ABOUT THE BOOK This book explains the various concepts as well as technical terms of the quantitative methods that are commonly used for effective management of resources, in a very simple way. Various problems for practice are also provided to make the student grasp the concepts properly. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Dr. E. Raja Justus is a Triple Masters Degree holder, one in Business Administration with specialization in Financial Management, one in Commerce with specialization in Cost Accounting and other in Economics. Besides these, one Doctorate Degree in Business Administration and an UGC project which got published in the form of book with publication grant from ICSSR. He has also published a number of research as well as popular articles in national and international journals. Recognized Research Guide in Management and Commerce of a number of Universities and successfully guided more than 12 research scholars in their Ph.D. Contributed research thoughts in a number of Conferences and Seminars as Resource Person. He has been conducting Individual Development Programmes to a number of Organizations. Have 29 years of Teaching as well as academic research experience and presently working as Professor-MBA (Finance) at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Thirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. Dr. C. Sathya Kumar, Assistant Professor of Commerce, Scott Christian College (Autonomous), Nagercoil, is having 8 years Industrial Experience and 8+ years of experience in Teaching and Research. He successfully guided Twelve M.Phil., Scholars in Commerce. He had contributed many books and published fourteen articles in national and international journals, presented a number of papers in national and international conferences and he is a recipient of an International Award for Excellence in Teaching and Training. . ISBN 978-93-81560-03-7