MGS 3100 - Business Analysis

Session    Date

Topic

Assignment Due Reading Assignment

I) Generalized Modeling / Basic Profit Models

1) 1/14/16 (Th) Groups Formed

 

Microsoft Excel 2010 Step by Step (Chapter 1-3)

Chapter 1 Introduction

2) 1/21/16 (Th) Homework 1

Excel 2010 Formulas and Functions for Dummies, 2nd Edition (Chapter 1-2, 7-8)

Chapter 1 Data & Statistics

3) 1/28/16 (Th)  

Microsoft Excel 2010 Step by Step (Chapter 10)

Appendix A Building Spreadsheet Models

 

4) 2/4/16 (Th)
  • Exam 1                  

Homework 2

 

II) Forecasting

5)  

2/11/16 (Th)

 

Group Project 1

 

 

Chapter 17 Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

6) 2/18/16 (Th)

 

 

Statistical Analysis with Excel for Dummies, 2nd Edition (Chapter 14)

Chapter 17 Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

7) 2/25/16 (Th) Homework 3 Statistical Analysis with Excel for Dummies, 2nd Edition (Chapter 14)
 

Appendix E Microsoft Excel 2013 and Tools for Statistical Analysis

  3/1/16 (T)

Last Day to Withdraw and possibly receive a "WP" for full semester classes.

   
8) 3/3/16 (Th)

 

Homework 4

Chapter 17 Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

9) 3/10/16 (Th)
  • Exam 2

 

 

III) Decision Analysis

  3/17/16 (Th) Spring break (No Class)    
10) 3/24/16 (Th) Group Project 2

Chapter 13 Decision Analysis

11) 3/31/16 (Th)
  • Risk

  • Certainty

  • Decision making under risk: EMV, EVUPI, EVPI

  • Expected Value

  • Expected Value of Perfect Information

  • Payoff Metrics

 

Chapter 13 Decision Analysis

 

12) 4/7/16 (Th) Homework 5

 

Statistical Analysis with Excel for Dummies, 2nd Edition (Chapter 16)

Chapter 4 Introduction to Probability

13) 4/14/16 (Th)    

IV) Simulation

14) 4/21/16 (Th)

Group Project 3

Sample Project 3

 

Chapter 12 Simulation

  4/28/16 (Th)