Product Key Features
Number of Pages760 Pages
Publication NameMath for Business and Finance: an Algebraic Approach
LanguageEnglish
SubjectFinance / General, Business Mathematics
Publication Year2013
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaBusiness & Economics
AuthorSharon M. Wittry, Jeffrey Slater
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2012-046608
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromCollege Freshman
IllustratedYes
Grade ToCollege Freshman
Dewey Decimal512.024/332
Table Of ContentCHAPTER 1 Problem Solving with Math CHAPTER 2 Fractions CHAPTER 3 Percents and Their Applications 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 CHAPTER 9 Risk Management CHAPTER 10 Installment Buying and Revolving Charge Credit Cards CHAPTER 11 Discounts: Trade and Cash CHAPTER 12 Markups and Markdowns: Perishables and Breakeven Analysis CHAPTER 13 How to Read, Analyze, and Interpret Financial Reports Breakeven Analysis 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 CHAPTER 21 Stocks, Bonds, and Mutual Funds
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. Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need, when they need it, and how they need it, so that your class time is more engaging and effective.
LC Classification NumberHF5691.S43933 2014