Quantitative Methods for Business

Part One Background

1. 1 Managers and numbers
2. 2 Calculations and equations
3. 3 Drawing graphs

Part Two Collecting and summarising data

1. 4 Collecting data
2. 5 Diagrams for presenting data
3. 6 Using numbers to describe date
4. 7 Describing changes with index numbers

Part Three - Solving management problems

1. 8 Finance and performance
2. 9 Regression and curve fitting
3. 10 Forecasting
4. 11 Linear Programming

Part Four - Introducing statistics

1. 12 Uncertainty and probabilities
2. 13 Probability distributions
3. 14 Using samples
4. 15 Testing hypotheses

Part Five - Management problems involving uncertainty

1. 16 Making decisions
2. 17 Quality management
3. 18 Inventory management
4. 19 Project management
5. 20 Queues and simulation