New! Spreadsheet Strategies feature – There is an optional Spreadsheet Strategies feature near the end of many sections. Each one demonstrates the use of a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to solve one of the example problems solved earlier in the same section by algebraic and financial calculator methods.
Six new Interactive Charts – available on the OLC. Students can change key variables and observe the effects on the dependent variable.
Most timeline diagrams have been enlarged for better readability.
Six new Point of Interest boxes – Most chapters contain two or three intriguing illustrations of the application or misapplication of mathematics in business and personal finance.
Many Canadian Applications – throughout the exposition, Example problems, Exercise problems, and Points of Interest, the book presents a wide range of applications of mathematics in Canadian business and finance.
Wide selection of problems – Each section of a chapter is followed by a set of problems for applying and reinforcing the new material.
Tips and Traps – Boxed elements inserted at appropriate points in the text draw the student’s attention to simplifications, pitfalls, shortcuts, calculator procedures, and common errors.
Net @ssets Boxes – Each of these features provides a brief commentary about a Web site relevant to the topic under discussion.
Graphs and Diagrams – This text makes more extensive use of graphs, diagrams, and interactive charts than other business mathematics texts.
Worked Examples – These examples provide detailed applications and illustrations of the text material in a step-by-step format.
Highlighted Concepts – Throughout the text, key concepts are highlighted in a box – signaling to students that this material is particularly relevant and critical to their understanding.
Calculator Call-out Boxes – Some compound-interest calculations may be performed using a calculator’s financial function. We employ call-out boxes:
to provide a clear visual indication of the computations that may be performed using the financial functions;
to present the keystroke operations for carrying out the computations.
Professional Problems – Approximately 25 problems are taken from course materials of the Canadian Institute of Financial Planning.
Concept Questions – are presented at the end of many sections. These questions exercise students’ intuition, and test their understanding of concepts, principles, and relationships among variables.
Cases – Seven chapters include a case study in the end-of-chapter material.
Glossary – a full glossary is provided near the end of the book.
Always current URL links – When the textbook refers the reader to an online activity or resource, it provides the name of hypertext link located on a special “Links in Textbook” page in the Student Edition of the Online Learning Centre.
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