Book excerpt: This bestselling soup-to-nuts book teaches the techniques and methods used in the country’s finest MBA programs. And now it’s fully revised with the latest information for today’s busy businesspeople. Presented in an accessible question-and-answer format, The Vest-Pocket MBA helps readers quickly pinpoint all the formulas, ratios, and rules of thumb they need to analyze and evaluate nearly any problem. Among the many topics it covers: accounting, finance, break-even analysis, investment evaluation, capital budgeting, business law, risk minimization, marketing, and international trade. The Vest-Pocket MBA offers a wealth of guidelines, illustrations, and how-to’s for the modern decision-maker, from the B-school student to the senior executive.