Description
Book SynopsisMath for Business & Finance: An Algebraic Approach provides modern examples for students to understand business mathematics and make connections with real-world applications. The course covers mathematical concepts from an algebraic approach, combined with Business applications. Every chapter is devoted to a Personal Finance theme, with topics that include Payroll and the Cost of Purchasing a Home. There is also extensive integration of scientific calculator notation, and also has the Wall Street Journal and Kiplinger news clips that have been widely popular in Jeffrey Slater''s other two Business Math texts.
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Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1: Problem Solving with Math
CHAPTER 2: Fractions
CHAPTER 3: Percents and Their Applications
Video Case: Project Management at Six Flags, New Jersey
CHAPTER 4: Solving for the Unknown
CHAPTER 5: Business Statistics
CHAPTER 6: Banking and Budgeting
CHAPTER 7: Payroll and Income Tax
CHAPTER 8: Sales, Excise, and Property Taxes
Video Case: EDP Renewables
CHAPTER 9: Risk Management
CHAPTER 10: Installment Buying and Revolving Charge Credit Cards
CHAPTER 11: Discounts: Trade and Cash
Video Case: Recycling at Subaru of Indiana Automotive
CHAPTER 12: Markups and Markdowns: Perishables and Breakeven Analysis
Video Case: Noodles & Company
CHAPTER 13: How to Read, Analyze, and Interpret Financial Reports
Video Case: Buycostumes.com
CHAPTER 14: Depreciation
CHAPTER 15: Inventory and Overhead
CHAPTER 16: Simple Interest
CHAPTER 17: Promissory Notes, Simple Discount Notes, and the Discount Process
CHAPTER 18: The Cost of Home Ownership
CHAPTER 19: Compound Interest and Present Value
CHAPTER 20: Annuities and Sinking Funds
Video Case: DHL Global Delivery
Cumulative Review: A Word Problem Approach
CHAPTER 21: Stocks, Bonds, and Mutual Funds
APPENDIX A: Additional Homework by Learning Unit
APPENDIX B: Worked-Out Solutions to Extra Practice Quizzes and You Try It Problems
APPENDIX C: Check Figures
APPENDIX D: Calculator Basics and the Metric System
