UO Quantitative Methods for Business
Undergraduate
MATH 1075
Undergraduate
100% online
164242
4.5
Yes
10 weeks
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timetabled for 2018.
Course aim
To develop students’ mathematical and statistical skills and a knowledge of the use and relevance of those skills in business and management.
Course content
Business Mathematics and Statistics for decision making: time value of money and net present value calculations with applications, working with equations and graphs of straight lines, linear programming, quantitative research principles in collecting, summarising and displaying business data, index numbers, relations in categorical data, measures of association, fitting straight lines, elementary probability concepts, the normal distribution and its business applications, elementary estimation and hypothesis testing, elementary decision making with Excel spreadsheets.
Textbooks
University of South Australia 2017, Quantitative Methods for Business, 2nd, Pearson, Australia
Prerequisites
Nil
Corequisite(s)
Nil
Teaching Method
Component | Duration | ||
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EXTERNAL, ONLINE ACTIVITY | |||
Online | 10 weeks x N/A |
Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.
Assessment
Examination, Problem solving exercise
Fees
EFTSL*: 0.125
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