Calculus for economics, finance, and business applications
Business Calculus focuses on the calculus concepts most relevant to economics, finance, and business decision-making. Learn how to analyze cost, revenue, and profit functions, optimize business decisions using derivatives, and understand accumulation through integration. This course emphasizes real-world applications like marginal analysis, elasticity of demand, consumer/producer surplus, and multivariable optimization for business scenarios.
Linear, quadratic, exponential, and logarithmic functions in business contexts
Understanding limits and continuous behavior in business contexts
Instantaneous rate of change and the derivative as a business tool
Cost, revenue, and profit functions and their marginal counterparts
Finding maxima and minima for business decisions
Accumulation, total change, and business applications of integration
Functions of several variables and partial derivatives
Review and real-world applications synthesis