Quantitative Methods for Business

• • Fundamental skills
  • Annuities and their applications
  • Making good business decisions and breakeven analysis
  • Linear programming
  • Statistics for business
  • Measures of central tendency and dispersion
  • Relationship in data: correlation and simple linear regression
  • Working with normal distribution
  • Confidence intervals for the population mean and elementary hypothesis testing

No eligibility requirements

Special requirements

No special requirements

Develop your skills in gathering, interpreting and presenting data to achieve organisational goals. Discover how organisations use data to drive business growth, determine sales volumes required to break-even and identify profit or loss margins. 

Analyse real-world business problems using your maths and stats skills. 
Upgrade your skills in Excel as you learn to solve equations, use graphs, represent scatterplots, create tables and conduct hypothesis testing.

UniSA Online’s 10-week short courses give you the flexibility to upskill in a certain area, stay current with developments in your field, diversify your knowledge, or even explore a new direction in your career – without having to commit to the time and cost of a full university degree. 

Delivered 100% online, you’ll be able to study where and when it suits you. Access online academic and student support seven days a week, fit study around work and life commitments, view learning resources 24/7, and log in to the interactive online environment anywhere, any time and on any device.

This is a first-year course from UniSA Online’s Business degrees.

• Problem Solving Exercise (45%)
• Examination (55%)