Quantitative Analysis For Business: The Time Value of Money and Basic Business Statistics Using a Business Calculator, 3rd Edition [Spiral-bound]

Gene Wright (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1888840382 | ISBN-13: 978-1888840384 | Publication Date: July 1, 2001 | Edition: 3rd

Want to learn business math painlessly? Then this textbook is what you need. Written by the author after teaching business math for over 15 years, this book is written so that someone could sit down, read it, and have it seem as if they had a private tutor sitting there beside them, explaining the topic being covered. It is written using a very conversational style.

This text is presently used in the author's sophomore level Quantitative Analysis for Business class at a local university and covers two broad areas of math application to business problems: the time value of money and an introduction to basic statistics.

The book uses three commonly available business calculators - the HP-10B, the HP-12C, and the TI BAII Plus Advanced Business Analyst. The slight changes needed for the examples to work with the new HP-10BII are also covered. However, the approaches used (and even many of the key presses) would work with any business calculator or programmable calculator running a Time Value of money program.

Chapters included: Simple Interest, Compound Interest, More Compound Interest Topics, Annuities, More Annuity Topics, Special Annuities, Cash Flow Analysis, Data Collection and Presentation, Central Tendency and Dispersion, Basic Probability Concepts, Probability Distributions, and Correlation and Linear Regression.

This book is a great help to anyone studying for the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) exam or who desires to learn how to use their financial calculator effectively.

This is the third edition with several new sections and revisions from the earlier edition .

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About the Author

Gene Wright has been teaching business math to college students for over 15 years. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University's Owen School of Management with an MBA in Finance. He has worked for Arthur Andersen designing financial systems, for a hospital management company designing a flexible budgeting system, for an actuary designing pension termination and defined contribution systems, for a large insurance company as an internal consultant to senior management, and now works for Ford Credit.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 279 pages
• Publisher: Wilson/Barnett Pub; 3rd edition (July 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1888840382
• ISBN-13: 978-1888840384
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,728,811 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST for Business Professionals & Students, May 5, 2006

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This review is from: Quantitative Analysis For Business: The Time Value of Money and Basic Business Statistics Using a Business Calculator, 3rd Edition (Spiral-bound)

Gene Wright has done an amazing job teaching Quantitative Analysis and Statistics to anyone - without requiring the reader to be a rocket scientist. After reading his book, you will truly understand how to apply and use statistics in the real world. I had the wonderful opportunity to take Gene's class at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, TN. He is one of the best teacher's I have ever had. He made statistics easy. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone in the business world and to anyone currently taking a statistics class that doesn't have a clue what their teacher is talking about.

I was so impressed by this book, that I am writing this review almost three years after taking his class! I always meant to write one, but being the forgetful person I am (see, I'm not a rocket scientist either!), I am just now getting around to it! Bottom line - buy the book - you won't be sorry.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent prep book for both the CFP and CFA exams, January 24, 2009

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This review is from: Quantitative Analysis For Business: The Time Value of Money and Basic Business Statistics Using a Business Calculator, 3rd Edition (Spiral-bound)

This is a concise but thorough textbook of mathematics of finance and basic statistics, with solutions illustrated on the HP10BII and HP12C calculators. Numerous exercises with solutions are provided. Because of an emphasis on handheld calculators rather than Excel, CFP and CFA candidates would be especially interested in this book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review of Quantitative Analysis for Business, November 20, 2002

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Valerie Kemp (Ashland City, Tennessee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quantitative Analysis For Business: The Time Value of Money and Basic Business Statistics Using a Business Calculator, 3rd Edition (Spiral-bound)

This book is a must for anyone in the business world. It is a wonderful reference to keep on hand. I rarely refer back to books I have purchased but this book comes in handy time and time again. The mathematical principles explained in this book are simple enough for anyone to understand. Each principle is shown step by step. It shows shortcuts to solving problems with three types of business calculators. This book will be in my library for years to come!!