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MATH FOR BUSINESS AND FINANCE: AN ALGEBRAIC APPROACH, 3rd Edition

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Math for Business & Finance: An Algebraic Approach provides modern examples for students to understand business mathematics and make connections with real-world applications. The course covers mathematical concepts from an algebraic approach, combined with Business applications. Every chapter is devoted to a Personal Finance theme, with topics that include Payroll and the Cost of Purchasing a Home. There is also extensive integration of scientific calculator notation, and also has the Wall Street Journal and Kiplinger news clips that have been widely popular in Jeffrey Slater's other two Business Math texts.
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CHAPTER 1: Problem Solving with Math  
CHAPTER 2: Fractions 
CHAPTER 3: Percents and Their Applications 
                      Video Case: Project Management at Six Flags, New Jersey  
CHAPTER 4: Solving for the Unknown  
CHAPTER 5: Business Statistics  
CHAPTER 6: Banking and Budgeting  
CHAPTER 7: Payroll and Income Tax  
CHAPTER 8: Sales, Excise, and Property Taxes  
                      Video Case: EDP Renewables  
CHAPTER 9: Risk Management  
CHAPTER 10: Installment Buying and Revolving Charge Credit Cards  
CHAPTER 11: Discounts: Trade and Cash  
                        Video Case: Recycling at Subaru of Indiana Automotive  
CHAPTER 12: Markups and Markdowns: Perishables and Breakeven Analysis  
                         Video Case: Noodles & Company  
CHAPTER 13: How to Read, Analyze, and Interpret Financial Reports  
                        Video Case: Buycostumes.com  
CHAPTER 14: Depreciation  
CHAPTER 15: Inventory and Overhead  
CHAPTER 16: Simple Interest  
CHAPTER 17: Promissory Notes, Simple Discount Notes, and the Discount Process  
CHAPTER 18: The Cost of Home Ownership 
CHAPTER 19: Compound Interest and Present Value  
CHAPTER 20: Annuities and Sinking Funds  
                        Video Case: DHL Global Delivery  
                        Cumulative Review: A Word Problem Approach 
CHAPTER 21: Stocks, Bonds, and Mutual Funds  
APPENDIX A: Additional Homework by Learning Unit  
APPENDIX B: Worked-Out Solutions to Extra Practice Quizzes and You Try It Problems  
APPENDIX C: Check Figures  
APPENDIX D: Calculator Basics and the Metric System  

About the Author

Jeffrey Slater

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.

Sharon M. Wittry

Sharon has been in the classroom for over 30 years and has 15 years experience as online business chair for the state of Colorado. She understands the need to provide students with around the-clock learning tools such as Smartbook and Connect. Staying current and making the content easy to understand and applicable to students' lives continues to be her focus.


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