Practical Business Math Procedures is a comprehensive guide that brings business math to life with real-world applications and personal finance tips. Each chapter features engaging tools like "Money Tips" icons, interactive video worksheets, and practical problems to help students apply math concepts to everyday financial decisions. With its step-by-step explanations, critical thinking questions, and personal finance projects, this text ensures students can confidently tackle everything from payroll and taxes to banking and insurance.
1. Whole Numbers: How to Dissect and Solve Word Problems2.
Fractions3. Decimals4. Banking5. Solving for the Unknown: A How-to
Approach for Solving Equations6. Percents and Their Applications7.
Discounts: Trade and Cash8. Markups and Markdowns: Perishables and
Breakeven Analysis9. Payroll10. Simple Interest11. Promissory Notes, Simple
Discount Notes, and the Discount Process12. Compound Interest and Present
Value13. Annuities and Sinking Funds14. Installment Buying15. The Cost of
Home Ownership16. How to Read, Analyze, and Interpret Financial Reports17.
Depreciation18. Inventory and Overhead19. Sales, Excise, and Property
Taxes20. Life, Fire, and Auto Insurance21. Stocks, Bonds, and Mutual Funds22.
Business StatisticsAPPENDIX A: Additional Homework by Learning UnitAPPENDIX
B: Check FiguresAPPENDIX C: Metric System
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.
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