Business Analytics introduces the fundamental concepts, methods and tools needed by business leaders to transform business information and business data into useful insight to solve challenges in the ever-changing and challenging global business environment. This course will introduce some widely used techniques and software such as Excel, QM for Windows and SPSS to produce descriptive, prescriptive and predictive business analytic models. This course would end with an introduction to the methods in presenting business analytics results.
This course will provide students with quantitative skills that are required to make business decisions. These skills involve using mathematical techniques, formulation and application of mathematical models in business decision-making scenarios.
Students will be introduced to a certain topic in basic mathematics and apply the techniques to solve the problem such as arithmetic, simple interest, compound interest, annuities, trade and cash discount, mark-up and mark-down and depreciation.