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In the business world, you might be surprised by how often you do use math. Certain math skills are vital for the corporate world

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If you've ever had a savings account or taken out a mortgage to buy a home, you're probably familiar with the term "interest." In this program, we're going to discuss interest and interest rates. We'll cover how interest rates are determined, and how they can impact the economy.

Analyzing Interest Rates

Calculating Compound Interest

Calculate time value of money

Financial Functions

Calculating Loan Payments

Financial literacy

Calculate bond coupons

Specialized Math: Interest Rates

In business, as in life, sometimes we have to give a little to get something back. At its simplest, that's what a return on investment, or ROI, is. In this program, we'll discuss how to calculate ROI, what the limitations of ROI are when comparing the profitability of investments, and using rate of return.

Calculating ROI

ROI Analysis

Maximizing ROI

Maximizing Training ROI

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Profit Analysis

Assessing company profitability

Specialized Math: Understanding ROI

Figuring out what to charge for your products is one of the most important parts of running a successful business. If your price is too high, your sales will suffer. If you underprice your products, you won't earn as much money as you should, and you'll sacrifice potential for growth. In this program, you will learn effective strategies for pricing your products.

Pricing strategy development

Job costing

Margin Calculation

Price negotiation tactics

Analyze supply and demand curve

Conducting Profit and Gross Margin Calculation

Specialized Math: Determining Pricing

For businesses that sell products, knowing how to calculate the cost associated with creating those products is a vital part of understanding how to reduce costs and maximize profits. Here we'll cover the two kinds of production costs: fixed costs and variable costs. Then we'll use that information to calculate unit costs and do a break-even analysis.

Cost Analysis

Break-even analysis

Activity-based costing

Define Cost of Quality

Specialized Math: Calculating Production Costs

For many employees, one of the major motivations for showing up to work is getting paid. The responsibility of making sure everyone gets paid on time and the correct amounts is called payroll. In this course, we'll discuss the basics of payroll, including setting pay periods and pay dates, dealing with taxes, timekeeping, and ensuring payroll is being done according to federal, state, and local laws.

Calculating Employee Pay

Paying Payroll Taxes

Setting up QuickBooks Payroll

Understanding wage laws

Understanding Overtime Rules

Payment Processing

Complying with FLSA

Specialized Math: Payroll Basics

In the world of marketing, one of the most important skills is understanding mark-ups and mark-downs. These two factors help determine potential for profits and drive potential sales. After watching this course, you'll understand how to calculate mark-ups and mark-downs to maximize profits.

Market Efficiency

Analyzing mathematical models

Matrix Analysis

Working with variables and constants

Using Mathematical Shortcuts

Specialized Math: Mark-ups and Mark-downs

Sometimes in life we encounter situations where we need a little more cash than we have on hand. Whether it's to buy a car or a house or to make a large purchase, when we take advantage of the availability of someone else's money for a set period of time, it's called a loan. In this course, we're going to learn how loans work so you can make informed decisions about when it's wise to take out a loan and when it's not.

Loan repayment

Loan review

Loan Management

Real-world financial education

Specialized Math: Understanding Loans

The thought of being guaranteed income for the rest of your life probably sounds appealing. And at their most basic definition, that's exactly what annuities provide. But, as with most things, it's not quite that simple. In this program, we'll go over what annuities are and how they work.

Specialized Math: Understanding Annuities

When it comes to judging the success of a business, how much money it makes is one of the key factors. But there's a lot more that goes into determining how successful or viable a business is. In this program, we're going to look at two of those measures: profits and profit margins.

Retail Profitability Analysis

Specialized Math: Understanding Profits and Profit Margins

When it comes to running a business, one of the most important tasks is inventory management. Here, you'll learn the components of managing inventory and some strategies for carrying them out.

Stock management

Item Management

Retail Basics Knowledge

Logistics Management

Supply Management

Assisting inventory management with IoT

Managing Queues

Specialized Math: Inventory Basics

Whether we're talking about our paychecks or how much a business makes in profit, there's often a difference between the initial amount made and what we get to keep. In this program, you'll learn the difference between gross and net, and what it means when it comes to employee paychecks, as well as business income.

Calculate net worth

Specialized Math: Net vs Gross

Whether you're saving money or paying down a loan, understanding interest is a vital part of making informed financial decisions. In this program, you can learn how to calculate both simple and compound interest, so you're prepared for both scenarios.

Specialized Math: Compound vs. Simple Interest

Ratios, proportions, and percentages are all methods of comparing data. In this program, we'll define each one and discuss their purposes.

Applying Fractions and Proportions

Proportional reasoning

Calculating Percentages

Working with LCM

Solving problems with fractions

Performing Ratio Analysis

Specialized Math: Understanding Ratios, Proportions, and Percentages

If you want to put your money to work for you, investing is the way to go. There's a risk/reward level out there for just about everyone, but it's important to have a solid foundation of how investing works before you get started. We'll cover basic types of investment, as well as the easiest ways to start investing, no matter what your income or experience level.

Grasp Investment Basics

Apply investment principles

Investing in Employees

Understand investment strategies

Cryptocurrency investing

Investment Evaluation

New Employee Math: Investment Basics

If you've been in the workforce for any length of time, odds are you might have daydreamed once or twice about retirement. Unless you plan to work for your entire life, the earlier you start planning and saving for retirement, the better. Today, we'll cover the basics to help set you on that path, including the following topics: Social Security, 401(k)s, Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), and Roth IRAs.

401(k) management

Benefits identification

Managing Roth IRA

New Employee Math: Retirement Savings Basics

In this course, we'll discuss the four basic types of savings accounts and some strategies to help you build your savings one paycheck at a time.

New Employee Math: Savings

Taxes serve a very important purpose in society. We all pay taxes in some way, shape, or form, whether it's income tax from our paychecks, property taxes on our homes or automobiles, or sales tax on items we purchase. These taxes all go to fund initiatives for the greater good, including schools, roads, libraries, and government operations. In this course, we'll focus mostly on income tax. There are two types of income tax: earned income tax and unearned income tax. Each is taxed at different rates at federal, state, and local levels.

Sales Tax Management

Analyzing Fiscal Policy

Analyzing tax implications

Ensure tax compliance

Tax Planning

New Employee Math: Taxation Basics

There's nothing quite like the thrill of your first paycheck. It's easy to let your eyes zoom in on that amount going into your checking account and nothing else. But it's a better idea to look at the rest of those numbers on your paystub, so you know where each and every penny you earned is going. That's what we're going to cover in this course.

Cash handling

New Employee Math: Your First Paycheck

You've been offered a job, negotiated your salary and benefits, and now you've accepted! Next comes the paperwork. One of the forms you can expect to fill out for any U.S.-based job is the IRS Form W-4. Upon first glance, this form can look pretty complicated. In this course, we'll try to simplify it by walking through it together.

Form Completion

New Employee Math: How to Fill Out a W-4

Your paycheck is only as powerful as your intentions on how to spend it. That's why we're going to discuss some budgeting strategies to help you make the most of every penny you earn.

Business Math

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Specialized Math: Interest Rates	3 mins	ej4
Specialized Math: Understanding ROI	4 mins	ej4
Specialized Math: Determining Pricing	8 mins	ej4
Specialized Math: Calculating Production Costs	5 mins	ej4
Specialized Math: Payroll Basics	4 mins	ej4
Specialized Math: Mark-ups and Mark-downs	5 mins	ej4
Specialized Math: Understanding Loans	5 mins	ej4
Specialized Math: Understanding Annuities	5 mins	ej4
Specialized Math: Understanding Profits and Profit Margins	3 mins	ej4
Specialized Math: Inventory Basics	7 mins	ej4