Format for Course Outline

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT SAMBALPUR

MBA TERM 1, Year 2024

Course Outline

Course Title : Managerial Computing (MC)

Credits : 1.5

Type : Core

Session Duration : 90 minutes

Faculty : Prof Deepanwita Datta

Section : 4

Email ID deepanwitad@iimsambalpur.ac.in Contact No: 9434592262

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Course Description: As a student in this course, you will learn the most important Microsoft Office
Excel topics. Initially, you will learn the basics of organizing files and folders. Next, you will be ready
to delve into Microsoft Office Excel to learn how to create and format a workbook and work with
formulas, functions, charts, and graphics. Once you have adapted this, you will learn advanced
formulas and functions, and how to manage multiple worksheets. Finally, you will learn advanced
techniques, such as financial and what-if analyses, external data usage, and collaboration on shared
workbooks.

Pedagogy: Important material from the text and outside sources will be covered in class. Students
should plan to take careful notes as not all material can be found in the texts or readings. Discussion is
encouraged as is student-procured outside material relevant to the topics being covered.

Course Objectives: This course would guide the student to become proficient with one or more soft
skills: decision-making, problem-solving, teamwork, verbal communication, and written
communication. The goal is to enhance students’ understanding of soft skills and how to apply them
appropriately in real-world, professional situations involving software application skills. It would
offer at various points throughout a text, encompassing the concepts and skills presented in a
standalone Module or a group of related Modules.

Prerequisites: No prior computer experience is assumed.

Course Competencies

1. Problem-solving
2. Decision-making
3. Case studies

Evaluation Scheme

S.No Evaluation Parameter Weightage

1 Project Work/ Presentation 40%

2 Assignments, Case Discussion and Class Participation (Hands On) 30 %

3 End Term Exam 30%

Note: For the Full Credit Course there will be 4 minimum components out of which Mid Term & End Term
are compulsory and 3 minimum components for Half Credit Course out of which End Term is compulsory.
The remaining components are project work/ assignment, quizzes/viva, class participation, case discussion/
presentation.

Text Book / Reference Books

Text Book: New Perspectives Microsoft® Office 365® & Excel® 2019 Comprehensive with
MindTap, Author: Patrick Carey, ISBN:-9789355733955

Reference Book:
 1. Book Title: Parsons/Oja/Carey/DesJardins, New Perspectives on Microsoft Office 365 & Excel
2016: Comprehensive (9781305880405) Course Technology, 2017.

Software requirements for text: Microsoft Windows 10; Microsoft Office 2016; Internet
Explorer 7 or higher.

2. Spreadsheet through Examples: Microsoft Excel 2010 Version, June 2014, IIMA registered
Note No. CISG0104TEC, written by Prof. V. Venkata Rao, IIM, Ahmedabad ( SS Note)

Session Plan

Session Topic and Sub-topics Readings(Book chapter / Case / Exercise / Learning Objectives/
No. Page numbers from the Assignment Outcome
book/Articles and other
readings)

Introduction, Pre Read with Course

1 Hands-on, Problem
Managing Your Outline
solving
Files, Getting Review Assignments,
Started with Excel Case Problem
Formatting
Workbook

2 Calculating Data do Review Assignments Hands-on, Problem-

with Formulas and solving
Functions Case Problem

3 Data Table, Table do Review Assignments, Hands-on, problem-

lookup Case Problem solving

4 Visualization, do Review Assignments Reasoning, Decision

PivotCharts making
Charting Case Problem

5 Database do Review Assignments Reasoning, Decision

Operations making, problem-
Case problem solving
 6 Logic, Performing do Review Assignments, Reasoning, Decision
What-If Analyses making
Hands-on

Case problem

7 Functions for do Review Assignments, Reasoning, Decision

investment analysis making, problem-
with Financial Data Hands-on solving

Case Problem

8 Text Processing do Review Assignments, Reasoning, Decision

making, problem-
Hands-on solving

Case Problem

9 Analyzing Data do Case Problem Reasoning, Decision

with Business making, problem-
Intelligence solving

10 Developing an do Review Assignments, Reasoning, Decision

Excel Application making, problem-
Hands-on solving

11. Presentations

Review the guidelines given

in the course outline.

Special Instructions (if any)