Basic Rules and Skills

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Basic Rules and Skills

• For Accounting 351, 351com and 352

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What you need and how to find it

• Dr. Lundblads Web page
• http//www.csun.edu/hfact004 OR
• http//buslab5.csun.edu/hlundblad
• Student Success Guide
• Groups
• Cases- 351
• Cases 352

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Required Skills

• Discussion pages - 351
• practice (general news) page
• Discussion pages - 352
• practice (general news) page
• Word and Excel
• email
• Research on the Internet

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Practice (general news) page

• Posting a message
• 1. Click on Add Message
• 2. Type your e-mail address in the text box
  following this prompt If you are not a member of
  HyperNews at hyper.vcsun.org (group /hlundblad),
  please enter the following instead.
• Email Address Required !
  
• Your name) Required !

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Practice (general news) page

• Posting a message continued
• 3. Type a Title
• 4. Choose a format for your message Keep it
  simple, stay with Word Processor
• 5. Type your message
• 6. Click on Preview your message
• 7. Either Edit or Post your message

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Word and Excel

• How to get almost free Microsoft office
• Required skills (from BCLE test)
• Other spreadsheet or word processing program can
  be used

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Basic Skills Word/PowerPoint

• Hands-on word processing/ presentation graphics
  using MS Word/ PowerPoint. Minimum skills
  open/insert/save documents under various formats
  copy/move/rotate text/graphics around
  find/replace text develop/format tables and
  columns format text/graphics select styles
  check spelling and grammar and print
  documents/slides

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Basic Skills Spreadsheet

• Minimum skills open and save worksheets
  copy/move/delete cell contents insert/ delete
  rows and columns develop formulas/functions
  make absolute/relative cell references sort,
  chart, and format a worksheet and print
  worksheet content and formulas.

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E-mail

• Use your CSUN email account
• If you wish, forward your messages to your
  private ISP account
• Sending and receiving attachments

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Getting a CSUN E-mail Account

• Instructions
• setting up an account
• forwarding messages to your private email account

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Sending and receiving attachments

• Instructions
• If you insist on using AOL. Make sure to read
  and follow the instructions regarding zip files!!!

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Why Do We Send and Receive Attachments

• Draft - review - rewrite
• Where to find review assignments
• Accounting 351
• Accounting 352

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Draft - Review - rewrite

• How to do it
• sample review
• sample editing
• Redlining (how to do it)

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Lexis - Nexis, etc.

• CSUN library web page (research)
• Accessing data bases from off campus
• establish proxy server
• user name barcode from student ID card
• password last name (lower case)