Nelda W. Roueche in her book Business Mathematics: A Collegiate Approach offers an overview of the subject of business mathematics in all its ramifciations. She does not address any one issue in depth but does give a good idea of the nature of the subject matter, the types of problems that differnet types of mathematics address, and some of the ways in whcih problems are solved in this way. She looks first to the basics, meaning arithemtic operations, the use of a calculator, basic equations, and a review of the subject of percent. She then turns to accounting mathematics and shows how this issue is handled in business, the issue of retail mathematics, the mathematics of finance, and in each case she gives an overview of the subject matter, the types of mathematical operations involved, and the nature of the problem for students.
She begins by noting that business mathematics is a comprehensive course that exposes the student to a wide range of mathematical procedures which they may encounter later in business. She sees her own book as being timely, thorough, and effective. The book is designed to present the material with certain specific aspects of the subject covered well for students, notably the terminology and business applications of each topic; the use of a large number of examples to make the material clear to the student and to show how the subject is applied in practice; a large number of problems included for the student to solve; student learning objectives which are clearly laid out at the beginnng of each chapter; brief reviews of basic operations so the student can be reminded of procedures and can see how they apply to the issue at hand; elementary equation solving which is used throughout the text; an emphasis on retail business, where most students of this course are employed; and a large number of reference tables in their proper place so the student may make use of them.
The opening section is a review o...