Includes index.

Kiplinger's personal finance magazine subscription form -- Whole Numbers: How To Dissect And Solve Word Problems: -- Reading, writing, and rounding whole numbers -- Adding and subtracting whole numbers -- Multiplying and dividing whole numbers -- Fractions: -- Types of fractions and conversion procedures -- Adding and subtracting fractions -- Multiplying and dividing fractions -- Decimals: -- Rounding decimals: fraction and decimal conversions -- Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals -- Cumulative review: Word problem approach-chapters 1-3 -- Banking: -- Checking account -- Bank statement and reconciliation process: trends in online banking -- Solving For The Unknown: A How-To Approach for Solving Equations: -- Solving equations for the unknown -- Solving word problems for the unknown -- Percents And Their Applications: -- Conversions -- Application of percents-portion formula -- Video case: American President Lines -- Discounts: Trade And Cash: -- Trade discounts-single and chain (includes discussion of freight) -- Cash discounts credit terms, and partial payments -- Video case: FedEx Logistics -- Markups And markdowns: Perishables And Breakeven Analysis: -- Markups based on cost (100%) -- Markups based on selling price (100%) -- Markdowns and perishables -- Breakeven analysis -- Video case: Noodles & Company -- Cumulative review: Word problem approach-chapters 6-8 -- Payroll: -- Calculating various types of employees' gross pay -- Computing payroll deductions for employees' pay; employers' responsibilities -- Video case: Washburn Guitars -- Simple Interest: -- Calculation of simple interest and maturity value -- Finding unknown in simple interest formula -- US rule-making partial note payments before due date -- Promissory Notes, Simple Discount Notes, And The Discount Process: -- Structure of promissory notes, the simple discount note -- Discounting an interest-bearing note before maturity -- Compound Interest And Present Value: -- Compound interest (future value)-the big picture -- Present value-the big picture -- Annuities And Sinking Funds -- Annuities: ordinary annuity and annuity due (find future value) -- Present value of an ordinary annuity (find present value) -- Sinking funds (find periodic payments) -- Cumulative review: Word problem approach-chapters 10-13 -- Installment Buying, Rule of 78, And Revolving Charge Credit Cards: -- Cost of installment buying -- Paying off installment loans before due date -- Revolving charge credit cards -- Video case: Honda and green product design -- Cost Of Home Ownership: -- Types of mortgages and the monthly mortgage payment -- Amortization schedule-breaking down the monthly payment -- How To Read, Analyze, And Interpret Financial Reports: -- Balance sheet-report as of a particular date -- Income statement-report for a specific period of time -- Trend and ratio analysis -- Video case: Buycostumes_com -- Depreciation: -- Concept of depreciation and the straight-line method -- Units-of-production method -- Declining-balance method -- Modified accelerated cost recovery system (MACRS) with introduction to ACRS -- Inventory And Overhead: -- Assigning costs to ending inventory-specific identification; weighted average; FIFO; LIFO -- Retail method; gross profit method; inventory turnover; distribution of overhead -- Distribution of overhead -- Sales, Excise, And Property Taxes: -- Sales and excise taxes -- Property tax -- Life, Fire, And Auto Insurance: -- Life insurance -- Fire insurance -- Auto insurance -- Stocks, Bonds, And Mutual Funds: -- Stocks -- Bonds -- Mutual funds -- Video case: Federal signal corporation -- Business Statistics: -- Mean, median, and mode -- Frequency distributions and graphs -- Measures of dispersion (optional) -- Appendix A: Additional homework by learning unit -- Appendix B: Worked-out solutions to extra practice quizzes -- Appendix C: Check figures -- Appendix D: Glossary -- Appendix E: Metric system -- Index
Business Math Handbook Accompany: -- Amortization (mortgages) -- Amount of annuity -- APR -- Auto insurance -- Common fraction to decimal conversions -- Compound interest (1/2% to 15%) -- Daily compound interest (360 days) -- Exact days-in-a-year calendar -- Fire insurance -- Foreign currency -- Life insurance -- Loan amortization table -- MACRS -- Measurements -- Nonforfeiture options -- Payroll: percentage -- Payroll: wage bracket -- Present value (1/2% to 15%) -- Present value of an annuity-(1/2% to 15%) -- Rebate fractions -- Short rate -- Sinking funding (1/2% to 15%)

Synopsis: 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