Commercial Education Society of Australia

STUDENT-GRADE CERTIFICATE EXAMINATIONS

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The recommendations made here are intended to be a general guide, and, irrespective of the resource material used, students must satisfy the Examiners that they are competent in the area prescribed by the syllabus for the subject. Candidates might find it advantageous to avail themselves of library resources in order to determine the combination of materials on which they will base their studies. Some books in this list are out of print but they are included here because they are useful references and copies may still be available from some libraries.

Due to updating of reference material, this list is published separately from the syllabuses, but should be read in conjunction with them.

Useful websites — all subjects

Business Services Training Australia
Aspire Training and Consulting
National Occupational Health and Safety Commission
Standards Australia
Dymocks Booksellers
Tilde Publishing
From the home page go to TAFE. The site contains useful exercises and instructor notes for word processing, database, spreadsheets and desktop publishing. Resources for office practice, bookkeeping and business communication are also available.
Blue Pond Training
Up to date and relevant computer training materials are available.
Pearson Education Australia
Pearson Vocational Student

Dictionaries — all subjects

Macquarie Dictionary, 3rd edition, 1997
Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary, 3rd edition, OUP, 1997

Occupational Health and Safety — all subjects

An Australian Guide to Safety in the Office, Hottes, Pearson Education, 1997
Occupational Health and Safety in the Office, Barclay and Dunn, Pearson Education, 1996 — out of print
Information available from Worksafe Australia, National OH&S Commission, 97 Parramatta Road, Camperdown NSW, telephone — (02) 9577 9555

Work Environment — all subjects

Work Environment in Australia, Evans, Pearson Education, 1997

Proofreading — all subjects

Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers, 4th edition, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1988
Proofreading for Office Technology, 2nd edition, Craig, Longman/Pearson Education, 1999

Keyboarding

Contemporary Word Processing: A Complete Course in Keyboarding, Word Processing and Text Production, Craig, Williams and Wilson, Longman/Pearson Education, 1994
Contemporary Keyboarding, Wilson, Pearson Education, 2001
Accuracy and Speed Development in Typewriting, 4th edition, Napper, Craig and Whyte, Pitman, 1988 — out of print
Typing Power Drills, Fielding et al, McGraw-Hill, 1976 — out of print
Australian Standard for Keyboarding Speed and Accuracy Tests, AS2708, Standards Australia, 2000
Australian Standard for Production Keyboarding, AS3549, Standards Australia, 2000

Office Technology

Computer Concepts

Complete Computer Concepts, Shelly/Cashman, South Western, 1992
New Perspectives on Computer Concepts, Parsons, Course Technology Inc, 1994
Computer Operations, Collins, Prentice Hall/Pearson Education Australia, 1998
Computer Operations — Data Retrieval, Tilde, 1999
Introduction to the Internet, Donaldson, Eastern House, 1999
Office Technology, Fairhurst, Thomas Nelson Australia, 1993 — out of print

Word Processing
Database
Electronic Presentations
Integrating Business Applications Software
Spreadsheets

In addition to the websites detailed above:

Contemporary Word Processing: A Complete Course in Keyboarding, Word Processing and Text Production, Craig, Williams and Wilson, Longman/Pearson Education, 1994
Word Processing: Practical Exercises, 2nd edition, Driscoll and Every, Pitman, 1993
Word at Work, Operator Vol. I, Advanced Vol. II, Complex Vol. III, 3rd edition, Wigzell, Grevillea Books, 2000
Computer Keyboarding: A Rapid Course, Nichols, Eastern House, 1999 Design and Layout with Pagemaker 6.5, 2nd edition, Garton, Longman, 1999
Adobe Pagemaker 6.5: Classroom in a Book Series, Training Workbook developed by the staff of Adobe (CD-Rom included), 1997
Stepping Through Office 97, Flanders, Gourlay and Stephens, Eastern House, 1999
Stepping Through Office 2000, Fitzgerald, Graham and Stephens, Eastern House, 2000
The 2000 Stable: An Introduction to Microsoft Office 2000, Hawking, McCarthy and Nikakis, Pearson Education Australia, 2000
Exploring Microsoft Powerpoint 97, Grauer and Barber, Prentice-Hall/Pearson Education, 1998
Basic Operations, Using Access 97, The Tilde Group and Hemens Tilde, 1999
Database Operations, Using Access 97, The Tilde Group, Tilde, 1999 Spreadsheet Fundamentals, Using Windows 95 and Excel 97, The Tilde Group, Tilde, 1998
Spreadsheet Operations, Using Excel 97, The Tilde Group, Tilde, 1999
Visual Quickstart Guides, for all computer-based subjects. Peachfit Press, 1999
Design and Layout with Pagemaker 6.2, 2nd edition, Garton, Longman, 1999
Spreadsheet Fundamentals Using Windows 95 and Excel 97, The Tilde Group, Tilde, 1998

Business Financial and Payroll

Developing Office Skills, 4th edition, Kerr and Yates, Longman/Pearson Education, 1999 and Teacher’s Guide
Developing Office Skills — GST Update, Kerr, Longman/Pearson Education, 2000 and Teacher’s Guide
Modern Accounting Practice: A Modular Approach, Burden and Leong, Jacaranda Wiley, 2002
Bookkeeping: An Integrated Approach, Sutherland, Pearson Education, 2000

Business Communication

Getting Started in Business English, Bird and Runko, Pitman Publishing, 1994
The Business Communication Handbook, 5th edition, Dwyer, Pearson Education, 2000
Business Communication, McHugh and Pollard, 3rd edition, Longman, 1996
Business Communication: A Short Course, McHugh and Pollard, 2nd edition, Longman, 1996
New Directions in Office English, Buriak and Crawford, Nelson, 1990 — out of print
Practical English, 4th edition, Carter, Longman/Pearson Education, 2000
Setting the Scene: Workplace Communication Skills, Jones, Longman/Pearson Education, 1997
The Write Stuff, Greenwood, Peters, Baumanis, Jacaranda, 1998
The Communication Skills Series, Eunson, John Wiley and Sons, 1994
There are nine books in this Series. They are:

Writing and Presenting Reports
Writing Technical Documents
Dealing with Conflict
Communicating with Customers
Writing in Plain English
Writing at Work
Negotiation Skills
Writing Skills
Communicating for Team Building

Office Practice

Macquarie Office Manual, 3rd edition, Rudwick, Macquarie Library, 1993
Australian Office Procedures, 2nd edition, Hopkins and Hamilton, Jacaranda Wiley, 1990
Basic Clerical Procedures with Assignments, Keenan, Nicholas and Martin, Pitman, 1991
Developing Office Skills, 4th edition, Kerr and Yates, Longman/Pearson, 1999
Interacting with Clients and Customers, Hardman, Longman/Pearson Education, 1997
Office Administration: People, Procedures, and Systems, Bell and Langdon, Pitman, 1993
Office Skills: A Practical Approach, Horsfall and Cairns, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2000
Office Skills, 5th edition, Bendeich, Woodlands Publications, 2000
Quality Matters, Financial Times Management, Pearson Education, 1998
Records Management, 2nd edition, Kennedy and Schauder, Longman/Pearson Education, 1999
Work in the Office Environment, Pollard and Starley, Nelson, 1990

Shorthand

Australian Standard for Shorthand Speed Tests, AS2907, Standards Australia, 2000
Pitman New Era Shorthand, Anniversary edition, O’Dea, et al, 1989
The Instructor, Pitman Publishing — out of print
Pitman’s Shorthand Speedbuilder New Era edition, Coombs, 1986 — out of print
Pitman 2000: Shorthand for Today, 3rd edition, Sheedy and Owen, 1988 — out of print
Pitman 2000 Phrasebuilder, 3rd edition, Coombs, 1990
Pitman 2000 Speedbuilder, 1986 — out of print