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Economics for Business Professionals
DATE
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LOCATION
Accra
Why Attend?
Economics for Business Professionals
Course Objectives
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Target Audience
Managers, business professionals, and individuals who have decided to explore how good economic decision making is fundamental to the success of business.
- The firm and its goals
- The economic goal of the firm and optimal decision making
- Goals other than profit
- Economic goals
- Economic objectives
- Noneconomic objectives
- Maximizing the wealth of stockholders
- Market Value Added (MVA)
- Economic Value Added (EVA)
- Economic profits
- Global application
- Demand estimation and forecasting techniques
- Demand elasticity and the revenues of a firm
- Price elasticities of several industries
- Economics in practice: ‘Elasticities at a Delicatessen in the Short Run and Long Run’
- Demand estimation
- Regression analysis application
- Forecasting techniques
- Expert opinion
- Opinion polls and market research
- Surveys of spending plans
- Economic indicators
- Projections
- Demand elasticity and the revenues of a firm
- Estimation of cost, pricing, and output decisions
- The importance of cost in managerial decisions
- The definition and use of cost in economic analysis
- Examples of ways companies have cut costs to remain competitive
- Cautionary note about the use of cost-cutting as a strategy
- Pricing and output decisions: Perfect competition and monopoly
- Pricing and output decisions: Monopolistic competition and oligopoly
- Special pricing practices
- Break-even analysis (Volume-Cost-Profit)
- Macroeconomic indicators and the firm’s strategic decisions
- The importance of the business cycle to businesses
- Economic growth and its positive effects
- Factors affecting the economy and the firm
- Inflation
- Interest rates
- Unemployment
- Exchange rates
- Exchange rates effects on imports, exports, and real GDP
- The effects of government economic policies on businesses
- The way fiscal policies affect businesses
- Expansionary fiscal policy
- Contractionary fiscal policy
- The way monetary policies affect businesses
- Expansionary monetary policy
- Contractionary monetary policy
- The effect of public debt on the economy and businesses
- The balance of trade and its impact on currency exchange rates
- The way fiscal policies affect businesses
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