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Math Meets Entrepreneurship: How Is Math Used in Business

  • November 23, 2021
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If you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, you may be wondering if you really need to be good in math for you to be successful in your entrepreneurship journey.

But as many successful entrepreneurs will tell you, knowledge of a few math concepts is important if you want your business to thrive. In fact, many students studying entrepreneurship in college have to take business mathematics as one of the core courses.

But not to worry if you have already started your business but didn’t get a chance to study math in college. The good news is that you can always find a private tutor to help you with the subject. For instance, private tutors who offer maths tutoring in Adelaide offer one-on-one home tuition, making it convenient for entrepreneurs to learn at the comfort of their work premises.

So, what math skills are needed in entrepreneurship, and where are they used?

Let’s find out, shall we?

Math Skills That Are Valuable in Entrepreneurship

Some of the math skills you’ll need in your entrepreneurship journey include:

Basic Arithmetic

An entrepreneur must know basic arithmetic operations such as addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication. Such operations help you perform accurate calculations with your customers, vendors, and investors. Knowledge of basic arithmetic also makes you confident of the financial decisions you make.

Mathematical Literacy 

This is the ability of the entrepreneur to use numbers to solve business problems. It’s also the ability to understand the language of math when used in business.

Finance Concepts 

You should learn how to calculate finance concepts such as cost of capital and net present value to make accurate investment decisions and also understand financing and cash flow issues

Statistics

Statistics knowledge will help you interpret data from your business. For instance, with the help of statistics, you’ll find it easier to predict the future performance of your product based on past performance. Further, business statistics can help you do an accurate cost-benefit analysis of your investment decisions.

How Is Math Used In Business?

Math is used in different business areas, but since we can’t exhaust all of them in this article, we’ll look at five such areas.

1. To Make Accurate Financial Decisions

Financial mistakes due to a lack of math knowledge can cost you your business. You need to know how to correctly calculate and analyze figures to make reliable business and investment decisions.

Math knowledge also helps you understand the metrics that follow big decisions in businesses. For instance, whenever you invest in advertising, you’ll be able to calculate the expected returns.

Moreover, with the rise in big data, there is even a greater need for entrepreneurs to have math knowledge. Such data helps you to make evidence-based decisions, helping you avoid losses. But you’ll need to gather and statistically analyze and interpret such data to make wise business decisions.

2. Pricing of Your Product

If you want your business to be profitable and competitive, you must give your products the right price.

Knowledge of mathematics helps you accurately calculate the cost of producing your product, helping you come up with a price that covers these costs and gives you some profits on top.

Further, finding the correct pricing involves understanding the concepts of markup and profit margins, both of which are important math concepts.

Markup is the difference between how much you incur to make the product and its selling price, while the profit margin is how much the revenue from a product exceeds its cost.

3. Forecasting

By use of cause and effect analysis, entrepreneurs can analyze data and trends to predict the failure or success of a product.

The application of predictive analytics goes beyond product performance, as it can also be used in:

  • Risk assessment
  • Fraud detection
  • Determination of optimal production capacity
  • Effective management of resources
  • Marketing decisions
  • Investment decisions

4. Presentation of Data

In your business, you’ll have to deal with lots of data. Data from sales, revenue, marketing, advertising, and expenses will need to be organized and presented in an understandable manner. For instance, you’ll need to have well-prepared financial records to help investors understand how the business is doing.

To organize such records, you’ll need to subtract, divide, add, and multiply the available figures to come up with reliable and presentable data that can be used to make future business decisions.

5. Keep Expenses in Check

If you allow your business costs to grow more than your revenue, you’ll operate at a loss.

To keep your business profitable, you’ll need to calculate the optimal level of various costs. You’ll also need basic math knowledge to know how many products you’ll need to sell to cover your costs or how much to price your product to break even.

6. To Make Use of Psychological Selling

Psychological selling takes advantage of your customers’ social behaviors to increase sales. For instance, most customers will buy a discounted product because they believe they’re getting it at a low price.

Since part of psychological selling involves offering discounts, you must know how to make the right calculations if you still want to make profits even as you sell your products at a discount.

In closing, every business comprises different math problems that you’ll need to solve every day. Having math knowledge is crucial even as you start your entrepreneurship journey, as it will protect you from making costly mistakes and ensure you make profitable investments.

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