Includes index.

Contents: Basic mathematics -- Problem solving and operations with fractions -- Equations and formulas -- Percent -- Basic business applications -- Banking services -- Payroll -- Taxes -- Risk management -- Mathematics of retailing -- Mathematics of buying -- Markup -- Markdown and inventory control -- Mathematics of finance -- Simple interest -- Notes and bank discount -- Compound interest -- Annuities and sinking funds -- Business and consumer loans -- Accounting and other applications -- Depreciation -- Financial statements and ratios -- Securities and distribution of profit and overhead -- Business statistics -- Appendix A: Calculator basics -- Appendix B: The Metric system -- Appendix C: Power of e -- Appendix D: Interest tables -- Answers to selected exercises.