Includes bibliographies and index.

Basic business reference sources -- Directories -- Periodicals and n ewspapers -- Looseleaf services -- Government information and services -- Statistics -- Vertical file collections -- Electronic business infor mation -- Marketing -- Accounting and taxation -- Money, credit, and ba nking -- Investments : an introduction -- Stocks -- Bonds and other fix ed-income securities -- Mutual funds and investment companies -- Future s and options -- Insurance -- Real estate -- Appendix A. Business acron yms and abbreviations -- Appendix B. Federal executive departments and selected agencies and publications -- Appendix C. Federal government co rporations and independent agencies relevant to business -- Appendix D. Regional depository libraries as of May 1987 -- Appendix E. Representa tive types of business information published by state government agenci es -- Appendix F. Periodic censuses and programs authorized by law -- A ppendix G. Key economic indicators -- Appendix H. Ten key monthly feder al periodicals and the statistics they contain -- Appendix I. Free vert ical file materials for business collections -- Appendix J. Commodities exchanges -- Appendix K. Census Bureau Construction reports -- Appendi x L. Components of the 1980 Census of housing.