UNSW Handbook Course - Quantitative Methods A

Quantitative Methods A - ECON1202


	Faculty: Faculty of Business
	School: School of Economics
	Course Outline: http://www.economics.unsw.edu.au/
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	None.
	Excluded: ECON2291, MATH1011, MATH1031, MATH1131, MATH1141, MATH1151
	Fee Band: 2 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

This course examines: mathematics of finance: (compound interest, present value, annuities); matrix algebra: (operations with matrices, determinants, matrix inverse, rank, solutions to matrix equations); the graphical approach to linear programming; calculus: (univariate differentiation, maxima and minima of a function, functions of several variables, partial derivatives, unconstrained and constrained optimisation) and the applications of the above concepts and techniques in accountancy and economics, including the use of spreadsheet computer programs.

Assumed Knowledge: A level of knowledge equivalent to achieving a mark of at least 60 in HSC Mathematics. Students who have taken General Mathematics will not have achieved the level of knowledge which is assumed for this course.

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