The Complete Business

Math for Accountants

Course Description:

This course provides accountants, managers, and business entrepreneurs with the information, analyses, and insights necessary to analyze and calculate the consequences of a wide range of business financial strategies and problems. The ability to select the right operational technique is vital if the business is to survive, profit, and grow in today’s uncertain economic environment. The owner of a small business must be able to make the right financial decision based on sound mathematical reasoning in order to run the business efficiently. They must understand the problem, and then apply math skills to solve it.

This course contains hundreds of filled-in examples, illustrations, practical applications, measures, procedures, rules of thumb, statistical data, exhibits, tables, graphs, and diagrams. They are presented to aid in the comprehension and successful solution of a particular problem. The reader will also learn when and how to use the appropriate computational method, why it is used, when computer techniques such as spreadsheets should be used, and how to read and analyze the computer printout.

Learning Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Differentiate between simple interest and effective interest
• Learn various ways to compute the cost of credit
• Calculate due dates
• Obtain financing from various sources
• Calculate the cost of various sources of financing