AB-1-005

• International business 2013 - Corporate activities
• International business 2014 - Corporate activities
• International business 2015 - Corporate activities
• International business 2016 - Corporate activities
• International business 2017 - Corporate activities
• International business 2018 - Corporate activities
• International business 2019 - Corporate activities
• International business 2020 - Corporate activities

• 1 (2020-08-01 to 2020-10-25)
• 2 (2020-10-26 to 2020-12-31)

English

Compulsory

First

1

5 cr

The aim of the course is to give the student basic
skills in business mathematics and statistics.

After course completion the student is expected
to
- master percentage calculations
- understand how value added tax is calculated
- understand how indexes are calculated and what
they are used for
- know how to perform interest and currency
calculations
- be familiar with different types of credit
forms and ways to perform investment
calculations
- understand the basics of price setting
- understand basic statistical concepts and
methods and
- know how to use SPSS for some elementary
statistical data processing processing

Percentages
Value Added Tax (VAT)
Indexes
Currencies
Simple and compound interest
Investment calculations
Loans
Tables and Graphs
Measures of central tendency and dispersion
Normal Distribution
Confidence interval
Correlation and association
Some common statistical tests
Statistics with SPSS

Basic skills in mathematics

Business Math

The course program, how we work on the course,
and the contents of the math course, can be
found in
the Mathematics compendium (Part 1) which can be
downloaded from Itslearning.
Mathlab will be held four times: you are
welcome to come ask questions, work on the
exercises, and get help. The timetable is
available
in the Mathematics compendium (part 1).

The Statistics compendium (Part II) will be
available on Itslearning when the statistics
part of
the course begins.

Attendance on the lectures and practice exams is
warmly recommended - and for many a necessity
for
passing the course - but not mandatory.

Business Mathematics and Statistics (two
compendiums)
Part 1 Business Mathematics
Part 2 Statistics

Additional reading - only if needed - can be
discussed with the teacher.

• Lectures - 17 hours
• Practical exercises - 17 hours
• Project- and production work/artistic activities - 0 hours
• Individual studies - 101 hours

• Total workload of the course: 135 hours
• Of which autonomous studies: 135 hours
• Of which scheduled studies: 0 hours

Participation in tuition

• Exams (written-, oral-, home-)

To pass the course, each part of the course must
be separately passed, hence you need a minimum
of 25 (of 50) points in the math exam, and a
minimum of 25 (of 50) points in the statistics
exam.
Bonus points for practice exams in mathematics
(max 4 points) will be added to mathematics exam
points.
Bonus points for the practice exam in statistics
(max 2 points) and points for a voluntary
statistics assignment (max 10 points) will be
added
to statistics exam points.

Aspholm Ingalill

Fabricius Susanna

https://arcada.itslearning.com/ External link

No limit (64 students enrolled)

12 months after course has ended

2020-05-18 to 2020-09-09

• Date of examination will be announced later - Exams
• Date will be announced later - Other assignments