BUS 241 - Applied Business Modeling

Applied business modeling course is designed to think about structuring varied business situations for quantitative analysis using excel. It will be a hands-on case method-based course wherein several business challenges, which do not specifically fall in any of the typical quantitative methods area courses, will be modeled using excel. Since the course is focused on thinking and doing, we will spend less time on learning the tool. We will use several advanced features of excel which are seldom known to excel users. It will cover a wide range of excel functions for business case analysis using scenario building, What-If, Goal Seek, Look Up functions, Database function, Excel Tables, Array formula’s, Data Analysis Tool Pack, Statistical Analysis functions, Regressions etc.

Prerequisite(s): MAT 120 (C- or higher) or MAT 210 (C- or higher) or other approved statistics course.
Co-requisite(s):
Credits: 3

Course Typically Offered:
Course Type: Business