Hello Can anyone let me know if, and (if yes) what the “difficulty level” is of the math for the following courses, which are part of an MBA program at a Texas state school. I just passed the Corporate Finance course which is part of the same program, and it dang near killed my brain. I ** barely ** got a B in that course, and that was largely due to my emails and proactive communications with the professor and notes from Course Hero website. Accounting for Management Control aka “Managerial Accounting” Formulating and Implementing Strategy aka “Strategic Management” Both are part of the MBA program. I am early enough into this to steer my degree into another area (Human Resource Management, etc), if the math is too difficult. I am not a math person, sorry. Thank You
Those look like accounting and management track courses; if so, the math should probably be a lot easier than your core Corp. Finance class. I will say that finance gets easier and more fun after you finish the core, so you may want to at least audit a class or two to see if you like it. E.g., Fixed Income Instruments was much, much more fun than Corp. Finance and the math isn’t all that bad.
However, if you really are math-phobic, stay far away from higher level stats (e.g., Markoff Chains) or anything with derivatives - the math will eat a good man whole within the first week.
Corporate Finance can be some what difficult depending on the professor, most of my graduate program got Bs despite being very proficient with math. Managerial accounting was rough for me too and I was an accounting undergraduate, don’t feel too bad. I’d stick it out instead of taking useless courses in human resource management.
What are those? I’ve only heard of Markov Chains…
I don’t think you struggled with the math in your corporate finance course, as those rarely go beyond precalc.
Accounting is arithmetic, with a bit of algebra - again, not math intensive.
I think most people who struggle with acc or finance (outside of derivative pricing and swaps (although, even that often only goes as far as calculus)), have a hard time understanding the concepts, rules, structures, and logic (or lack of such in GAAP).
They’re like Markov Chains for people who can’t speel spell.
Pretty much this… the math in those courses are grade math, even derivative courses are just division and multiplication.
I dunno… I remember sitting through a derivation of Black-Scholes for a derivatives class; that was no joke on the math front. Even if you don’t have to remember how to derive it, you are expected to know how to apply it. I thought the math was pretty tough (at least Calc II kinds of stuff).
Edit: I take that back. You don’t do partial derivatives until Calc III, so it is at least that hard.
For the mathematically inclined, not difficult at all.