Front Cover; Business Statistics and Accounting Made Simple; Copyright Page; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION; Chapter 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 Conclusion; SECTION 2: BUSINESS CALCULATIONS; Chapter 2. BASIC NUMERICAL KNOWLEDGE; 2.1 The Importance of Business Calculations; 2.2 Electronic Calculators and Business Calculations.

2.3 Calculating Percentages of Quantities2.4 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 Equations; SECTION 3: BUSINESS STATISTICS.

Chapter 3. AN INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS STATISTICS3.1 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; Chapter 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; 4.6 Frequency Distributions; 4.7 Cumulative Frequency Distributions.

4.8 Exercises: Frequency DistributionsChapter 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; Chapter 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; Chapter 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 Functions7.8 The Frequency Polygon; 7.9 Scatter Diagrams; 7.10 The Lorenz Curve; 7.11 Semi-Logarithmic Graphs; 7.12 Exercises: More Graphs and Diagrams; Chapter 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.