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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, Kiplinger’s, and many other business journals. PBMP’s 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. Students that choose the VitalBook version of this title have access to powerful digital learning tools. Students can share notes with others, customize the appearance and layout of the content, and organize all their digital course materials from a single program. VitalSource is a downloadable eBook. Students can install their eBook on up to two machines. Students can also print sections of the book for maximum portability.
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Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- CHAPTER 1: Whole Numbers; How to Dissect and Solve Word Problems
- CHAPTER 2: Fractions
- CHAPTER 3: Decimals
- CHAPTER 4: Banking
- CHAPTER 5: Solving for the Unknown: A How-to Approach for Solving Equations
- CHAPTER 6: Percents and Their Applications
- CHAPTER 7: Discounts: Trade and Cash
- CHAPTER 8: Markups and Markdowns; Perishables and Breakeven Analysis
- CHAPTER 9: Payroll
- CHAPTER 10: Simple Interest
- CHAPTER 11: Promissory Notes, Simple Discount Notes, and the Discount Process
- CHAPTER 12: Compound Interest and Present Value
- CHAPTER 13: Annuities and Sinking Funds
- CHAPTER 14: Installment Buying, Rule of 78, and Revolving Charge Credit Cards
- CHAPTER 15: The Cost of Home Ownership
- CHAPTER 16: How to Read, Analyze, and Interpret Financial Reports
- CHAPTER 17: Depreciation
- CHAPTER 18: Inventory and Overhead
- CHAPTER 19: Sales, Excise, and Property Taxes
- CHAPTER 20: Life, Fire, and Auto Insurance
- CHAPTER 21: Stocks, Bonds, and Mutual Funds
- CHAPTER 22: Business Statistics
- Back Matter
