I am a big fan of practical business math procedures. These books are great for anyone who has to think about money, accounting, and business. I’ve used them in graduate school and as a practicing accountant.
As a graduate student in business, I wrote my own book, and my wife is a business accountant. That means that we have three years of work to go before we can start selling our own business, and we want to do it right. We are going to need some business math, and to get there we are going to need to read some books.
To get started, I suggest that you start by reading the book from the beginning, “The Complete Business Mathematics Handbook” by Robert W. McClelland. This is a classic business math book, and it helps you understand the concepts and notation. It’s not the kind of book that you’ll start reading in the first two months of your business startup, as it focuses more on what you can do with a spreadsheet.
You then need to read the book from the beginning, The Complete Guide to Business Systems Analysis by Edward O. Thorat. This book is a more involved guide that focuses on more practical aspects of business systems and software development. It is also more expensive than McClelland’s but is easier to get if you already know a little bit of business math.
The book is written by Robert Koppel, who also writes for Forbes, Inc. and is a highly regarded figure in the field of business mathematics. His work includes many things you can do with your spreadsheet: 1) Find out what works best for you, 2) Make suggestions for ways to improve those tasks, 3) Write down some rough estimates of what you can do in the future, 4) Get it done.
The book is available for $30.00.
The title comes from a story that is the story of a young couple in the 80s, who are working together to make a DIY project at the beach. They’ve become so attached to the project that they’ve gone to the beach to do it.
The author of the book uses a lot of stuff to help him get his life back in order. It includes the fact that he’s currently living on the beach, that he’s on his own, that he’s just a teenager making the DIY project, that he’s going to live in a world where he can take care of himself, that he’s going to be the guy that puts the final touches.
In practical business math, you want to keep a project as small as possible and to work together as a team. A project that size means you can get things done in a reasonable amount of time. For instance, if a project requires you to make a lot of tools for a project or to carry out a project, you should try to do all of that on one day.
There is a lot of talk about how everyone’s life should be on autopilot, but for the most part, the only real people who actually work on the projects they make are those who have access to their equipment and know how to use it.