Schaum's Quick Guide to Business Formulas: 201 Decision-Making Tools for Business, Finance, and Accounting Students - Softcover

Siegel, Joel G.; Shim, Jae K.; Hartman, Stephen W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070580316 ISBN 13: 9780070580312

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 1997

Synopsis

For quick and authoritative answers to questions on business and financial formulas and tools, this unique book is unequaled! It not only clearly explains all major business and financial formulas, it shows you how to apply them, step by step. Perfect for college and graduate students in business, finance, marketing, operations, management, and accounting, this comprehensive, portable guide gives you quick access to all major financial and business formulas with explanations you can grasp and use in seconds. You get explanations, examples, and demonstrations of formulas for vertical analysis; net-cost method; sales mix analysis; regression statistics; profit margin; sampling formulas; discount cash flow analysis; weighted averages; cost of capital; earnings per share; inventory turnover; and nearly 200 more. This is the handiest tool available for mastering business formulas!

About this title

About the Authors

McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

Joel G. Siegel, Ph.D., CPA, is professor of finance and accounting at Queens College, New York City. Jae K. Shim, Ph.D., is professor of finance and accounting at California State University, Long Beach. Stephen W. Hartman, Ph.D., is professor of management at New York Institute of Technology. Drs. Siegel and Shim also consult in finance, and Dr. Hartman is a management consultant.

From the Back Cover

Business and finance answers in a flash!

Quick business and finance answers at your fingertips--that's what this unique book gives you! It has 201 major formulas with quick, clear explanations that you can grasp and put to use in seconds. Perfect for college and graduate students in business, finance, marketing, operations, management, and accounting, this comprehensive, portable quick reference lets you speedily review formulas in your current courses, and get ahead of the curve in coursework to come. It's such a handy source for fast, complete, and reliable problem-solving that many business people keep it on their desktops!

Schaum's Quick Guide to Business Formulas gets you right to the formula you need, explains it simply, and demonstrates it step by step. You get instant answers on

• Vertical analysis
• Security valuation
• Cost-volume-profit relationships
• Sales mix analysis
• Regression statistics
• Profit margin
• Sampling formulas
• Beta and alpha
• Cost of capital
• Earnings per share
• Residual income
• Equity ratios
• Inventory turnover
• Chi-square test
• Linear programming
• Trend analysis
• Discount cash flow analysis
• And many, many more

If you don't have a lot of time but want to excel in class, this book helps you: brush up before tests, locate formulas fast, research quickly and more effectively, and get the right answers without spending hours poring over lengthy texts.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070580316
• ISBN 13: 9780070580312
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368