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Mathematics for Business Careers

by Jack Cain, Robert A. Carman
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Overview

Learn

  • basic arithmetic as it applies to business skills!
  • accuracy in
  • bank records,
  • selling and buying transactions,
  • interest, loans, and taxes,
  • and more!

Follow clear explanations and practice newly learned concepts on your own or with classroom support.

  • Numerous illustrations clarity concepts.
  • Steps for solving problems are highlighted.
  • Processes are carried out in sequence.
  • Cautions serve as an alert to common mistakes.

For this new edition, sections on taxes and electronic banking have been revised and updated. Review problems and applications have also been updated to reflect current business practices.

Synopsis

Designed as a true teaching text, this book guides readers through clear, detailed explanations of the principles and practices of business mathematics. The Fifth Edition has been updated and improved to reflect the latest tools and techniques and to help users actively participate in their learning.

Text covers whole numbers, fractions, decimal numbers, percent, bank records, payroll, insurance, financial statement analysis, the mathematics of buying and selling, simple interest, bank discount loans, using installment loans, using compound interest and present value, investments, real estate mathematics, inventory and overhead, depreciation, taxes and statistics and graphs.

For business, real estate and other professionals requiring a review of principles and practices of business math at the arithmetic level.

Booknews

A text featuring a conversational writing style, an easy-to-follow format, step-by-step outlines of business math techniques, application problems, worked examples, and self-tests with selected answers. Coverage proceeds from whole numbers to statistics and graphs. Can be used as a text in traditional lecture-oriented courses, in self-paced instruction, in a learning lab situation, and for independent study. New to this fourth edition are revised applications, calculator examples designed for business calculators, and earlier presentation of basic percent calculations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Booknews

A text featuring a conversational writing style, an easy-to-follow format, step-by-step outlines of business math techniques, application problems, worked examples, and self-tests with selected answers. Coverage proceeds from whole numbers to statistics and graphs. Can be used as a text in traditional lecture-oriented courses, in self-paced instruction, in a learning lab situation, and for independent study. New to this fourth edition are revised applications, calculator examples designed for business calculators, and earlier presentation of basic percent calculations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

Fifteen chapters discuss whole and decimal numbers, fractions, percent, bank records, payroll, the mathematics of buying and selling, simple interest, bank discount and more complex loans, compound interest and present value, investments, real estate mathematics, inventory and overhead, depreciation, insurance, financial statement analysis, and statistics and graphs. The included CD-ROM contains study aids. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book Details

Published
July 1, 2000
Publisher
Prentice Hall
Pages
798
Format
Other Format
ISBN
9780130197498

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