How to Find Business Information : a Guide for Business People, Investors, and Researchers

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. Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 1 Introduction: The Business Research Process—Guides to Guides and Resources to Build the Business Collection......Page 10 2 How to Find Industry Information......Page 18 3 Information about Companies......Page 34 4 Personal Finance and Investing—Introductory Sources and Guides......Page 42 5 The Stock Market......Page 50 6 Investing in Bonds, Mutual Funds, and Exchange-Traded Funds......Page 62 7 Commodities, Options, Futures, Derivatives, and Hedge Funds......Page 72 8 Economics......Page 86 9 Money and Banking......Page 98 10 Insurance......Page 110 11 Management and Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship......Page 120 12 Marketing and Advertising......Page 130 13 Careers and Job Hunting......Page 142 14 Accounting......Page 150 15 Taxation......Page 160 16 Real Estate......Page 168 Appendix I: Acronyms and Abbreviations......Page 178 Appendix II: Major Business Libraries......Page 186 Appendix III: Directory of Major Business-Related Federal Government Departments, Agencies, and Resources......Page 194 Appendix IV: Major Stock Markets and Securities Exchanges......Page 198 A......Page 204 B......Page 205 C......Page 206 D......Page 207 F......Page 208 H......Page 209 I......Page 210 L......Page 211 N......Page 212 P......Page 213 S......Page 214 U......Page 215 W......Page 216 Z......Page 217 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 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.