INGRID B. TAGAL
PROFESSOR JEH-NAN PAN

DECEMBER 2008

BUSINESS DECISION METHODS ESSAY
Fall semester ended. Now, it's time to evaluate myself and think of the things that I learned the whole semester. Honestly, I did learn a lot of things in all my subjects. I felt like a sponge, absorbing all the knowledge I could possibly have. For Business Decision Methods, I met a lot of acquaintances and stranger, I should say. Before I came into the class, 1was not so clear of what to expect about it. But not so long, the professor started orienting u.sxzii%&e_topiaat will be lectured the whole semester. I realized that BDM, is not really Greek to me. In fact, I met old acquaintances such as Mr. M

e Mrs. Me*,

Ms. Minzmax, and the rest of the

Decision Analysis brood whom I first met back in college. &so, I saw the Forecasting Models and the gang of Probability Concepts again. Conversely, I also met new acquaintances such as
Linear Programming and its clan of Applications.
However, knowing the other concepts did not mean totally well for me because I know, then, that I still have so many things to learn about these concepts. And I was right, the direction of
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the course guided me to have a considerable in-depthknawQfthe
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concepts I learned before

and the concepts that I newly encountered. I learned more about the applications of these principles and the logic why these principles where formulated in such a way. Also, I learned that many qualitative data can be quantified and analyzed quantitatively.
The main reason why I preferred this subject among other methodology courses is that I already planned to major in Finance. The nature of Finance is decision-making, which is embodied in the subject, and even obviously reflected by the name, Business Decision Methods.
Among all the subjects, I think all of them are relevant and