
CONTENTS
1 Introduction—Who this Book is for and What it Hopes to
Accomplish
Historical Background—The Big Change in Investment, Loan,
and Money Management 1
What this Book Hopes to Accomplish 3
What Sort of Problems Might this Book Help You to Solve? 4
Who this Book is Meant to Address 4
The Mathematical Knowledge Required for this Book 5
The Role of Examples and Problems in this Book 6
2 Interest, Its Calculation, and Return on Investment
A General Introduction to Interest 7
How to Compute Interest 8
Notation 9
Percentage Rate and Time Period 10
Return on Investment 11
Analysis of Investments or Returns without Explicit Money Values,
and Intangible Investments ...