Welcome Back

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Welcome Back!

• Accy 303/304 Lab

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Todays Agenda

• Course Background
• Syllabus Investigation
• Email Issues
• Complex Document Creation
• Readability Statistics

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Whats this lab about?

• Supports the ACCY core curriculum
• Provides coverage of technical topics used in the
  core
• 303 Complex transactions, Accounting research
  using FARS, EDGAR
• 304 Complex transactions and systems, Project
  management and Interview evidence collection,
  EDGAR
• Do you have to attend?

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Syllabus Investigation

• Lab Resources
• Course web site and FAQs
• www.cba.uiuc.edu/accy303304labs
• Campus GradeBook
• Office hours
• Course policies
• Homework
• Grade disputes
• How are grades determined?

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Accy 304 students please stay

• Accy 303 students are now dismissed

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Email Issues

• Attaching files
• WebMail click Attach button, Browse to
  select file, click Add file button
• Outlook click paperclip icon, click on file
  name, click Insert
• Netscape click on Attach button, choose
  File, click on file name, click Open
• Return Receipt notifies you that email has been
  received
• WebMail click Registered box
• Outlook and Netscape Use ViewgtgtOptionsgtgt Request
  delivery receipt (O) or Return Receipt (N)

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(Somewhat) Complex Document Creation Headings

• Headings
• Used to break up long text into manageable
  sections
• Cues reader on organization
• One Heading format
• FIRST LEVEL BOLD, CAPS, LEFT MARGIN
• Second level Bold, First Letter Capitalized,
  Indented
• Third level Italics, First Letter Capitalized,
  Indented

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(Somewhat) Complex Document Creation Graphics
Tables

• Should be embedded in your documents at
  appropriate place
• Should be referenced by your text
• Should be labeled numerically in order
  referenced
• Table 1, Table 2, Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.
• Should stand alone
• Tables have headings
• Graphs have keys and labels

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How to Embed Charts Graphs

• Use the copy and paste function
• In the source document Copy the portion of
  spreadsheet, chart, graph, flowchart, slide from
  the original file (source may be Excel,
  Powerpoint, etc.)
• Switch to Word
• Paste the item into your Word document at the
  appropriate point.

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Readability Statistics

• When you are happy with your document, use the
  grammar checker in Word to get feedback about
• Counts of words, paragraphs, sentences
• Average sentences/paragraph, words/sentence,
  characters/word
• Readability stats passive sentence percent,
  reading ease, and grade level

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Readability Statistics
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Readability Statistics

• Copy the readability stats dialog box into your
  document as the last page required for all Accy
  304 assignments this semester.
• Steps
• Generate readability stats by clicking
• ToolsgtOptionsgtSpelling GrammargtShow
  Readability Statistics
• Press ALT PrtScn (nothing will appear to
  happen)
• Close the dialog box
• Go to desired position in Word document and click
  Paste

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Homework 1

• Due next Tuesday, 7am
• Email the class account and attach a document
  containing the following
• Some text (2 pages)
• 2 embedded items from other software
• Your documents readability stats that show
  compliance with requirements.