TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE DIVISION OF BUSINESS
BUS 117: Applied Business Math
2014
Dates:
Instructor:
Email:
Web page:
Office:
(most) Saturdays, May 31 – August 27, 2014 (See Course Calendar below.)
Place:
Phone (office):
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed to help current and potential business decision-makers solve problems that routinely
cause businesses to financially fail. It is a practical application of business mathematics including, but not
limited to: bank reconciliations; present value; markup and markdown; simple and compound interest; trade
and cash discounts; calculating overhead; and running payroll.
COURSE MATERIALS:
Practical Business Math Procedures, 11th Edition, J. Slater and S. Wittry
©2014, ISBN 978-0-07-337754-4
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Successful students will be able to demonstrate the ability to perform and understand basic quantitative
calculations involving business and consumer finance related issues.
COURSE METHODS: The first three chapters will serve as a review of basic math concepts. Students enrolled
in this class should have a pretty good understanding of these chapters already, but must read the text and
the other content for these chapters and brush up on the concepts.
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Note that not all the chapters of the text will be covered in this course. See the Course Calendar below.
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LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Outcome statement 1:
Measure:
Students will perform basic quantitative calculations involving business and
consumer finance related issues.
Exam exercises and problems involving business and consumer finance related
topics will be evaluated by students and faculty.
Outcome statement 2:
Measure:
Students will perform calculations related to accounting problems.
Exam exercises and problems involving accounting related topics will be
evaluated by students and faculty.
Outcome statement 3:
Measure:
Students will perform calculations related to retail industry problems.
Exam exercises and problems involving retail industry related topics will be
evaluated by students and faculty.
ENROLLMENT
It is YOUR responsibility to ensure you are properly enrolled in this class. Students who are not officially
enrolled will not be allowed to remain in the classroom.
WITHDRAWL FROM THE COURSE
If you feel you cannot continue with the course, withdraw formally as soon as possible. If you do not formally
withdraw from the course you will automatically receive an F grade for the course and you WILL NOT be
withdrawn automatically. If you want a grade of “W” (withdrawal), you need to complete the withdrawal
paper work through TMCC Admissions and Records, 673-7042.
COURSE EVALUATION MEASURES
Grades will be determined on the basis of points scored in each calendar session, with points earned for
performance:
Session 1 (May 31 – June 28)
Class attendance and exercises
Online quizzes (5)
60 points
150 points (30 points per quiz)
Session 2 (July 12 – August 9)
Class attendance and exercises
Online quizzes (5)
60 points
150 points (30 points per quiz)
Session 3 (August 23 – October 10)
Class attendance and exercises
Online quizzes (4)
60 points
120 points (30 points per quiz)
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FINAL COURSE GRADING:
To pass this course you MUST
1.
COMPLETE ALL of the assessment tasks AND
2.
achieve a final points percentage of 60 or more.
Final Grade Determination:
Points percentage
Grade
93 – 100%
A
90 – 92%
A86 – 89%
B+
83 – 85%
B
80 – 82%
B76 – 79%
C+
73 – 75%
C
70 – 72%
C66 – 69%
D+
63 – 65%
D
60 – 62%
Dbelow 60%
F
“W” or “I” grades: subject to TMCC policy
NOTE REGARDING FINAL GRADES: YOU WILL SEE YOUR FINAL GRADE WHEN IT IS POSTED IN MyTMCC.
PLEASE DO NOT ASK ME FOR YOUR FINAL GRADE PRIOR TO POSTING.
QUIZZES:
Quizzes will include definition of terms, case problems, and graphical solutions to hypothetical problems. All
quizzes will be taken in the Canvas learning management system. Students are expected to be capable of
using Canvas.
Chapter
1 Quiz
2 & 3 Quiz
4 Quiz
5 & 6 Quiz
7 Quiz
Access Opens
1 am
05/31
06/07
06/14
06/21
06/28
Access Closes
11 pm
06/05
06/12
06/19
06/26
07/03
8 Quiz
9 Quiz
10 & 11 Quiz
12 Quiz
14 Quiz
07/12
07/19
07/26
08/02
08/09
07/17
07/24
07/31
08/07
08/14
22
16
17
18
08/23
09/06
09/13
09/20
08/28
09/11
09/18
09/25
Quiz
Quiz
Quiz
Quiz
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LATE WORK:
NO LATE WORK ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
CLASS EXERCISES:
We will practice, and build our business math skills by working in teams during class time to solve problems.
Attendance, and participation in class problem-solving, is part of the course grade.
PHONES AND LAPTOPS:
Please do not use you phone or computer during class. If you do so, the instructor will give you one warning.
Thereafter, each incident of phone / computer use will incur a decrement of 30 points.
Please CONTACT ME if you do not understand the assignments or class policies. I am here to help you
succeed and will be happy to talk with you.
YOUR CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION:
Your instructor will take steps intended to keep your grade, and other information about you and your
performance, confidential. One of these steps is never to provide such information, or respond to related
requests, by email. Please do not email the instructor asking for test results or any other information that may
be considered confidential; such requests will be ignored. This policy is intended to benefit you and to respect
your privacy.
BACKUP
It is the student’s responsibility to ensure hard copies of assignments are kept until they have been marked
and returned by the instructor. This will safeguard the work in the event that the original is lost, stolen,
caught in a fire, etc. Also, please keep all graded work until grades are posted at the end of the semester in
case of a record keeping discrepancy.
DISCLAIMER
Instructor reserves the right to revise, change, add or delete any of the contents to this syllabus at any time.
ADA STATEMENT
Qualified, self-identified students with documented disabilities have the right to free accommodations to
ensure equal access to educational opportunities at Truckee Meadows Community College. For assistance,
contact TMCC's Disability Resource Center at 775-673-7277, TTY 775-673-7888 or visit the Red Mountain
Building, room 315.
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Course Calendar
SESSION
DATE
READINGS / LECTURE
1
Saturday 5/31
Course introduction; Review syllabus:
Recommended Learning System
Chapter 1: Whole Numbers: How to Dissect and Solve Word
Problems
2
Thursday 6/5
Saturday 6/7
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Thursday 6/12
Saturday 6/14
Thursday 6/19
Saturday 6/21
Online Test 1: Ch. 1
Chapter 2: Fractions
Chapter 3: Decimals
Online Test 2: Ch. 2 and 3
Chapter 4: Banking
Online Test 3: Ch. 4
Chapter 5: Solving for the Unknown: A How-To Approach for
Solving Equations
Chapter 6: Percents and Their Applications
Thursday 6/26
Saturday 6/28
Thursday 7/3
Chapter 7: Discounts: Trade and Cash
Saturday 7/12
END FIRST SESSION
Chapter 8: Markups and Markdowns: Perishables and
Breakeven Analysis
Thursday 7/17
Saturday 7/19
Thursday 7/24
Saturday 7/26
Thursday 7/31
Saturday 8/2
Thursday 8/7
Saturday 8/9
Online Test 4: Ch. 5 & 6
Online Test 5: Ch. 7
Online Test 6: Ch. 8
Chapter 9: Payroll
Online Test 7: Ch. 9
Chapter 10: Simple Interest
Chapter 11: Promissory Notes, Simple Discount Notes, and
the Discount Process
Online Test 8: Ch. 10 & 11
Chapter 12: Compound Interest and Present Value
Online Test 9: Ch. 12
Chapter 14: Installment Buying, Rule of 78, and Revolving
Charge Credit Cards
Thursday 8/14
11
12
Saturday 8/23
Thursday 8/28
Saturday 9/6
13
Thursday 9/11
Saturday 9/13
14
15
Thursday 9/18
Saturday 9/20
Thursday 9/25
Saturday 9/27
Thursday 10/2
DUE DATES
Online Test 10: Ch. 14
END SECOND SESSION
Chapter 22: Business Statistics
Online Test 11: Ch. 22
Chapter 16: How to Read, Analyze, and Interpret Financial
Reports
Online Test 12: Ch. 16
“Tools of the Trade”: Cost Estimation, Time Tracking, et
cetera
NO TEST!
Chapter 17: Depreciation
Online Test 13: Ch. 17
Chapter 18: Inventory and Overhead
Online Test 14: Ch. 18
END THIRD SESSION
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