About the book

This book provides an in-depth understanding of basic quantitative tools and techniques required in analytical evaluations and managerial decision-making. With the updated content, it continues to provide rich pedagogical support including relatively large-sized practical problems to aid decision-making process of managers. The new edition will be useful for students pursuing post graduate courses in management and commerce besides professional courses like those o¬ered by ICAI and ICWAI.

Content:

1. Decision –Making and Quantitative Techniques
2. Linear Programming I: Formulation and Graphic Solution
3. Linear Programming II: Simplex Method
4. Linear Programming III: Duality and Sensitivity Analysis
5. Specially Structured Linear Programmes I: Transportation and Transhipment Problems
6. Specially Structured Linear Programmes II: Assignment Problem
7. Integer Programming and 
8. Goal Programming
9. Theory of Games
10. Sequencing
11. Inventory Management
12. Queuing Theory
13. PERT and CPM
14. Simulation
15. Decision Theory
Appendix A: Statistical and Other Tables 
Appendix B: Answers to Practical Problems
Bibliography 
Index

Web Chapters
A. Dynamic Programming
B. Replacement Theory
C. Markov Chains
D. Investment Analysis and Break-Even Analysis
E. Forecasting