Business Statistics and Accounting
Made Simple
Published on 15. May 2014
362 pages
978-1-4831-3567-0 (ISBN)
Description
Business Statistics and Accounting: Made Simple focuses on the principles, approaches, and operations involved in business statistics and accounting, including book-keeping, value added tax, cash and credit, and trial balance. The book first takes a look at basic numerical knowledge, introduction to business statistics, and classification and tabulation. Discussions focus on frequency distributions, discrete and continuous variables, approximation and error, simple mathematical symbols, importance of business calculations, calculating percentages of quantities, and powers and roots. The text then elaborates on time series, pictorial representation of statistical data, graphs, and mean, median, and mode. The manuscript examines the nature and purpose of accounting, double-entry book-keeping to the trial balance level, books of original entry, value added tax, and accounting to the trial balance, with books of original entry. Topics include original entries for petty cash, original entries for the payment of money, double entries for cash and credit transactions, and extracting a trial balance. The publication is a dependable reference for students and researchers interested in business statistics and accounting.
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Geoff Whitehead is one of the original Made Simple authors and has sold over 2 million Made Simple books. Before writing full-time he was Head of Professional Studies at Thurrock College, and he now runs a small business consultancy for one of the main publishers of account books. With day-to-day advice at a grass roots level he is still 'keeping it simple' for 350,000 book-keepers using the system each year.
Content
ForewordAcknowledgementsSection 1: Introduction 1 An Introduction to Business Statistics and Accounting 1.1 The Subject-matter of this Book 1.2 Simple Business Calculations 1.3 Business Statistics 1.4 Accounting to the Trial Balance Level 1.5 Accounting to Final Accounts Level 1.6 ConclusionSection 2: Business Calculations 2 Basic Numerical Knowledge 2.1 The Importance of Business Calculations 2.2 Electronic Calculators and Business Calculations 2.3 Calculating Percentages of Quantities 2.4 Exercises: Calculating Percentages of a Quantity 2.5 Calculating Quantities as Percentages of Other Quantities 2.6 Exercises: Calculating Quantities as Percentages of Other Quantities 2.7 Simple Ratios 2.8 Exercises: Simple Ratios 2.9 The Unitary Method 2.10 Exercises: the Unitary Method 2.11 Powers and Roots 2.12 Exercises: Raising Numbers to a Power 2.13 Exercises: Square Roots of Numbers 2.14 Exercises: the Laws of Indices 2.15 Simple Equations 2.16 Exercises: Simple EquationsSection 3: Business Statistics 3 An Introduction to Business Statistics 3.1 The Meaning of 'Statistics' 3.2 Criticisms of Statistics 3.3 Discrete and Continuous Variables 3.4 Collection of Data 3.5 Types of Sample 3.6 Approximation and Error 3.7 Simple Mathematical Symbols 3.8 Exercises: Introductory Statistical Concepts 4 Classification and Tabulation 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The Classification of Data 4.3 The Tabulation of Data 4.4 Simple Tables 4.5 Exercises: Simple Tabulation 4.6 Frequency Distributions 4.7 Cumulative Frequency Distributions 4.8 Exercises: Frequency Distributions 5 Time Series 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The Trend 5.3 Seasonal Variation 5.4 Random Variations and the De-Seasonalising of Data 5.5 The Uses of Time Series 5.6 Exercises: Time Series 6 Pictorial Representation of Statistical Data 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Pictograms 6.3 Bar Charts 6.4 Histograms 6.5 Gantt Charts 6.6 Pie Charts 6.7 Exercises: Diagrammatic Representation 7 Graphs 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Constructing a Graph 7.3 Simple Graphs 7.4 The Z Chart 7.5 Exercises: Simple Graphs 7.6 Straight-line Graphs 7.7 Exercises: Graphs of Simple Functions 7.8 The Frequency Polygon 7.9 Scatter Diagrams 7.10 The Lorenz Curve 7.11 Semi-Logarithmic Graphs 7.12 Exercises: More Graphs and Diagrams 8 Measures of Position-The Mean, Median and Mode 8.1 The Reasons for Measuring Position 8.2 The Arithmetic Mean 8.3 Exercises: Arithmetic Means of Simple Series 8.4 The Arithmetic Mean from a Frequency Distribution 8.5 Exercises: The Arithmetic Mean from a Frequency Distribution 8.6 The Arithmetic Mean from Grouped Data 8.7 Exercises: The Arithmetic Mean from Grouped Data 8.8 The Arithmetic Mean, Calculated from an Assumed Mean 8.9 Exercises: The Arithmetic Mean from an Assumed Mean 8.10 The Weighted Arithmetic Mean 8.11 Exercises: Weighted Arithmetic Means 8.12 The Median 8.13 Exercises: The Median 8.14 Calculating the Median from Grouped Data 8.15 Exercises: Medians from Grouped Data 8.16 Calculating the Median from a Cumulative Frequency Curve (Ogive) 8.17 Exercises: Calculating the Median from Ogives 8.18 The Mode 8.19 Exercises: The Mode 8.20 Comparison of the Averages 8.21 Exercises: Comparison of Averages 9 Index Numbers 9.
