Quantitative Methods for Business

2008 | 2009 | 2010

Area/catalogue: MATH 1053
Course ID: 101178

School: School of Mathematics and Statistics

Campus/course component(s):
                    City West: Lecture — Tutorial — Computer Practical
                    Mt Gambier: Lecture — Tutorial
                    Whyalla: Lecture
Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Unit value: 4.5

Offered externally: Yes (Study Period 2, Study Period 5)

Undergraduate elective course: Yes

Course details

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.

Text book/s:

Croucher, John S. 2002, Introductory Mathematics and Statistics for Business, 4th Edition. (Reprinted 2004), McGraw Hill.

Course coordinator/s:

Dr Malgorzata Korolkiewicz, City West: Study Period 2 - Internal
Mr Peter Collins, City West: Study Period 2 - External
Mr Peter Collins, City West: Study Period 5 - External
Mr Peter Collins, City West: Study Period 5 - Offshore
Mr James Gaetjens, City West: Study Period 2 - Offshore
Dr Malgorzata Korolkiewicz, City West: Study Period 5 - Internal

Fee information for this course

EFTSL: 0.125

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Commonwealth Supported Band Amount: Band 8A
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