SUNWAY DIPLOMA STUDIES

Diploma in Business Administration

Individual Project
Semester : Semester 2
Student Name & ID. :
Subject Code & Name : DIT1313 Introduction to Information Technology
Date of Issue : 09 Jan 2023
Date of submission : Week 3 (Part A) and Week 5 (Part B)
Lecturer : Dr. William Eng

Instructions:
Students MUST submit your assignments to the Turnitin system via eLearn in adherence to the
programme plagiarism detection regulation (If Applicable).

Plagiarism involves the unacknowledged use of someone else’s work and passing it off as if it were
his/her own. This category of cheating includes the following:
 copying or insertion of another person’s work (published or unpublished and including material
freely available in electronic form) without appropriate acknowledgement;
 the deliberate and detailed presentation of another person’s concept as one’s own;
 unacknowledged quotation of phrases from another person’s work.

The percentage of plagiarism score should not exceed 30% of similarities.

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SLO – Assessment / Questions Mapping Table
No Subject Learning Outcomes (SLO) Questions
1 LO3: Use business-oriented computer software. Project 1

Project 1
This project (Section A & B) contributes 50% of the overall course
assessment

Objective
This coursework aims to provide students an opportunity to explore the use of business
software and enhance their understanding of the application software including
spreadsheet and database.

Individual Project
This is an individual assignment. Student is responsible for finding, analyzing and
preparing the assignment work.

Submission Mode: Softcopy

This assignment contributes 50% of the overall course assessment. The marks allocations
are divided into:

Section A: Spreadsheet software = 50 marks

Total = 100 marks (to be converted into 50%)

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Project 1 (Section A): Spreadsheet (50%)

Customers Table

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Sales Table

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 Products Table

Task 1

Key in data based on the above three tables (Customers, Sales, Products). Each table of
data should be on a separate worksheet, and correctly labeled as Customers, Products
and Sales. Create a fourth worksheet called Summary.

• Format all worksheets to a professional level of presentation. Use bold, italics, font
size, font colour, shading, lines and borders.

Task 2

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In the Summary worksheet,

• Type the following column headings: CustomerID, Title, Family Name, Given
Name, Address, City, Postcode, Phone Number, ProductID, Type, Description, Supplier,
Cost Price, Selling Price, Sales Date, Sales Qty, Total Cost, Total Selling, Freight.

• Use cell references to obtain the following data from the Sales worksheet:
Customer ID, Product ID, Sales Date, Sales Qty. (For example, type ‘=Sales!A2’ to
reference data in cell A2 of the Orders sheet).

• Using the VLOOKUP() function, obtain the following data from the Customers and
Products worksheets: Title, Family Name, Given Name, Address, City, Postcode, Phone
Number, Type, Description, Supplier, Cost Price.

• Calculate Total Cost by multiplying OrderQty with Cost Price.

All formulas must be designed to be typed once at the top of each column and copied
down to the remaining cells in the column.

Task 3

(a) On the Summary worksheet, insert four (4) blank lines at the top of the sheet and
then add the following data within the inserted area:

Markup Level: Minimal/ Standard/ Elevated or Extreme

Total Profit:

(b) Create an IF function using the new Markup Level value to calculate the Selling
Price (in the Selling Price column) using the following criteria:

• If the Markup Level is Minimal then the Selling Price is a 10% increase on Cost
Price
• If the Markup Level is Standard then the Selling Price is a 22.5% increase on
Cost Price
• If the Markup Level is Elevated then the Selling Price is a 35% increase on Cost
Price
• If the Markup Level is Extreme then the Selling Price is a 45% increase on Cost
Price

All formulas must be designed to be typed once at the top of each column and copied
down to the remaining cells in the column.

(c) Create an IF function using the new freight value to calculate the Freight (in the
Freight column) using the following criteria:

• Kangaroo Courier is costed at $45.00 per order

• Lightning Courier is costed at $7.95 per item in a sale (Qty Sales)

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All formulas must be designed to be typed once at the top of each column and copied
down to the remaining cells in the column.

(d) Calculate the Total Selling by multiplying Sales Qty with Selling Price.

(e) Calculate the Total Profit by subtracting the sum of the Total Costs and the sum of
the Kangaroo Courier from the sum of the Total Selling or

Calculate the Total Profit by subtracting the sum of the Total Costs and the sum of the
Lightning Courier from the sum of the Total Selling.

Project 1 (Section B): Database

You are working with a computer parts retail store (Virtual Tech Sdn Bhd) in Klang Valley
selling computer related products such as printer, hard drive, monitor and other
accessories. At present, the company is keeping all transaction records in the manual
form. The management have read about the benefits that computer systems to records
transaction data and customer data for the company. Your manager has asked you to
develop a simple database system using Microsoft Access. The database must be able to
store records for customers, products, sales, sales details, and employees’ data for the
business.
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Task 1

Create a database and name it ‘Assign_1_SectionA.mdb’ then create the five tables
(customers, products, sales, sales_details, and employees) with right table/ data
specification in Microsoft Access using Table Design view.

1. Use the proper table specifications, including the given table names, field names,
and primary keys.
2. Select the appropriate data type for each field from the following:
 Text, number, Date/Time, Currency, Yes/No, and etc.
3. Ensure that you also ‘set’ properties for each field where appropriate. You must set
the following:
 Field size, Field Description, Caption, and other relevant properties.
4. You may also consider setting the following:
 Format, Decimals, Default Value, Validation Rule and Validation Text.

Task 2

Create relationships between the tables.

Task 3

Create four professional forms (Customers, Employees, Products, and Sales) based on
the tables and enter at least 30 sample data for testing. Include tools available from form
design such as combo box, command button, and others relevant tools.

Task 4

Create the any ten different queries to support business decision making.

Task 5

Using the Report Wizard, create ten reports that produces a professional looking based on
the ten different queries.

END OF PAPER

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