Publisher's Synopsis
As resources become more scarce decisions involved in the allocation of a budget become more difficult. Inaccurate data or lack of data add to these difficulties. Such problems - insufficient information and limited resources - are common to most organizations. These, and related issues are the concern of this book.;Developed with the business student and analyst in the book combines existing techniques with some new ones to provide a computer based approach to a range of common business problems. The emphasis being on practical applications and solutions. Assuming only an elementary knowledge of computers - in most cases no more than a basic understanding of mathematics - the book is suitable for any manager or executive who has access to a PC and equally will be of interest to business students. The solution methods are fully explained and the reader is encouraged to apply each technique to a practical problem of his or her own experience.;All the programs are provided on the accompanying diskettes. The programs have been developed on an IBM-PC using MS-DOS 2.10 along with IBM BASIC and Microsoft FORTRAN.
