Essential Quantitative Methods

For Business, Management and Finance

Les Oakshott (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

456 Seiten

2020 | 7th edition
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-352-00569-1 (ISBN)

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This well-loved textbook covers all of the key quantitative methods needed to solve everyday business problems. Presented in a highly accessible and concise manner, Les Oakshott’s clear and friendly writing style guides students from basic statistics through to advanced topics, such as hypothesis testing and time series, as well as operational research techniques such as linear programming and inventory management. Step-by-step instructions and accompanying activities will help students to practice and gain confidence in carrying out techniques. The book’s coverage is fully grounded within the real world of business. Real-life case studies open every chapter and numerous examples throughout demonstrate why quantitative techniques are needed for a business to be successful.

An ideal textbook for undergraduate students of business, management and finance, it is also suitable for MBA students and postgraduates.

Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsburyonlineresources.com/essential-quantitative-methods-7e. These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.

Les Oakshott is a former Associate Fellow of Warwick Business School, UK. He has worked in industry and education and has wide experience of applying teaching quantitative methods in a business context.

-PART I: MATHEMATICAL APPLICATIONS
1. Revision Mathematics
2. Keeping up with Change: Index Numbers
PART II: COLLECTING AND INTERPRETING DATA.
3. Collecting Data: Surveys and Samples.
4. Finding Patterns in Data: Charts and Tables
5. Making Sense of Data: Averages and Measures of Spread
PART III: PROBABILITY& STATISTICS.
6. Taking a Chance: Probability
7. The Shape of Data: Probability Distributions
8. Interpreting with Confidence: Analysis of Sample Data
9. Checking Ideas: Testing a Hypothesis.
10. Cause and Effect: Correlation and Regression
PART IV: DECISION MAKING TECHNIQUES
11. How to make Good Decisions
12. Choosing wisely: Investment Appraisal
13. Forecasting: Time Series Analysis
14. Making the Most of Things: Linear Programming
15. Planning Large Projects: Network Analysis
16. Managing stock levels: Materials management and inventory control

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2019
Zusatzinfo	bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	193 x 260 mm
Gewicht	948 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte	Calculus • Decision Making • Excel • learning • linear optimization • Mathematics • Planning • Probability • programming • Quantitative Methods • Revision • Software • SPSS • Statistics • Time Series Analysis
ISBN-10	1-352-00569-7 / 1352005697
ISBN-13	978-1-352-00569-1 / 9781352005691
Zustand	Neuware