Practical Business Math Procedures is a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and applications of mathematics to personal and commercial business problems. The text uses basic arithmetic and problem solving techniques and illustrates their use in retailing, interest and loans, banking, payroll, taxes, investments, insurance, and a variety of other business situations. The text is well known for the motivating integration of interesting real world examples and photos from the Wall Street Journal, Kiplingers, and many other business journals. PBMPs is the most popular and widely used book for this course and is carefully written and developed to support students with little math experience with practice quizzes, thousands of exercises, color coded procedures and diagrams, supporting tutorial videos on DVD, and the highest standards of reliability and cleanliness.

Jeff Slater has been teaching 30 years at North Shore Community College. He has acted as a consultant for the office of personnel management in Boston and New York. Jeff tours the country giving speeches on student retention at colleges as well as national conventions.

Table of Contents: FULL EDITION

1. Whole Numbers: How to Dissect and Solve Word Problems

2. Fractions

3. Decimals

4. Banking

5. Solving for the Unknown: A How-To Approach for Solving Equations

6. Percents and Their Applications

7. Discounts: Trade and Cash

8. Markups and Markdowns; Insights into Perishables

9. Payroll

10. Simple Interest

11. Promissory Notes, Simple Discount Notes, and the Discount Process

12. Compound Interest and Present Value

13. Annuities and Sinking Funds

14. Installment Buying, Rule of 78, and Revolving Charge Credit Cards

15. The Cost of Home Ownership

16. How to Read, Analyze, and Interpret Financial Reports

17. Depreciation

18. Inventory and Overhead

19. Sales, Excise, and Property Tax

20. Life, Fire, and Auto Insurance

21. Stocks, Bonds, and Mutual Funds

22.Business Statistics

Appendix A: Complete set of Additional Practice Quizzes

Appendis B: Additional Homework Assignments by Learning Unit

Appendix C: Check Figures

Appendix D: Glossary

Appendix E: Metric Sytsem