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The School of Economics and Finance will be offering
the following units in the Summer School period for 2008 (semester 3) on the Hobart Campus only:
How to Enrol:
Students are required to use a 2009 re-enrolment form. The form will be posted to students in September 2008. Approval must be granted by a Faculty Staff member:
- Undergraduate Units: Ms Alison Nowak, Room 318B, Level 3, Commerce Building
- Postgraduate Unit: Ms Lucy Mills, Room 318C, Level 3, Commerce Building
Examination period for the units will be held between the 2nd and 6th February 2009. Results released on Wednesday 18th February 2009. Your own personal timetable will be made available on the via the uni website - see: http://www.studentcentre.utas.edu.au/examinations_and_results/
For further details on each of the units please see below. Please note: Outlines for each unit will be released six weeks prior to the start of January. Rooms and times will be updated in the near future.
Units offered in Accounting, Corporate Governance and Management:
Please see individual School web sites for information and dates for units offered by these Schools.
BEA110 Economics for Business
(Offered on Hobart Campus only)
Takes students on a 'walk in the street' by identifying some of the real problems of importance to all professionals and applying economic concepts and methods of analysis to these real problems. From this viewpoint students learn how microeconomics can help improve the prospects of a business owner. A range of key concepts is developed to provide students with an appreciation of the macroeconomic environment within which society operates and its real problems such as : unemployment and inflation.
Compulsory unit in the BEc and BBus
degrees.
Textbook(s):
Frank, Robert H., Jennings, S. and Bernanke, Ben S., (2009), Principles of Microeconomics, (second edition), McGraw Hill.
and
Bernanke, Ben S., Olekalns, Nilss and Frank, Robert H. (2008), Principles of Macroeconomics, (second edition), McGraw Hill.
WEIGHT: 12.5%
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| Lecturer |
Dates |
Time |
Room |
| Dr Sarah Jennings |
Week 1: (Micro)
January 5th - 9th 2009 |
9.00am to 1.00pm |
Commerce Building
Level 4
Room 511 |
| Dr Graeme Wells |
Week 2: (Macro)
January 19th to 23rd 2009
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9.00am to 1.00pm |
Commerce Building
Level 4
Room 511 |
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BEA140 Quantitative Methods
(Offered on Hobart Campus only)
Provides a foundation in the mathematics of finance and statistical descriptions and analysis, appropriate for the study of and professional practice in business, economics, accounting, finance, management and marketing. The primary emphasis is on understanding the statistical concepts and methods widely used in these disciplines, with a consequent enhancement of numeracy skills and an ability to use both formulae and quantitative computer packages. The focus is on the practical use of data in a business/economic decision environment, especially in an environment of risk and uncertainty.
No Textbook Required.
Recommended Readings:
- Waters, D., "Quantitative Methods for Business", 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall
- Selvanathan, et al, "Australian Business Statistics", Abridged 2nd Edition, Nelson
- Berenson, Levine & Krehbiel, "Basic Business Statistics", 9th Edition, Prentice Hall
- Croucher, J., "Statistics: Making Business Decisions", McGraw-HIll
- Aczel, A., "Complete Business Statistics", 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill
WEIGHT: 12.5%
Click here to download Unit Outline
| Lecturer |
Dates |
Time |
Room |
Mr Leon Jiang |
Week 1:
December 15th - 19th
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1.10pm to 5.00pm |
Commerce Building
Level 2
Room 202c |
| Mr Leon Jiang |
Week 2:
January 27th to 30th
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1.10pm to 5.00pm |
Commerce Building
Level 2
Room 204 |
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BEA200 Intermediate Microeconomics
(Offered on Hobart Campus only)
Intermediate
Microeconomics has two main purposes. First, it is a foundation unit in the study of economics. Starting from a number of fundamental assumptions, this unit develops the neoclassical theory of the optimising behaviour of consumers and firms and the process of interaction of these agents within various market structures. Intermediate microeconomics provides the essential building blocks for higher-level economics and finance units. Second, Intermediate Microeconomics shows how the economic theory developed can be directly applied to help solve the day-to-day decisions that face managers, financiers and economists such as dealing with risk and time, minimising cost, production, maximising profit through pricing and analysing markets and competition. It achieves this through application of the theory to real-world examples and solving problems of this nature. This unit is not highly mathematical but does involve some simple algebra, and relies extensively on the use of graphical analysis. An understanding of simple differentiation is also useful, but it will be taught as part of the unit and is not a prerequisite.
It is a compulsory unit for the Bachelor of Economics and combined Economics degrees. It is also compulsory for the Finance and Business Economics majors in the Bachelor of Business.
Textbook(s): Don E. Waldman, Microeconomics, 2nd Edition, Pearson Education Australia, 2009
WEIGHT: 12.5%
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| Lecturer |
Dates |
Time |
Room |
| Mr Alexis Wadsley |
Week 1:
January 12th to 16th
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1.10pm to 5.00pm |
Commerce Building
Level 5
Comm_513 |
| Mr Alexis Wadsley |
Week 2:
January 19th to 23rd
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1.10pm to 5.00pm |
Commerce Building
Level 5
Comm_513 |
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BEA683 Economics for Managers
(Offered on Hobart Campus only)
Textbook(s):
WEIGHT: 12.5%
Click here to download Unit Outline
| Lecturer |
Dates |
Time |
Room |
| Prof George Fane |
MICROECONOMICS
Week 1:
January 19th to 23rd |
To be arranged |
To be arranged |
| Mr Stuart Graham |
MACROECONOMICS:
Week 2:
January 26th to 30th and February 2nd 2009 |
To be arranged |
To be arranged |
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