New to this edition

• Each chapter has a second set of Practice Quizzes for each Learning Unit, called ‘Extra Practice Quizzes’. Check figures to the questions are included at the bottom of the Chapter Organizer (found at the end of each chapter).
  
  
• New Summary Practice tests for each chapter, which the author goes over in video tutorials located on the Student DVD.
  
  
• Chapter 4, Banking, includes new material on online banking and deletion of credit cards and merchant summary coverage.
  
  
• Improved coverage on calculating percent decrease and increase using the Wal-Mart company as an example (Chapter 6).
  
  
• New learning unit on Breakeven-Analysis, in Chapter 8.
  
  
• Chapter 9 includes new payroll tables and FICA is now based on 6.2% on $97,500.
  
  
• Sum of years digits Learning Unit has been removed (Chapter 17).
  
  
• New news clips throughout the text provide students with a real world view of the application of business math concepts and procedures in companies such as Disney, Home Depot, Delta, FedEx, McDonald’s and hundreds of others. Students using PBMP will learn business math as it is currently applied.
  
  
• New exercises and problems drawn from articles; hundreds of diverse sources such as Google, Wal-Mart, and UPS provide high motivation for students and understanding of the broad application of the course content.
  
  
• The 9e is available with two new technology support options, ALEKS for Business Math and Homework Manager and Homework Manager Plus.
  

Features

• Student DVD – the first in college textbooks this tool includes a wealth of resources for study including: video tutorials that solve each learning unit practice quiz, new Summary Practice Quiz tutorials, seven video cases (one new) that apply business math concepts to real companies, Excel Templates, Self Grading Quizzes for each chapter, PowerPoint Lecture Slides, The Internet Resource Guide and web links for doing business math on the Internet, new video tutorial on how to use a calculator by the author. The DVD format allows students to have easy access to all these exciting tools.
  
  
• Content Improvement – Slater: Practical Business Math Procedures continues to be the market leader because the author is very careful to include market feedback throughout the development process.
  
  
• The Wall Street Journal Guide, included free to students shows how business math is used in trading stocks and bonds through specially designed projects.
  
  
• The Business Math Handbook, free to students, contains all tables found in the text.
  
  
• Student-oriented teaching tools such as the Blueprint Aid for Solving Word Problems, color coding, Chapter Organizers, Scrapbook, etc.
  
  
• Excel spreadsheet problems identified in the text allow students to run data using this popular business tool.
  
  
• The Business Math Scrapbook at the end of each chapter pulls the chapter material together and allows the student to apply the chapter theory to real-life business situations with a project using a Wall Street Journal clipping or Internet resource.
  
  
• An article from Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine along with assignment questions is included with every chapter. This feature provides an opportunity for group study and is an excellent tool to develop critical thinking and writing skills.
  
  
• A set of color overlays are inserted in Chapter 13. These color graphics are intended to demonstrate for students the concepts of present value and future value, and even more important the basic relationship between the two.
  
  
• The Internet activities and text website, afford students the opportunity to explore the World Wide Web and exploit the tremendous power of the web.
  
  
• The Statistics chapter provides more coverage of statistics and graphics as used in business.
  
  
• Clear, colorful explanations supported by detailed step-by-step examples based on the author’s 27 years of teaching business math as well as feedback and input from business math instructors.
  
  
• Flexible format providing “Practice Quizzes” and “Extra Practice Quizzes” for immediate student feedback, a large end-of-chapter problem section including Challenge Problems, and Homework Assignments by Learning Unit at the end of the book for instructors wishing to have students do and turn in assignments based on each learning unit.