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Schaum's quick guide to business formulas : 201 decision-making tools for business, finance, and accounting students

Author: Joel G Siegel; Jae K Shim; Stephen Hartman
Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, ©1998.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Joel G Siegel; Jae K Shim; Stephen Hartman
ISBN: 0070580316 9780070580312
OCLC Number: 38266928
Notes: "Originally published under the title: The McGraw-Hill pocket guide to business finance."--T.p. verso.
Includes index.
Description: xiv, 354 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. Accounts Payable Ratios 1 --
2. Accounts Receivable Management 2 --
3. Accounts Receivable Ratios 6 --
4. Acid-Test (Quick) Ratio 8 --
5. Actual Cash Value 9 --
6. Adjusted Gross Income 9 --
7. Alpha Value 10 --
8. Amortized Loan 11 --
9. Annual Percentage Rate 12 --
10. Applied (Predetermined) Overhead Rate 15 --
11. Arbitrage 16 --
12. Arithmetic Average Return 18 --
13. Asset Utilization (Turnover) 19 --
14. Audit Fees to Sales 21 --
15. Average (Arithmetic Mean) 21 --
16. Bad-Debt Ratios 23 --
17. Bank Reconciliation 24 --
18. Barron's Confidence Index 27 --
19. Beta 27 --
20. Black-Scholes Option-Pricing Model 31 --
21. Bond Valuation 31 --
22. Bond Yield 33 --
23. Book Value per Share 37 --
24. Breadth Index 38 --
25. Breakeven Formulas 39 --
26. Capital-Asset Pricing Model 41 --
27. Capitalization Rate 42 --
28. Cash Flow Ratios 43 --
29. Cash-Management Models 45 --
30. Cash Plus Cash Equivalents to Working Capital 47 --
31. Cash Ratios 48 --
32. Certainty-Equivalent Approach 49 --
33. x[superscript 2] (Chi-Square) Test 50 --
34. Coefficient of Variation 53 --
35. Common-Stock Valuation 54 --
36. Contribution Margin 58 --
37. Controllable (Budget, Spending) Variance 60 --
38. Conversion Ratio 61 --
39. Corporate Planning Models 61 --
40. Correlation Analysis 65 --
41. Cost of Capital 69 --
42. Cost of Credit 75 --
43. Cost of Prediction Errors 77 --
44. Credit Cost on Installment Purchase 78 --
45. Current-Liability Ratios 78 --
46. Current Ratio 79 --
47. Decision Matrix 81 --
48. Decision Tree 83 --
49. Decomposition of Time Series 84 --
50. Defensive Interval Ratio 90 --
51. Deposits Times Capital Ratio 90 --
52. Depreciation Formulas 91 --
53. Direct Costs-to-Sales Ratios 94 --
54. Discretionary-Cost Ratios 96 --
55. Dividend Ratios 97 --
56. Dollar-Cost Averaging 99 --
57. Du Pont Formulas 100 --
58. Earnings per Share 103 --
59. EBIT-EPS Approach to Capital Structure 105 --
60. Economic Order Quantity 108 --
61. Economic Production Run Size 109 --
62. Effective Annual Yield 110 --
63. Effective Interest Rate 112 --
64. Effective Tax Rate 113 --
65. Elasticity of Demand 113 --
66. Equity Ratios 115 --
67. Equivalent Taxable Yield 117 --
68. Estimated Expenses versus Cash Expenses 118 --
69. Expected Value and Standard Deviation 119 --
70. Exponential Smoothing 122 --
71. Fixed-Asset Ratios 124 --
72. Fixed-Charge Coverage 129 --
73. Flexible-Budget Variance 130 --
74. Foreign-Exchange Gains and Losses 131 --
75. Forward Premium (or Discount) on a Forward Exchange Contract 132 --
76. Funded Debt (Long-Term Debt) to Operating Property 133 --
77. Funds-Flow Adequacy Ratio 133 --
78. Future (Compound) Value 134 --
79. Future Value of an Annuity 136 --
80. Geometric Average Return 138 --
81. Gordon's Dividend Growth Model 140 --
82. Gross Income Multiplier 140 --
83. Gross Profit Variance 141 --
84. Growth Rate 146 --
85. High-Low Method 147 --
86. Holding-Period Return 150 --
87. Horizontal Analysis 151 --
88. Housing-Affordability Measures 152 --
89. Index-Number Trend Series 153 --
90. Index of Bearish Sentiment 153 --
91. Indirect Labor to Direct Labor 154 --
92. Inflation Adjustments 155 --
93. Instability Index in Earnings 157 --
94. Insurance Reimbursement 157 --
95. Interest Computation 158 --
96. Interest Coverage (Times Interest Earned) Ratio 159 --
97. Interest-Rate Swaps 160 --
98. Internal Rate of Return (Time-Adjusted Rate of Return) 162 --
99. Intrayear Compounding 164 --
100. Inventory Ratios 166 --
101. Investment Income to Investments 168 --
102. Investment Turnover 168 --
103. Lawsuit Damages to Sales 169 --
104. Learning Curve 170 --
105. Least-Squares Regression 174 --
106. Leverage Ratios and Financial Leverage 177 --
107. Life Insurance Adequacy 181 --
108. Linear Programming 181 --
109. Liquid Assets to Take-Home Pay 184 --
110. Liquidity Index 184 --
111. Loan-Loss Coverage Ratio 185 --
112. Loans to Deposits 186 --
113. Maintenance and Repair Index 187 --
114. Margin Requirement 187 --
115. Marginal Cost and Marginal Revenue 188 --
116. Market-Index Model 190 --
117. Materiality of Options 191 --
118. Median 192 --
119. Mix and Yield Variances 194 --
120. Mode 199 --
121. Moving Average 200 --
122. Multiple Regression 201 --
123. Multiple-Regression Tests 203 --
124. Naive Forecasting Models 212 --
125. Net Asset Value 213 --
126. Net-Cost Method 214 --
127. Net Income Multiplier 215 --
128. Net Savings 216 --
129. Net Worth 216 --
130. Noncurrent Assets to Noncurrent Liabilities 217 --
131. Normal Distribution 218 --
132. Odd-Lot Index 220 --
133. Off-Balance-Sheet Assets and Liabilities 220 --
134. Operating Assets Ratio 221 --
135. Operating Cycle 222 --
136. Operating Leverage 223 --
137. Operating Revenue-to-Operating Property Ratio 225 --
138. Opportunity Cost 225 --
139. Opportunity Cost of Not Taking a Discount 226 --
140. Payback Period 227 --
141. Pension Formulas 228 --
142. Percent Earned on Operating Property 230 --
143. Percent-of-Sales Method for Financial Forecasting 231 --
144. Personal Debt to Personal Assets 233 --
145. Portfolio Theory 234 --
146. Preferred Stock to Total Stockholders' Equity 237 --
147. Present Value 238 --
148. Present Value of an Annuity 239 --
149. "Pressing" Current Liabilities to "Patient" Current Liabilities 241 --
150. Price-to-Book Value Ratio 243 --
151. Price-Earnings Ratio (Multiple) 243 --
152. Price (Rate, Spending) Variance 245 --
153. Profit Margin 246 --
154. Profitability Index 247 --
155. Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) 249 --
156. Quality of Earnings 253 --
157. Quantity Discount Model (EOQ with Quantity Discounts) 255 --
158. Quantity (Usage, Efficiency) Variance 257 --
159. Realization Risk in Assets 259 --
160. Regression Statistics 260 --
161. Reorder Point 263 --
162. Repairs and Maintenance Ratios 265 --
163. Residual Income 266 --
164. Return on Total Assets 267 --
165. Risk-Adjusted Discount Rate 268 --
166. Risk Measures 269 --
167. Rule of 72 and Rule of 69 272 --
168. Rule of 78 273 --
169. Safety Stock 274 --
170. Sales-Mix Analysis 278 --
171. Sales Returns and Allowances to Sales 281 --
172. Sales to Current Assets 281 --
173. Sales to Current Debt 282 --
174. Sales to Personnel 283 --
175. Sales Variances 284 --
176. Salesperson Variances 285 --
177. Savings to Income 287 --
178. Selling Price Computation 288 --
179. Shadow Price 289 --
180. Simple Interest 291 --
181. Simple (Accounting) Rate of Return 292 --
182. Simple Regression 292 --
183. Simulation Model 294 --
184. Sinking Fund Computation 299 --
185. Systematic-Sampling Formula 300 --
186. Take-Home Pay to Debt-Service Charges 301 --
187. Taxable Income 302 --
188. Trading on the Equity (Real Estate) 302 --
189. Trend Equation 303 --
190. Valuation of a Business 305 --
191. Value of Option (Call and Put) 310 --
192. Value of Stock Rights 314 --
193. Variable Costs to Fixed Costs 317 --
194. Vertical (Common-Size) Analysis 318 --
195. Volume (Denominator) Variance 319 --
196. Warehouse Cost Variances 320 --
197. Weighted Average (Mean) 321 --
198. Wilcox's Gambler's-Ruin Prediction Formula 323 --
199. Working Capital 324 --
200. Yield on Preferred Stock 326 --
201. Z-Score Model: Forecasting Business Failures 327.
Other Titles: Quick guide to business formulas
Business formulas
201 decision-making tools for business, finance, and accounting students
Responsibility: Joel G. Siegel, Jae K. Shim, Stephen W. Hartman.
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