Comprehensive Report: Referencing, Budgeting, and Ms PowerPoint Skills

This report offers a comprehensive overview of essential IT skills, including correct referencing and citation techniques, the process of creating an annual house budget using spreadsheets and databases, and a guide on how to effectively use Microsoft PowerPoint. The report begins by defining information technology and its importance, followed by an in-depth explanation of referencing, different referencing styles (Chicago, Harvard, APA, MHRA, and Oxford), and the significance of citations in academic writing. It also details the steps involved in creating a budget and the role of databases and spreadsheets in financial planning. Finally, the report includes information on PowerPoint slides. This report is a valuable resource for students looking to enhance their academic and practical skills in IT and financial management.

“How to reference and
cite your sources
correctly”. /“My Annual
House Budget”/“How to
use Ms PowerPoint”.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
How to reference and Citing references correctly.......................................................................1
My annual house budget..............................................................................................................3
How to use Ms PowerPoint..........................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Information technology is defined to the usage of computers, networking along
with other physical devices and procedures to build, store as well as exchange
electronic data or information (Groznik and Xiong, 2012). Such technology
encompasses automation tools, virtualisation, operating systems as well as
applications, management tools and so on to function in essential manner. It uses
computers with the purpose of storing, transmitting, manipulating along with retrieving
information for any individual or business. The report is based on references and citing
sources correctly, usage of spreadsheets along with databases to prepare budget. It
also includes detailed information about use of Ms PowerPoint.
MAIN BODY
How to reference and Citing references correctly.
Reference can be defined to the relation among objects where one object
designates to another. In other words, reference list includes sources that are refereed
to main body of any assignment and are shown at the end of work. They allows to
acknowledge main contributions of researchers as well as writers in the work. It is the
way to provide credit to writers whose words or ideas were borrowed to complete the
work. References are the evidences that supports assertions along with claims in the
assignments (Tomaszewski and MacDonald, 2016). Some of different types of
references are Chicago, Harvard, APA, MHRA and Oxford which are used to complete
the assignments or given projects. Taking about references states that acknowledging
sources in text as citations. They presents important information related with author
name, publication date along with title. They helps in understanding general background
information based on definitions, details as well as facts, quick access to statistical or
factual information and assistance in focusing towards topics. Reference materials are
based on handbooks, dictionaries, almanacs along with encyclopedia which are
different from circulating materials due to their important role in context to research
library. By looking at the references, an individual can analyse the accuracy by verifying
through fact checking tools. Good reference list describes the scientific knowledge to
apply references as well as appropriately citing them at particular relevant location in
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the project work where as poor references shows unclear thinking, irrelevant writing
along with intellectual laziness signs. Reference attention also enhances reputation of
researcher among reviewers, readers as well as editors.
Citations are the references based on published as well as unpublished sources.
These are abbreviated alphanumeric expressions that are embedded within intellectual
work which donates entry in bibliographic references in order to acknowledge relevancy
in work of others for the discussed topic at the location of citations appearance. They
have important purposes such as upholding intellectual honesty, attributing unoriginal
work as well as ideas for correct sourcing, avoiding plagiarisms and many more. They
depends on source types that includes books, newspapers, website, poem, journal and
interview (Bailey, Jaggars and Jenkins, 2015). By making citations of specific scholar,
writers are agreeing as well as respecting provided information to complete the projects.
Further more, references are helpful to draw conclusions insights or ideas based on
presented information by writers. It is very important to make make appropriate
references as they makes assignments more persuasive, reliable as well as authentic to
carry out the project. The main purpose to citations is to provide evidence of what is
said in the work. These occurs in round brackets before the punctuation in the
sentence. Good citations practices boosts up credibility between peers in the
battleground. There are different types of citations for distinct aspects. For instance, the
sources citied in Finance project are different then the sources cities in Psychology
projects. They helps an individual to understand whether the content written is relevant
or not. They makes an individual a better researcher and good citation helps in making
connections and understanding patterns.
The steps to referencing and citing starts with determining the style of citations
required to use in the assignment, identification of author as well as title based on
sources, further publication informations are written down for each source, later URL is
directly copied from online sources and are recorded in the reports with date of access.
The reference list is appropriately formatted to perform further activities. Once the para
phase are done, immediate citing is done. Such citing comes before sentence ending
punctuations. Citing includes authors name with year number. These are the short ways
that helps in identifying unique identity of author for published work. They look different
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as are depended on the citied aspects and style used to cite them (Tanada and Kaya,
2012). Properly done citing adds credibility in work as well as provides appropriate
evidences that supports the assignment work. They results in giving opportunity to
readers in order to further explore numerous topics related with work. Appropriate
citations results in avoiding chances of plagiarisms through allowing writers to locate
used online or offline sources.
My annual house budget
Budget are defined as financial plans which are prepared for an accounting year.
It encompasses resource quantities, assets, liabilities, revenues, cash flows and many
more. All organisations prepares budget and further uses comparison methods to
forecast future results (Serra, 2014). The procedure to prepare budget are highly
regimented as well as has set structure that makes the complete budget ready to use at
the beginning of coming fiscal year. Steps to prepare budget includes updated budget
assumptions, reviewing bottlenecks, available funding, step costing points, formulating
budget packages, issuing budget packages, obtaining revenue forecasting, obtaining
departmental budgets, validating budget requests, updating budget models, reviewing
budget, processing budget iterations, issuing final budget and loading budget
information towards financial software in order to generate actual budgetary reports.
Database are used in numerous ways which helps the organisations in
organising information related with customers or clients. These are majorly used to track
daily transactions and allows to store data quickly and easily in order to use in several
aspects. It reduces time to manage data, promotes data management approaches,
improves consistency of information and many more.
Spreadsheet are also known as worksheet which are the combination of rows
and columns which are used to sort data as well as arranging information easily to
calculate numerical data (Groves and Couper, 2012). These are used to check
accounting information, transactions, forecasting, billing, recording invoices and
reviewing payment systems.
The annual house budget is as follows:
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How to use Ms PowerPoint
Following are the slides related with information based on Ms PowerPoint:
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