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1. Whole
Numbers and Decimals
2. Fractions
3. Equations: A Guide to Finding the Unknown
4. Percents
5. Trade and Cash Discounts
6. Markup and Markdown
7. Checking Accounts
8. Payroll
9. Simple and Compound Interest
10. Future Value and Present Value: Using Formulas
11. Sinking Funds, Annuities, and More: Using Formulas
12. Future Value and Present Value: Using Financial
Calculators
13. Sinking Funds, Annuities, and More: Using Financial
Calculators
14. Installment Loans and Open-End Credit
15. Home Ownership and Mortgage Loans
16. Stocks, Bonds, and Mutual Funds
17. Additional Applications Using Financial Calculators
18. Financial Statements: How to Read and Interpret
19. Inventory and Overhead
20. Depreciation
21. Taxes: Income, Sales, and Property
22. Insurance
23. Measurements: Real-World Applications
24. International Business: Exchange Rates and Metrics
25. Statistics: An Introduction
Appendix A Step-By-Step Solutions to U-Try-It Exercises
Appendix B Answers: Review Problems
and Practice Tests
Appendix C Calculator QuickStart
Appendix D Day-of-the-Year Calendar
Appendix E Excel: Solving TVM Problems
Appendix F Formulas: Concepts in Using Compound Interest Formulas
Appendix G Glossary
Appendix I Index
Chapter 1 Whole Numbers and Decimals
1.1 Reading, writing, and rounding numbers
1.2 Working with whole numbers
1.3 Strategy for solving word problems
1.4 Working with decimal numbers
Chapter 2 Fractions
2.1 Types of fractions
and modifying fractions
2.2 Working with fractions and mixed numbers
2.3 Fraction/decimal conversions
Chapter 3 Equations: A Guide to Finding the Unknown
3.1 Mathematical symbols and expressions
3.2 Equations: Solving for the unknown
3.3 Guideline for solving word problems
Chapter 4 Percents
4.1 Percent conversions
4.2 The percent formulas
4.3 Increase and decrease problems
Chapter 5 Trade and Cash Discounts
5.1 Trade discounts
5.2 Cash discounts
Chapter 6 Markup and Markdown
6.1 Markup
6.2 Percent markup
6.3 Markdown
6.4 Breakeven analysis
Chapter 7 Checking Accounts
7.1 Checking account balance
Chapter 8 Payroll
8.1 Gross pay: Wages and incentive plans
8.2 Payroll deductions for employees
8.3 Employer taxes and settling up with the IRS
Chapter 9 Simple and Compound Interest
9.1 Computing simple interest and maturity value
9.2 Solving for principal, rate, and time
9.3 Compound interest
Chapter 10 Future Value and Present Value: Using
Formulas
10.1 Time-value-of-money terminology
10.2 Future value
10.3 Present value
Chapter 11 Sinking Funds, Annuities, and More:
Using Formulas
11.1 Sinking funds
11.2 Annuities
11.3 Loan Payments
11.4 Solving for rate (i)
Chapter 12 Future Value and Present Value: Using
Financial Calculators
12.1 Time-value-of-money terminology
12.2 Financial calculators
12.3 Future value
12.4 Present value
Chapter 13 Sinking Funds, Annuities, and More:
Using Financial Calculators
13.1 Sinking funds
13.2 Annuities
13.3 Loan payments
Chapter 14 Installment Loans and Open-End Credit
14.1 Cost of installment buying
14.2 Paying off an installment loan
14.3 Open-end credit
Chapter 15 Home Ownership and Mortgage Loans
15.1 Home ownership and mortgage payments
15.2 Paying off a mortgage loan and increasing equity
15.3 Amortization with a financial calculator
15.4 Repayment variations and loan charges
Chapter 16 Stocks, Bonds, and Mutual Funds
16.1 Stocks
16.2 Bonds
16.3 Mutual funds
Chapter 17 Additional Applications Using Financial
Calculators
17.1 Solving for interest rate paid
17.2 Growth rates
17.3 Solving for interest rate earned
17.4 Cash flow problems
Chapter 18 Financial Statements: How to Read
and Interpret
18.1 Income statements
18.2 Balance sheets
18.3 Trend and ratio analysis
Chapter 19 Inventory and Overhead
19.1 Inventory methods: Assigning a cost to ending inventory
19.2 Overhead: Spreading expenses to departments
Chapter 20 Depreciation
20.1 Depreciation for financial accounting
20.2 Depreciation for federal income taxes (MACRS)
Chapter 21 Taxes: Income, Sales, and Property
21.1 Federal income tax
21.2 Sales tax
21.3 Property tax
Chapter 22 Insurance
22.1 Property insurance
22.2 Life insurance
Chapter 23 Measurements: Real-World Applications
23.1 Length, area, and volume: Applications
23.2 Unit costs and converting measurements (U.S.
to U.S.)
Chapter 24 International Business: Exchange Rates
and Metrics
24.1 Monetary exchange rates: Significance in
international business
24.2 Metric system: Significance in international
business
Chapter 25 Statistics: An Introduction
25.1 The three Ms: Mean, median, and mode
25.2 Graphs: Presenting data so it is easy to
understand
25.3 Measures of dispersion