BUSI 1520U – Introduction to Business Analytics

This course will provide skills in Microsoft Excel to solve business problems and help you make important business decisions and achieve optimum results. Students will learn how to use What-if Analysis tools to explore business impacts arising from changing one or more variables, use Excel Solver to find optimal solutions to business problems with multiple decision variables and constraints, and use Pivot Tables and Power Pivot to perform data-driven business analysis and create sophisticated data models. Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) will also be used to create user-defined functions and automate processes beyond what is normally available with Microsoft Excel.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Note(s): This course is not available to Information Technology or Computer Science students for credit.
Experiential learning: Yes