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035 $a(OCoLC)42792054
035 $a(Sirsi) 01-AAJ-3147
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090 $aHF5691$b.G37 2000
100 1 $aGarrity, Peter.
245 14 $aThe fast forward MBA in business math /$cPeter Garrity.
260 $aNew York ;$aChichester :$bWiley,$c2000.
300 $ax, 342 p. :$bill. ;$c26 cm.
490 1 $aThe fast forward MBA series
504 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aMaking Decisions with Time Value of Money: it Makes Cents -- The Basics of Time Value of Money -- The Nature of Compound Interest -- Time Value of Money and Your Calculator -- Applications of Future Value -- End Point -- The Dynamics of Compounding -- Understanding Nominal and Effective Rates -- The Best Compounding Relationship -- Applications of Periodic Compounding -- The Significance of Present Value -- Defining Present Value -- Determining Rate of Return -- Finding the Annual Rate of Return -- Determining Time to Achieve a Specified Return -- Applications of Present Value -- The Fundamentals of Cash Flows -- Defining a Cash Flow -- Defining Annuities -- Annuity Structure of an IRA Plan -- The Present Value of an Annuity -- Determining the Payment Amount -- Applications of Cash Flow Analysis -- The Beauty of Bonds -- The Nature of Bonds -- How Coupon Bonds Work -- Cash Flow for a Zero-Coupon Bond -- What Makes Bonds Attractive Investments -- Applications of Bond Cash Flows -- Determining Yield to Maturity -- The Decision-Making Power of Internal Rate of Return and Net Present Value -- How Companies Compare Returns among Competing Projects -- What the Internal Rate of Return Tells You -- Introducing Net Present Value (NPV) -- Applications of IRR and NPV -- Business Statistics: Making Decisions from Data -- Organizing Your Data for Better Decision Making -- Statistics in Action -- Descriptive versus Inferential Statistics -- Rules Regarding Sampling -- Details Regarding Frequency Classes -- The Mean as a Measure of Central Tendency -- The Median--Not Influenced by Outliers -- Mean or Median--Which Is Better? -- The Mode--Identifying the Clusters -- Skewness -- Applications of Data Organization and Central Tendency -- Describing Variation -- Defining Variation -- The First Measure of Variation: Range -- The Second Measure of Variation: Average Deviation -- A Better Measure of Variation: Variance -- The Almighty Standard Deviation -- The Coefficient of Variation -- Applications of Data Variation -- Fundamentals of Probability Distributions -- The Nature of Random Variables -- Discrete and Continuous Variables -- Introducing Probability -- Expected Value and the Mean -- Applications of the Binomial Distribution -- Probability and the Normal Distribution -- Perspective on the Normal Distribution -- Finding Probabilities with the Normal Distribution -- The Importance of Sketching -- Using the Standard Normal Distribution -- The Importance of Sample Means -- Applications of the Normal Distribution -- Hypothesis Testing -- Hypothesis Testing and Quality Control--A Case -- Defining the Null Hypothesis Setup -- Creating a Null Hypothesis -- Decision Options in Hypothesis Testing -- Determining Risk with Type I and Type II Errors -- Using Level of Significance to Define Decision Limits or Critical Values -- Applying Hypothesis Testing -- Regression and Estimation -- Correlation and Causation -- The Difference between Regression and Correlation -- Types of Regression Models -- Conducting a Bivariate Study -- Mapping the Steps in Regression Analysis -- Regression and the Computer -- Applications of Regression Analysis -- All the Algebra and High School Math You Need for Business -- Algebra Redux -- Recommended Method of Proceeding -- Operations with Numerical and Algebraic Expressions -- The Importance of Factoring -- Solving First-Degree Equations -- Functions -- The Importance of Slope -- Behavior of the Quadratic Function -- Solving Systems of Equations -- Behavior of the Exponential Function -- Behavior of e[superscript x] and Continuous Compounding -- Using Summation Notation -- Using Logarithms -- Factorials and Their Applications -- Time Value of Money and Standard Normal Distribution Tables.
650 0 $aBusiness mathematics.
650 0 $aManagement$xStatistical methods.
830 0 $aFast forward MBA series.
948 $a06/27/2000$b06/27/2000
999 $aHF 5691 G37 2000$wLC$c1$i31786101221494$lREFERENCE$mNULS$rN$sY $tREF-BOOK$u6/27/2000