This text presents numeracy skills in the context of specific business problems, providing techniques which are relevant to the reader's current or potential work situation. It is designed for use as a conventional textbook in an introductory statistics and mathematics course for business students, and also serves as a guide for self-study. This work features full coverage for all professional and academic examinations and is suitable for BTEC first and higher level courses, GNVQs and undergraduates in business studies. Appendices to the text offer: a complete refresher course in basic business arithmetic which assumes no previous knowledge of the subject; a beginner's guide to information technology - a free disk including easy-to-use software for independent study is available in both MICROSTATS and Lotus 1-2-3 formats; tables, formulas and answers to problems; and a copy of MICROSTATS to take the hard work out of some of the longer calculations.