Quantitative Analysis - ATAX0058
Faculty: Australian School of Business
School: Australian School of Taxation and Business Law
Course Outline: ATAX0058 Course Outline
Campus: ATAX Campus
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 0
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
View course information for previous years.
Description
Recommended Prior Knowledge
Course Objectives
- Algebraic operations, and solving equations and inequalities
- Functions, and economics and business models
- Sequences, series, progressions, and mathematics of finance and accountancy (interest, present values, annuities and depreciation)
- Descriptive statistics including data collection, data presentation, and summary measures of central tendency and variability
- Probability theory (counting techniques, probability axioms and properties, random variables, probability density functions, cumulative distribution functions, expected values and variances, and the binomial, Poisson and normal distributions)
- Basic inferential statistics including sampling distributions statistical estimation and hypothesis testing regression and time-series analyses
Main Topics
- Elementary algebra, functions and models
- Mathematics of finance and accountancy
- Descriptive statistics
- Introduction to probability theory
- Estimation and hypothesis testing
- Correlation and regression analysis
Course Texts
Order from UNSW Bookshop:
http://www.bookshop.unsw.edu.au/atax.html