Business mathematics / Priscilla S. Altares [and six others]

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fundamentals of Arithmetic Operations 4 -- Fundamentals of Algebra in Business 32 -- Income Statement 68 -- Bank Reconciliation 76 -- Averages 94 -- Depreciation 104 -- Ratio, Proportion and Percent 114 -- Profit Ratio Analysis 140 -- Payroll, Commission and Taxes 152 -- Buying 164 -- Selling 180 -- Simple Interest and Simple Discount 192.

The Business Mathematics textbook is designed for Secondary and Business students. This book encompasses business problems that will give good foundation for accounting. The book is written to improve student's comprehension and to arouse student's interest in business. Great care has been taken in writing this books to show accuracy in the discussion of the topics so that students could easily comprehend them. The book contains complete solutions that will guide and facilitate student's comprehension. Each chapter is followed by exercises for the students to accomplish, to make the students become actively involved in the learning process. Enough exercises are included in order to convince even the most skeptical students that mathematics is interesting and very useful. Majority of the exercises are of present situation so that students can appreciate them."