Slater's Practical Business Math Procedures, First Canadian Edition is designed to provide complete coverage of practical business applications of math. Using carefully selected examples, the book explains when, where, and why students will use acquired skills. It is organized in a logical and teachable format, with unique and motivating pedagogy. Carefully written and developed for Canadian students with different backgrounds, this text provides formula and procedural details in a step-by-step format, superb motivation via articles, colourful format, photos, and scrapbook projects.

The topical coverage of this textbook has been completely adapted to meet the needs of the Canadian market. The book is a manageable 17 chapters, and content has been extensively revised. This revision focuses on Canadian business requirements, and the needs of introductory Business Math students. It includes the integration of articles and examples of interest to Canadian students, the introduction of a new step-by-step approach to solving problems, more formulas with explanations about how and when to use them, and calculator operations.

In addition to these changes, which were integrated throughout the text, major changes include:New material, including creative and practical approaches provide students with a solid foundation for further courses in business statistics, accounting, marketing, economics, and more.This text is also instructor friendly, and gives teachers the freedom to use the entire text for courses where basic math skills are vital, or to use only selected portions in courses where math is not essential. Slater is suitable both for those streams where math is important to the program, but students initially have weaker math skills, and those where teaching math skills is not the primary objective of the program.

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Dr. Elena Skliarenko specializes in the areas of Research and Quantitative Methods, International Marketing, and Marketing, as well as in such areas as International Business and International Economic Policy. She is currently an instructor at the School of International Business, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, and has taught courses in business mathematics, financial analysis, statistics, economics, research, marketing, strategic marketing and international marketing. Dr. Skliarenko holds degrees in both business and economics from the Economic University, the Technological University and the National Economic Research Institute of Ukraine. Over the last twenty years Dr. Skliarenko has held appointments with The World Bank, Morgan Grenfell, Deutsche Bank and other multi-national corporations, working on international assignments in Eastern, Central, Western Europe, North America and South East Asia. Her various works have been published as articles in books, academic and professional journals.

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