Book Description

Excerpt from Practical Business Arithmetic This work has been prepared with the belief that it will be of genuine service to all interested in business education. It is particularly planned for students pursuing a commercial course in business schools, high schools, and normal schools. The constant aim of the authors has been to develop the subject in such a way as to make it possible for the student to realize both the utilitarian and the cultural value of arithmetic. The topics have been selected with great care, and a logical unfolding of the whole subject has been kept in view. An attempt has been made to give problems which appeal to the needs and interests of the business student, and so to grade and group these problems as to make the mind-furnishing and mind-developing qualities of the subject go hand in hand Inherited puzzles and manufactured conditions which give a false notion of business have been studiously avoided. The subject as a whole has been modernized, and the exercises made simple, natural, and straightforward. The most important part of the arithmetic, considered from a business standpoint, is that part devoted to the four fundamental processes and fractions. Particular attention has therefore been devoted to the chapters in this part of the book. The need for speed and accuracy is emphasized in many different ways. There are many speed exercises, and the student is taught to check his work at every step. To make the work more real, many self-checking problems, taken from actual business transactions, are given. Many classes in high schools study business arithmetic before they have taken up the subject of bookkeeping. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.