Computing Skills Assessment Assignment

You are working in a consumer durable manufacturing company. You are the Executive Assistant to
the Managing Director. The Managing Director has ordered that a report on the sales performance in
your company needs to be presented on Friday, 22 October 2010. You are required to follow the steps
below to create this report. You may assume any facts and figures not provided, so long as the results
do not deviate. All steps should conclude with print ready outputs, in one A4 sheet of paper.

• Primary Step - Create a folder in your desktop / Common Folder with your full
name and admission number as the naming convention( example Harish Kumar
AN123456)

Step 1 – MS Outlook
Create an invitation to the meeting.
• The invitation should refer to the directive of the Managing Director
• It should require the mandatory presence of all Vice Presidents and Business Heads
• It should set out the agenda for the meeting along with the date, start time and duration of
the meeting
• It should conclude with your automated signature, using the ‘signature’ function.
• Save the file with your full name and admission number as the naming convention with a
suffix as MSO( example Harish Kumar AN123456 MSO) and place it in the folder created
in the Primary Step.

Step 2 – MS Excel
Create a spreadsheet to detail the comparative performance of the company between the 1st
Half of the Financial Year 2009-2010 and the 1st Half of the Financial Year 2010-2011
• The spreadsheet should cover the performance, month-on-month, for the two quarters
and the half-year
• It should show that the revenue for Financial ½ Year 2009-2010 was at Rs.12 crores 20
lakhs and that there has been a 30% growth this year
• Create a graphical slide using the Spreadsheet inputs of the above situations
• Save the file with your full name and admission number as the naming convention with a
suffix as MSE( example Harish Kumar AN123456 MSE) and place it in the folder created
in the Primary Step.

Step 3 – MS Word
Create a report on the performance of the company.
• The report should state that industry trends over the past three years has shown,
progressively, a growth pattern of 12%, 3%, 9% and 18% since the Financial Year 2007-
2008
• The report should contain a summary of the results created on the MS Excel sheet above
• It should project a possible growth for the company of 33% in the Financial Year 2010-
2011
• It should state the performance difference between the company and the industry
• It should be neatly and attractively formatted.
• Save the file with your full name and admission number as the naming convention with a
suffix as MSW( example Harish Kumar AN123456 MSW) and and place it in the folder
created in the Primary Step.

Step 4 – MS PowerPoint
Create a presentation for the meeting.
• The presentation should use key points from all the above work
• It should have graphical representation of figures, facts and statistics created in the MS
Excel task
• It should use visuals wherever possible.
• Save the file with your full name and admission number as the naming convention with a
suffix as MSP( example Harish Kumar AN123456 MSP) and place it in the folder created
in the Primary Step.