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09-CBAF03 - Business Math & Statistics January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2009
The University of North Alabama's College of Business, in conjunction with the Office of Continuing Studies and Outreach is proud to offer a "Certificate in Business Administration Fundamentals".  This four course program is self-paced and completed at your home or workplace.  You can register for these courses anytime.  The competency based courses are designed to be tightly focused on skills and knowledge needed to compete successfully in today's volatile business environment.  The six available courses cover management accounting fundamentals; economic fundamentals; financial management fundamentals; basic quantitative skills including statistical applications, principles of management; and principles of marketing.  Students can choose the four they feel are the most useful for their professional development. The cost of each competency-based course is only $300, which includes the workbook and CD.  The framed Certificate is issued for $100, and is earned upon completion of the fourth course.   Total cost of the "Certificate in Business Administration Fundamentals" program is $1300.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Authors:  Robert N. Holt, Ph.D., CPA  
Courtney Muller
Chapters:  Basic Business Math  
Forecasting  
Regression Analysis  
Probability  
Decision Analysis  
Appendix A- An Introduction to Sampling  
Appendix B- Binomial Distribution Table  
Appendix C- Normal Distribution Table

Audience: Anyone needing to acquire the basic mathematical and statistical skills required to perform operations critical to business functions.  

Abstract: Statistics and basic mathematics skills play an important role in understanding key functions within and external to the company. Therefore an understanding of these topics is important for managers. The purpose of the product is to give the user a broad overview of the basic math and statistics necessary for business and to introduce the most popular forms of forecasting techniques.
  
Chapter 1 reviews basic business math, including basic algebra, and introduces additional topics such as contribution margin and breakeven.

Chapter 2 discusses forecasting and introduces the reader to simple averages, moving averages and weighted averages.

Chapter 3 cover regression analysis, beginning with simple regression and advancing to multiple regression. Topics include coefficient of determination, degrees of freedom, residuals and zero-one variables.

Chapter 4 introduces probability concepts ranging from simple probability to probability distributions with a particular emphasis on the Normal Distribution. An appendix on sampling follows Chapter 4.

Chapter 5 gives an overview of decision analysis. Decision modeling is emphasized. In particular the construction and interpretation of decision trees is reviewed.

Additional Information:
Software, a workbook, instructions, and a password will be mailed within three days after registration to each participant.  Payment is due at time of registration.  Course work and exam must be completed within 120 days of registration.  You must achieve a score of 80% or higher.  There are no refunds for modules not completed.  If a student fails to achieve a score of 80% on the final, the student may work through the module a 2nd time and attempt the final exam a 2nd time at no additional cost.

DAILY SCHEDULE
DATE START TIME END TIME
1/1/2009, Thu 12:00AM 12:00PM
12/31/2009, Thu 12:00AM 12:00PM

FEES
DESCRIPTION FEE
Registration Fee $300.00
Facility
      ONLINE INSTRUCTION

CE CREDITS
CREDIT TYPE SPONSOR CREDITS
MBA UNA, COB, SBDC 1.5

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