Math for Business Books

How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business

Douglas W. Hubbard

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Praise for How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

"I love this book. Douglas Hubbard helps us create a path to know the answer to almost any question in business, in science, or in life . . . Hubbard helps us by showing us that when we seek metrics to solve problems, we are really trying to know something better than we know it now. How to Measure Anything provides just the tools most of us need to measure anything better, to gain that insight, to make progress, and to succeed."
-Peter Tippett, PhD, M.D.
Chief Technology Officer at CyberTrust
and inventor of the first antivirus software

"Doug Hubbard has provided an easy-to-read, demystifying explanation of how managers can inform themselves to make less risky, more profitable business decisions. We encourage our clients to try his powerful, practical techniques."
-Peter Schay
EVP and COO of
The Advisory Council

"As a reader you soon realize that actually everything can be measured while learning how to measure only what matters. This book cuts through conventional clichés and business rhetoric and offers practical steps to using measurements as a tool for better decision making. Hubbard bridges the gaps to make college statistics relevant and valuable for business decisions."
-Ray Gilbert
EVP Lucent

"This book is remarkable in its range of measurement applications and its clarity of style. A must-read for every professional who has ever exclaimed, 'Sure, that concept is important, but can we measure it?'"
-Dr. Jack Stenner
Cofounder and CEO of MetraMetrics, Inc.

PRACTICAL BUS MATH PROCEDURES With Student DVD, WSJinsert,BMathHandbook

Jeffrey Slater

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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.

Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy

Warren Brussee

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The first plain-English guide to solving real-world problems with Six Sigma

So you're ready to improve your processes and products and satisfy your customers through Six Sigma--but you're not looking forward to navigating complicated statistics in order to get results. Now, Warren Brussee, a veteran Six Sigma manager who helped his teams generate millions of dollars in savings, explains how to use the powerful statistical tools of Six Sigma in easy-to-understand language.

In this step-by-step guide, you get a thorough overview of the Six Sigma methodology and techniques for successful implementation, as well as a clear explanation of DMAIC--the problem solving method used by Six Sigma Greenbelts for projects and process improvements. You'll see how to plot, interpret, and validate data for a Six Sigma project. You will use Excel to make Six Sigma problem-solving calculations in a wide range of areas, from sales and marketing to manufacturing, process work, equipment design, and more. Each chapter also features a brief review of what you've learned. Plus, you get:

• A simplified form of the most common Six Sigma tools
• All the basic Six Sigma formulas and tables
• Dozens of Six Sigma statistical problem-solving case studies
• A matrix for finding the right statistical tool to meet your needs
• Basic Greenbelt training in one concise reference

Best of all, no background in statistics is required--you can start improving quality and initiating cost-saving improvements right away. With all these benefits and authoritative guidance, Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy is the only reference you need to facilitate real-world application of Six Sigma tools.

College Mathematics for Business, Economics, Life Sciences & Social Sciences (11th Edition)

Raymond A. Barnett, Michael R. Ziegler, Karl E. Byleen

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As good as a math textbook can be when you don't open it. 4 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

I used this textbook in my "business math" course.

The course covered material that I'd already mastered in high school, so I rarely used this book.

When I had to look up a few fuzzy areas, though, it helped me. It did a poor job of explaining Chapter 7, as I recall.

Editorial Review:

Designed to be accessible, this book develops a thorough, functional understanding of mathematical concepts in preparation for its application in other areas. Concentrates on developing concepts and ideas followed immediately by developing computational skills and problem solving. Features a collection of important topics from mathematics of finance, algebra, linear programming, probability, and descriptive statistics, with an emphasis on cross-discipline principles and practices. For the professional who wants to acquire essential mathematical tools for application in business, economics, and the life and social sciences.

Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten

Stephen Few

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Guidelines for helpful book reviews 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 9 people found this review helpful.

This is not a review of "Show Me the Numbers." I wrote this book, so I can hardly review it objectively. My purpose here is to write a review of reviews, or more accurately stated, to suggest some guidelines for writing helpful reviews. I decided to do this, because, as an author, it is painful to occasionally read reviews of books that are either uninformed or based on expectations that have nothing to do with the book.

Here are two guidelines that I believe every book reviewer should take to heart.

Guideline #1: Don't review a book that you haven't actually read.

I once had a MBA student of mine write a scathing review of one of my books--a book he had never even seen--because I gave him a "B" grade rather than the "A" he wanted on an assignment. People read reviews to learn about a book. If you haven't read the book, you're not qualified to tell them anything useful, and you're certainly not qualified to judge its merits. Simply knowing that you don't share the author's point of view doesn't give you the right to criticize the book.

Guideline #2: Judge the merits of a book by how well it achieves what it set out to achieve.

If the author claims to do something that the book fails to do, or does it but does so poorly, it deserves low marks. If it fulfills its stated intentions and does so well, it deserves high marks. If you wanted something different from the book's stated purpose, it isn't the author's fault that you didn't get what you wanted.

If you follow these two simple and honorable guidelines and express yourself clearly, you will provide other potential readers with helpful information. If you fail to follow these guidelines, you will not only serve other readers poorly, you might also erroneously discredit a book that someone labored over with great care.

In the spirit of these guidelines, let me say about the book "Show Me the Numbers" what I stated clearly in the book itself. This book was written primarily for everyday people with little or no statistical training who wish to present quantitative information clearly, accurately, and compellingly. It is a comprehensive and practical guide for table and graph design that was written especially to address the needs of this audience in a way that is accessible to this audience. Although many statisticians use this book to improve their ability to present data to non-statisticians, it is not intended as a guide to the advanced graphical displays that statisticians sometimes need. This book is also software agnostic--meaning that the principles and practices that I teach in it can be applied to almost any software that produces tables and graphs. As such, it is not a "how to" guide for creating graphs using a particular software product, such as Microsoft Excel. It can certainly teach you how to use the charting functionality of Excel more effectively, but it does so by teaching simple design principles and practices, not by telling you where to find particular graphing functions that might be hiding somewhere in Excel's menus and dialog boxes.

You will find that "Show Me the Numbers" has only received low ratings from Amazon reviewers who wanted a different book; one that was written for a different audience and purpose. Everyone who has actually read it and judged its merits based on how well it achieves what I set out to do, as clearly described in the book and its promotional materials, has given it high marks for the useful, well-expressed information that it provides.

Take care,

Stephen Few

Editorial Review:

Tables and graphs can more adequately communicate important business information when they reflect the good design practices discussed in this practical guide to effective table and graph design. Information is provided on the fundamental concepts of table and graph design, the numbers and knowledge most suitable for display in a graphic form, the best tabular means to communicate certain ideas, and the component-level aspects of design. Analysts, technicians, and managers will appreciate the solid theory behind this outline for ensuring that tables and graphs present quantitative business information in a truthful, attractive format that facilitates better decision making.

Business Mathematics (11th Edition)

Charles D. Miller, Stanley A. Salzman, Gary Clendenen

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An informative, easy-to-use business math text. 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

Well organized and informative, this text educates and challenges today's young business math student whether the course is being taken as a requirement or as an elective. Either way, the successful student, upon completion of this course will walk away a better business student and a wiser investor/consumer.

Editorial Review:

KEY BENEFIT: Business Mathematics, Eleventh Edition maximizes interest by presenting the necessary mathematics through real-world applications. New examples from real companies and the people who run them are woven throughout the book to apply the concepts to real practices. Many new photographs, news clippings, and graphs have been added to increase the relevance of chapter content to the world of business. The globalization of our society is emphasized through examples and exercises that highlight foreign countries and international topics. KEY TOPICS: Whole Numbers and Decimals; Fractions; Percent; Bank Services; Payroll; Mathematics of Buying; Mathematics of Selling; Simple Interest; Compound Interest; Annuities, Stocks, and Bonds; Business and Consumer Loans; Taxes and Insurance; Depreciation; Financial Statements and Ratios; Business Statistics. MARKET: For all readers interested in business mathematics.

Schaum's Outline of Business Statistics Fourth Edition

Kazmier

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Great book to understand Statistics! 4 out of 5 stars.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.

Another fine book by Schaum's outline. For anyone who has lost touch with the world of statistics, this book is a must read. It has clear definitions, examples and complicated explanations if you wish to dig deeper. I recommend this book to all college students, undergraduate and even MBA students. For financial analysis, marketing, and social research, this book is wonderful.

Editorial Review:

Confusing Textbooks? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?

Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills.

This Schaum's Outline gives you

• Practice problems with full explanations that reinforce knowledge
• Coverage of the most up-to-date developments in your course field
• In-depth review of practices and applications

Fully compatible with your classroom text, Schaum's highlights all the important facts you need to know. Use Schaum's to shorten your study time-and get your best test scores!

Schaum's Outlines-Problem Solved.

Practical Business Math Procedures Brief Edition with Student DVD, wsjinsert,BuMath Handbook

Jeffrey Slater

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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.

Practical Business Statistics with Student CD-ROM

Andrew F Siegel

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Instead of a "mean" they should call it a "nice" 5 out of 5 stars.
16 of 17 people found this review helpful.

I had the privelege of taking an MBA level course from Andy Siegel. The style of the text reflects the simply, user-friendly way he communicates in class. Not having taken a stats class before, I was happy to find a professor who could take a dry, complex subject and make it interesting and relatively painless. More professors should use this text!

Editorial Review:

Practical Business Statistics, 5/e was written in response to instructors not wanting a formula driven, mathematically encyclopedic book. The use of computer applications means some topics no longer require coverage in detail. This allows future managers to know how to use and understand statistics. The text does this by using examples with real data that relate to the functional areas of business such as finance, accounting, and marketing. It de-emphasizes the theoretical, and presents the material in a well-written, easy style designed to motivate students. The emphasis is on understanding and applications as opposed to mathematical precision and formula detail.

Contemporary Business Mathematics for Colleges (with CD-ROM)

James E. Deitz, James L. Southam

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CONTEMPORARY BUSINESS MATH FOR COLLEGES presents an arithmetic-based, basic approach to business math. It emphasizes a practical, skill building approach to prepare students for future careers in business through step-by-step development of concepts, numerous practice exercises throughout, and a focus on real-world application of techniques. The text progresses from the most basic to more complex business math topics.