AB-1-005 (0) - Business Mathematics and Statistics

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• 1 (2018-08-01 to 2018-10-21)
• 2 (2018-10-22 to 2018-12-31)

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 and
understand how the 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, Indexes, Interest, Currency,Loans,
Price setting,
Investment calculations, Graphs and tables,
Mean,
median,
Standard Deviation, Correlation and regression,
the
normal
distribution, z-,t- and chi-test

Basic skills in mathematics

Business Math

The course program, how we work on the course,
and the contents of the course can be found in
the course compendium (Part 1) which can be
downloaded from Itslearning.

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 - 15 hours
• Project- and production work/artistic activities - 15 hours
• Individual studies - 88 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 mathematics exam, a
minimum of 15 (of 30) points in the statistics
exam, and a minimum of 10 (of 20) points for
statistics assignments.

Stenius Minna

Hongell Linn

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

No limit (58 students enrolled)

Until date 2019-07-31

2018-08-13 to 2018-09-09

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