
How to Find Business Information
A Guide for Businesspeople, Investors, and Researchers
- 224 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: The Business Research ProcessâGuides to Guides and Resources to Build the Business Collection
- 2 How to Find Industry Information
- 3 Information about Companies
- 4 Personal Finance and InvestingâIntroductory 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