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Practical Business Math Procedures

Jeffery Slater

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A Big Disappointment 2 out of 5 stars.
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This book is just too elementary. I was very disappointed when I got it. It must have been designed for high school students.

Best Genral Business Math Book on the Market 5 out of 5 stars.
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Slater has made this the best and most comprehensive Business Math book available for age groups from K-9 thru college gen business math classes. I have purchased numerous copies for gifts to students truly interested in developing their general business math skills.

Business Mathematics (11th Edition) (MyMathLab Series)

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

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Business Mathmatics Textbook 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

The book goes over the information quite thoroughly. However, there are a few things that can be improved upon. The book only mentions one method of doing things while there are actually several that make more sense.
The answers in the back of the book help you check your work, but it does end up being a crutch that you lean on (once you figure out there are answers there).
A lot of good information, even if it is a high-school level book used in colleges.

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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.

Business Math the Easy Way (Business Mathematics the Easy Way)

Calman Goozner

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Business Mathematics Is There A Finer Book 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 7 people found this review helpful.

Hi, I would like to tell you how much I enjoyed the Business Math book. The book was so fun and easy to catch on to that before I knew it I was done. This book is thick so you would think it would take you months to do but it dosent.The book is designed as a teacher first they explain the work and give you examples then you do the work and refer to the examples as you would a teacher so thank you for writing this book Colman Goozner.

A culinary student's point of view 5 out of 5 stars.
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1) Overview of Topics Addressed
For graduates of the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) who are about to enter the professional world, this book is an easy way to brush up on basic mathematic skills before entering the job market. This 383 page book covers math topics such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, solving percent problems, statistics, business graphics, and measurement systems English and Metric. It helps the student compute business records and transactions such as invoices, purchase orders, stock records, and time cards. Students can also learn to calculate the wages of employees with true-to-life word problem scenarios. For example, "Jack Green is paid $7.25 an hour for a 40-hour week plus time and a half for overtime. Last week he worked 45 hours. How much was his gross pay? Green worked 40 hours of regular time plus 5 hours of overtime". By practicing word problems that are realistic to the profession, this book helps people with basic skills in the restaurant industry.
2) How the Topic Relates to the Hospitality/Restaurant Industry
The hospitality/restaurant industry, according to the CIA Course Catalog 2004-2005, is an "industry that generates an estimated $440.1 billion in annual sales in the US." This book provides chefs a review of fundamental math skills which are imperative for running successful restaurant businesses. It teaches checking and accuracy methods, as well as shortcuts in business computations. "Anyone working in the business world must have a thorough knowledge of multiplication. When you are given the number of items purchased and the price of each, you find the total cost of the purchase by multiplication. Discounts are found by multiplication, as are sales taxes". It provides a practical review of applications to the business world. "Division is widely used by both businesses and consumers. In installment buying, the monthly payments are calculated by using division. When merchandise is purchased in quantity, the unit price is found by division". By using step-by-step explanations and exercises based on forms used in business and word problems drawn from actual business situations to reinforce skills, this book presents case problems from retailing, purchasing, management, and finance which are directly transferable to the hospitality industry.
3) How the Information is Useful to Me as an Executive Chef
This information will be useful to an aspiring executive chef like me because I will be responsible for all aspects of managing the kitchen and kitchen personnel. As an executive chef, I will have to ensure the proper handling, storage, quality preparation, and presentation of all menu items. I will also have to have a thorough knowledge of coordinating the purchase of all labor costs and develop profitable menus. "Many business transactions involve fractions, or parts of units. Many items are sold in pounds or fractions of a pound, in dozens or parts of a dozen. Hourly wages are computed with fractional parts of hours, and overtime pay is usually figured an 1 1/2 times the regular rate". I have to understand the fundamentals of mathematics in order to maintain and control food and labor costs. It is a useful book for the CIA student or graduate because it covers all areas of business mathematics. It starts with decimals and whole numbers. Like building blocks in the CIA curriculum, the book brings students along, bit by bit, through fractions, percents, statistics, and equations, to specifics of business-related mathematics applications such as payroll, discounts, markup/markdown, interest, credit, depreciation, inventory, insurance, and taxes. Procedures, rules, and formulas are broken down. I recommend this book to anyone in the restaurant/hospitality industry professional because it is easy to follow.

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Here is fundamental math that students can use to prepare for tests, or to brush up on math skills before entering the job market. Following a review of basic arithmetic and percent calculation, the book covers applied math for business functions-sales, purchasing, pricing goods for sale, calculating payrolls, investment in stocks and bonds, applications to market terminology, stock market reports, brokerage fees, and more.

Schaum's Outline of Business Statistics Fourth Edition

Kazmier

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Great book to understand Statistics! 4 out of 5 stars.
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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.

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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.

Business Math

Robert Schultheis, Raymond Kaczmarski

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Understandable 3 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Most of the content deals with "easy" math...+, -, x, etc. Most textbooks have directions that don't really explain anything. This book has very easy step-by-step instructions, and Examples to help understand them. I recommend this book to anybody who wants to learn -- or relearn -- how to reconcile a bank statement, figure interest on a loan or payment, figure out the due-date on a 90-day loan, etc.

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BUSINESS MATH provides comprehensive coverage of personal and business-related mathematics. In addition to reviewing the basic operations of arithmetic, students are prepared to understand and manage their personal finances, as well as grasp the fundamentals of business finances. Basic math skills are covered in a step-by-step manner, building confidence in users before they try it alone. Spreadsheet applications are available on the Data CD and a simulation activity begins every chapter. Chapters are organized into short lessons for ease of instruction and ease of learning.

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.

Mathematics for Business (8th Edition) (MyMathLab Series)

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

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from fractions to compound interest 4 out of 5 stars.
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The text proceeds from basic level maths to give the reader a solid grounding in what is needed for an undergraduate or perhaps high school level business course. When I say basic level maths, it really does. By commencing with a chapter devoted to manipulating fractions. I do find the chapter a little curious. Given that the intended reader is at least in high school, the chapter should be totally unnecessary. This also applies to another early chapter, on writing decimals and fractions as percents. Primary school stuff. Grades 3-4 roughly. A typical high school student should reasonably have this down pat. Or maybe some do not, given the wide variance in today's schools and in students' preparation. Still, if I had been the author, I would have omitted these 2 chapters.

A chapter on taxes uses a US Internal Revenue Service Form 1040 as a good relevant example, to motivate the reader. It has the salutary effect that if you understand the chapter, then it can remove some of the dread and mystery of doing taxes.

Another chapter, on risk management, educates the reader on different types of insurance, like for cars or life. Also useful for many readers, as they are quite likely to need car insurance and one day life insurance.

The maths starts to get a little more involved, when simple interest is replaced by compound interest. Several important applications use this, including when you have an annuity. By this time into the text, a calculator would certainly be handy.

The maths covered here is basically everything up to, but not including, calculus. The chapters have problem sets and some answers, which helps the book's suitability as a school text.

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The Eighth Edition of Mathematics for Business continues to provide solid, practical, and current coverage of the mathematical topics students must master to succeed in business today. The text begins with a review of basic mathematics and goes on to introduce key business topics in an algebra-based context.

The Real Estate Math Handbook: Simplified Solutions for the Real Estate Investor

Jamaine Burrell

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A Comprehensive, Mathematical Tour-de-Force 5 out of 5 stars.
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Although published in 2007--a year during which the Real Estate Market took a significant nose dive-- The Real Estate Math Handbook: Simplified Solutions for the Real Estate Investor proves effective for serious investors, including any current survivors of the recent slump who had enough capital to stay in the game. Others who may find this book useful: individuals who currently own or wish to purchase a home, amateur students of mid-level to advanced mathematics, and prospective graduate students preparing for the Graduate Record Examination (GRE).

A comprehensive, mathematical tour-de-force; this book explains the A, B, C's of Basic Mathematics, Interest, Investment Mathematics, Real Estate Mathematics, Income Property Valuation, Financing Mathematics, and related Excel Functions. A stellar introduction by Ken Lee, a Real Estate Broker, Author and Guru, excites and informs the reader. Since Lee includes a detailed description of each chapter's contents, readers can either opt to work through the book start to finish, or select and study certain chapters of interest.

Strong aspects of this book include: clear, detailed explanations of complex mathematical concepts; corresponding tables of information and data; demonstrations of how to apply some of the mathematical principles described; and the Appendices, which include excellent quick references. Readers will also find the chapter on Excel functions a useful and efficient time saver. Otherwise, each chapter of the book is significantly lengthy; readers should allot several hours to work through each of them. Also, the book does not contain any practice exercises (besides the examples, which already reveal step by step instructions and answers), which might have aided the reader in immediately applying the skills that he or she learned from the book. Nonetheless, The Real Estate Math Handbook: Simplified Solutions for the Real Estate Investor
is a must have for anyone serious about becoming a Real Estate Investor, and is highly recommended reading for anyone who currently owns or plans to purchase a home.

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Real estate math skills are an integral part of becoming a truly successful investor. You need a competitive edge, and, by building your real estate math skills, this book will give it to you. These math skills are easily explained, and in no time you will be calculating such things as real estate investment analysis, valuation of income property, valuation of commercial real estate, vacancy loss projections, pay back period, time value of money, amortization schedule calculations, mortgage pay off, cash flow, net income/loss, option pricing, conversions, markup/discount, lease vs. buy analysis, evaluate tax sales, project income potential and cash flow, using Excel and other financial software programs, master the art of property valuation, and other financial calculations and tools.

Principles of Financial Engineering, Second Edition (Academic Press Advanced Finance) (Academic Press Advanced Finance)

Salih N. Neftci

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Five new chapters, numerous additions to existing chapters, and an expanded collection of questions and exercises make this Second Edition an essential part of everyone's library. Between defining swaps on its first page and presenting a case study on its last, Neftci's introduction to financial engineering shows readers how to create financial assets in static and dynamic environments. Poised among intuition, actual events, and financial mathematics, this book can be used to solve problems in risk management, taxation, regulation, and above all, pricing.

* The Second Edition presents 5 new chapters on structured product engineering, credit markets and instruments, and principle protection techniques, among other topics
* Additions, clarifications, and illustrations throughout the volume show these instruments at work instead of explaining how they should act
* The Solutions Manual enhances the text by presenting additional cases and solutions to exercises

Practical Business Math Procedures w/ DVD, Business Math Handbook, and Wall Street Journal insert

Jeffrey Slater

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An elementary approach to a college class 1 out of 5 stars.
10 of 10 people found this review helpful.

I am teaching a business math class and was issued this text book by the college. While reviewing the book I found it to be more confusing than helpful. I found the majority of the ideas presented in the book to be of common knowledge. Rather than presenting the concepts in the book in an analytical manner, the author uses a personal narrative to convey the ideas. The author introduces new concepts with successive chapters, but does not explain how these concepts are derived. The author explains concepts at face value, rather than explaining how the concepts come about and how to apply them to other situations outside of the ideal situation. The first 6 chapters or so, out of a total of 22, are a review of basic math skills starting with addition and subtraction of whole numbers and continue to basic uses of percents. In addition to those 6 chapters, more of the successive chapters become redundant and are not presented in a logical order. Integrated into the text are numerous amounts of extraneous articles that are meant to reinforce the underlying point, but instead simply add bulk and distraction to the text.

I found that the concepts of the book are poorly presented and are not explained thoroughly. I would STRONGLY recommend not using this book, especially for a college level business class. A person with little to no everyday business experience would find this book to be very simple. In my opinion this book is primarily geared to a 9th grade level education in a public school system and not a college level class.

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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. .