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UNINA9910782131703321 |
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Sterling Mary Jane |
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Business math for dummies [[electronic resource] /] / by Mary Jane Sterling |
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Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley Pub., c2008 |
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1 online resource (410 p.) |
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510.2465 |
650.015 |
650.01513 |
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Business mathematics |
Finance |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Business Math for Dummies; About the Author; Dedication; Author's Acknowledgments; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; What You're Not to Read; Foolish Assumptions; How This Book Is Organized; Icons Used in This Book; Where to Go from Here; Part I: Reviewing Basic Math for Business and Real Estate Transactions; Chapter 1: Starting from the Beginning; Fracturing the Myths about Fractions, Decimals, and Percents; Capitalizing on Patterns in Formulas; Finding the Power in Exponents; Doing Some Serious Counting |
Painting a Pretty Picture Chapter 2: Fractions, Decimals, and Percents; Changing from Fractions to Decimals; Converting Decimals to Fractions; Understanding the Relationship between Percents and Decimals; Coming to Grips with Fractions; Chapter 3: Determining Percent Increase and Decrease; Working with Percent Increase; Looking into Percent Decrease; Chapter 4: Dealing with Proportions and Basic Algebra; Setting Up Proportions; Solving Proportions for Missing Values; Handling Basic Linear Equations; Comparing Values with Variation; Part II: Taking Intriguing Math to Work |
Chapter 5: Working with Formulas Familiarizing Yourself with a Formula; Simplifying and Solving a Formula; Computing with Technology; Chapter 6: Reading Graphs and Charts; Organizing |
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Scattered Information with a Scatter Plot; Lining Up Data with Line Graphs; Measuring Frequency with Histograms; Taking a Piece of a Pie Chart; Chapter 7: Measuring the World around You; Converting from Unit to Unit; Making Sense of the Metric System; Discovering How to Properly Measure Lumber; Measuring Angles by Degrees; Chapter 8: Analyzing Data and Statistics; Organizing Raw Data; Finding the Average |
Factoring in Standard Deviation Part III: Discovering the Math of Finance and Investments; Chapter 9: Computing Simple and Compound Interest; Understanding the Basics of Interest; Simply Delightful: Working with Simple Interest; Getting to Know Compound Interest; Determining How Variable Changes Affect Money Accumulation; Chapter 10: Investing in the Future; Calculating Investments Made with Lump Sums; Going the Annuity Route; Computing the Payout from an Annuity; Chapter 11: Understanding and Managing Investments; Interpreting the Daily Stock Market Quotations; Wrangling with the Ratios |
Making Use of Your Broker Chapter 12: Using Loans and Credit to Make Purchases; Taking Note of Promissory and Discount Notes; Borrowing with a Conventional Loan; Working with Installment Loans; Part IV: Putting Math to Use in Banking and Payroll; Chapter13: Managing Simple Bank Accounts; Doing Business with Banks; Balancing Act: How You and the Bank Use Your Account Balance; Reconciling Your Account; Chapter 14: Protecting Against Risk with Insurance; Surveying the Types of Insurance Available; Living It Up with Life Insurance; Protecting Yourself from Loss by Insuring Your Property |
Chapter 15: Planning for Success with Budgets |
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Now, it is easier than ever before to understand complex mathematical concepts and formulas and how they relate to real-world business situations. All you have to do it apply the handy information you will find in Business Math For Dummies. Featuring practical practice problems to help you expand your skills, this book covers topics like using percents to calculate increases and decreases, applying basic algebra to solve proportions, and working with basic statistics to analyze raw data. Find solutions for finance and payroll applications, including reading financial statements |
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Voigtländer Leiv Eirik <p>Leiv Eirik Voigtländer, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Deutschland </p> |
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Armut und Engagement : Zur zivilgesellschaftlichen Partizipation von Menschen in prekären Lebenslagen / Leiv Eirik Voigtländer |
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Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2015 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (323 p.) |
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Gesellschaft der Unterschiede |
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Deutschland |
Germany |
Civil Society |
Zivilgesellschaft |
Armut |
Poverty |
Soziales Engagement |
Civic Engagement |
Soziale Bürgerrechte |
Social Rights |
Hartz IV |
Soziale Ungleichheit |
Social Inequality |
Politische Soziologie |
Political Sociology |
Sociology |
Soziologie |
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Why is it so hard as someone living in poverty and unemployment to become socially active against those conditions? Their employment is indeed diverse - whether at the food banks, in counseling or in the protest against »the dole«. But the mechanisms of discrimination which act as barriers to these actors' claims for equality are also in effect in civil society. Leiv Eirik Voigtländer, with the help of qualitative |
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interviews, analyses typical beneficial and inhibiting conditions of action, and thereby contributes to an understanding of the social division of civic action in the context of eroding social rights. The predominant focus on the civil apathy of the precarious is thus countered by the experiences of socially active citizens in situations of poverty. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Frontmatter 1 Inhalt 5 Vorwort 7 1. Einleitung 11 2. Methode 57 3. Empirie 87 4. Literaturstudie: Soziale Bürgerrechte 243 5. Fazit 281 Literaturverzeichnis 293 Backmatter 319 |
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Warum ist es so schwierig, sich als Betroffene gegen Armut und Erwerbslosigkeit sozial zu engagieren? Ihr Einsatz ist zwar vielfältig – ob bei den Tafeln, in der Beratung oder im Protest gegen »Hartz IV«. Doch auch in der Zivilgesellschaft wirken Mechanismen der Diskriminierung, die dem Anspruch dieser Akteure auf Gleichheit als Bürger entgegenstehen.Leiv Eirik Voigtländer analysiert anhand von qualitativen Interviews typische förderliche und hemmende Handlungsbedingungen und trägt so dazu bei, die soziale Spaltung bürgerschaftlichen Engagements im Kontext erodierender sozialer Rechte zu verstehen. Dem vorherrschenden Fokus auf die bürgerschaftliche Apathie der Prekären werden so die Erfahrungen von sozial engagierten Bürgern in Armutslagen entgegengestellt. |
»Das Buch gibt einen großartigen Einblick in die subjektiven Perspektiven der sogenannten Betroffenen auf eben die förderlichen und hemmenden Handlungsbedingungen für ein soziales und sozialpolitisches Engagement.Ausnahmslos empfehlenswert für in sozialprofessionellen und sozialpolitischen Bezügen handelnde Akteure, ob noch als Studierende oder als hauptamtlich tätig Professionelle bzw. als Lehrende in Form einer gut zugänglichen und ausgesprochen fundiert dargelegten Wissens-, Erkenntnis- und Reflexionsquelle.« |
»Trotz scharfer Kritik an den Hartz-Reformen, trotz eigener Tätigkeit in einer sozialpolitischen Initiative und trotz des Ziels, engagierte Sozialforschung zu betreiben, bewahrt Voigtländer kritische Distanz zum Forschungsgegenstand. Das Engagement der Erwerbslosen wird nicht idealisiert, Widersprüche werden klar benannt. Nicht zuletzt deswegen bereichert und erhellt Voigtländers Studie die Partizipations- und Armutsforschung.« |
»Ein sehr lesenswertes Buch [...], das in vielerlei Hinsicht ein Bild von Erwerbslosen vermittelt, das konträr zur öffentlichen Wahrnehmung steht – einer auch medial und politisch geförderten Wahrnehmung, die sich oftmals zwischen Verachtung, Stigmatisierung und Desinteresse bewegt.« |
»Eine beeindruckende Fülle an Informationen.« |
»[Die] Analyse deckt erschreckende Mechanismen der Diskriminierung auf.« |
Besprochen in:http://www.maecenata.eu, 8 (2015)Die Stiftung, 5 (2015)Rundbrief des Begegnungszentrums für aktive Gewaltlosigkeit, 155/3 (2015) |
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