Business Math Skills

Business math skills have become an area of focus with increased audit requirements and heightened corporate oversight. Accuracy of data entry has become a critical aspect of business today. Keying, recording, transferring, and checking numbers requires both skill and technique to maintain accuracy and increase productivity.

Skywalk Group’s business math skills program, Number Skills,  uses visual and listening exercises to enable the rapid and accurate perception of numbers and letter/number combinations. Feedback from hundreds of individuals helped identify various tools and techniques that increase efficiency and accuracy for those in positions that involve number transfer.  Request a Number Skills training proposal for your organization or consider purchasing Number Skills training materials.

Who will benefit from Number Skills?

Anyone whose daily tasks require accurate keying, transferring, recording, or checking of numbers will benefit. These roles include but are not limited to:

• Data entry operators
• Medical records personnel
• Customer service representatives
• Accounting assistants
• Reservation agents
• Bank tellers
• Billing administrators

For your convenience, we also offer Basics of Business Math e-learning Series (16 hours).  This series is designed for users who want to improve their basic math skills. It covers basic mathematical calculations commonly used in business settings. Courses cover computing fractions and decimals, the order of operations for combined computations, and solving equations and word problems.  It includes the use of proportions, ratios and percentages, as well as provides instruction on the use of a calculator for business applications. This six-course series includes the following modules:

• Fractions (3 hours)
• Decimals (3 hours)
• Calculator (3 hours)
• Equations (3 hours)
• Percents (2 hours)
• Reports (2 hours)

For a complete listing of training programs and delivery methods, please visit Skywalk Group Training Matrix.