How to Find Business Information
A Guide for Businesspeople, Investors, and Researchers
1st Edition
Published on 22. July 2011
224 pages
978-0-313-36281-1 (ISBN)
Description
This fact-filled guide serves as an introductory handbook or as a refresher for those who want to research a specific topic or update their research skills.
The good news is that more business information is available than ever before. But for those drowning in a plethora of data, that is also the bad news. How to Find Business Information: A Guide for Businesspeople, Investors, and Researchers extends a lifeline to those inundated souls, offering sage advice about locating what one needs easily, quickly, and from trustworthy sources.
Encompassing print and digital materials, journals (both online and print), online databases, reference materials, and websites, this handbook will prove invaluable to anyone who finds it necessary to research business information. The tips and tactics it offers can, of course, be used by investors, but also by those seeking information about possible business partners, potential clients and customers, or sources of goods and services. Topics covered include banking and finance, economics, company information, industry information, marketing, accounting and taxation, and management, in short, everything one needs to know to make sound business and investment decisions.
The good news is that more business information is available than ever before. But for those drowning in a plethora of data, that is also the bad news. How to Find Business Information: A Guide for Businesspeople, Investors, and Researchers extends a lifeline to those inundated souls, offering sage advice about locating what one needs easily, quickly, and from trustworthy sources.
Encompassing print and digital materials, journals (both online and print), online databases, reference materials, and websites, this handbook will prove invaluable to anyone who finds it necessary to research business information. The tips and tactics it offers can, of course, be used by investors, but also by those seeking information about possible business partners, potential clients and customers, or sources of goods and services. Topics covered include banking and finance, economics, company information, industry information, marketing, accounting and taxation, and management, in short, everything one needs to know to make sound business and investment decisions.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
ISBN-13
978-0-313-36281-1 (9780313362811)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Book
07/2011
Praeger Publishers Inc
€48.60
Shipment within 15-20 days
Person
Lucy Heckman is associate professor and head of the Reference Department at the St. John's University Library, Queens, NY.
Content
Preface
1 Introduction: The Business Research Process-Guides to Guides and Resources to Build the Business Collection
2 How to Find Industry Information
3 Information about Companies
4 Personal Finance and Investing-Introductory Sources and Guides
5 The Stock Market
6 Investing in Bonds, Mutual Funds, and Exchange-Traded Funds
7 Commodities, Options, Futures, Derivatives, and Hedge Funds
8 Economics
9 Money and Banking
10 Insurance
11 Management and Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship
12 Marketing and Advertising
13 Careers and Job Hunting
14 Accounting
15 Taxation
16 Real Estate
Appendix I: Acronyms and Abbreviations
Appendix II: Major Business Libraries
Appendix III: Directory of Major Business-Related Federal Government Departments, Agencies, and Resources
Appendix IV: Major Stock Markets and Securities Exchanges
Index
1 Introduction: The Business Research Process-Guides to Guides and Resources to Build the Business Collection
2 How to Find Industry Information
3 Information about Companies
4 Personal Finance and Investing-Introductory Sources and Guides
5 The Stock Market
6 Investing in Bonds, Mutual Funds, and Exchange-Traded Funds
7 Commodities, Options, Futures, Derivatives, and Hedge Funds
8 Economics
9 Money and Banking
10 Insurance
11 Management and Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship
12 Marketing and Advertising
13 Careers and Job Hunting
14 Accounting
15 Taxation
16 Real Estate
Appendix I: Acronyms and Abbreviations
Appendix II: Major Business Libraries
Appendix III: Directory of Major Business-Related Federal Government Departments, Agencies, and Resources
Appendix IV: Major Stock Markets and Securities Exchanges
Index
