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Business & Economics Reference
The realms of commerce and industry; the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services and the management of economic systems.
Subcategories of Business & Economics are:
- Accounting
- Theory and methods of recording business transactions and stating the assets, liabilities, and operating results of a business.
- Banking
- The keeping and use of money for savings, commercial, investment, or exchange purposes.
- Business Administration and Management
- Theories and examples of organizing, running, and maintaining enterprises and people working together for some goal.
- Business Directories
- Directories for locating business' addresses, telephone and fax numbers, Internet or Web addresses, products and services, maps to their location
- Business & Industry
- The manufacturing and production of goods, or the provision of services, through a business enterprise.
- Consumer Issues and Services
- Issues concerning the seeking to protect and inform the users of goods and services.
- Economics
- Study of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services and the theory and management of economic systems.
- Employment
- Policies and practices of obtaining work or workers.
- Finance
- The management of money, banking, investments, and credit.
- Insurance
- Coverage by contract to protect financially against specified loss in return for premiums paid.
- International Business
- Doing business in international markets, and business information specific to various countries or geographic regions of the world.
- Labor and Workplace
- Workers considered as a group; the work environment.
- Marketing & Advertising
- The commercial functions involved in transferring goods from producer to consumer, including encouraging and facilitating purchases.
- News
- Recent happenings in areas of interest to business and finance.
- Non-Profit Organizations
- How to create, organize and maintain enterprises devoted to the larger public good.
- Real Estate
- Land, including all the natural resources and permanent buildings on it.
- Statistics
- Numerical measurement of economic indicators, business trends, trade outcomes, etc.
- Tax
- Contribution for the support of government or its larger social purposes, required of persons or businesses within the domain of that government.
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