Financial Times Guide to Business Numeracy, The: How to Check the Figures for Yourself (2nd Edition)

by Leo Gough

Whether you need to understand other peoples calculations to make confident business decisions, or formulate investment choices based on your own numbers, this book will give you the tools you need. Banks and financial institutions, businesses and politicians often spin their statistics as they know they can rely on customers or constituents not to understand or check maths and formulas. This book introduces you to the basic tools of maths, statistics and business calculations so that that you can understand the numbers, work out your own calculations and make better investing, saving and business decisions.

238 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Actually a rather good introduction to the subject. It covers the surface of quite a wide range of important topics, such as statistics, decision analysis using game theory, time series, and a rough overview of quantitative methods in financial markets.

Of course, not much explanation or detail is provided, but it's often useful to have a non-technical survey before you decide what merits further study. One of the things I can actually see myself using is the Network Analysis method when trying to plan big projects. It is non-mathematical, and is really just a way of visualising and organising individual tasks within a large project.

[Steve Clark · Rating 3 out of 5]

I nice introduction to various types of mathematics used in business such as statistics and forecasting. I expect this is mostly done on computers now, but it's good to know how it actually works. I just read this out of interest