Business Mathematics and the Secretarial Education Programme: A Relevance Hypothesis

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relevance hypothesis of Business Mathematics and Secretarial Education programme in Colleges of Educations, Polytechnics and Universities. To achieve the objectives of this paper, relevant secondary data was collected from books, magazines and journals. The knowledge of Business Mathematics is important to the secretary to perform relevant functions in organisations. Hence, the paper observed that Business Mathematics provides the necessary logical analysis, hence very relevant in the secretarial profession. The paper therefore, concludes that the knowledge of Business Mathematics is important for secretarial administration students. This is because secretaries perform routine duties with great speed, and helps in enhancing the efficiency of jobs. Secretaries has been adjudged to be versatile memory bank of the organisation, information reservoir to merits this names actually means to have the knowledge of all courses that will help them to discharge their duties in the most professional manner, knowledge in Business Mathematics cannot be ruled out as one of the major courses students in the secretarial education programme must understand and use to assist organizations needs. Keywords: Business Mathematics, Secretary, Education, Hypothesis