<p>I major in Business, and concentrate in Finance, my professor told me that calculus will not help much, how you guys think? I intend to transfer next year so I think calculus will give admission officer a good impression, but I am not sure if it is useful for me in the future.
looking forward to your advices</p>
<p>Thanks in advance</p>
<p>I might be wrong but I think higher level finance stuff needs calculus. I'm just basing this on the fact that the inequalities in Hardy's book are considered useful for finance and its a book in analysis.</p>
<p>I would suggest you take Calculus (the real calculus, not business calc) if you have a good professor to teach you. Also because you will run into an integral here and there in business I'm sure.</p>
<p>At least you don't have to take calculus 2 like me for UCLA (DAMN them for making me take this crap)</p>
<p>Receiving a good grade in calc 1 will definitely make you stand out and it will help you out in the long run. Calc 2 is COMPLETELY useless for business... god its such a pain</p>
<p>By Calculus I you mean Math 31A and by Calculus II you mean Math 31B right?</p>
<p>In other words Calculus I is Differential and simple Integral Calculus and Calculus II is more Integral Calculus and the Infinite Series right?</p>
<p>Is that it?</p>
<p>Yep. 31A sounds right.</p>
<p>And Calc II meets the description of what you called 31B (from AP Calc BC).</p>
<p>Please don't tell me that is as intense as the mathematics gets.</p>
<p>:rolleyes:</p>
<p>If that's true I better continue prepping for the AP Calc BC test like crazy in order to really prepare myself.</p>
<p>Oh, guys, I read that at UCLA's website that in order to get into the Business Econ major that all prerequisites must be taken for a letter grade. So let's say that I take the Calc BC test and get a high enough score to clear the 31A and 31B courses (as noted in the AP catalog). Because the Business Econ major requires that all pre-requisites be taken for a letter grade, does that pretty much void my 31A and 32B credit? If it does then when I take 31A and 32B they should be much easier and they should be easy A's hopefully. Still, can anyone answer me this question?</p>
<p>Why would you have to take Calculus II? Only Physic and Engineering majors take Calculus beyond Cal I.</p>
<p>You should ask UCLA that.</p>
<p>Also whats the difference between Calculus I and Brief Calculus, beside the trig functions?</p>
<p>Calculus I and Brief Calculus? I've never heard of Brief Calculus but I'm assuming that it is just limits?</p>
<p>UCLA makes one take up to Calculus II for the Business Economics major. Calculus II actually isn't that hard.</p>
<p>Limits, Derivatives(Higher Order), Expotential and Logarithmic, Intergrals, Everything that Calc I has but trig functions. Brief Calculus is business calculus.</p>
<p>No trig functions? That's like taking the pebbles right out of Calculus.</p>
<p>Makes it a lot easier. We do a lot of business problems though.</p>
<p>Oh alright. Trig functions are kind of annoying to tell you the truth. I memorized the whole unit circle once. I only know the first quarter now and I have to solve for the other quarters.</p>