Numbers Guide: The Essentials of Business Numeracy, 5th Edition

1. Key concepts.
Summary.
Ways of looking at data.
Fractions, percentages, and proportions.
Index numbers.
Notation.
Probability.
Counting techniques.
Encryption.

2. Finance and investment.
Summary.
Interest.
Annuities.
Investment analysis.
Inflation.
Interest rate problems in disguise.
Exchange rates.

3. Descriptive measures for interpretation and analysis.
Summary.
Distributions.
Normal distributions.

4. Tables and charts.
Summary.
Tables.
Charts.

5. Forecasting techniques.
Summary.
Time series.
Trends.
Seasonal adjustment.
Cycles.
Residuals.
Cause and effect.
Identifying relationships with regression analysis.
Forecast monitoring and review.

6. Sampling and hypothesis testing.
Summary.
Estimating statistics and parameters.
Confidence.
Other summary measures.
Non-parametric methods.
Hypothesis testing.

7. Incorporating judgments into decisions.
Summary.
Uncertainty and risk.
Decision trees.
Perfect information.
The expected value of sample information.
Making the final decision.

8. Decision-making in action.
 Summary.
Game strategy.
Queueing.
Stock control.
Markov chains: what happens next?
Project management.
Simulation.

9. Linear programming and networking.
Summary.
Identifying the optimal solution.
Traps and tricks.
Multiple objectives.
Networks.

A - Z. 

Index.