This is a textbook the author wrote after teaching business math for over 15 years and is presently used in his sophomore level Quantitative Analysis for Business class at a local university.
The text 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. 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.
It's written so that someone could sit down, read it, and have it seem as if the author were sitting there beside them, explaining the topic being covered. It is written using a very conversational style.
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 second edition with many improvements over the previous edition.
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.
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