Blocks (Unit 1-20)
	Video-39	FAQ-II Business Application	All Blocks (Unit 1-20)
	Video-40	Terminology used in Computer Application in Business	All Blocks (Unit 1-20)

Books and references

As per IGNOU SLM BCOS-183 Uploaded on Egankosh

http://egyankosh.ac.in/handle/123456789/66996

Instructor bio

Dr. Subodh Kesharwani

Indira Gandhi National Open University

Subodh Kesharwani is an academician with a bronze medal in his Post Graduate. He is a Doctorate in ERP System in 2002 from Allahabad Central University. He is one of the researchers who had concentrated his research on Total Cost of Ownership [TCO] & Critically evaluate ERP vendors including SAP- AG, .

Dr. Kesharwani is presently an Associate Professor, School of Management Studies with a total 20 years of hardcore teaching and research in Information System, Technology Enabled learning and its linkages with various domains of management at Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi

He is presently an expert in various burgeoning areas and had delivered a talk as a trainer on MOOCs, Team Building, E-commerce, Technology Enabled Learning, E-resource, Technology Uses in research, Block chain, Internet of Thing, Enterprise Information System, Free & Open Source Software, etc.

Dr. Subodh had developed and coordinated a program in Entrepreneurship & Business Skills in collaboration with Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF), India and Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, Canada which provides training to the trainers at IGNOU. He is presently a program coordinator of IGNOU-ICWAI alliance too.

Dr. Kesharwani had participated as a debater in diverse TV show and participates in Interactive Radio Counseling including Gyanvani and Gyandasrshan. He had also developed lots of contents for SWAYAM, which is an initiative by Government of India, an instrument for self-actualization providing opportunities for a life-long learning through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).

He had written a Book entitled “Enterprise Information Systems-Contemporary Trends And Issues” in a co-authorship with Prof. David L. Olson (University of Nebraska, USA. which was published by World Scientific, USA. http://www.worldscibooks.com/business/7287.html He had another text book on ERP system which caters a B.Tech VI Semester CS and IT Students. He had developed educational contents for various academic institutions such as Institute of Chartered Accountancy, IGNOU and contributed articles for various journals/ Magazines, etc. He had chaired a good number of technical sessions at various conferences & seminars nationally and globally.

He is presently running a “Blockchain Federation for Indian Researcher” which he thinks can bring paradigm shift holistically in society as a whole.

Dr. Kesharwani had been awarded “IT Innovation & Excellence Award 2012” in the field of ERP solutions, by KRDWG's Selection Committee at IIT Delhi. He is in the panel of the Steering Committee of the International Journal of Computing and e-Systems, TIGERA-USA. He was in the key panel of round-table workshop conducted by Ministry of Corporate Affairs in Association with Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs to streamline “Corporate Data Management and Governance”. He was one of the resource person who share the experience with the 12 different ITEC countries participants who had attended International MDP.