Undergraduate - UnitETC2480 - Business modelling methods

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6 points, SCA Band 0 (NATIONAL PRIORITY), 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Offered	Clayton First semester 2012 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Lee Gordon-Brown

Synopsis

Topics include business modelling with spreadsheets; the methodology of business modelling; linear programming; transportation and assignment problems; integer programming; network models and project scheduling problems.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

describing business models using concept diagrams and mathematical programming formulations
formulating, solving and interpreting business problems with linear programming using graphical methods, Excel Solver, duality, sensitivity, and Simplex method
formulating, solving and interpreting business problems with integer programming using branch and bound and Excel Solver
analysing simple problems using transportation simplex, assignment method, project management networks, and network flow techniques.