Quantitative Techniques
6th Edition
Published on 12. September 2002
Book
Hardback
488 pages
978-0-8264-5853-7 (ISBN)
Description
This text is especially relevant to students studying quantitative techniques as part of business, management and/or finance on undergraduate and professional courses, especially: ACCA; CIMA; CIPFA; ICA, IOB, ICAEW. This introductory interdisciplinary textbook covers all the major topics involved at the interface between business and management on the one hand and mathematics and statistics on the other. Topics dealt with include logistics, finance, production and operations management, and economics.
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Edition
6th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 169 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-5853-7 (9780826458537)
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Previous edition
T. Lucey
Quantitative Techniques
Book
06/1996
5th Edition
Cengage Learning EMEA
€38.56
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Person
Terry Lucey is Visiting Fellow at Aston Business School, UK. Formerly he was Head of the Department of Business Studies at the University of Wolverhampton.
Content
Preface; 1) Introduction to quantitative techniques; 2) Probability and decision-making; 3) Decision trees; 4) Statistics - introduction; 5) Statistical inference; 6) Statistical hypothesis testing; 7) Correlation and regression; 8) Multiple and non-linear regression; 9) Forecasting - time series analysis; 10) Calculus; 11) Inventory control - introductory and terminology; 13) Inventory control - types of control system; 13) Inventory control - economic order quantity; 14) Inventory control - safety stocks and recorder levels; 15) Simulation; 16) Linear programming - introduction; 17) Linear programming - graphical solutions; 18) Linear programming - Simplex method for maximising; 19) Linear programming - Simplex method for minimising; 20) Transportation; 21) assignment; 22) Network analysis - introduction and terminology; 23) Network analysis - time analysis; 24) Network analysis - cost scheduling; 25) Network analysis - resource scheduling; 26) Network analysis - activity on nodes; 27) Financial mathematics; 28) Investment appraisal - background and techniques; 29) Investment appraisal - uncertainty and capital rationing; 30) Matrix algebra; 31) Replacement analysis; Statistical and Financial Tables; Answers to Examination Questions; Index.