Course

Quantitative Analysis for Business and Econ (Arts) - ECON2291

Faculty: Australian School of Business

School: School of Economics

Course Outline: ECON2291 Course Outline

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Exclusions: MATH1031, MATH1011, MATH1021, MATH1131, MATH1231, MATH1141, MATH1241

Equivalent: ECON1202

Excluded: ECON1202, MATH1031, MATH1131, MATH1141, MATH1151

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

This course will no longer be offered from semester 1, 2013

This course examines: mathematics of finance: (compound interest, present value, annuities); matrix algebra: (operations with matrices, determinants, matrix inverse, rank, solutions to matrix equations); the graphical approach to linear programming; calculus: (univariate differentiation, maxima and minima of a function, functions of several variables, partial derivatives, unconstrained and constrained optimisation) and the applications of the above concepts and techniques in accountancy and economics, including the use of spreadsheet computer programs.

Assumed Knowledge: A level of knowledge equivalent to achieving a mark of at least 60 in HSC Mathematics. Students who have taken General Mathematics will not have achieved the level of knowledge which is assumed in this course.
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