Overview
Many business professionals find statistics useful in their work: Financial specialists use statistical models to perform portfolio analysis, while forensic accountants rely on statistical methods to uncover financial fraud. Therefore, a firm grounding in business statistics is critical to every individual who wishes to excel in the accounting profession.
With the aid of business-focused settings, students will learn and master descriptive statistics, probability theory and distributions, sampling distributions, inferential statistics and regression analysis. Beyond the statistical computations, this module makes attempt to emphasis conceptual understanding, interpretation of statistical results and application to case studies
What You’ll Learn
- Use descriptive statistical methods to organize, summarize and present data
- Use statistical models and methods to compute statistical measures including probabilities, confidence intervals and p values
- Interpret and explain significance of statistical measures including probabilities, confidence intervals, p values, and regression coefficients
- Apply statistical analysis to case studies and employ results to facilitate decision making
Who Should Attend
Singaporean students who are unable to return to their overseas universities due to Covid-19 situation.
SITizens Learning Credits (SLC) - Eligible Course
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Certificate and Assessment
A Certificate of Participation will be issued to participants who:
- Attend at least 75% of the workshop
- Complete the Continual Assessemnt.
A Certificate of Attainment will be issued to participants who
- Attend 75% of the module, and
- Complete and pass the Continual Assessemnt
Schedule
| Week |
Topics |
| 1 |
Numerical Descriptive Measures |
| 2 |
Basic Probability |
| 3 |
Basic Probability |
| 4 |
Discrete Probability Distributions |
| 5 |
Normal Distribution |
| 6 |
Sampling Distribution |
| 7 |
Recess Week |
| 8 |
Confidence Interval Estimation |
| 9 |
Hypothesis Testing |
| 10 |
Linear Regression - 1 |
| 11 |
Linear Regression - 2 |
| 12 |
Revision |
| 13 |
Self Revision |
Exact schedule will be sent once accepted into the course.
Fees
| Category |
Full Fee |
After SF Funding |
After SF Mid-Career
Enhanced Subsidy |
| Singapore Citizen (Below 40) / Singapore PR |
$3,033.45 |
$910.04* |
Not Eligible |
| Singapore Citizen (40 & above) |
$3,033.45 |
$910.04 |
$$343.04* |
| Non-Singaporeans |
$3,033.45 |
Not Eligible |
Not Eligible |
Note:
- All figures include GST. GST applies to individuals and Singapore-registered companies.
- You can opt for either SkillsFuture Funding or Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy. Both cannot be combined.
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Terms & Conditions:
SkillsFuture Funding
In order to be eligible for the 70% training grant awarded by SkillsFuture, applicants (and/or their sponsoring organisations where applicable) must:
- Be a Singaporean Citizen or Singapore Permanent Resident
- Not receive any other funding from government sources in respect of the actual grant disbursed for the programme
SkillsFuture Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy
To be eligible for the 90% enhanced subsidy awarded, applicants (and/or their sponsoring organisations where applicable) must:
- Be a Singaporean Citizen
- Be at least 40 years old
- Not receive any other funding from government sources in respect of the actual grant disbursed for the programme
SIT reserves the right to collect the balance of the programme fees (i.e. the potential grant amount) directly from the applicants (and/or their sponsoring organisations where applicable) should the above requirements not be fulfilled.
SIT reserves the right to make changes to published course information, including dates, times, venues, fees and instructors without prior notice.
