Synopses & Reviews
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.
About the Author
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
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: Perishables and Breakeven Analysis 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. Statistics Appendix A: Additional Homework by Learning Unit Appendix B: Check Figures Appendix C: Glossary Appendix D: Metric System