Information Technology for Business Use - Assessment Report

This report examines the application of information technology in a business context, addressing three key assessment areas. The first assessment focuses on the importance of accurate referencing and citation, detailing the Harvard referencing style and providing guidelines for in-text citations and source formatting within Microsoft Word. The second assessment explores the use of spreadsheets for creating an annual house budget, explaining their functionality and utility in data organization, calculation, and presentation. The final assessment offers guidance on using PowerPoint to create effective presentations, covering the steps involved in designing slides, adding content, and formatting presentations for visual impact. The report concludes by emphasizing the crucial role of technology in modern business operations, highlighting both tangible and intangible benefits regardless of firm size. All resources are cited using Harvard referencing style.

Information Technology for Business Use

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
ASSESSMENT 1.............................................................................................................................1
How to reference and cite your sources correctly.......................................................................1
ASSESSMENT 2 ............................................................................................................................5
My Annual House Budget...........................................................................................................5
ASSESSMENT 3.............................................................................................................................7
How to use s PowerPoint............................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Information technology refers to the hardware and software that is used by businesses to
manage and operate number of process. This report aims at completing three assessment tasks on
information technology for business use.
ASSESSMENT 1
How to reference and cite your sources correctly.
All research is based on sources and the significance of various types of sources varies
from subject to subject. Examples of sources are; journal articles, maps, official reports, books
online documents, doctoral theses, and so on. The learning that original research is based on first
hand data that means not on other's comments. This makes it necessary to differentiate between
different kinds of sources. Further, it has been disclosed that source is the text the gives the
information that is being utilised. At some level, these words are synonymous; in various styles
of references, the list of sources utilized in academic text are known as References for instance.
Moreover, in order to cited sources efficiently and in right way, writers should be capable
to find the nature of each source and the reason for using it. By clearly defining themselves that
what form of use they make of different kinds of sources. This will allow writers to differentiate
between their own contribution and the argument demonstrated by the sources that are being
used (Avgerou and eds., 2017).
Harvard referencing list is a complete list of all sources used when doing a piece of work.
Further, the list involves information about the sources such as; date of publication, author, title
of the sources and many more things.
It has been recommended that a Harvard referencing style must be:
 be on a new separated sheet at the end of the document
 be arranged alphabetically by author, and if there is no author then it is ordered by the
source title
 contain full references for all in-text references used
While in-texting references must follow these guidelines.
In text references are references that are written in the main body of the text and indicates
to a quote or paraphrase. In Harvard referencing, the in text citation include the author' or
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author's surname, year of establishment and page number. Moreover, the in text citation includes
the year and it should be in brackets.
Harvard referencing styles:-
Book with one author : Bell, J. 2010, Doing your research project. 5th ed. Maindenhead: Open
University Press.
Journal article :- Shakoor, J., et al. 2015, Title, Edition. Place of publication: publishers.
Referencing using Ms word Document
 First step begins with opening Ms word document then click the reference tab at the top,
then go to Citations & Bibliography.
 Then start with clicking on to the Insert Citation, here an individual can choose change
referencing style such as from APA to MLA.
 On word's ribbion you will find that button 'insert citation' and this ribbon is Microsoft's
weird fancy name for the toolbar.
 After clicking at the insert citation tab, you will find a form with all of the details on the
reference that needs to be added.
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 The Type of source drop down at the top is crucial, as that determines what field is need
to type into. Depending upon whether referencing a journal article or a book. Once this is
decided, you can fill all the relevant details for example;
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 Then click on OK button, Word will add the citation within the text.
 Further, these can be added as many as required. Then double click any one of those to
insert its in-text reference again.
Styles
 click on reference tab on the ribbon
 click the drop box and next to style in the citation & bibliography group
 choose the style which is appropriate
Citation
 after opening reference tab, click insert citation
 if it is new source, then click New source
 then add additional details in the form then click OK
Author Date of publication Title name
Email Name of the person
who wrote email
The full date when
email was sent
Subject of he email
Journal article Person who wrote the
article
The year when journal
issued
Title of the article
Newspaper Journalist name or
name of newspaper
Full date of article
published (Wu, Straub
and Liang, 2015)
Title of article
Website Individual name if
available, or name of
The year when the
website was last
Title of website
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organisation to whom
website belongs
updated, or the date
next to copyright
symbol
Web page Individual name if
available, or name of
company to whom
website belongs
Current date, or full
date if mentioned
Title of web page
Book chapter Name of author of
chapter
Year when book
published
Title of book chapter.
Further, it also includes page number, volume number, issue number, URL, DOI and so on.
ASSESSMENT 2
My Annual House Budget
Spreadsheet in computer refers to an interactive computer application for company,
analysis and storage of data in form of a table. It has been determined that these spreadsheets are
developed as computerised simulations of paper accounting worksheets. This data then can be
utilised to make calculations, demonstrates graphical representations or analysis.
 A spreadsheet comprises a grid of cells organised in rows and columns and information
can be inserted into each cell (Wagner, Beimborn and Weitzel, 2014).
 Each cell is consists of text, numbers and formulas. It has been determined that a formula
is a calculation. Through this reason spreadsheet can be utilised in home budgeting or
accounting and the displaying of information is made easy.
 However, spreadsheet are not true relational data base but they can be crated and
formatted to function as simplified ones. Spreadsheet is a type of computer software that
provides invaluable tools or gathering and calculating data of all types.
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ASSESSMENT 3
How to use s PowerPoint.
The further explanation introduces some general principles to help how to make or how
to use PowerPoint to support individuals to make presentation. PowerPoint refers to computer
based program that enables to create or make or show slides to support a presentation (Laudon
and Laudon, 2016). Text, graphics, and multi media content can be added to make professional
presentation. The power point to make presentation is further used to:
 arrange and structure the presentation
 create a professional and constant format
 provide an illustrative backdrop for the content
 animate the slides to provide them greater visual impact
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These are the steps that need to be followed to use Power Point to make a presentation:-
 Go to power point program, then click on create a slide. Select between the blank
presentation and a template.
 You can choose one theme from various types of theme. Go to the file menu click on new
and then new presentation.
 Afterwards click on from design template and select one that is appropriate.
 Then go to slide design select design template. Different colours or themes can be added.
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 Enter the text by clicking and then type in the box. You can also add pictures by clicking
on insert button on top, then click on pictures tab and add images.
 Then go to file menu click on button 'save as', a box will appear, choose the location
where you want to save it then add the name in the box and click on save (Hair Jr,
Wolfinbarger and Page, 2015).
CONCLUSION
From the report it has been concluded that, technology has crucial effects on business
operations. No matter what is the size of firm is, technology has both tangible and intangible
benefits.
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REFERENCES
Avgerou, C. and Walsham, G. eds., 2017. Information Technology in Context: Studies from the
Perspective of Developing Countries: Studies from the Perspective of Developing
Countries. Routledge.
Hair Jr, J. F., Wolfinbarger, M. and Page, M. J., 2015. Essentials of business research methods.
Routledge.
Laudon, K. C. and Laudon, J.P., 2016. Management information system. Pearson Education
India.
Wagner, H.T., Beimborn, D. and Weitzel, T., 2014. How social capital among information
technology and business units drives operational alignment and IT business value. Journal
of Management Information Systems. 31(1). pp.241-272.
Wu, S. P. J., Straub, D. W. and Liang, T. P., 2015. How information technology governance
mechanisms and strategic alignment influence organizational performance: Insights from a
matched survey of business and IT managers. Mis Quarterly. 39(2). pp.497-518.
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