B.Com. Computer Applications Syllabus

B.Com. Computer Applications

Semester I

English I -100L1Z

Unit  I

SELF-AWARENESS(WHO) & POSITIVE THINKING(UNICEF)

  • Life Story
    1.1 Chapter 1 from MalalaYousafzai, I am Malala
    1.2 An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Chapters 1, 2 & 3)
    M.K.Gandhi
  • Poem
    1.3 Where the Mind is Without Fear – Gitanjali 35 

    Rabindranath Tagore
    1.4 Love Cycle – Chinua Achebe

Unit  II

EMPATHY

  • Poem
    2.1 Nine Gold Medals – David Roth
    2.2 Alice Fell or poverty – William Wordsworth
  • Short Story
    2.3 The School for Sympathy – E.V. Lucas
    2.4 Barn Burning – William Faulkner

Unit  III

CRITICAL & CREATIVE THINKING

  • Poem
    3.1 The Things That Haven’t Been Done Before – Edgar Guest
    3.2 Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening – Robert Frost
  • Readers Theatre
    3.3 The Magic Brocade – A Tale of China
    3.4 Stories on Stage – Aaron Shepard (Three Sideway Stories from Wayside School” by Louis
    Sachar)

Unit  IV

Part of Speech

4.1 Articles
4.2 Noun
4.3 Pronoun
4.4 Verb
4.5 Adverb
4.6 Adjective
4.7 Preposition

Unit  V

Paragraph and Essay Writing

5.1 Descriptive
5.2 Expository
5.3 Persuasive
5.4 Narrative

Reading Comprehension

Core Paper I –Financial Accounting I - 147C1A

Unit I

Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
Financial Accounting – Meaning, Definition, Objectives, Basic Accounting Concepts and Conventions – Journal, Ledger Accounts– Subsidiary Books –– Trial Balance – Classification of Errors – Rectification of Errors – Preparation of Suspense Account – Bank Reconciliation Statement – Need and Preparation

Unit II

Final Accounts
Final Accounts of Sole Trading Concern- Capital and Revenue Expenditure and Receipts – Preparation of Trading, Profit and Loss Account and Balance Sheet with Adjustments.

Unit III

Depreciation and Bills of Exchange
Depreciation – Meaning – Objectives – Accounting Treatments – Types -Straight Line Method – Diminishing Balance method – Conversion method. Units of Production Method – Cost Model vs Revaluation Bills of Exchange – Definition – Specimens – Discounting of Bills – Endorsement of Bill – Collection – Noting – Renewal – Retirement of Bill under rebate

Unit IV

Accounting from Incomplete Records – Single Entry System
Incomplete Records -Meaning and Features – Limitations – Difference between Incomplete Records and Double Entry System – Methods of Calculation of Profit – Statement of Affairs Method – Preparation of final statements by Conversion method.

Unit V

Royalty and Insurance Claims
Meaning – Minimum Rent – Short Working – Recoupment of Short Working – Lessor and Lessee – Sublease – Accounting Treatment.
Insurance Claims –Calculation of Claim Amount-Average clause (Loss of Stock only)

Core Paper II - Principles of Management - 147C1B

Unit I

Introduction to Management
Meaning- Definitions – Nature and Scope – Levels of Management – Importance – Management Vs. Administration – Management: Science or Art –Evolution of Management Thoughts – F. W. Taylor, Henry Fayol, Peter F. Drucker, Elton Mayo – Functions of Management – Trends and Challenges of Management. Managers – Qualification – Duties & Responsibilities

Unit II

Planning
Planning – Meaning – Definitions – Nature – Scope and Functions – Importance and Elements of Planning – Types – Planning Process – Tools and Techniques of Planning – Management by Objective (MBO). Decision Making: Meaning – Characteristics – Types – Steps in Decision Making – Forecasting.

Unit III

Organizing
Meaning – Definitions – Nature and Scope – Characteristics – Importance – Types – Formal and Informal Organization – Organization Chart – Organization Structure: Meaning and Types – Departmentalization– Authority and Responsibility – Centralization and Decentralization – Span of Management.

Unit IV

Staffing
Introduction – Concept of Staffing- Staffing Process – Recruitment – Sources of Recruitment – Modern Recruitment Methods – Selection Procedure – TestInterview– Training: Need – Types– Promotion –Management Games – Performance Appraisal – Meaning and Methods – 360 degree Performance Appraisal – Work from Home – Managing Work from Home [WFH].

Unit V

Directing
Motivation –Meaning – Theories – Communication – Types – Barriers to Communications – Measures to Overcome the Barriers. Leadership – Nature – Types and Theories of Leadership – Styles of Leadership – Qualities of a Good Leader – Successful Women Leaders – Challenges faced by women in workforce – Supervision.
Co-ordination and Control
Co-ordination – Meaning – Techniques of Co-ordination. Control – Characteristics – Importance – Stages in the Control Process – Requisites of Effective Control and Controlling Techniques – Management by Exception [MBE].

Elective I - Python Programming and Lab -147E1B

Python Programming and Lab -147E1B

Unit I

Introduction: Computer algorithms-Computer HardwareComputer Software-Python programming language – Literals – Variables and Identifiers – Operators – Expressions and Data
types, Input / output

Unit II

Control Structures: Boolean Expressions – Selection Control – If Statement- Indentation in Python- Multi-Way Selection –Iterative Control- While Statement- Infinite loops- Definite vs.
Indefinite Loops- Boolean Flag. String, List and Dictionary, Manipulations Building blocks of python programs, Understanding and using ranges.

Unit III

Functions: Program Routines- Defining Functions- More on
Functions: Calling Value-Returning Functions- Calling NonValue-Returning Functions-Parameter Passing – Keyword Arguments in Python – Default Arguments in Python-Variable Scope. Recursion: Recursive Functions

Unit IV

Objects and their use: Software Objects – Turtle Graphics – Turtle attributes-Modular Design: Modules – Top-Down Design – Python Modules –

Unit V

Dictionaries and Sets: Dictionary type in Python – Set Data type.
Text Files: Opening, reading and writing text files – Exception Handling

SEC – 1 – MS Office for Commerce - 147S1A / Basic Tamil - 100L1L / Advanced Tamil - 100L1M

 

Unit I

Introduction to MS Word & Commonly used features
Introduction to Word processing -Word processor / Editor – File Extension – DOCx, DOTx – Application / Document area
Title Bar, Menu Bar, Ribbon, Icons, Status Bar, Scroll Bar – Page Layout – Page
Size ( Letter / A4 ) – Orientation ( Landscape / Portrait ) – Margin ( Top, Left,
Bottom, Right ) -Navigation(Arrow keys, Ctrl + Arrow keys, Home, End, Page
UP/ Page Down ) – Selection – Using Shift + Navigation
Fonts / Superscript / Subscript – Show / Hide – Displays non printing characters
( Space / TAB / Enter ) – Change Case – Bullets / Numbering – Format Painter –
Clipboard – Find / Replace
Screen shot – Prnt SCR / Alt + PrntScr – Indent – Line and Para spacing – Tab
Stop – Text to Table – Table to Text

Unit II

Insert Tab & Mail Merge
Insert Tab – Picture ( Styles, Border, Effects, Warp Text, Align, Rotate, Flip,
Crop ) – Water Mark – Shapes ( Group, Ungroup, Bring to Front, Send to Back,
Format shape ) – Hyperlink – Bookmark – Text Box – Word Art
Tables – Rows , Columns, Cell – Merge Cell – Split Cell
TOC – Update entire – Header / Footer – Cover Page – Break – Section Break –
Spell Check – ABC / F7 – Word Count
Working with Mail Merge

Unit III

Introduction to MS Powerpoint
Creating Presentation – File Extension – PPTx, PPSx – Slides and Layouts,
Apply Background – Title Bar, Menu Bar, Ribbon, Icons, Status Bar, Scroll Bar
– View – Slide Master
Insert Logo – to display in all slides – Change Text color – to maintain
consistency in all slides
Slideshow – F5 / Shift F5
New Slide – Ctrl + M
Animation Effects – Apply in objects within the Slide
Transition Effect – Apply between slides
Rehearse Timing – Set timing to each slide
Loop until ESC – After reaching LAST slide, display again from 1st slide.
SaveAs – PPSx – PowerPoint Show
SlideShow – Use Pen / Highlighter
Paste the Chart from Excel – Data linked to Excel source
Insert Chart within PowerPoint – Data linked internally

Unit IV

Introduction to MS Excel &Using Formulas
Working with Excel
Opening a Workbook – Understanding the Display Screen
Working with the Ribbon – Exploring the File Tab – Working with the Quick
Access Toolbar – Working with the Status Bar- Switching Between Opened
Workbooks
Entering Data – Moving the Cell Pointer – Selecting a Range of Cells – Creating
a New Workbook – Inserting, Renaming, and Deleting Worksheets – Entering
Constant Values – Using Auto Fill to Enter Data – Saving a Workbook – Editing
Cell Contents
Clearing Cell Contents – Insert / Edit Comments – Working with Undo and
Redo – Closing a Workbook
Using Formulas
Entering Formulas with Addressing Methods ( Relative / Mixed / Absolute ) –
Using Auto Fill with Formulas – Using the Sum, Average, Max, Min, Count
Functions – Using IF and NestedIf Function – Using Text Functions ( Len,
Trim, Left, Right, Mid, Find, Replace, Upper, Lower, Proper ) – Using Date
Functions ( Today, Now, Day, Month, Year ) – Using Lookup Functions (
Vlookup, Hlookup ) – Using Formula Error Checking – Cutting / Copying and
Pasting Constant Values and Formulas – Copy / Pasting using Transpose option
– Using Format Painter

Unit V

Working on multiple Worksheets & Working with huge Datasets
Formatting Worksheets – Formatting Numbers – Changing the Font Format –
Aligning Cell Contents – Merging Cells
Adding Borders – Applying Cell Styles – Modifying Columns and Rows –
Changing Column Width – Changing Row Height
Inserting and Deleting Columns or Rows – Hiding Columns or Rows – Editing
Workbooks – Working with AutoCorrect
Checking Spelling – Using Find and Replace – Using Hyperlinks ( Internal /
External )
Working with huge Dataset
Using multilevel Sort – Using Filters – Fetching Unique Records
Finding Duplicates – Applying Conditional Formatting Rules
Applying Freeze Panes – Using Pivot Table ( Layout & Format )
Working with Charts
Pie / Bar / Column / Line Charts – Titles / Legends / Data labels
Copy / Pasting in Word / PowerPoint
Printing Worksheets
Using Print Preview – Working with Print Settings – Using Page Setup Tools –
Working in Page Layout View – Creating a Header and Footer – Using Page
Break Preview – Printing a Worksheet
Exiting Excel

Foundation Course FC Professional Ethics - 147B1A

Unit I

Concept and Theories of Business Ethics:
Definition of Ethics – Personal Ethics and Business Ethics – Morality and Law – How are moral standards are formed? – Religion and Morality – Morality, Etiquette and – Professional Codes – Indian Ethical Traditions.

Unit II

Business Ethics:
Principles of Personal Ethics – Principles of Professional Ethics – Evaluation of Ethics over the Years – Honesty, Integrity and Transparency – Distinction between Values and Ethics – Roots of Unethical Behaviour – Ethical Decision-making.

Unit III

Ethical Dilemmas, Sources and their Resolutions:
What is an Ethical Dilemma? – Sources of Ethical Behaviour – Code of Personal Ethics for Employees – How to resolve an Ethical problem? – How to resolve Ethical Dilemmas?

Unit IV

Ethical Decision-making in Business:
Ethical Models that guide Decision-making – Which approach to use? – Ethical Decision-making with cross-holder Conflicts and Competition – Applying Moral Philosophy to Ethical Decision-making – Kohlberg’s Model of Cognitive Moral Development – Influences on Ethical Decisionmaking – Personal values and Ethical Decision-making

Unit V

Human Values for Indian Managers:
Lessons from Ancient Indian Education System – The Law of Karma – Quality of Work Life – Ethics of Vivekananda, Gandihiji, Aurobindo and Tagore.

Semester II

Language II

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English II - 100L2Z

Unit I

RESILIENCE

  • Poem
    1.1 Don’t Quit – Edgar A. Guest
    1.2 Still Here – Langston Hughes
  • Short Story
    1.3 Engine Trouble – R.K. Narayan
    1.4 Rip Van Winkle – Washington Irving

Unit II

DECISION MAKING

  • Short Story
    2.1 The Scribe – Kristin Hunter
    2.2 The Lady or the Tiger – Frank Stockton
  • Poem
    2.3 The Road not Taken – Robert Frost
    2.4 Snake – D. H Lawrence

Unit III

PROBLEM SOLVING

  • Prose life Story
    3.1 How I taught My Grandmother to Read – Sudha Murthy
  • Autobiography
    3.3 How frog Went to Heaven – A Tale of Angolo
    3.4 Wings of Fire (Chapters 1,2,3) by A.P.J Abdul Kalam

Unit IV

Tenses

4.1 Present
4.2 Past
4.3 Future
4.4 Concord

Unit V

English in the Workplace
5.1 E-mail – Invitation, Enquiry, Seeking
Clarification
5.2 Circular
5.3 Memo
5.4 Minutes of the Meeting

Core Paper III –Financial Accounting II - 147C2A

Unit I

Hire Purchase and Instalment System
Hire Purchase System – Accounting Treatment – Calculation of Interest – Default and Repossession – Hire Purchase Trading Account – Instalment System – Calculation of Profit

Unit II

Branch and Departmental Accounts
Branch – Dependent Branches: Accounting Aspects – Debtors system -Stock and Debtors system – Distinction between Wholesale Profit and Retail Profit – Independent Branches (Foreign Branches excluded) – Departmental Accounts: Basis of Allocation of Expenses – Inter- Departmental Transfer at Cost or Selling Price.

Unit III

Partnership Accounts – I
Partnership Accounts: –Admission of a Partner – Treatment of Goodwill – Calculation of Hidden Goodwill –Retirement of a Partner – Death of a Partner.

Unit IV

Partnership Accounts – II
Dissolution of Partnership – Methods – Settlement of Accounts Regarding Losses and Assets – Realization account – Treatment of Goodwill – Preparation of Balance Sheet – One or more Partners insolvent – All Partners insolvent – Application of Garner Vs Murray Theory – Accounting Treatment – Piecemeal Distribution – Surplus Capital Method – Maximum Loss Method.

Unit V

Accounting Standards for financial reporting (Theory only)
Objectives and Uses of Financial Statements for Users-Role of Accounting Standards – Development of Accounting Standards in India Role of IFRS- IFRS Adoption vs Convergence Implementation Plan in India- Ind AS- An Introduction – Difference between Ind AS and IFRS.

Core Paper IV-Business Law - 147C2B

Unit I

Indian Contract Act 1872: Definition of Contract, Essentials of Valid Contract, Classification of Contract, Offer and Acceptance – Consideration – Capacity to Contract – Free Consent – Legality of Object – Contingent Contracts – Void Contract

Unit II

Performance Contract
Meaning of Performance, Offer to Perform, Devolution of Joint liabilities & Rights, Time and Place of Performance, Reciprocal Promises, Assignment of Contracts – Remedies for Breach of contract – Termination and Discharge of Contract – Quasi Contract

Unit III

Contract of Indemnity and Guarantee
Contract of Indemnity and Contract of Guarantee – Extent of Surety’s Liability, Kinds of Guarantee, Rights of Surety, Discharge of Surety –

Unit IV

Bailment and Pledge
Bailment and Pledge – Bailment – Concept – Essentials – Classification of Bailments, Duties and Rights of Bailor and Bailee – Law of Pledge – Meaning – Essentials of Valid Pledge, Pledge and Lien, Rights of Pawner and Pawnee.

Unit V

Sale of Goods Act 1930:
Definition of Contract of Sale – Formation – Essentials of Contract of Sale – Conditions and Warranties – Transfer of Property – Contracts involving Sea Routes – Sale by Nonowners – Rights and duties of buyer – Rights of an Unpaid Seller

Elective II - Programming in C++ and Lab - 147E2B

Unit I

Object Oriented Programming Concepts: Complexity in software – The need for object-orientation – Abstraction – Encapsulation –Modularity – Hierarchy.
Basic Elements of C++: Classes – Objects – Data members and member functions – private and public access specifiers – Static members – Constructors – Singleton class – Destructors

Unit II

Friend Functions and Friend Classes – Array of objects – Pointer to objects – this pointer – References – Dynamic memory allocation – Namespaces.
Function Overloading: Overloading a function – Default arguments – Overloading Constructors.
Operator Overloading: Overloading an operator as a member function – Overloading an operator as a friend function

Unit III

Overloading the operators [], (), -> and comma operators – Conversion Functions. Inheritance: Types of inheritance – protected access specifier –Virtual Base Class – Base class and derived class constructors. Run-time Polymorphism: Virtual Functions

Unit IV

Function overriding – Pure virtual function – Abstract base class. Templates: Function templates – Overloading a function template – Class templates.

Unit V

Exception Handling: Exceptions – try, catch, throw – Rethrowing an exception – Restricting exceptions – Handling exceptions in derived classes – terminate(), abort(), unexpected(),
set_terminate().
I/O Streams: Formatted I/O with ios class functions – Manipulators – Creating own manipulator – Overloading << and
>> operators

SEC – 2 Accounting using Excel – Practical - 147S2A / Basic Tamil-II - 100L2L / Advanced Tamil-II - 100L2M

Accounting using Excel(P) -144S2A

Unit I

Using Financial Functions (Part 1)
ACCRINT function – Returns the accrued interest for a security that pays periodic interest
ACCRINTM function – Returns the accrued interest for a security that pays interest at maturity
AMORDEGRC function – Returns the depreciation for each accounting period by using a depreciation coefficient
AMORLINC function – Returns the depreciation for each accounting period
COUPDAYBS function – Returns the number of days from the beginning of the coupon period to the settlement date
COUPDAYS function – Returns the number of days in the coupon period that contains the settlement date
COUPDAYSNC function – Returns the number of days from the settlement date to the next coupon date
COUPNCD function – Returns the next coupon date after the settlement date
COUPNUM function – Returns the number of coupons payable between the settlement date and maturity date
COUPPCD function – Returns the previous coupon date before the settlement date
CUMIPMT function – Returns the cumulative interest paid between two periods
CUMPRINC function – Returns the cumulative principal paid on a loan between two periods

Unit II

Using Financial Functions (Part 2)
DB function – Returns the depreciation of an asset for a specified period by using the fixed-declining balance method
DDB function – Returns the depreciation of an asset for a specified period by using the double-declining balance method or some other method that you specify
DISC function – Returns the discount rate for a security
DOLLARDE function – Converts a dollar price, expressed as a fraction, into a dollar price, expressed as a decimal number
DOLLARFR function – Converts a dollar price, expressed as a decimal number, into a dollar price, expressed as a fraction
DURATION function – Returns the annual duration of a security with periodic interest payments
EFFECT function – Returns the effective annual interest rate
FV function – Returns the future value of an investment
FVSCHEDULE function – Returns the future value of an initial principal after applying a series of compound interest rates

Unit III

Using Financial Functions (Part 3)
INTRATE function – Returns the interest rate for a fully invested security
IPMT function – Returns the interest payment for an investment for a given period
IRR function – Returns the internal rate of return for a series of cash flows
ISPMT function – Calculates the interest paid during a specific period of an investment
MDURATION function – Returns the Macauley modified duration for a security with an assumed par value of $100
MIRR function – Returns the internal rate of return where positive and negative cash flows are financed at different rates
NOMINAL function – Returns the annual nominal interest rate
NPER function – Returns the number of periods for an investment
NPV function – Returns the net present value of an investment based on a series of periodic cash flows and a discount rate
ODDFPRICE function – Returns the price per $100 face value of a security with an odd first period
ODDFYIELD function – Returns the yield of a security with an odd first period
ODDLPRICE function – Returns the price per $100 face value of a security with an odd last period
ODDLYIELD function – Returns the yield of a security with an odd last period

Unit IV

Using Financial Functions (Part 4)
PDURATION function (Excel 2013) – Returns the number of periods required by an investment to reach a specified value
PMT function – Returns the periodic payment for an annuity
PPMT function – Returns the payment on the principal for an investment for a given period
PRICE function – Returns the price per $100 face value of a security that pays periodic interest
PRICEDISC function – Returns the price per $100 face value of a discounted security
PRICEMAT function – Returns the price per $100 face value of a security that pays interest at maturity
PV function – Returns the present value of an investment
RATE function – Returns the interest rate per period of an annuity
RECEIVED function – Returns the amount received at maturity for a fully invested security
RRI function (Excel 2013) – Returns an equivalent interest rate for the growth of an investment

Unit V

Using Financial Functions (Part 5)
SLN function – Returns the straight-line depreciation of an asset for one period
SYD function – Returns the sum-of-years’ digits depreciation of an asset for a specified period
TBILLEQ function – Returns the bond-equivalent yield for a Treasury bill
TBILLPRICE function – Returns the price per $100 face value for a Treasury bill
TBILLYIELD function – Returns the yield for a Treasury bill
VDB function – Returns the depreciation of an asset for a specified or partial period by using a declining balance method
XIRR function – Returns the internal rate of return for a schedule of cash flows that is not necessarily periodic
XNPV function – Returns the net present value for a schedule of cash flows that is not necessarily periodic
YIELD function – Returns the yield on a security that pays periodic interest
YIELDDISC function – Returns the annual yield for a discounted security; for example, a Treasury bill
YIELDMAT function – Returns the annual yield of a security that pays interest at maturity

SEC 3 - Retail Management - 147S2B

Unit I

Overview of Retail
Introduction to Retail (Barter System to Trading) – Contribution to GDP -Career Opportunities in Retail – Retail & Entrepreneurship – Retail Formats – SMART Goals

Unit II

Retail Marketing
Basic Retail Marketing Concepts – Fundamentals of Pricing – Promotion – Omni Channel Retail Marketing & Distribution – Inventory management

Unit III

Retail Store Operations
Store Layout & Design – Visual Merchandising – Point of sale – Customer Handling – Basics in Retail Logistics & Supply Chain Management

Unit IV

Customer Value Management
Retail Communication – Personality Grooming – Sales Management – Cross Selling & Up-selling – Customer experience and feedback management – WOW factor in Retail Business – Health and Safety at Workplace – Retail KPI – Team Work & Leadership Skills – Ethics in Retail

Unit V

Latest Trend in Retail Business
Latest technological developments in retail Sector – Social Media Marketing – Basic Retail Analytics