Quantitative methods for business, management and finance
/ Louise Swift.
- Basingstoke : Macmillan Business, 2000.
- xiv, 861 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
PART I: ESSENTIAL MATHS — Numbers and Symbols — Simplifying Expressions — Solving Problems — Modelling Using Straight Lines — PART II: MORE MATHS — Some Special Equations — Modelling Using Curves — Rates of Change — PART III: DESCRIBING DATA — Pictures of Data — Summarising Data — PART IV: PROBABILITY — Measuring Uncertainty — Numerical Outcomes — Continuous Numerical Outcomes — Some More Probability Distributions — PART V: STATISTICS — Estimation — Testing Hypotheses — Correlation and Regression — Comparing Two Populations — Nonparametric methods — Categorical Data — Forecasting — Statistics in Practice — PART VI: BUSINESS MODELLING — Linear Programming Models — Planning Projects — Models for Inventory Control — Time and Money — Decision Making — Simulating Reality — Controlling Quality — PART VII: STATISTICAL TABLES — Cumulative Binomial Probabilities — Cumulative Standard Normal Probabilities — Percentage Points of the Standard Normal Distribution — Random Digits — Percentage Points of the t Distribution — Percentage Points of the x2 Distribution.
The new edition of this highly successful and popular textbook is a comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide to using and interpreting all the quantitative techniques that students will encounter in their later business and financial careers; from fundamental principles through to more advanced applications.
Topics are explained in a clear, friendly step-by-step style, accompanied by examples, exercises and activities, making the text ideal for self-tuition or for the student with no experience or confidence in working with numbers. This highly successful learning-by-doing approach, coupled with the book's clear structure, will enable even the most maths-phobic student to understand these essential mathematical skills.
Comprehensive in both its scope of coverage and the range of abilities it caters for, this remains a core textbook for undergraduate students of business, management and finance, for whom Quantitative Methods modules will be a key component. It will also appeal to those on related MBA and postgraduate courses.