Calculus Early Transcendentals (Paperback)

I. Introduction and Foundations.
1. Return on Software: Maximizing the Return on Your Software Investment.
2. Business on Purpose.
3. The Fundamental Concepts of Business Decisions.
4. The Business Decision-Making Process.
5. Interest: The Time Value of Money.
6. Other Interest(ing) Calculations.
7. Equivalence.
8. Bases for Comparison.
9. Developing Mutually Exclusive Alternatives.
II. Making For-profit Business Decisions.
10. For-Profit Decision Analysis.
11. Planning Horizons and Economic Life.
12. Replacement and Retirement Decisions.
III. Advanced For-profit Decision Techniques.
13. Inflation and Deflation.
14. Depreciation.
15. General Accounting and Cost Accounting.
16. Income Taxes and After-Tax Cash-Flow Streams.
17. The Consequences of Income Taxes onBusiness Decisions.
IV. Making Decisions in Government and Nonprofit Organizations.
18. Making Not-for-Profit Business Decisions.
V. Present Economy.
19. Break-Even Analysis.
20. Optimization Analysis.
VI. Estimation, Risk, and Uncertainty.
21. Basic Estimation Concepts.
22. General Estimation Techniques.
23. Allowing for Inaccuracy in Estimates.
24. Decision Making Under Risk.
25. Decision Making Under Uncertainty.
VII. Multiple-Attribute Decisions.
26. Decisions Based on Multiple Attributes.
VIII. Summary.
27. Closing Remarks.