There is a lot of focus on ‘business math.’ Having worked directly with thousands of business students I can assert: No, IT IS NOT the math. IT IS intuition with an analytics mindset. I encounter many novices who think accounting is mathematical. It isn’t. Accountants add, substract, multiply and divide. Once and a while they use exponents. So not too mathematical. Instead, accounting is a language, but a technical one. Mastering it requires an analytic mindset. Introductory statistics and introductory finance are also not too mathematical. Almost always just add, subtract, multiply, divide with an exponent or log once and awhile. You probably already know the math but that alone won’t help you until you embrace the surrounding intuition and analytic mindset expressed by the (simpler) math. For instance, do you know what this means:  ∑ or this: ß ? Maybe you can name them (summation sign and Greek letter beta) but do you know what they mean, intuitively?; or how they are used analytically? What is the difference in meaning between this beta: ß, and this version, b? This is where the analytic mindset, coupled with intuition, is so valuable for learning these topics and business skills.

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