Schaum's Quick Guide to Business Finance: 201 Decision-Making Tools for Business, Finance, and Accounting Students Paperback - 1997 - 1st Edition

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Accounts payable ratios reveal how long it takes a company to pay its suppliers and whether a company is in good position to obtain short-term credit in the form of cost-free funds.

From the rear cover

Business and finance answers in a flash!

Quick business and finance answers at your fingertips--that's what this unique book gives you! It has 201 major formulas with quick, clear explanations that you can grasp and put to use in seconds. Perfect for college and graduate students in business, finance, marketing, operations, management, and accounting, this comprehensive, portable quick reference lets you speedily review formulas in your current courses, and get ahead of the curve in coursework to come. It's such a handy source for fast, complete, and reliable problem-solving that many business people keep it on their desktops!

Schaum's Quick Guide to Business Formulas gets you right to the formula you need, explains it simply, and demonstrates it step by step. You get instant answers on

• Vertical analysis
Security valuation
• Cost-volume-profit relationships
Sales mix analysis
• Regression statistics
Profit margin
• Sampling formulas
Beta and alpha
• Cost of capital
Earnings per share
• Residual income
Equity ratios
• Inventory turnover
Chi-square test
• Linear programming
Trend analysis
• Discount cash flow analysis
And many, many more

If you don't have a lot of time but want to excel in class, this book helps you: brush up before tests, locate formulas fast, research quickly and more effectively, and get the right answers without spending hours poring over lengthy texts.