The Accounting Review Vol. 42 No. 4 1967
Mathematics in the Undergraduate Business Curriculum.
Abstract
The article is concerned with the rule of mathematical subject matter in the undergraduate business curriculum treated from an applied point of view. The plan of the paper is to illustrate the need for more preparation in mathematical areas by students of business administration, discuss the present status of mathematical offerings by colleges of business, cite the recommendations offered by professional mathematicians, suggest a minimal core mathematics sequence, and, finally, discuss problems of making the core a required sequence and applying it in accounting and other disciplines. A decade of more ago, a very small proportion of undergraduate business students took a significant amount of college-level mathematics. The only widespread required course in the area of present interest was an introductory course in statistics. This course was essentially descriptive and authors of texts were careful to point out that either no mathematics was required to understand their books or, at most, the books assumed only an elementary background in mathematics.
- DOI
- 10.2308/tar-4511881
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 782-787
- Language
- en
- Sources
- openalex crossref