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Tables of Contents for Schaum's Quick Guide to Business Formulas
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xiii
1. Accounts Payable Ratios
1
1
2. Accounts Receivable Management
2
4
3. Accounts Receivable Ratios
6
2
4. Acid-Test (Quick) Ratio
8
1
5. Actual Cash Value
9
1
6. Adjusted Gross Income
9
1
7. Alpha Value
10
1
8. Amortized Loan
11
1
9. Annual Percentage Rate
12
3
10. Applied (Predetermined) Overhead Rate
15
1
11. Arbitrage
16
2
12. Arithmetic Average Return
18
1
13. Asset Utilization (Turnover)
19
2
14. Audit Fees to Sales
21
1
15. Average (Arithmetic Mean)
21
2
16. Bad-Debt Ratios
23
1
17. Bank Reconciliation
24
3
18. Barron's Confidence Index
27
1
19. Beta
27
4
20. Black-Scholes Option-Pricing Model
31
1
21. Bond Valuation
31
2
22. Bond Yield
33
4
23. Book Value per Share
37
1
24. Breadth Index
38
1
25. Breakeven Formulas
39
2
26. Capital-Asset Pricing Model
41
1
27. Capitalization Rate
42
1
28. Cash Flow Ratios
43
2
29. Cash-Management Models
45
2
30. Cash Plus Cash Equivalents to Working Capital
47
1
31. Cash Ratios
48
1
32. Certainty-Equivalent Approach
49
1
33. X(2) (Chi-Square) Test
50
3
34. Coefficient of Variation
53
1
35. Common-Stock Valuation
54
4
36. Contribution Margin
58
2
37. Controllable (Budget, Spending) Variance
60
1
38. Conversion Ratio
61
1
39. Corporate Planning Models
61
4
40. Correlation Analysis
65
4
41. Cost of Capital
69
6
42. Cost of Credit
75
2
43. Cost of Prediction Errors
77
1
44. Credit Cost on Installment Purchase
78
1
45. Current-Liability Ratios
78
1
46. Current Ratio
79
2
47. Decision Matrix
81
2
48. Decision Tree
83
1
49. Decomposition of Time Series
84
6
50. Defensive Interval Ratio
90
1
51. Deposits Times Capital Ratio
90
1
52. Depreciation Formulas
91
3
53. Direct Costs-to-Sales Ratios
94
2
54. Discretionary-Cost Ratios
96
1
55. Dividend Ratios
97
2
56. Dollar-Cost Averaging
99
1
57. Du Pont Formulas
100
3
58. Earnings per Share
103
2
59. EBIT-EPS Approach to Capital Structure
105
3
60. Economic Order Quantity
108
1
61. Economic Production Run Size
109
1
62. Effective Annual Yield
110
2
63. Effective Interest Rate
112
1
64. Effective Tax Rate
113
1
65. Elasticity of Demand
113
2
66. Equity Ratios
115
2
67. Equivalent Taxable Yield
117
1
68. Estimated Expenses versus Cash Expenses
118
1
69. Expected Value and Standard Deviation
119
3
70. Exponential Smoothing
122
2
71. Fixed-Asset Ratios
124
5
72. Fixed-Charge Coverage
129
1
73. Flexible-Budget Variance
130
1
74. Foreign-Exchange Gains and Losses
131
1
75. Forward Premium (or Discount) on a Forward Exchange Contract
132
1
76. Funded Debt (Long-Term Debt) to Operating Property
133
1
77. Funds-Flow Adequacy Ratio
133
1
78. Future (Compound) Value
134
2
79. Future Value of an Annuity
136
2
80. Geometric Average Return
138
2
81. Gordon's Dividend Growth Model
140
1
82. Gross Income Multiplier
140
1
83. Gross Profit Variance
141
5
84. Growth Rate
146
1
85. High-Low Method
147
3
86. Holding-Period Return
150
1
87. Horizontal Analysis
151
1
88. Housing-Affordability Measures
152
1
89. Index-Number Trend Series
153
1
90. Index of Bearish Sentiment
153
1
91. Indirect Labor to Direct Labor
154
1
92. Inflation Adjustments
155
2
93. Instability Index in Earnings
157
1
94. Insurance Reimbursement
157
1
95. Interest Computation
158
1
96. Interest Coverage (Times Interest Earned) Ratio
159
1
97. Interest-Rate Swaps
160
2
98. Internal Rate of Return (Time-Adjusted Rate of Return)
162
2
99. Intrayear Compounding
164
2
100. Inventory Ratios
166
2
101. Investment Income to Investments
168
1
102. Investment Turnover
168
1
103. Lawsuit Damages to Sales
169
1
104. Learning Curve
170
4
105. Least-Squares Regression
174
3
106. Leverage Ratios and Financial Leverage
177
4
107. Life Insurance Adequacy
181
1
108. Linear Programming
181
3
109. Liquid Assets to Take-Home Pay
184
1
110. Liquidity Index
184
1
111. Loan-Loss Coverage Ratio
185
1
112. Loans to Deposits
186
1
113. Maintenance and Repair Index
187
1
114. Margin Requirement
187
1
115. Marginal Cost and Marginal Revenue
188
2
116. Market-Index Model
190
1
117. Materiality of Options
191
1
118. Median
192
2
119. Mix and Yield Variances
194
5
120. Mode
199
1
121. Moving Average
200
1
122. Multiple Regression
201
2
123. Multiple-Regression Tests
203
9
124. Naive Forecasting Models
212
1
125. Net Asset Value
213
1
126. Net-Cost Method
214
1
127. Net Income Multiplier
215
1
128. Net Savings
216
1
129. Net Worth
216
1
130. Noncurrent Assets to Noncurrent Liabilities
217
1
131. Normal Distribution
218
2
132. Odd-Lot Index
220
1
133. Off-Balance-Sheet Assets and Liabilities
220
1
134. Operating Assets Ratio
221
1
135. Operating Cycle
222
1
136. Operating Leverage
223
2
137. Operating Revenue-to-Operating Property Ratio
225
1
138. Opportunity Cost
225
1
139. Opportunity Cost of Not Taking a Discount
226
1
140. Payback Period
227
1
141. Pension Formulas
228
2
142. Percent Earned on Operating Property
230
1
143. Percent-of-Sales Method for Financial Forecasting
231
2
144. Personal Debt to Personal Assets
233
1
145. Portfolio Theory
234
3
146. Preferred Stock to Total Stockholders' Equity
237
1
147. Present Value
238
1
148. Present Value of an Annuity
239
2
149. "Pressing" Current Liabilities to "Patient" Current Liabilities
241
2
150. Price-to-Book Value Ratio
243
1
151. Price-Earnings Ratio (Multiple)
243
2
152. Price (Rate, Spending) Variance
245
1
153. Profit Margin
246
1
154. Profitability Index
247
2
155. Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
249
4
156. Quality of Earnings
253
2
157. Quantity Discount Model (EOQ with Quantity Discounts)
255
2
158. Quantity (Usage, Efficiency) Variance
257
2
159. Realization Risk in Assets
259
1
160. Regression Statistics
260
3
161. Reorder Point
263
2
162. Repairs and Maintenance Ratios
265
1
163. Residual Income
266
1
164. Return on Total Assets
267
1
165. Risk-Adjusted Discount Rate
268
1
166. Risk Measures
269
3
167. Rule of 72 and Rule of 69
272
1
168. Rule of 78
273
1
169. Safety Stock
274
4
170. Sales-Mix Analysis
278
3
171. Sales Returns and Allowances to Sales
281
1
172. Sales to Current Assets
281
1
173. Sales to Current Debt
282
1
174. Sales to Personnel
283
1
175. Sales Variances
284
1
176. Salesperson Variances
285
2
177. Savings to Income
287
1
178. Selling Price Computation
288
1
179. Shadow Price
289
2
180. Simple Interest
291
1
181. Simple (Accounting) Rate of Return
292
1
182. Simple Regression
292
2
183. Simulation Model
294
5
184. Sinking Fund Computation
299
1
185. Systematic-Sampling Formula
300
1
186. Take-Home Pay to Debt-Service Charges
301
1
187. Taxable Income
302
1
188. Trading on the Equity (Real Estate)
302
1
189. Trend Equation
303
2
190. Valuation of a Business
305
5
191. Value of Option (Call and Put)
310
4
192. Value of Stock Rights
314
3
193. Variable Costs to Fixed Costs
317
1
194. Vertical (Common-Size) Analysis
318
1
195. Volume (Denominator) Variance
319
1
196. Warehouse Cost Variances
320
1
197. Weighted Average (Mean)
321
2
198. Wilcox's Gambler's-Ruin Prediction Formula
323
1
199. Working Capital
324
2
200. Yield on Preferred Stock
326
1
201. Z-Score Model: Forecasting Business Failures
327
2
Appendix
329
12
Index
341