Essential Quantitative Methods: For Business, Management and Finance Les Oakshott
An ideal textbook for undergraduate students of business, management and finance, it is also widely used by MBA students and postgraduates.
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 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.