Numbers Guide The Essentials of Business Numeracy

Name: Numbers Guide The Essentials of Business Numeracy
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ISBN: 9781576601440

ISBN-10: 1576601447

ISBN-13: 9781576601440

Edition: 5th 2003

Authors: Richard Stutely

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The Numbers Guide is very useful for everyone who wants to be competent and able to communicate effectively with numbers and is particularly invaluable for managers who have budgetary, planning, or forecasting responsibilities. There are chapters on key concepts including finance and investment, measures for interpretation and analysis, forecasting techniques, sampling and hypothesis testing, incorporating judgments into decision making, linear programming and networking.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/1/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of tables


List of figures


Introduction



Key concepts


Summary


Ways of looking at data


Fractions, percentages and proportions


Index numbers


Notation


Probability


Counting techniques


Encryption



Finance and investment


Summary


Interest


Annuities


Investment analysis


Inflation


Interest rate problems in disguise


Exchange rates



Descriptive measures for interpretation and analysis


Summary


Distributions


Normal distributions



Tables and charts


Summary


Tables


Charts



Forecasting techniques


Summary


Time series


Trends


Seasonal adjustment


Cycles


Residuals


Cause and effect


Identifying relationships with regression analysis


Forecast monitoring and review



Sampling and hypothesis testing


Summary


Estimating statistics and parameters


Confidence


Other summary measures


Non-parametric methods


Hypothesis testing



Incorporating judgments into decisions


Summary


Uncertainty and risk


Decision trees


Perfect information


The expected value of sample information


Making the final decision



Decision-making in action


Summary


Game strategy


Queueing


Stock control


Markov chains: what happens next?


Project management


Simulation



Linear programming and networking


Summary


Identifying the optimal solution


Traps and tricks


Multiple objectives


Networks


A-Z


Index