Administration (ADMN) 100
Introductory Quantitative Skills for Business (Revision 2)
Revision 2 is closed for registrations, replaced by current version.
View previous version
Delivery Mode: Individualized study online or grouped study.**
Credits: 3
Area of Study: Applied Studies
(Business and Administrative Studies)
Prerequisite: None. This course is recommended as an entry level university course designed to develop business math skills to prepare students planning to pursue a business program.
Faculty: Faculty of Business
ADMN 100 is not available for challenge.
Overview
Students planning to study Accounting, Management Science, Finance, Economics, and Marketing will need a solid background of mathematical skills in order to understand, analyze, and solve the types of problems they will encounter in these subject areas. ADMN 100 has been designed to build the quantitative skills that will foster post-secondary success in the online learning environment in all key business areas. It will especially appeal to students who want to upgrade their quantitative skills to the level required to enter a typical degree program in business or economics. In addition to a review of basic arithmetic, statistics, and algebra, students will become familiar with the mathematics of business, management, marketing, finance, and investment. The course concludes with an introduction to the basics of accounting. We anticipate that, as a result of first working through ADMN 100, more students will successfully complete business related degrees in a variety of specializations including Accounting, Finance, Management, Marketing, and Economics offered at Athabasca University and at post-secondary institutions anywhere in the world.
Outline
Each lesson consists of a lesson overview followed by a series of sections, each of which consists of key objectives, required reading(s), and assigned online and written exercises. You will complete each lesson by taking an online Quiz that is worth 10% of your final course grade.
ADMN 100 comprises the following ten lessons.
Lesson 1: Review and Applications of Arithmetic and Statistics
Lesson 2: Review and Applications of Algebra
Lesson 3: Ratio, Proportion, and Percent
Lesson 4: Linear Systems
Lesson 5: Trade Discount, Cash Discount, Markup, and Markdown
Lesson 6: Break-Even and Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
Lesson 7: Simple Interest
Lesson 8: Compound Interest
Lesson 9: Annuities
Lesson 10: Accounting
Evaluation
To receive credit for ADMN 100, you must complete one online quiz for each of the ten lessons in the course. Each quiz carries a credit weight of 10% of your final mark. Your course composite grade (the average of the grades you achieve on all ten quizzes) must be “D” (50 percent) or higher.
| Activity | Credit Weight | Material Covered |
|---|---|---|
| Quiz 1 | 10% | Lesson 1: Review and Applications of Arithmetic and Statistics |
| Quiz 2 | 10% | Lesson 2: Review and Applications of Algebra |
| Quiz 3 | 10% | Lesson 3: Ratio, Proportion, and Percent |
| Quiz 4 | 10% | Lesson 4: Linear Systems |
| Quiz 5 | 10% | Lesson 5: Trade Discount, Cash Discount, Markup, and Markdown |
| Quiz 6 | 10% | Lesson 6: Break-Even and Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis |
| Quiz 7 | 10% | Lesson 7: Simple Interest |
| Quiz 8 | 10% | Lesson 8: Compound Interest |
| Quiz 9 | 10% | Lesson 9: Annuities |
| Quiz 10 | 10% | Lesson 10: Accounting |
| Total | 100% |
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
Course Materials
Textbook
Introductory Quantitative Skills for Business, Custom Edition for Athabasca University. Toronto: Pearson Canada Inc. ISBN: 978-1-256-35181-8
Other Materials
All other course materials will be accessed online.
A Texas Instruments BA II Plus calculator is included in your course package.
The textbook is shipped as a shrink-wrapped package that includes access codes for the MyAccountingLab and MyMathLab website. If the shrink wrap is broken, the materials are not returnable.
Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.
Opened in Revision 2, November 8, 2011.
View previous syllabus