Business Math Demystified [Paperback]

Allan Bluman (Author)

Book Description

Series: Demystified | Publication Date: March 10, 2006

This work teaches business-management students all the basic mathematics used in a retail business and follows the standard curriculum of Business Math courses.

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From the Back Cover

Make It Your Business to Learn Business Math. Here's the fast and easy way!

Keep your business running in tip-top shape with a firm grasp of the business math required for day-to-day transactions. Whether you need to calculate sales tax or keep records of inventory, experienced math instructor Allan G. Bluman provides a painless and effective approach to mastering the mathematical skills necessary for today's business world.

With Business Math Demystified, you master the subject one simple step at a time -- at your own speed. This unique self-teaching guide offers a quiz at the end of each chapter to pinpoint weaknesses and a 75-question final exam to reinforce the entire book.

Become a savvy business owner or manager with Business Math Demystified:

• Follow the standard curriculum of business math courses
• Easily master basic business mathematics concepts
• Supplement your college studies with this self-study guide and decipher complex terms in an easy-to-read format
• Learn how to calculate the markup, sales tax, and discount on items sold
• Get through lengthy computations with the sections on using a scientific calculator
• Understand depreciation, inventory, promissory notes, financial statements, stocks and bonds, and more

Whether you want help in operating a profitable retail business or need to get through that business math course, Business Math Demystified is the perfect shortcut.

About the Author

Allan G. Bluman taught mathematics and statistics in high school, college, and graduate school for 39 years. He received his Ed.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and has written three mathematics textbooks published by McGraw-Hill, as well as the hugely popular Pre-Algebra Demystified, Probability Demystified, and Math Word Problems Demystified. Dr. Bluman is the recipient of an "Apple for the Teacher" award for bringing excellence to the learning environment and the "Most Successful Revision of a Textbook" award from McGraw-Hill. His biographical record appears in Who's Who in American Education, 5th edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 390 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (March 10, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071464700
• ISBN-13: 978-0071464703
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #354,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Decent Introdution To Business/Consumer math, November 27, 2009

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Before reading this book, I already understood many of the concepts presented, but I had never learned them "formally", so I gave it a shot. I liked the format, the concepts were presented in small portions with quizzes after each portion (then a final quiz for the whole chapter). If I had to do it over again, I would definitely choose this book.

Hope this helps...

2.0 out of 5 stars Needs Proof Read!, August 29, 2011

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Michael Hackworth (Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews

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My Business Math class changed to this book for our summer quarter this year. Personally I believe this was a big mistake. Throughout the quarter there has been alot of confusion and aggravation with this book not only for us, the students, but for the instructor as well. The book is riddled with errors and typos throughout the text, including the answer key. There have been countless times reading the text and working through practice problems were you'll catch the author inverting numbers throughout the solution to the problem.

It's also common practice to find that the answer key in the back of the book has the wrong answers. Which is frustrating to do homework and not be able to find their answer until next week when the instructor has to do the problem to find the book's wrong. Makes studying for our weekly in class quizes and tests an even bigger challenge then what It should be.

Some of the formula's are even incorrect or have typographical errors. Our instructor even told us he had to call his son on Wall Street to confirm that he's not "crazy" and that the formula they were using wasn't correct.

I give this book 2 stars because the chapters and formulas that are correct do make sense in an easy to understand way. But as for a bussiness math textbook, they have a long way to go to be considered a "professional" resource. I don't know much about the editor or whoever else read over this book, but it might help if they had a strong backround in math so that they can catch these errors before publishing a textbook ment to teach people the proper way to use formulas and calculations in their business.

I suggested to the Dean of Sutedents that they would've probably had better luck using Business Math For Dummies at this rate. If you're looking to buy this book, I strongly suggest waiting for a revised edition and wait for a few hundred reviews before spending your money.