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MAT 112 Business Mathematics Sequence arithmetic sequence and geometric sequence Simple Interest simple interest and simple amount formula, exact and approximate time, ordinary and exact interest, Banker's Rule, present value Bank Discount and Promissory Note promissory notes, discounting simple interest notes, simple interest rate equivalent to bank discount rate Compound Interest time value of money, formula, effective and nominal rate, present value, equation of value Annuity future value and present value of annuity, solving for R, n and I Instalment Purchase interest based on original balance, based on reducing balance - annuity method and constant ration formula, Rule of 78 Trade and Cash Discounts net price, chain discount, single discount equivalent to chain discount, cash discount, partial payment of invoice Mathematics of Retailing cost, selling price, loss, markup and markdown, gross and net profit, breakeven price Depreciation straight line, declining balance and sum-of-years' digits method Personal Income Tax deductions, taxable income, rebates, tax schedule MAT 153 Business Calculus Relations and Functions functions, composite functions, linear, quadratic, exponential and logarithmic functions, sketching functions Limits and Continuity limit of a function, limit to infinity, continuous and discontinuous functions Differentiation differentiation from first principles, derivatives of polynomial functions, product and quotient rule, implicit differentiation, higher derivatives Maximum and Minimum of a Function finding maximum and minimum points, marginal revenue, cost and profit functions, finding minimum cost and maximum profit and revenue, elasticity of demand Integration integration as anti-differentiation QMT 212 Business Statistics Introduction population, sample, methods of collection, designing of questionnaires, sampling methods Data Presentation frequency table, 2 x 2 table, bar chart, pie chart, histogram, ogives Measures of Central Tendency mean, mode, median, quartiles, skewness Measures of Dispersion range, variance, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, Pearson coefficient of skewness Correlation and Simple Linear Regression scatter diagram, Pearson product of correlation, rank correlation, least squares method Index Numbers type of index numbers, unweighted index, time series, group project CSC 166 Introduction to Business Computing Introduction Why learn computers, information processing, impact of automation, data processing, computer application, computers in society, problems in the computer age Overview of the computer system Hardware, software and people Input/output media and devices Printers, tape, direct access, terminals, vision system, CAD, CAM Processing and storage devices Primary storage unit, CPU, arithmetic/logic unit, control unit, input/output communications Microcomputers Microcmputer primary and secondary storage, microprocessor, I/O operations, software Prepackaged software Word processing, spreadsheets, database Data communication Serial and parallel, asynchronous and synchronous transmission, hardware Career opportunities within the computer industry