Quantitative Methods for Accounting and Business Studies /
Gordon Bancroft and George O'Sullivan.
- 3rd ed.
- London ; New York : McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1993.
- xi, 379 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Rev. ed. of: Maths and statistics for accounting and business studies. 2nd ed. 1988.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-374) and index.
Graphs and equations; financial arithmetic; matrices; elementary calculus; data collection and sampling; describing statistical data; summary statistics; regression and correlation; time series; index numbers; probability; decision analysis; probability distributions; estimation; hypothesis testing; chi-squared tests; additional applications of sampling; linear programming; network analysis; stock control; simulation.
The 3rd edition of this text continues to prepare students for professional accountancy examinations. End-of-chapter questions and solutions are included, and the exercises taken from ACCA/CIMA exam papers have been updated to reflect changes in syllabus requirements since the 2nd edition.