[ Skip Main Nav ]

University of Phoenix

http://www.phoenix.edu

ECO561 Economics

Course Description

This course applies economic concepts to make management decisions. Students employ the concepts of scarce resources and opportunity costs to perform economic analysis. Other topics include supply and demand, profit maximization, market structure, macroeconomic measurement, money, trade, and foreign exchange.

Topics and Objectives

Increasing Revenue

  • Choose methods to increase revenue in an organization.
  • Explain market equilibrating process.

Cost Concepts

  • Identify production level to maximize profits.
  • Explain how to balance fixed/variable costs.
  • Apply economic cost concepts in making business decisions.

Market Structure

  • Determine pricing strategy to meet organizational goals.
  • Determine ways to create non price barriers to entry based on market structure.
  • Determine ways to increase product differentiation based on market structure.
  • Determine ways to reduce costs for an organization.

Macro Economic Conditions

  • Determine the economy's stage in the business cycle.
  • Evaluate current macro economic condition based on key indicators.

Credit Markets and Globalization

  • Project the effect of credit markets on the economy.
  • Project the effect of global economic conditions regarding trade and specialization business decisions.

Improving Business Decisions

  • Apply economic concepts in making business decisions.
  • Integrate economic concepts and strategic planning.

Request Information

or you can call us

Loading...

It looks like you are using

Enhance your Phoenix.edu experience

You're using an older browser (a software program used to explore the web) which is not optimal for viewing the University of Phoenix website. Consider downloading a new browser to maximize your experience on this and other websites. Your new browser should display web pages properly, increase your web surfing speed and enhance your security.

©2006-2011 University of Phoenix, Inc. All rights reserved.