This book is geared towards the first-year college student and provides basic skills in business mathematics. As in previous editions, the philosophy of the book is still "learning by doing" and the method is the successful explanation-example-exercise format. The book covers traditional topics in business mathematics along with a wide selection of related topics such as taxes, insurance, statistics, and the metric system. The text is designed to be flexible for the instructor. The wealth of topics and the text design permits an instructor to tailor his or her course for any term length and level of student maturity. In addition to the text, a student study guide, now available FREE on diskette, provides new sets of exercises and self-tests for the students needing additional practice.

This book is one of the leaders in the field and professors report wide student acceptance and satisfaction with the text.