Nov 04, 2024  
2024-2025 WWCC College Catalog 
    
2024-2025 WWCC College Catalog

BUS 112 - Business Mathematics


Credits: 5
LEC hours per week: 5
Develops competency in common business calculations for use in financial decision-making including: percentages, trade and cash discounts, pricing, simple and compound interest, discounting, annuities, and sinking funds. Formerly: BA 112.
Course Outcomes:
  • Use computations and critical thinking skills to solve word problems related to common business and personal situations.
  • Evaluate business performance using calculated rate of percent increases and decreases of various factors.
  • Solve problems related to trade and cash discounts and understand how these discounts affect business decisions, costs, and cash flow strategies.
  • Calculate figures involved in simple interest and simple discount applications.
  • Perform calculations dealing with the borrowing or lending of monies.
Course Topics:
  1. Basic Math Skills
  2. Formula Development for Excel
  3. Percentages
  4. Trade and Cash Discounts
  5. Markups and Markdowns
  6. Simple Interest
  7. Discount
  8. Compound Interest
  9. Annuities and Sinking Funds
Course Attribute(s): PT Computation/Mathematics