This course looks at nearly every aspect of banking, providing a comprehensive introduction to the diversified services offered by the banking industry today. It includes material on bank accounting, pricing, and profitability, and discusses the personnel and security functions of the bank. This course provides an examination of critical topics in business, law, and politics. This course explores all of the traditional functions performed by business, an introduction of principles and concepts of business, and the framework and environment of our free enterprise system in a global world. Beginning statistical theory and procedures, including data collection, sampling techniques, organization and presentation of data, measurement of central tendency, probability concepts, discrete and continuous probability distributions, statistical estimation, hypothesis testing, and linear regression.
Students use a computer to do some statistical analysis.
Prerequisite MATH 110 or equivalent. Development of proficiency in using microcomputer software such as spreadsheets and database managers. Use of software for business problem solving. Introduction to computers and digital computing, problem solving using computers, and applications to management problem solving. An examination of contemporary controversies in American business, politics, and law.